Does anyone find these two policies quite op? Gunboat basically gives you ~5 relationship per turn for every city state, as long as you park a big army/navy in their vicinity.
Demand tribute nets me around 200 gold each for 15 relationship, and incur a 10 turn period where I can't bully the city state. This brings the total cost per bully to be about 25 relationship, or about 5 turns worth of bullying. Once I get a city state to a comfortable level of relationship, usually ~130 or so, I can bully each city state for 200 gold every 15 turns. With 41 city states max, that's 8200 gold every 15 turns, or 546.66 gold per turn average.
United Front synergies fairly well with Gunboat. You park your army next to military city states. Then they give you the most advanced unit you can field, thus saving you the cost of upgrading your existing units. Finally, you use your new upgraded army to bully more city states.
Demand tribute nets me around 200 gold each for 15 relationship, and incur a 10 turn period where I can't bully the city state. This brings the total cost per bully to be about 25 relationship, or about 5 turns worth of bullying. Once I get a city state to a comfortable level of relationship, usually ~130 or so, I can bully each city state for 200 gold every 15 turns. With 41 city states max, that's 8200 gold every 15 turns, or 546.66 gold per turn average.
United Front synergies fairly well with Gunboat. You park your army next to military city states. Then they give you the most advanced unit you can field, thus saving you the cost of upgrading your existing units. Finally, you use your new upgraded army to bully more city states.