When you capture your enemy's capital, what conditions trigger a schism in their empire? I find it highly amusing when part of the Sioux become French, for example.

What I've wondered is whether the same can happen to the human player in SP when deemed supreme and upon losing the captol? Or if such could happen in a multiplayer game?

I think that a basic precondition is that the victim must be bigger (higher population) than you.

I think I've seen it mentioned that if the disparity is big enough they can split into 3.

Also saw a suggestion that it would happen when one A1 civ had previously swallowed another. Poster said he precipitated a civil war and it was the swallowed civ that emerged. Didn't sound right tho'.

Smash has it right — but I've also precipitated schisms among powers that are less than supreme. I think the two requirements for a split involve taking a power's capital *and* that power having conquered other another power(s) in the past.

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I've also seen it happen that a less than supreme civ split. I would think that the rule is that the splitting civ must be higher ranked than you. Or rather, higher than the civ that captured it's capitol. A supreme civ is likely to have the means to move it's palace, so it will not easily be pushed into a civil war.

The appearing civ can be predicted. It is one of the remaining civs from a colour that was wiped of the board. Check the two civs that share the colour(s) with the extinct civ(s). i.e., if the Carthaginian civ came to an untimely end, either England or Greece, all three orange, will appear if later in the game a schism occurs. (in a civ with another colour).

A civ will not return on the board, so if all three civs of a given colour have been exterminated, two empty slots are needed for a schism to take place.

C.