Alhambra + Brandenburg Gate + Heroic Epic - Win?

[zeock9]

assuming you have other military structures like the armory and the barrack,
it will give all of your land based military units built in that city a +15% strength/drill III/march promotion to begin with.

i usually cram all the production buildings + wonders, like factories and iron works, into that city as well and you, all of a sudden, become a military POWERHOUSE, able to pump out uber units every few turns.

computer AIs, which usually choose to instantly heal units, rather than giving them valuable promotions, do not stand a chance against these uber units.

couple that with the fact that computer AIs usually don't seem to prioritize these wonders, like they do with Great Library, you have a really good chance of grabbing them both if you go for them.

anyone else do the same?

 

[teakbois]

In my games Alhambra seems to be one of the most popular AI choices, its almost always gone before I even have the tech for it. Brandenburg does seem to hang around longer though.

 

[gunnergoz]

In the games I play, Alhambra, the Castle wonder (Himeji? I forget the name) and the Kremlin all get rushed by the computer most of the time. I hardly ever get to them first, and I push wonders pretty hard in my game style.

 

[Nyanko]

Its nice to dream about, but in higher difficulties its near impossible. As has been said, Alhambra is a very high priority wonder for the AI

 

[GhostSalsa]

Alhambra is usually out of reach for me, too. Taking that out, the other elements are still a powerful combination of Morale + 3 promotions.

In fact, I started aiming to get this combination in a few recent tall games in a row (Heroic Epic is seriously unreasonable on wide).

What I found was that even on a tall empire it takes so many hammers that I probably would have been better just pumping more units. I still often go for Brandenburg + Armory for the ability to rush buy Air-Repair airplanes, but I leave Heroic out of it.

 

[Uberfrog]

I still often go for Brandenburg + Armory for the ability to rush buy Air-Repair airplanes, but I leave Heroic out of it.

Oh yes: three promotions on Great War Bombers turns them into superunits. Give them Air Repair and they can attack safely every turn, so soon you have enough XP to give them +1 attack, and then just sit back and watch the enemies' cities burn.

 

[nefloyd]

Oh yes: three promotions on Great War Bombers turns them into superunits. Give them Air Repair and they can attack safely every turn, so soon you have enough XP to give them +1 attack, and then just sit back and watch the enemies' cities burn.

Pick Faith Healers, too.

 

[Louis XXIV]

This has come up before. The consensus is, if you manage to get all that, you deserve to win.

 

[n00bxqb]

Statue of Zeus ?

 

[cman2010]

This has come up before. The consensus is, if you manage to get all that, you deserve to win.

I agree with this, it seems like it would be hard to get this combination.

 

[cman2010]

Oh yes: three promotions on Great War Bombers turns them into superunits. Give them Air Repair and they can attack safely every turn, so soon you have enough XP to give them +1 attack, and then just sit back and watch the enemies' cities burn.

Man I love bombers in G&K, I only play single player so dont know how powerful they are in multi but with the air repair upgrade they are unstoppable.

 

[Adjuvant]

i think there's a thread like this every week...

the general consensus is, if you're playing at such a difficulty level this combination is somehow "easy to achieve" or sometimes even achieve-able, you would have won anyway and you're taking extra steps. raise the difficulty level and challenge yourself.

 

[JanghanHong]

Yeah, if you can do it on Emperor and above, you deserve to win. This could be a viable strategy for the Incas, Korea, Egypt... Very Tall Empires that focuses hard on production and teching, I think it's working as designed.


Also, Faith Healers + Ethiopian UA + Himeji Castle + Just War + Fountain of Youth =

Mehari Sefari with 3 promotions + Rough Terrain Bonus + Double Healing + 20+15% Strength Bonus + Heals faster next to own cities, 20% Strength against other cities of same religion + Strength Bonus around the capital