Is this a good Indonesia strategy?

JofOblie

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I've been playing Indonesia a fair bit recently and because of their unique resources they seem like a good civ to build a wide empire with and I've been thinking about the best strategy to use to go wide, and I've come up with this:

Summary: Build religion, Candis and great people.

The start you want preferably involves lots of quarry resources. Preferably at least 2. Build a scout, open piety and research pottery first. Start building a monument, but pause mid way as soon as a shrine becomes available (and you have piety to cut down the build time). After that, finish the monument, and build a worker whilst researching masonry. Make your second policy the one that gives +1 :c5faith: faith to shrines and temples, then when you get to choose a pantheon, pick the one that give you extra :c5faith: faith from quarries. After that I usually go with tradition as far as I need. Then, when convenient build the mausoleum of Halicarnassus. The idea is to focus on your religion, when you get it, take the faith that gives you +2 :c5happy: from gardens. Preferably you also want Tithe and Padogas too.

The reason you want extra happiness from gardens is that the Candi is a garden replacement that you can build in every city, and it gives you extra faith. After that work lots of :c5greatperson: specialists and great people in every city you can, to get the extra money from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Later on you also want the leaning tower of Pisa.

This strategy should give you plenty of money and happiness and lots of great people to work, and should aid with most victory conditions. It also works great with Freedom and the Statue of Liberty. Don't forget to settle all the islands and continents to get those free resources.
 
You'll be doing a lot of restarts to get 2 quary resources near you. (That would be a great gold start if you build mausoleum as anybody)

Yes, +2 faith for Gardens is Indonesia specific. Pagoda would be overkill in terms of happiness, but if you're on a high enough level, other AIs will found a religion before you enhance and one of them will take it making it moot, it's the other way around you need to pick them as Pagoda gets picked by AI much quicker than +2 faith from Gardens)

Also, don't settle on a one tile island with an existing luxury resource or it will get replaced for little benefit.

Note that those Piety policies before Tradition are going to greatly delay Aqueducts compared to standard full tradition. Going full Tradition you can complete Tradition before you have the tech for Aqueducts. Going this way it appears to be a 30 turn delay, by which time your capital could have hand built one.
 
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