MarigoldRan
WARLORD
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(a) With Kremlin, it becomes an excellent deal.
(b) It's even worthwhile sometimes without Kremlin. If you don't want a wonder (where rushbuy costs more) or a project (where you can't rushbuy), mature towns are as efficient or more so than ever other (non-resource) tile in the game for production*, except State Property + Caste System workshops. SP + Caste isn't always a reasonable option late-game - Emancipation or Free Market can end up being better choices. The problem is getting the towns, because it takes a lot more to get a town then to get a workshop.
*If you have to work farms to feed your mines/workshops. If you have abundant surplus food, mines and Caste System or SP workshops become a bit stronger, and non-Caste non-SP workshops are comparable to towns.
With Kremlin I'd use slavery, if Emancipation wasn't mandatory.
Drafting is better than rush-buying for units. And you need the money for upgrades and high levels of research. I guess at the very end of the game, it's fine, but I never do it even with the Kremlin.
Also, to rush-buy you need US. Which means you need cottages. If your economy isn't based around cottages, it's kind of pointless.