New Strategy: Create your own Revolts!

**HindSight2020** · 12-02-2004, 14:23

I had been playing a very long game as the Scipii when I started running into a cashflow problem. Every now and then the treasury would be in the red. It seemed to coincide with an impending revolt in one of my cities. I would besiege the city and then conquer it and annihilate the populace. There were three benefits: (1) sudden cash, (2) high rate of approval from the people who now lived in the city, (3) no worries of revolt in that city for a while. But this cycle seemed to get broken after a while. Revolts were not something I could depend on. So in a moment of desperation (necessity is the mother of invention, you know), I decided to create my own revolts. I would search through my cities for the ones with certain criteria. (1) They had to have a large troop deployment nearby. (2) They had to have a lower than desired approval rating (80% or below). (3) They had to be a city which hadn't had a revolt for a while. Then I would move any troops in the city to just outside the walls. Usually the revolt happened on the next turn. Then I would besiege the city, annihilate the populace, and get the needed cash. Has anyone tried this?

**Prodigal** · 12-02-2004, 14:50

Funnily enough I've just posted about doing exactly this but in relation to farms lvls. Its makes you a mountain of cash but it does have a limited duration, the population seems to increase incredibly fast, & also it just shift's the financial burden from one place to another, although when carried out on the right cities the gains far outweigh the losses.

**HindSight2020** · 12-02-2004, 16:33

Farm Levels. Hmmm. I've invested in upgrading the farming capability in all my cities, and from what I understand it will allow your city to increase its population quicker making it possible to build buildings which allow you to have better military units. I haven't heard of anything else about farm improvements though. Is there a link to your other post? Or how can I find it? I've tried to use a search tool in the forums, but, the last time I tried, the search tool was disabled.