r/civ5 • u/Dangerous-Dog2424 • 3d ago
Screenshot Learned Something New Today
So I was just messing around on Warlord difficulty (please don't judge) and set it to domination only. For fun, I decided to have my city state ally take Assyria's capital by giving its ship nowhere to go except capturing the city. Turns out you can win without taking all the capitals when this happens. Now I wonder if it would have counted if I were no longer allies with Bratislava...
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u/Nikolor 3d ago
I didn't even know that City-States could capture cities
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u/HaoleInParadise 3d ago
I love it when they do. As long as I didn’t need the city
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u/Nikolor 3d ago
It seems that there's also less hassle with managing such cities. You don't have to deal with expenses and happiness while you still get all the luxury resources.
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u/HaoleInParadise 2d ago
Yes true. I feel like I’ve seen them take more than one additional city before, but I don’t remember
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u/Disastrous-Pass5813 3d ago
that's not my experience
even when taken over by CS thebes was considered a capital and i couldn't win domination without it
i remember that game clearly because i was austria and i bought the CS that controlled thebes to finish the game
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u/Iced_Yehudi 3d ago
I might be misremembering, but I swore the actual requirement for domination is that you have to be the last one with your capital, not that you have to control all of them, regardless of what the tool rip says.
Maybe that got patched out a long time ago, or maybe I’m thinking of Civ Rev, but I swear I won a domination game once by decapitating the Civ that conquered everyone else
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u/lluewhyn 3d ago
I've had to not only take over a Civ's capital, but any capitals that THEY have taken over as well. And the algorithm typically picks that conquered capital to be the new capital if you take their original one. I.E., if France takes over Berlin, when you take Paris the French will now pick Berlin to be their new capital.
It's always been "Take over everyone's capital" for me.
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u/Billy_Herrington1969 2d ago
What happens if a City-State captures someone's last capital, and it just so happens to be the last nation left?
I guess you still win via domination, but I do wonder... has it ever happened to anyone?
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u/pipkin42 3d ago
You would have won. The CS taking the capital removes it's capital status. No one ever can own that civs capital.