(June 29th, 2015, 00:09)T-hawk Wrote: 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.
Hmm, rome was size 12 when I did that. probably had some fraction of a follower, but I think the intereface 'whole number' of followers went 0 to 6. Devotion went from like 1 to 11 with a single use. Maybe there is some hidden bonus for cities close to the holy city? Not important, just curious.
Quote: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.
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.
I'm leaning towards it, but the Great Writing slot is NOT getting used. First, we already have one from a free ampitheatre in the capital. (I guess this was delayed Legalism because we built a monument early?) Second, a great work is 2 culture/turn only (I'm ignoring tourism, we are not geared towards it and it won't do anything for us with just a trickle, and we aren't going for any theming or Aethestics policy boni). a bulb is the last 8 turns of your culture, which will probably be at least 40/turn when we run the Writers. 160 turn payoffs don't sound good
The same logic applies to Circus Maximus. However the cap is making almost 40 hammers/turn now (not counting the Aristocracy boose). So I can see the cap doing ND in ~10 turns, barracks in 2, colosseum in 3, and one of the national wonders in 5-6 while Devotion does the other of (heroic epic, circus maximus). If we are attacking with muskets/trebs/cannons I think we do have 21 turns before we take a city.
Although I suppose we should think about Oxford for the same reason, build it to slingshot something (fertilizer?) before conquering puts it forever out of reach.
Quote: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.
So, 'Domination' is 'capture all capitals', and 'Conquest' is 'burn everything to the ground'? I hadn't read the fine print (again with the 'I've never done major war in the game
). If that's the distinction I think Domination would be valid victory with similar caveat (have to convincingly beat up every civ).