I think trebs make sense as an intermediate buy. Probably most important to have up to date frontliners; I'd think that with a mix of trebs and cannons the trebs would still be useful.
Note that even with the big faith boost, we only "produce" a treb every 3.2T, a musket every 4t, or a cannon every 5t (assuming we take the 20% discount policy in Piety next)
Should we consider the Heroic Epic? It’s a lot of hammers, about 470 between 3 ‘extra’ barracks and the wonder itself, but we will presumably buy all our units in 1 city and this might be a ‘quality making up for quantity’ game.
I've never done a conquest game in civ5, so have little idea on the raze vs. annex vs. puppet decisions. Are we even allowed to puppet cities? do puppet cities build units? (if so, I'd say we can puppet if we just disband any units they build; still no idea if it's a good move).
Not too worried about happiness. Hopefully we get Chichen (+4) in a few turns (although CS has been widely known so still think it's possible an AI swipes it). ND (+10) should be safe, no one has physics yet. We also still can build/are building 2 colosseums and 1 circus (+6), and can then do the Circus Maximus (+5) before we conquer I think. Growth rates will slow and I think that will give us some buffer for conquests. We haven't done anything with the Mercantile CS either.
Note that even with the big faith boost, we only "produce" a treb every 3.2T, a musket every 4t, or a cannon every 5t (assuming we take the 20% discount policy in Piety next)
Should we consider the Heroic Epic? It’s a lot of hammers, about 470 between 3 ‘extra’ barracks and the wonder itself, but we will presumably buy all our units in 1 city and this might be a ‘quality making up for quantity’ game.
I've never done a conquest game in civ5, so have little idea on the raze vs. annex vs. puppet decisions. Are we even allowed to puppet cities? do puppet cities build units? (if so, I'd say we can puppet if we just disband any units they build; still no idea if it's a good move).
Not too worried about happiness. Hopefully we get Chichen (+4) in a few turns (although CS has been widely known so still think it's possible an AI swipes it). ND (+10) should be safe, no one has physics yet. We also still can build/are building 2 colosseums and 1 circus (+6), and can then do the Circus Maximus (+5) before we conquer I think. Growth rates will slow and I think that will give us some buffer for conquests. We haven't done anything with the Mercantile CS either.