So, let me get this straight...

**Ghangis23** · June 11, 2008, 12:48 AM

I spend the whole campaign upgrading and recruiting for one castle, (In this case, "Venice") and suddenly when Milan captures it and I recapture, all my upgrades are gone? I researched to the highest level of armor, and when I retook Venice it put me back down to like the second or third to last level of Armor.

Is this supposed to happen?

**LordCrockett** · June 11, 2008, 01:23 AM

Did you sack or exterminate the population? because that can damage buildings and cancel there effects such as unit recruitment or unit upgrades
:hmmm:

**Ghangis23** · June 11, 2008, 01:29 AM

Nope, I just settled in because I didn't want my population to disintegrate completely.

**jimjimjim** · June 11, 2008, 01:48 AM

when Milan captured it they must have sold off all your improovments.
Does happen.

**Mithrane** · June 11, 2008, 02:04 AM

Just be lucky you weren't up against a player like me. When I have a country which is causing me trouble, but I don't have the force to completely eliminate, I slash and burn. I send in 1 powerful army, take a city/castle, exterminate the populace or sack it, and then destroy every single thing I can for money.

I then leave it for the rebels. If the opponent takes it back, fine, but they will have a LOT of work to get it back to where it was. Repeat this for 3+ of their major cities, or more importantly, castles, and they will be ripe for the killing in 10-20 turns.

**Monsieur Alphonse** · June 11, 2008, 05:01 AM

They sacked the place. This damages some buildings which means that those buildings are reduced some to a lower level. The AI didn't sell the buildings because then they would have disappeared altogether.

BTW Why did you let them capture a citadel?

**Ghangis23** · June 11, 2008, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by Monsieur Alphonse

They sacked the place. This damages some buildings which means that those buildings are reduced some to a lower level. The AI didn't sell the buildings because then they would have disappeared altogether.

BTW Why did you let them capture a citadel?

I had assembled an army there and set them out to capture another city, and it was almost defenseless.