LowtherCastle
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To bulb Machinery and Engineering (roughly 2600b), we'd need to research first these techs:
That's a lot of beakers and Alpha might or might not be useless, except fo a spy or two, although I'm beginning to think that these might be the only two Gawas, since they don't seem to have signed OBs with anyone they've met, Unless they met them across a channel.
But Engineering gives us 50% faster land units, which might be our main source of travel. Aesthetics also gets us closer to Literature and the Heroic Epic. MC gives us happiness and more hammers per turn.
We could chop the Pyramids in Kyoto and run a buttload of scientists (2@Delhi, GEL, NC, Kyoto). We could also build the NE for failed gold. It would be a gambit that would delay our conquest slightly but would probably pay off in the long run if we have to travel a lot by land.
The Pyramids would also give us Police State for warring and Universal Suffrage for cash rushing some cultural buildings at the end, if we need that. Furthermore, research may be our bottleneck, since we can't trade, at least not so far.
But...it would significantly delay our westward exploration and we might find out that conquest by water is much better.
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312 Iron Working
468 Aesthetics
468 Alphabet
702 Metal Casting
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1950 Total beakers
But Engineering gives us 50% faster land units, which might be our main source of travel. Aesthetics also gets us closer to Literature and the Heroic Epic. MC gives us happiness and more hammers per turn.
We could chop the Pyramids in Kyoto and run a buttload of scientists (2@Delhi, GEL, NC, Kyoto). We could also build the NE for failed gold. It would be a gambit that would delay our conquest slightly but would probably pay off in the long run if we have to travel a lot by land.
The Pyramids would also give us Police State for warring and Universal Suffrage for cash rushing some cultural buildings at the end, if we need that. Furthermore, research may be our bottleneck, since we can't trade, at least not so far.
But...it would significantly delay our westward exploration and we might find out that conquest by water is much better.