Poland Has Spread Religion to 23 Cities

Buccaneer said:

I think that's a key question. If they are getting 100g per city, that would be huge (assuming they actually do something constructive with all of that gold). Apart from that, there is no religious victory and if I knew I could spread like that, I would simply get faith to buy Great Persons. But knowing the AI, they're probably just spamming more prophets and missionaries, which are not cost effective.

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Yeah I keep asking, because faith has been a very crucial catalyst for snatching games off the hands of other opponents in my recent MP games. Consider that on a huge maps if you proselytize the CS only we are talking about 20+ cities and the effect the RT or IP [God help you (pun intended ) if you face Byzantium and has BOTH] can have combined with strategic prophet bombings can make a religion snow ball in now time, earning you faith, gold, happiness GPs and whatever you invested to make those. I keep hearing people saying that Religion took a backseat in BNW, but in this posters humble opinion it has become a crucial utility to leverage my mid game strategy and push it to the finish.

Not that the AI can do this consistently, but I have nearly lost to Ethiopia once (King difficulty nonetheless) to a cultural vic (G&Ks) due to him having the number one religion spread (100+ cities) and each one of them giving him culture.... I remember Athens (holy capital of another religion) been flipped by 130 religious pressure.

msawchuk said:

It seems like the only way to deal with Poland is to be Poland.

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Poland is definitely my favorite new civ, and is probably one of my favorite civs overall.

msawchuk said:

It seems like the only way to deal with Poland is to be Poland.

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What? No WC restrictions? No lux sanctions? No embargo? No army tax? Nothing can stop them? You sir are making it sound as if the WC cannot stop a Civ from becoming a runaway

Well how about a traditional smackdown with the biggest scary weapon of the era?

I actually experienced something similar in my game... I'm playing as Venice, and I developed my religion extremely early (I was the first Civ). I spread it to nearly every city on my half of the globe very early via missionaries or trade routes.

all was well and I was making a nice profit via Tithe... then all of a sudden, the Mayans have 20 great prophets and force convert every single city in the neighborhood. it took me half the game to even get my own holy city back.

^^^I hate it when they do that!

Surprisingly when you have some beef to back your words (is an archer enough beef? ) and you tell em to stop they stop. For about 20-30 turns

Borobudur is a godly Wonder if you plan on spreading your religion around. It converts 6 cities by itself, and coupled with a quick Great Temple + enhancer belief you can easily have 30 cities flipped at turn 150 on a Pangaea.