Carthage with Libery/Exploration synergy

BroOfTheSun

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Playing as Carthage, if you go Liberty and Exploration, every coastal city gives you +2 happiness. Unhappiness for founding a new city is cut by 50%. No work required.

Free harbor gives you +1 happiness from exploration policy (forget the policy name). It also gives you connection with capital city (assuming it's on the coast as well). So that's an additional +1 happiness for city connection.

Also, the free connection means you make a little gold with the internal trade route, to help alleviate some maintenance issues. Is Dido the new leader for BNW ICS?
 
Isn't ICS kinda dead from the 5% science penalty per city?
 
Carthage was a rockstar on archipelago ICS before BNW. Pre-BNW, I played a hilariously fun game where I plopped down close to 100 cities (using every imaginable city location!) on a normal sized map (liberty + order + ceremonial burial + honor for the defensive structure happiness + Neushwanstein). Nowadays that probably would be impossible due to the ceremonial burial nerf and the science nerf.
 
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