Recent content by Ian Kognitow

Have him lounge around the city for the next millenium to establish Sushi. If a second GM spawns in that time then Golden Age around late Renaissance to speed Lib/Taj or Steel/Rail.

France doesn't even really need early rushes. Louis, besides Industrious, is also Creative, so as long as some early defense can be provided, France can directly culture flip the Western European rivals. Last time I played on EAR-18 with Louis (on Monarch), Berlin and London both flipped and...

Well, 'stormtrooper' usually is more associated with WWI (even the entry in wikipedia pretty much talks exclusively about stormtroopers in relation to that war). But, I suppose, they could be given the more generic name of 'Shock Troops' or 'Shock Infantry'.

I take the infantry unit to correspond more closely to WWI infantry, in which case a worthwhile UU could be made out of a German Stormtrooper. It would be more useful than the usually disliked Panzer and perhaps its advantages could be something like the SEAL -- added first strikes+March

Well, in either case of teching gunpowder before Lib or getting it from Lib and then teching nationalism normally, there would be time to assemble one or two waves of muskets under vassalage before switching to nationhood for drafting. The unpromoted draftees actually--especialy as...

Wouldn't Education make the most sense by allowing gunpowder to be taken off of or followed up by Liberalism - in either case allowing Nationalism/drafting to come next?

I practically find Sushi broken as far as being able to facilitate culture victory. I've even had easy culture victories with it where I literally never used the culture slider at all. With it very easy to just buy up the many, many spare seafood resources around the world, it's quite possible...

Building any ancient wonder has considerable value for culture victory. Having, say, Stonehenge producing 16:culture: or Parthenon 20:culture: for the last 1000-1500 years of the game is enormously valuable. With an IND leader--and obviously for those wonders helped by a resource--you should...

Or if that wonder is the AP and you think you really, really want it to burn no matter how attractive the rest of the city might be.

You had mentioned great generals. One thought might be--especially with help from great wall--to save great generals from early wars rather than settling them. Barracks+vassalage+theocracy already gives new units 6xp. Now, attaching a great general to a stack of 5 Jannissaries will give each...

Just having a half-dozen cats that one is freely willing to lose as fodder, virtually any invading AI stack pre-gunpowder can likely be annihilated so long as it has to journey through some cultural-territory before arriving at the gates of any city. Particularly with GW and the opportunity to...

--And here, while I'd imagine that TtFace somehow did mean lighthouse by way of clear evidence (evidence itself, of course, is only demonstrative and doesn't really have any particular link to accuracy or useful knowledge) I suspect you meant 'than' a scout rather than 'and'. But, here, I would...

Maybe a future edition can introduce the 'Great Bureaucrat'. In addition to typical possibilities for golden age, settling, and bulbing, its special mission can be to make the trains run on time, giving old-civ RR movement (or, say +1 road movement pre-RR, with a trade route bonus in either case).

--If going for culture, or even space victory--and especially if making big use of corps like Sushi or Mining that preclude using state property--it can often be very good to liberate overseas territory. I overlooked this in the past but now very frequently make use of it for a much more...

It's indeed an annoying situation but it sounds like you should more or less be in the same position as before. You say you're at least well into the process of building your own 'mega stacks' - at least enough to carve through MM already. All those vassals, while they might for now greatly...