30-04-2004 08:48									#1
	Victory point locations - where to fortify unit? Increase Your PM Length

Does it matter if I fortify a military unit on any adjacent square next to the victory point? Or does it work only on the left square?

	30-04-2004 09:40									#2
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Or is it last one to occupy it? If not I suspect you must be dead on it. Do the points show up in the victory screen?

	30-04-2004 16:36									#3
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You have to be on the tile with the marker. With the new artwork this is the one that in a little to the left. (I liked the old artwork better, because it was centered).

	01-05-2004 02:20									#4
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Not only that, I don't think even a city is even on it. MUST be a unit :/

	01-05-2004 17:42									#5
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Specifically a military one - not settler, worker, explorer, etc.

	02-05-2004 17:37									#6
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If you are a little confused then you can right-click the tile to check out it's type and food/shields/trade output. The marker is there in the pictorial of the tile, but not in the surrounding tiles.

Just started my first Conquest, which is how I figured that out.

	02-05-2004 18:00									#7
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I wonder how many turns I lost in the Pacific Conquest by not realizing at first that having the VPL within my cultural radius was not enough.

	02-05-2004 23:31									#8
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I do believe a city can be on it- just make sure a military unit is within the city- which it should be unless you like losing cities

This is evident in the WW2 pacific game where many cities are placed right on the VP locations. Sometimes the cities get destroyed, but you should keep the unit there anyways.

	03-05-2004 02:56									#9
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Dunno, I seem to be having more success lately NOT defending most of my main cities, and just leave a few units in the general area. But granted, if there's contention - and on a VP location, there almost certainly IS - then a mil unit (or several!) is a must.

	03-05-2004 04:11									#10
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well in WW2 pacific I'm sure you could get away with leaving the mainland cities of Japan and the U.S. vacant- at least against the ai. But as I said, I'm not sure if you accumulate vp's that way.

But seeing as the AI always goes for your weakest cities, I wouldn't advise that either. I'm sure they could manage to sneak a transport around somehow.

	03-05-2004 05:31									#11
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As Axis, I ended up playing the island hop game...
Of course, that assumes everything behind you is safe
Maybe not wise on higher levels

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There's no such thing as "safe" - only different levels of risk!

	05-05-2004 01:05									#13
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You MUST have a unit on the VP location. An empty city on the VP location does NOT give victory points.

	05-05-2004 01:14									#14
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Reminds me of a Napoleonic Europe game I played during the beta.

I was Austria, allied with Prussia. We were both fighting against France, and (bastard) France managed to raze one of my cities with a VP location (Budapest I think?). Prussia then promptly put a unit and fortified it on the ruins of my city, and there was no way I could get rid of it!