Pantheon and other religions?

[Defendor]

I have a pantheon I like in my current game, but my opponents founded all religions that can be founded before me. Can I keep my pantheon bonus and adopt another players religion at the same time to get their religions follower bonus? Or does my pantheon bonus get canceled out if I adopt their religion? How does this work?

[baterism]

If you adopt another religion, your pantheon will be replaced by pantheon bonus from the said religion. I think Piety social policy have one called "Religious Tolerance" which give you bonus from second majority religion.
I don't know if it apply to pantheon.

[waynethegreat23]

just got heathen converson and it made my army a million times stronger

[Damsteri]

You will eventually lose your pantheon, because pantheon is lost forever when there is not enough followers in your cities. Limit for majority religion (or your pantheon) is half of the population.

You can lose it actively (enemy missionaries or prophets) or by passive pressure from other cities. Passive pressure usually cause short perioid of time when your cities don't follow you pantheon anymore and don't yet follow the other religion, because either one doesn't have majority in the city. You don't have a religion, so civs with religion target your cities with their missionaries. It's only matter of time until you lose your pantheon.

Defending pantheon is hard, you need to keep 10-13 tile buffer zone between your cities and other cities (including city states) to prevent passive pressure and you need to keep your army blocking enemy missionaries and prophets. This may require army so big, that you would easily conquer your neigbours.

[Defendor]

Thanks for answering. I never got around to try to have my pantheon as a second religionbonus. I quickly got heavily swarmed with 2 different religions, so the few citizens who didn't have one of my opponents religions, had another opponents religion before I got the "Religious Tolerance" in place. You could say that atheism got erradicated in this particular game.

I won though! :)

[Damsteri]

Well, if someone has interested about playing with just pantheon... Then there is one mod civilization which allows you to do that (though I have not tested it)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=234225686
This civilization has bonuses for their pantheon and some help to maintain their pantheon too.

[waynethegreat23]

i just took the holy city of islam

[Defendor]

Originally posted by waynethegreat23:

just got heathen converson and it made my army a million times stronger

Originally posted by waynethegreat23:

i just took the holy city of islam

So what? I don't get it.

[americanman_4_life]

Originally posted by Defendor:

Originally posted by waynethegreat23:

just got heathen converson and it made my army a million times stronger

Originally posted by waynethegreat23:

i just took the holy city of islam

So what? I don't get it.

haha... that was funny!

[americanman_4_life]

I personally LOVE religions in this game! THEY ARE ABSOLUTE to me! And I have fun with them, changing names and what not!

But, I checked out that Mod mentioned above... and it really looks like your cup of tea Defendor! I don't think I will ever go for Lithuania though... nothing against them as a nation... just against the mod!

[waynethegreat23]

haha get it cause im rome

[Defendor]

I might play that mod sometime, but I can't play with mods right now because I want to take achievements. I have like a billion of them left still, lol.