xxblackdog Chieftain
Is it better to Raze a city and re-settle it? Or, conversely, to Annex a city?. For example, Zulu has massive amounts of salt within a city next to my borders; I would like to procure his resources. So, if I Raze his city I can start with a fresh city of my own, or I can Annex it...
KmDubya King
If the city is placed in the right spot, has a good border expansion, has infrastructure and population then puppeting until the resistance is over and then building a courthouse is an easy call. When some of the above are lacking then it gets tougher.
Resident Mario Warlord
It's often worth razing a city, because AI placement is crap or maybe because you don't have the happiness to support it. But with the difficulties BNW has imposed on early war However, with the changes in BNW making early war extremely difficult, I don't see there being much reason for raze-resettlement anymore. Not very efficient.
xxblackdog Chieftain
Cool. Will take note. Unfortunately, Shaka magically summoned something like INFINITE Impi's and the war didn't go so well. Now he's on the attack after a 10 turn peace settlement. Just waiting on a few Riflemen to take care of business (fortunately, Science is coming along smoothly through all this!)
KmDubya King
I just had a game on small continents, only had met three civs when I conquered Ethiopia as the Huns. Those two civs thought I was the antichrist but all the rest of the civs were fine. At least until I started conquering the rest. One of the two civs were the Inca, they were hostile for the entire game.
joncnunn Senior Java Wizard Moderator
I find about half of the AIs city sites to be junk and raze those and don't re-settle.
killmeplease Mk Z on Steam
Second most common thing for me to do would be puppet the city. This won't impact planned national wonders, and it's fairly easy even for a puppet to bring in enough science to offset the 5% science cost penalty.