[Spoilers] Alhazard ruins a Renaissance fair

[Alhazard]

So far I been able to get to Communism by T260 but this seems too slow for me. We can speed this up greatly if we do not get the GE from the 2nd city to start off with but the +1 hammer matters a lot in the early game because we have to get a missionary to the capital to build a temple in time for the 2nd worker whip. But I think we have to go for this. We do not need the Kremlin right away since we will be in caste for a while to get the 5 GP for the 2nd and 3rd GA. During the 1st Golden Age with the Spy, we can just build the Kremlin in the best hammer city.

[Alhazard]

T236ish lib but Got Communism in T262 due to lack of beakers. Maybe cottage 2nd city also depending on map?

[Alhazard]

Key cut-off values for 2 whips for reference.

Worker Non-Bureaucap: 16/54
Settler Bureaucap: 194/248
Settler Non-Bureaucap: 210/248
Library with OR bonus: 35/81
Courthouse with OR bonus: 62/108 (17/108 if you want to 3 whip)

[ipecac]

I think your sims show that Gandhi won't be quite as strong as in PB33, not least because the Kremlin path will take more bulbs and much more time to accomplish.

[Alhazard]

Got Lib on T236 again. Not much I can do to speed it up except for buildng libraries in the capital and 2nd city?

[Alhazard]

I can shave off lib to T226 by running aggressive scientists but need cap and 2nd city to have lot of food to work.

[Alhazard]

of course if we win lib we can take it a bit easy since no one will try to beat us to Communism

[Alhazard]

Yeah cant do better than T262. The limiting factor is the GNP which is trash because my in test games, I been expanding aggressively and have around 12-14 cities by then.

[Alhazard]

Well having a sure lock for lib is not bad even if we decide to not beeline directly to communism. I guess we can take Nationalism and clear cheap Gunpowder and MT to cuir rush a neighboor? Or generate a GM or 2 then adopt representation around T250 to boost our GNP. This is a round about way than just bulbing Nat and constitution but we can build the cheap unis and oxford a lot sooner. Now need to test libing Nat vs bulbling to constitution.

[Alhazard]

From what I tested, I rather limp to State Property then limp to something after representation because representation doesnt help with maintenance. This beeline might make sense if you are not phi. But seriously everytime I try to playtest, I wonder why am I not ORG due to maintenance.