🚀 go-pugleaf

For those of you busy buying the world in a Democracy, have you tried this:
Build 20 diplomats to attack the capital.  When your military is in
position, send in all 20 to conduct industrial sabotage.
I'm wondering whether the Industrial sabotage will destroy the Palace
improvement (after all, it's an improvement), and thus turn the capital
into just another city (meaning you can buy it).  If this works, all you
need to conquer a civ is tons and tons of cash and tons and tons of diplomats.
The good thing is diplomats don't cause unhappiness and are cheaper to build
than most military units.  A fair sized city can produce 1 diplomat per turn,
while it takes 2 turns or so to produce an Armor unit.  Also, diplomats don't
cause unhappiness so you can have around 100 diplomats landing on a continent
for just 12-15 unhappiness points (democracy, with Women's suffrage, 1 point
per transport out of home city).  Another good thing is that if you can
get past the part about the game complaining about too many military units,
you can station diplomats EVERYWHERE and take EVERY nation AT THE SAME TIME.

Has anyone tried this?  Is it possible to blow up the Palace?

					Michael Lewchuk
					lew...@cs.UAlberta.CA