Well, I usually exterminate a city when I can only conquer it after a hard-fought battle. Just to make them pay. But in the long run I always hurt myself badly, as this means I have to rebuilt those (usually big) cities from scratch, which will take a long time. And in the meantime they don't earn any cash to pay my armies, so now I try to contain my first impulsive reaction and tolerate their existance.I just limit myself to enslaving rebel cities (in the worst case). In other cases I try to deal with the unhappy population for a while (bit harder to control in the first years after the conquest, but better on a long term I think).
Of course none of these statements can be backed up with figures.![]()
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