Venice and AI

In my game, I saw a GMoV sitting outside the capital, but then it started moving toward a city state the next turn, with an escort by the way (very nice to see). I bribed Germany to declare war on Venice and together we executed the Merchant before it could buy the city state.

Ulthwithian said:

I don't know how fast this is, but Venice can get 3 MoV very quickly.

1) Optics.
2) Open Liberty, get Settler Policy.
3) Finish Libery, choose Great Merchant.

At that point, though, it needs 400 points, I believe, to get another Merchant. That might explain the '3' thing.

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The Merchant of Venice you get at Optics doesn't increase the cost of future Great People. I.e. your second MoV will only cost 100 GPP.

PhilBowles said:

Hmm, that I didn't know - I gave up my effort to liberate Ormuz in favour of taking Venice itself.

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That leads to an interesting question/situation.
If Venice loses its capital, does the new capital gain the ability to select production and make new GMoV, etc? Or is Venice then stuck with buying a military with the intent of trying to take Venice back? Kind of interesting team stomp potential in multi-player, yes?