(July 14th, 2015, 08:42)timmy827 Wrote: Do we have a next target after Iroquois? (yuris probably wont start the next war, but may want to plan a bit). Sweden is #1 in soldiers, so maybe not them?
Well, the only real choices logistically are Sweden or Russia, and Sweden first is the better logistics out of those options. But we'll have at least 10 turns vs Iros before we have to pick.
Yes, peace with Morocco when we can, I forgot to look if it was available on my last turn.
(July 14th, 2015, 08:42)timmy827 Wrote: I should have put this in but forgot world congress requires "propose now and vote on it in 30 turns" (jesus, terrible design).
The lag is so you have time to send diplomats and trade for their support. And it's 30 turns because Civ 5's designers never heard of any other number.
(July 14th, 2015, 08:42)timmy827 Wrote: Great People: Assume we take a scientist with leaning tower and just keep bulbing?
Seems a good a plan as any. Don't think there's any wonder immediate and critical enough to warrant an Engineer, because of this about the FP:
(July 14th, 2015, 08:42)timmy827 Wrote: Builds: Do we want a run at Forbidden Palace? If so capital should do it next...but, from our spy in moscow, Catherine has a great engineer coming in a few turns. So maybe its futile. Anyone know if the AI always engineers a wonder if available?
Forbidden Palace requires Patronage. Is Cathy in that? If so, we can't get it. If not, we could consider it with the next policy. I think we will have one more policy to burn beyond Reformation before we can get to ideologies, and I'm thinking Patronage is the best choice for that anyway.
(July 14th, 2015, 08:42)timmy827 Wrote: Assume we should annex Marrakech next turn (once Ironworks done)?
No. We have no need to annex it. Leave it puppeted to save on anger. Our 12 happy is going to disappear very quick on Grand River's raze and Onondaga's capture. The only reason to annex is to gain control over its build orders. Right now a Watermill is fine, and I expect it will keep doing its own infrastructure like the workshop too.
(July 14th, 2015, 08:42)timmy827 Wrote: $: hold onto it. I could see wanting to buy factories down the road (for unlocking ideologies faster).
Agreed on this one, save all our money to crash-buy factories into Ideologies the day we get Industrialization and coal. Factories are a quite efficient buy in their own right.
(July 14th, 2015, 09:06)Ichabod Wrote: I didn't know you could capture culture. When does that happen?
I think it's some fraction (10%?) of the city's tourism production, which of course was minimal.
(July 14th, 2015, 09:06)Ichabod Wrote: The Ivory is from a trade with Brazil extra sugar that you made long ago, T-Hawk, that has been renewed ever since (I think the logic was to trade for Rome's extra ivory). The marble sell was from Timmy so we would have enough money to buy Almaty (I think), with the caveat that we would capture marble from Marrakech anyway. So, no bug (just questionable play, perhaps).
No, that is the bug I mean. Someone renewed the ivory to Brazil, thinking we had an extra because the screen showed 2 when we really didn't. Then we lost whatever other source we had (not sure if it was Rome or a CS.)
(July 14th, 2015, 09:06)Ichabod Wrote: *Do we get culture from the stolen great works from Morocco? If that's the case, wait with the Great Writer until we spent 8 turns gaining this bonus, I think.
We definitely get the tourism so pretty sure we get the culture too. I don't think the game keeps track of the fact that the works were captured. I think we should wait with the Great Writer until Ideologies anyway.
(July 14th, 2015, 09:06)Ichabod Wrote: *I think we should backfill most of our missing techs before going to the modern era. Reason being, the faith cost of units, apparently, keeps increasing each era you advance. So, industrialization could be a good tech target, to allow ideologies without having to increase unit cost.
Yes, target Industrialization after Dynamite. Dynamite is all we'll need to conquer through the rest of the world. Flight could help with mop-up but that's about all we need in the modern era.