(June 28th, 2015, 01:07)timmy827 Wrote: 124: nice, one missionary use is enough for Rome! happily kill the barb galley with our city, it didn’t pillage for some reason.
One full strength missionary is enough for any atheist city up to size 9. Roughly one size lower for each existing follower of something else.
Barb galleys don't seem to pillage in Civ 5. I've seen them sail past fishing nets many times, and can't remember any ever pillaging. Don't know if they can't or if the AI just doesn't. Good thing because the work boat is very marginal already at 50h/+1F.
Capital should work the university specialists at all times. Easiest source of beakers and we do still have a ways to tech up. It feels like it hurts to take off the food and hammers but those are both diminishing in returns. You can always make up extra food and hammers (trade routes, buy a building, etc) but you can never make up a missed scientist-turn.
Writer's guild isn't very exciting. I started playing a single player game and messing with it. At least the writers are on a separate GPP counter from the other types, but the only thing they do is produce Great Works of Writing which itself only gives a bit more culture. I'd say run the specialists anyway but they're not working any sort of miracles.
Quote:128: Loan from Rome. Need to buy Ragusa - aren’t quite to Chichen yet and happiness will crunch if I don’t renew alliance. In retrospect maybe I should have just gifted a worker for 5 influence - they are running low on tasks.
CS only take combat units as gifts, not workers. What the workers should be doing is roading towards Morocco and Iroquois as military targets. Start now, it'll take them 30 turns to get there. We can afford the road maintenance.
Scout can walk through Prague to keep exploring, we don't care about annoying them, they have dyes and we already have that from Ragusa.
Missionary is another option to burn a bit of faith. Not a lot of good missionary targets left, but Mombasa in the far west is an option. Or an Inquisitor and just keep it around to undo AI prophet spreads later.
Sigtuna before Stockholm. Two missionary spreads won't be enough for Stockholm at size 11 with 4 existing followers. And Sigtuna projects pressure over Rome/Russia/Iroquois better than does Stockholm. The last missionary should go look for Sweden's one more city (size 4, can see its existence in the trade screen.)
If Iroquois prophet bombs Morocco, better than them doing it to us. Hard to say the best use of a prophet there, never any good answers to a prophet war, but it happens. Do prioritize the largest cities as it's easiest to pressure smaller ones back. I wouldn't keep a prophet at home for that, inquisitors can do most of that job.
Yes, Reformation can wait, Mandate of Heaven first.
Definitely like Notre Dame at cap, gonna need that happy bigtime.
I would do Optics for the one lighthouse next, that's actually pretty decent payback at 75H / 2F+2H, better than watermills.
Heroic Epic is tempting - and has to be soon or never or we'll never fill in the barracks in all the captured cities. I'm inclined to say go for it just because it's on theme. And we might actually want its Great Work of Writing slot. Not sure how to schedule this around Notre Dame. I guess the best way is the capital's barracks before ND, then another city (probably Devotion) does HE while capital does ND.
(June 28th, 2015, 11:55)yuris125 Wrote: Puppets do not build units. I think puppetting is fine. However only puppet or annex good ciites, raze the rest, we can't take big unhappiness penalties to unit strength. Also a remionder that the last enemy's capital must be the final city standing, as we must win by conquest, and therefore can't meet the domination victory condition
Are we really burning down everything to conquest? That gets into a LOT of tedious mop-up in waiting for cities to raze. Domination exists for a reason. I didn't read the premise as meaning to exclude domination, and don't really see a reason to, as long as we're warring honestly and not just trying to swipe capitals on the cheap.
(June 28th, 2015, 12:56)Ichabod Wrote: Stockpiling gold to rush courthouses might help with the conquest unhappiness.
Yes, this is a must when conquering. Courthouses are pretty cheap on cost/hammer ratio, IIRC.