Shoot the Moon Wrote:I disagree. A golden age would be much more beneficial right before a war. You'd rather have the golden age when your pop is high and you have improved tiles to work than in a war when you are presumably doing a fair share of whipping (which is not nearly as effective during a golden age).
You're absolutely right in terms of yield for their civ, but at the same time I wonder if the demographic spike of a golden age (especially if they get the Mausoleum) would hasten a dogpile forming. It could wind up like the early Philosophical Academy, a very good move for the game but bad for metagame.