City State takes Empire city shocker!

[rodneyandsteptoe]

Or is it?

I've never seen this happen before in any of my previous games of Civ5, where a City State takes an AI Nation's city:

http://martinpalmercivilizationv.blo...50-1780ad.html

The year 1776AD, Belgrade took a Songhai city (Nuru Hiva, formerly Polynesian). Admittedly within a few years the city had been razed to the ground (possibly by the City State?)...

Has anyone else seen this happen? Can a City State keep another city or do they automatically raze it?

[oblio]

Yes it happens and yes they typically raze it. Pesky CS's can take an AI city or take one of yours as well if you leave it exposed during a war with another Civ they are allied to.

[Magic_Hotdog]

Very common.

[tfordp]

I've had a CS in one of my games with 4 cities, with city razing turned off.

[VicRatlhead51]

If they take another city state they can't raze it. I've seen that happen a couple times too. I guess it'd work the same if they took a capital it'd work the same but I haven't seen that yet, my guess is capitals spawn too far from CSs for this to happen unless you overcrowd the map maybe.

[PachaMinnie]

I once had a city state take 2 French cities and they kept 1. It's common.

[civdiss]

There is this MadDjinn video as well where a CS takes Washington, that was legendary! A CS with a capital city that cannot be razed

[MadDjinn]

There is this MadDjinn video as well where a CS takes Washington, that was legendary! A CS with a capital city that cannot be razed

I love it when an allied CS takes over cities for me. I get all the benefits (except the gold/culture and some tech) with none of the unhappiness headaches. The best part is - if I needed that city, CSs are much easier to push over than major civs.

In Gods and Kings, this could be a prime Austrian plan - set up City States to conquer all close cities, then marry them later to get everything without the diplo headache of 'killing' a major civ.

[VicRatlhead51]

There is this MadDjinn video as well where a CS takes Washington, that was legendary! A CS with a capital city that cannot be razed

The beauty of that is capitals usually have a couple luxuries and some strategic resources so that'd be a really valuable CS for sure.

[Gooner]

I've had a city state with three cities. It was brilliant. Three times the science bonus from city states for only one bribe!

[sectoid]

I've understood that bribing is only one option and considerably ineffective choice with CS's after G&K is released. Thank god for that