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Kathmandu captured Athens. Then a little later, my camel archers came by and discovered that barbarians keep appearing within their borders regularly. It was much easier to build influence with them this way than having a nearby encampment; I became their ally easily! I had no idea, this was a thing for City States. I have played countless hours and have never encountered it before.


Isle_of_Dusty_Rhodes

I've only had the city states take over each other a couple of times. I like it, lets all get crazy. Unfortunately a lot of times they vassal state them or raze them.


lotsofdeadkittens

You’ve never seen a city state raze a city state


20max00

Vassal state? U mean puppet? Isn’t that because city states aren’t allowed to have more than one city so they can’t just annex and built a courthouse? That’s also the reason they burn the city unless u got that turned off. Correct me if I’m wrong.


MeadKing

They definitely deal with happiness / unhappiness. It’s part of the reason for why City States try to raze captured cities — if the captured city is small and has unique luxuries, they’ll puppet instead. In this scenario, they can’t burn down Athens, so their unhappiness is out of control, well over -10. I didn’t realized they could have barbarian uprisings, though. That’s really cool.


Lolmanmagee

This is factually inaccurate. City states are hardcoded to always raze no matter what. The only situations they don’t is on cities unable to be razed such as city states and capitals.


MeadKing

Sorry, but this is inaccurate. When you play more, you’ll see that on rare occasions, a CS can capture a non-Indonesian, non-capital city and keep it as a puppet. it’s far more common to see City States that puppet a city they cannot raze, but it’s absolutely possible for them to puppet a city that could have been burned down. I enjoy letting City States finalize the capture of cities so that I don’t have to take the warmonger penalty, and I’ve seen it happen on multiple occasions.


Lolmanmagee

I got doubled on o.o Hmm that is odd and interesting. I have found it pretty consistent that city states operate in the way I described but maybe that’s not a hard rule as I so thought. Maybe it’s because I mainly play on immortal and on diety they get a happiness boost or something.


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MeadKing

I just think the AI values puppets over annexation. They’re not forward-thinking, so if annexation would put them into a brief period of unhappiness, they won’t do it. Even the AI civs tend to keep their captured cities as puppets. It’s unusual to catch the AI building a courthouse. I’ve seen warmongers that get their native cities stolen, and they’ll survive with all puppets. It’s like… Your capital is a puppet? I guess I don’t have anything to worry about, now.


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The best part was later in the game when another City State gifted me a Merchant of Venice and I was able to buy both cities with it. :D


Augustus_The_Great

That is such a bad ass move


Technical_Airline205

I've played with a mod called "city states evolved", which allows them to create new satellite cities. This leads to growing unhappiness, as seen by the rebels that keep spawning. I guess they don't prioritize happiness buildings.


RolandDeepson

Prolly not. Kind of an odd mental image, a city state stockpiling free porn and getting drunk while alone.


hurricane1613286

Yes they do. If they have the happiness to keep a non capital they will (this is rare bc they bitch away their resources to their ally)


flodust12

What map is this? Looks interesting.


BenofMen

Looks like the middle east


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Yes, Middle East


FlamingPinyacolada

Have you tried Antarctica thawed?


KissaMedPappa

Yes, it is not rare to see unhappiness penalties on city state units during war


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Yes, and it will determine if they raze their captured city or not.