Conquering a city/castle in Civony can be a tedious time consuming task. But there are many benefits to conquering one.
- You can move into a semi developed city and save development time.
- You can get some quick troops.(see my method below for explanation)
- You can capture alot of resources
- You can dismantle it and ship the resources back to your main city.
- You can abandon it and convert it into a npc city.(#4 goes hand in hand with this)
Conquering of city itself can be done with many different methods. Below is a method i have been using on my latest captures which can be found in the Vampire Alliance Hall of Fame.
WHAT YOU NEED
- 2 or more Attack based heroes.
- 2 or more groups of pikemen.
- 1 Mixed army (the pikemen can be added here after)
THE BATTLE PROCESS
To capture the city you will need to get the loyalty of they city down to 0. To do this I use this method as it provides the most reward to me.
Step 1:
Send in your main attack group to wipe out enemy fortifications and troops(if the gates are open). If the gates are closed you will have to fight the army later so make sure you know the size through use of scouting.
Notes: Now that you have all the fortifcations destroyed you need to get the loyalty down to 5 to have your opponets hero come out and battle you. To do this you will need to pikeman spam him. The pikemen can be replaced with scouts if he has no abatis left.
Step 2:
Using both your heros send in 2 waves of pikemen to attack the city over and over until loyalty hits 15. Once it hits 15 the rate slows and grievance comes into play. You can use the camp feature to add 5 mins to one of the armies to keep them well spaced. Try to land a hit every 5 mins to keep the grievance high and the loyalty dropping until it hits 6 loyallty.
NOTES: Now that you are at 6 loyallty you will want to send in armies again.
Step 3.
Create at least 1 army that you know will beat his army and hero. Send them in to attack. When the lotalty drops to 5 the opponets hero will come out to play. You will kick his butt, his armies butt and now have a city with no defenses almost ready to be capped.
NOTES: You can now return to step #2 and bring the loyalty down to zero. It will take some time so be patient. I estimate its 30 mins but can be faster or slower from experience. From my understanding your hits aren’t lowering the loyalty, the grievance is, and it does 1 tick of loyalty every 5 mins if you keep up on attacking.
And thats it, when it hits zero you will geta pop up asking you to rename the city and its yours.
YOUR NEW CITY AND WHAT TO DO WITH IT
As soon as you have your new city you will want to do some things to ensure its back up at maxium loyalty and production ASAP. These are a few things i do immidatley after capturing a city. There should be lots of resources in the city to do the folowing as using my method you do not plunder anything but leave it in there for your own use later.
- The very first thing to is to CURE as many of your opponents dead army for your own use. Go into the RALLY POINT and CURE the troops, depending on city size this may be alot of troops. If you do not have enough cash, no problem, send it in from one of your other cities or sell some resources from you new citys cache.
- Go into FEASTING HALL and appoint a MAYOR. There may be a captive or two in there also.
- Visit the TOWN HALL, perfrom either a Disater Relief or Prayer COMFORTING. And lower the taxes to 5% . Also adjust production downward on your industries to accounf for population shortfalls until your loyallty gets back up.
Your new semi pre built civony city should be ready to be a great city in just hours. Mine are usually producing goods and armies and research with 80-90% loyalty in under 12 hours of capture.
Cheers and feel free to leave comments or corrections or suggestions to better this method.
Cybrspin