Chinese Petra-Pyramids City

[GKShaman]

Hello All,

Simple wonky strat a friend and I built with China.

China allows you to use a Builder to complete 15% of a wonder production cost at the city center. In addition Chinese Builders have 4 charges off the bat not 3. So Early on - do the necessary techs and BO and get three districts up for the boost to Mathematics.

Then build a settler and two builders. Find a HUGE swath of crap desert with some river or freshwater nearby with one floodplains patch. The yields will suck but usiing the two Builders - use 6 charges and complete Petra. Then buff the city with the remaining two charges building appropriate farms, plantations, etc.

Then work on Pyramids - Feel free to get a Builder with two charges left and complete it. Realize that the city will be greatly buffed.

Lastly finish cover the Petra City with improvements. Worst case: build continuous Great Wall segments on flat empty desert. With Castles and masonry the yields of a continuous great wall segment desert with Petra is 2 food, 1 production, 1 culture, 3 gold and 4 defense for any unit.

Also you get 7 charge builders now with the Serfdom card!

Enjoy!! I'll post a snapshot this week.

 

[member66170]

I did that once. Only used builders to rush the pyramids, then used the extra charges and free builder and extra charges to rush Petra. More efficient that way.

 

[redwings1340]

That sounds like a great strategy. China seems to be able to go for Petra a lot easier than other civs because they're the only civ that can reliably produce early wonders quickly outside of the capital. Nice job.

 

[AmtrakQuebec]

Hmmm, I'll have to try this one... you should get the Mods to move this to the Strategy & Tips section though.