Can I take over a Religion?

[Omegilla]

So apparently in the game, there are 6/7 total establishable religions. But in the Great Prophet's listings, it says there are none availible. I never got my holy center in time and its the Medieval era now. Is there any other way to get a prophet, or if not can I hijack one of the AI's religions?

[SamBC]

No, you can't take control of another civ's religion.

[dpokerface]

If you found your own religion, but your civ gets converted, you can use the new religion to attack other religions. I once did that to prevent another civ from achieving a religious victory. But I don't think you can achieve a religious victory yourself by adopting someone else's religion.

[Smyt]

Doesn't that work if you kill off the entire civilization that started the religion?

[Omegilla]

Originally posted by SamBC:

No, you can't take control of another civ's religion.

I am mainly talking about if like, you kill the founder civ, can you basically take it over?

[dpokerface]

Originally posted by The Great Devourer:

Originally posted by SamBC:

No, you can't take control of another civ's religion.

I am mainly talking about if like, you kill the founder civ, can you basically take it over?

I don't know if you can win that way. However, if you don't found your own religion, it means you can't create missionaries, prophets and inquisitors, which means you can't convert other civs. So, creating your own religion first is essential, and winning with it is the way to go.

What I do to make sure I can found my own religion is to make a holy site my first priority (after creating military units to combat barbarians, of course), collect enough faith points to found a religion, and then build the shrines and temples necessary to create the missionaries and apostles (which are needed to create defensive inquisitors) needed to start spreading your own faith.

It's also very important to prevent other civs from converting your cities with a holy site. Once that's done, you can only create religious units of that faith, and can only convert it back if you have outstanding units of your original faith, or another city with a holy site of your original faith that can create religious units for conversion.

[SamBC]

Originally posted by The Great Devourer:

Originally posted by SamBC:

No, you can't take control of another civ's religion.

I am mainly talking about if like, you kill the founder civ, can you basically take it over?

You don't gain the ability to win with it, to add new beliefs, or to start an inquisition.

Contrary to what dpokerface says, however, you can create missionaries, apostles and inquisitors. Any city that has a holy site and a majority religion can do so. They will be units for spreading the religion of the city that created them. However, those apostles will be limited to spread actions, not being able to evangelise belief or start an inquisition.

[Smyt]

Holy districs can be built at any time without a religion,shrines,temples,etc

[dpokerface]

Originally posted by smyt:

Holy districs can be built at any time without a religion,shrines,temples,etc

You're right. I deleted my comment.

[durid1]

So not necessarily to win, but is there any way to eliminate the unhappiness that results from a foreign religion? Maybe convert to the religion of an ally?

[pryt]

What happens if I got no religion, but my cities got converted by a now dead civ, and I use this religion to convert everyone else ... who wins? The dead civ? Or is it insta win for the formerly dead civ if I 'revive' the dead civ by liberating one of their old cities and give them back to them?

[Manic]

Originally posted by pryt:

What happens if I got no religion, but my cities got converted by a now dead civ, and I use this religion to convert everyone else ... who wins? The dead civ? Or is it insta win for the formerly dead civ if I 'revive' the dead civ by liberating one of their old cities and give them back to them?

This happened to me once, and the dead civ won.

[durid1]

Originally posted by Manic:

Originally posted by pryt:

What happens if I got no religion, but my cities got converted by a now dead civ, and I use this religion to convert everyone else ... who wins? The dead civ? Or is it insta win for the formerly dead civ if I 'revive' the dead civ by liberating one of their old cities and give them back to them?

This happened to me once, and the dead civ won.

*scooby do voice* WhaaaaaT?

[Omegilla]

THIS THREAD IS TWO YEARS OLD WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥ IS WRONG WITH ALL OF YOU

[durid1]

Don't want to multi-post the same topic over and over. So we see this, and try to get new information that hasn't been posted before. Don't freak out.

[Omegilla]

How the ♥♥♥♥ do I lock a topic

EDIT: CAN A MOD JUST LOCK THIS TOPIC I HATE NECROES