You want Education fast so you can start running scientists but also so you can sign RAs as early as possible. In GandK you need to sign 4 waves of RAs, as things stand now, in order to complete the required spaceship techs. It's for this reason that babylon is still the best science civ, the early accelerated bpt gets Education open faster than any other civ. So if you finish Education on turn 90 your RAs will come on 120, 150, 180 and 210 giving you 20 turns to build the parts. The later you sign the RAs the later you will finish.
Level: Emperor playing as Nebuchadnezzar
EDIT: I give up this one due to slow growth rates in secondari cities. I will also only build 2 academies in next attempt. My record from a Liberty opening is 254 and i really want a pre 230
In turn 97 I finished NC, Education and signed 2 RA.
65 (1 academy)
Cities: 9, 5, 5 and 4
Update (turn 124):
178 (3 academies)
Cities: 15 (2
slot), 9, 6 and 6 (2
slot)
Update (turn 127):
194
Cities: 15 (2
slot), 9 (2
slot), 7 and 6 (2
slot)
Update (turn 132):
210
Cities: 16, 9, 7 and 6 (2
slot in each city)
Update (turn 134):
244 adopted Secularism
Cities: 16, 9, 7 and 6 (2
slot in each city + 2 Workshop slots)
Update (turn 143):
256
Cities: 18, 10, 7 and 6 (2
slot in each city + 3 Workshop slots)
Update (turn 146):
268 ST (Academies = 10
) +1 GS (to be used for late tech)
Cities: 18, 10, 7 and 6 (2
slot in each city + 3 Workshop slots)
Update (turn 160):
311+2 GS
Cities: 19, 10, 7 and 7 (2
slot in each city + PS in Capital, 3 Workshop slots)
Update (turn 164):
361+2 GS, adopted Free Thought
Cities: 20, 10, 8 and 7 (2
slot in each city + PS in Capital, 3 Workshop slots)
At Emperor or below, you can go for writing and philo before construction. Archers will be sufficient for defense(build 3-4 of them) until construction.
1:st. war with Arabia (my neighbor how don't like me....) no problem to defense with 2 Bowman's.
2:nd war with Arabia, more than enough with 3 Composite Bowman's
Tabarnak said:
I usually pick my 7th policy for patronnage with Oracle(if possible) because i ally a bunch of cs. Then i open rationalism after acoustics for pangea and astronomy for other maps, if i'm going deep into the tech tree. I think that for cultural and domination it is not necessary.
Open patronage as my 7th policy in turn 99 and started to build Oracle after University.
I will do some backfilling to get MC and then go for acoustics to time rationalism as my 8th policy (deepening on Oracle)
Update (turn 116):
With Oracle I was able to adopt rationalism.
My plan is to finnish at least IW in Capital before I starts on my 5th city. How many cities to you end with?
How many Academies do you build for Diplo and Science victory, 3 for both?
To speed up DoF are you giving AI money (125
seems to be enough)
Do you save Oxford to get one of the end tech.
As long as I'm unhappy I focus on production esp. to get GL (Theology), HG, NC and University in Capital. I'm current happy so I have default as focus in rest of my cities. Do you micromanage or focus on food until you get university in all cities? After university i switch focus to science, but if only one science slot is taken I normally take one more (manuel), is this correct?
Religion:
Fertility Rites (10% growth), Is't better to take the 2
even if I don't plan for more than 5-6 cities?
Update:
Swords into Plowshares (15% growth) (Turn 108)
Tithe (+1
for every 4 followers)
=> gives you 50% growth in Capital and 40% in other cities with tradition.
Pls give my some comments. My goal is to take a pre 230 Diplo victory. I need to improve my strategies before G&K HoF open