FridoDiamond
Chieftain
Everyone says that Austria is OP, the UA is strong, but I don't understand which victory I should go for with Austria and how, any advice?
Honestly, the ability sucks unless you've got a sizeable money advantage and can deal with unhappiness easy, which the AI usally does in the upper difficulty levels. Prince and below? Austria is pathetic. It's only OP when in the hands of AI with buffs. As a human, you should probably just play normally. You'd have to pay 1k to ally with a CS, then play some more just to puppet it, then more just to annex it; the bonuses you get from alliance usually outweigh what a normal city will give you anyway.
I was under the impression that since the city state becomes part of their empire, this wouldn't help in a diplomatic victory, in fact it may make it impossible by eliminating city states that can vote for you.