Civilization – How many hit points does a sieged city have remaining

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I am attacking a city and would like to know how many hitpoints it has remaining. I have tried hovering over the hex and city plaque.

All you can see from the screenshot is that the city is in the red with hitpoints.

I know you could approximate this. However, when a city is in the red of a 100HP city. There could be as much as 15 HP remaining. The scale of the red bar makes it difficult to guess. So my question stands where I am not looking for just guess it answers.

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Best Answer

Cities have different strength (as seen in in the number next to the shield icon), but they all have the same number of hit points, i.e. 25 (used to be 20, this changed in 1.0.1.135).

So yes, you have to guess (which sucks), but it's always against the same number of base hit points.

Full list of effects:

Happy

Growth: Cities grow normally.
Golden Ages: If you have excess happiness, each turn it accumulates into Golden Age points, and when you have enough, your civilization enters a Golden Age. After the golden age the process starts again, although I believe you need more Golden Age points for each subsequent Golden Age.

Unhappy

Growth: Cities grow at 1/4 speed when your population is unhappy.
Golden Ages: The amout your civilization is unhappy is subtracted from the Golden Age points.

VERY unhappy

Growth: Cities do not grow.
Units: Settlers may not be trained.
Production: Cities generate -50% production.
Unit are less effective in combat. They get -33% combat strength.

VERY VERY unhappy (-20 or lower)

Rebels will spawn in your border and attack your city

Social Policies

Piety->Mandate of Heaven allows you to add 50% of your excess happiness to your culture each turn.
Rationalism->Sovereignty boosts science +15% when your empire is happy.
There are numerous social policies that affect the happiness level, but these are the ones that get effect from the happiness level.

Sources:

General info: mousing over the happiness listing on the top bar, left side, during various happy states.
Golden age info: mousing over the golden age display on the top bar, left side, during various happy states.
Combat info: Comparing happy (normal) combat strength to VERY unhappy combat strength, by mousing over an enemy unit. The VERY unhappy combat modifier is clearly listed in the calculations.
Production info: mousing over a city's production listing in the top left when VERY unhappy.
Social Policy info: The social policy screen, accessible by clicking on the culture listing on the top bar, left side.

Civilization 5 – How Each City Increases the Cost of Social Policies

This is taken straight from the XML files included with Civ V: (Updated for the June 2011 patch, where all of them were reduced by 50%)

 <Type>WORLDSIZE_DUEL</Type> 
  <NumCitiesPolicyCostMod>15</NumCitiesPolicyCostMod> 


  <Type>WORLDSIZE_TINY</Type> 
  <NumCitiesPolicyCostMod>15</NumCitiesPolicyCostMod> 


  <Type>WORLDSIZE_SMALL</Type> 
  <NumCitiesPolicyCostMod>15</NumCitiesPolicyCostMod> 


  <Type>WORLDSIZE_STANDARD</Type> 
  <NumCitiesPolicyCostMod>15</NumCitiesPolicyCostMod> 


  <Type>WORLDSIZE_LARGE</Type> 
  <NumCitiesPolicyCostMod>10</NumCitiesPolicyCostMod> 


  <Type>WORLDSIZE_HUGE</Type> 
  <NumCitiesPolicyCostMod>7.5</NumCitiesPolicyCostMod>

So it's 15% for all but the largest two map sizes.

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