I’m too inexperienced with civ5 warfare to have a strong opinion on the big questions: who the next target is, or whether we should wait for Artillery for more fighting.
-I think hold onto the GS for now. Getting to dynamite before the Reformation policy doesn't help, so may as well hold on and bulb for slightly more beakers later. (if we get globe, we could bulb that writer, but still think hold onto that writer for ideologies.)
-On annexing puppets and happiness
right now we have 12 unhappy from 13 puppet population, so it's barely less than 'normal' population. So annexing (with courthouse) is slightly worse happiness, a little more science (although a drop in the bucket, and we seem to agree that after Dynamite and factories to unlock ideology, further research rate not very important), and higher policy costs.
I think it is worth doing Marrakech now, so we can tell it to do the cheap happy builds (circus, colosseum). It has a lot of production potential, especially if we move some food tiles to the hills (probably should do anyways, limit growth for happiness reasons; this is also a reason to take control); maybe even build the courthouse instead of buying? onondaga is doing a useful build right now (circus) so let it sit a while.
It’s too bad the mercantile CS haven’t had many aligned quests; perhaps Sistine in the capital after Forbidden for Vilnius is worthwhile? if happniess too crunched we may have to just throw a lot of gold at one of them.
Micro: have Divinty take a hill from the cap to finish its Celidh Hall this turn. That may keep us right at neutral happiness (Ichabod noted the sugar deal expiring, but it’s still technically in effect this turn and we lose its happy next turn).
Units - maybe a musket next, then save faith for Artillery? We can save any amount of faith without a prophet spawning now right?
Ideologies: I’m pretty convinced that Freedom (for Volunteer Army) trumps the other choices. Those foreign legions will be the last frontline units we ever need so we can save faith for artillery. The Order courthouse thing sounds good but comes way too late (level 3 means we need the two free ‘tenets’ for first-to-ideology plus 4 more policies). Autocracy has some nice stuff but I don’t think anything (looking 3-4 tenets deep) as strong as the foreign legions.
Roster:
I’m out of town starting Wendesday night for a week and a half, so I’d like to do a set before then if possible. If yuris can play this weekend I could do Monday or Tuesday night.
-I think hold onto the GS for now. Getting to dynamite before the Reformation policy doesn't help, so may as well hold on and bulb for slightly more beakers later. (if we get globe, we could bulb that writer, but still think hold onto that writer for ideologies.)
-On annexing puppets and happiness
right now we have 12 unhappy from 13 puppet population, so it's barely less than 'normal' population. So annexing (with courthouse) is slightly worse happiness, a little more science (although a drop in the bucket, and we seem to agree that after Dynamite and factories to unlock ideology, further research rate not very important), and higher policy costs.
I think it is worth doing Marrakech now, so we can tell it to do the cheap happy builds (circus, colosseum). It has a lot of production potential, especially if we move some food tiles to the hills (probably should do anyways, limit growth for happiness reasons; this is also a reason to take control); maybe even build the courthouse instead of buying? onondaga is doing a useful build right now (circus) so let it sit a while.
It’s too bad the mercantile CS haven’t had many aligned quests; perhaps Sistine in the capital after Forbidden for Vilnius is worthwhile? if happniess too crunched we may have to just throw a lot of gold at one of them.
Micro: have Divinty take a hill from the cap to finish its Celidh Hall this turn. That may keep us right at neutral happiness (Ichabod noted the sugar deal expiring, but it’s still technically in effect this turn and we lose its happy next turn).
Units - maybe a musket next, then save faith for Artillery? We can save any amount of faith without a prophet spawning now right?
Ideologies: I’m pretty convinced that Freedom (for Volunteer Army) trumps the other choices. Those foreign legions will be the last frontline units we ever need so we can save faith for artillery. The Order courthouse thing sounds good but comes way too late (level 3 means we need the two free ‘tenets’ for first-to-ideology plus 4 more policies). Autocracy has some nice stuff but I don’t think anything (looking 3-4 tenets deep) as strong as the foreign legions.
Roster:
I’m out of town starting Wendesday night for a week and a half, so I’d like to do a set before then if possible. If yuris can play this weekend I could do Monday or Tuesday night.