Cromagnus
Deity
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- Sep 11, 2012
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what does it help to go heavy warmonger early game?
Espacially if u do care for culture stuff it doesnt help at all to kill every1 before they even get the chance to generate great works.
I don't disagree, early city capture is basically pointless, but the siege tower is most effective very early. So it's a dilemma. Not capturing a city with a siege tower until t90 is the equivalent of not attacking anything with your CBs until t90. It's a missed opportunity. You can take two capitals by t60 with siege towers and archers, and along the way, raze two expos for a total of 4 techs, and probably get 2 more in a peace deal to sell/raze. If you can somehow avoid getting DoW'd, it's probably worth doing this in the long run. But, on Deity at least, this will almost certainly get you DoW'd, so meh, maybe it's better, given the state of warmonger penalties, to rush the Writer's Guild and fill your Royal Libraries.
However, in the specific case of continents, it's totally worth it IMHO to clear out your entire continent before meeting the other continent. You'll get good relationships and RAs and have the whole continent to yourself. That's generally awesome.