I agree with most of your summary CF.
Lumbermills are a wonderful improvement. Normally you'd have the tradeoff for chopping instant hammers now (and civac has trained me well in the art of deforestation), but in this setup I think the mills are the correct choice.
One thing you didn't bring up directly, but I missed during the game just how horribly exposed Frequency was. Holding that while being on your last HP was quite the feat.
(January 28th, 2025, 10:38)Cornflakes Wrote: Also the fact that I'd focused on Lumbermills early on made Machinery a nice tech target, which had the follow-up consequence of putting me just 1 tech short of both Engineering and Guilds. That was an unplanned synergy with my strategy this game. Overall the CtH Lumbermill changes are great. Machinery gave me more of an economic boost than Currency
Lumbermills are a wonderful improvement. Normally you'd have the tradeoff for chopping instant hammers now (and civac has trained me well in the art of deforestation), but in this setup I think the mills are the correct choice.
One thing you didn't bring up directly, but I missed during the game just how horribly exposed Frequency was. Holding that while being on your last HP was quite the feat.