It's true that the +1 sight gives America an edge in combat but the author overlooks that this bonus counts just as much in the field of exploration of the world - it is in no way a pure warmongering perk.
From the original article:
In the early game, scouting is crucial. Meeting city-states first, getting a feel for the land so that you know what your strategy will need to be, finding and popping ruins -- in all these things, America has a decided edge.
Please work on your reading comprehension before deciding to bash the article. You really make yourself look like an idiot when you claim I failed to mention something that I did, in fact, mention. And as something crucial, no less.
The author's far-fetched idea that the sole purpose of the tile purchase discount is to annoy neighbours into declaring war
From the original article:
In the early game, use it to close off pathways and chokepoints so that other civs can't get past a far-settled city without declaring war. Use it as well to get those happiness resources hooked up sooner, if you've needed to position your city in such a way that some will be in the outside ring. Use it when Iron and Horses are revealed to quickly make the tiles workable and connectable.
If you had actually bothered to read the article, you wouldn't be spouting
- the real intent of Manifest Destiny is to incite America to choose Liberty as their policy tree of choice so they can found lots of cities and use tile purchases to work the best tiles immediately
As though you were formulating some novel idea outside the author's understanding. My understanding is not the one lacking, especially in terms of literacy.
That they have the excellent bomber unique unit doesn't make them a warmonger, either, it simply becomes their weapon of choice during the inevitable WW1/WW1 wars that will break out once ideologies come into play (Civ V on purpose recreates a WW scenario(s) where the ideologies will do battle). It also helps reflect America's dominance and power during the 20th century which is likely to be the time period where they are the most dominant in the game, as well.
And this has nothing to do with the article, as Ideologies as such did not exist in Vanilla. If you're going to critique the article, you might at least stick to the version the article is talking about. You know, the version where you could have Stealth by turn 181 (the link is in the article -- there's that reading comprehension thing again).
In Vanilla, Freedom wouldn't do jack for a well-run American Civ because you should be in charge of at least one and most likely two continents with your Stealth Bombers upgraded from B-51s by the time you even worry about enhancing GP production, and Freedom had little if anything to do with gold production anyway. Note that I recommend an actual Gold-producing policy tree, namely Commerce, in the article (there's that whole reading comprehension thing popping up again).
I don't mind this article being criticized, but the criticism should follow the following rules:
1) Actually reading the article;
2) Responding to the points the article makes, rather than ignoring that the article makes those points;
3) Keeping the version in mind.
Following these rules would permit your post to be of a level to permit intelligent debate, rather than a laboring of the over-obvious. To repeat, given that you have a demonstrated ability to ignore direct statements:
Read the article.
If you're going to claim I say/don't say something,
make sure I actually say/don't say it -- otherwise you look slipshod, at best.
Remember that this is written
for Vanilla, which is the entire
point of the previous poster asking for an update.
And in response to that: I wrote an updated version of the article for G&K (it was never transferred over; it's still in the discussion forum), but only got a copy of BNW a few days ago. The game has been fundamentally transformed, and I would not hazard a guide until I feel fully comfortable with its concepts, which will take a good deal of playing in free time that I admittedly have less of than I did then.
due to UA which again points them in the direction of peace and the Freedom ideology (civs with a 
bias that are suited for war). The author's far-fetched idea that the sole purpose of the tile purchase discount is to annoy neighbours into declaring war has of course no grounding in reality - the real intent of Manifest Destiny is to incite America to choose Liberty as their policy tree of choice so they can found lots of cities and use tile purchases to work the best tiles immediately even with Liberty's relatively slow (compared to Tradition) cultural expansion (this is what America is first and foremost about in Civ V - choosing Liberty and founding lots of cities which you then support with tile purchases). That they have the excellent bomber unique unit doesn't make them a warmonger, either, it simply becomes their weapon of choice during the inevitable WW1/WW1 wars that will break out once ideologies come into play (Civ V on purpose recreates a WW scenario(s) where the ideologies will do battle). It also helps reflect America's dominance and power during the 20th century which is likely to be the time period where they are the most dominant in the game, as well.
