Dhoomstriker
Girlie Builder
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But, is it a no-brainer when you have a fleet that can capture any City on the map and when you have Marble and the production to be able to self-built the Taj Mahal?For me burning a GE on a free 1 person GA is a no brainer...
Find out who has the Mausoleum of Mollossus. Capture that City. THEN complete the Taj Mahal manually (hoplitejoe said that it could be done in 10 to 15 turns) in a City that has already started it.
Then you still have a Great Engineer for whatever--another Golden Age after we own the Mausoleum of Mollossus? A good number of Hammers toward The Statue of Liberty later?
You essentially get a FREE Golden Age by WAITING until we capture the MoM before:
a) completing the Taj Mahal
AND
b) launching a Golden Age using our Great People
We don't necessarily need a Holy Shrine if a lot of them have been built already--it was just a possibility. Launching a Golden Age after we own the MoM Wonder could also be a valuable use of the Great Prophet.
So, send our fleet out to capture MoM and then feel free to spawn several extra-long Golden Ages with as many of the Great People as you want (a Great Engineer is probably better used to pair with other Great People for an extra partial Golden Age, since the Taj Mahal will be 100% ours and since we have plenty of production power to manually complete it).
In a game where the AIs have Nationalism or in a game where you don't have Marble, using a Great Engineer on the Taj Mahal makes more sense. Here, there's actually negative value, since by launching 2 Golden Ages now, we'd miss out on a free Golden Age--i.e. when you own MoM, Golden Ages are 1.5 times longer, meaning that you get 3 Golden Ages for the price of 2 Golden Ages, but only if you own that Wonder before launching the Golden Ages.