I'm glad you're finding this thread useful! Sounds like you've set up a good empire with your city specialization -- a great habit to learn.
Obsoleting Stonehenge will mean any new cities you capture or found will no longer get a free Obelisk. You'll also be unable to build Obelisks in any cities. Feel free to obsolete it when you have other means to produce culture in your cities and it sounds like you're already there if you have religions. The great people points you get from Stonehenge will continue to accumulate as well as the culture it produces. I'm not certain about any existing obelisks you already have because of Stonehenge.
You can do the same analysis for any obsoleting technology. Weigh the benefits against the negatives, considering alternative ways of getting the benefit.
There are certain wonders and civics (don't have my reference handy) that give you additional Science or Culture from religious buildings if you have that religion as your state religion. Be sure to build monastaries for your founded religions before they become obsolete by Scientific Method.
As usual, there is no always-correct-answer. The one thing all those cities require is sufficient food to work the desired tiles. For example, a city with 10 mined dessert hills (4
each) is sub-optimal without enough food to work all of them. In that example, you could also build workshops on any grassland tiles or watermills on rivers as long as you have enough food to still work all the mines. If not, farm the grasslands instead.
Never put a single unit adjacent to an enemy city unless you want to sacrifice it to draw the enemy out in the open (heh, I've been known to bring along an extra worker or two with an invasion force just for that purpose). It's better to stack your force in combined arms teams; offensive foot soldiers, mobile units, and anti-counter-attack units (Pikemen, Gunships) for force protection. If you want to disrupt the enemy's road network or resources, then form smaller, combined-arms teams just for that purpose. For example, a Spearman/Axeman/Horse Archer team can pillage a resource and its road in two consecutive moves (HA pillages the resource on first turn as the stack moves onto the tile, and the road on the second turn as the stack leaves the tile). The team can survive in enemy territory but again, don't park them adjacent to a city.
It usually takes a combination of buildings (wonders), great artists, producing culture in your build queue and the culture slider. There are some good forumlas to follow in the Strategy Articles forum.
You're welcome. That's why we read this thread!
Obsoleting Stonehenge will mean any new cities you capture or found will no longer get a free Obelisk. You'll also be unable to build Obelisks in any cities. Feel free to obsolete it when you have other means to produce culture in your cities and it sounds like you're already there if you have religions. The great people points you get from Stonehenge will continue to accumulate as well as the culture it produces. I'm not certain about any existing obelisks you already have because of Stonehenge.
You can do the same analysis for any obsoleting technology. Weigh the benefits against the negatives, considering alternative ways of getting the benefit.
There are certain wonders and civics (don't have my reference handy) that give you additional Science or Culture from religious buildings if you have that religion as your state religion. Be sure to build monastaries for your founded religions before they become obsolete by Scientific Method.
As usual, there is no always-correct-answer. The one thing all those cities require is sufficient food to work the desired tiles. For example, a city with 10 mined dessert hills (4
each) is sub-optimal without enough food to work all of them. In that example, you could also build workshops on any grassland tiles or watermills on rivers as long as you have enough food to still work all the mines. If not, farm the grasslands instead.Never put a single unit adjacent to an enemy city unless you want to sacrifice it to draw the enemy out in the open (heh, I've been known to bring along an extra worker or two with an invasion force just for that purpose). It's better to stack your force in combined arms teams; offensive foot soldiers, mobile units, and anti-counter-attack units (Pikemen, Gunships) for force protection. If you want to disrupt the enemy's road network or resources, then form smaller, combined-arms teams just for that purpose. For example, a Spearman/Axeman/Horse Archer team can pillage a resource and its road in two consecutive moves (HA pillages the resource on first turn as the stack moves onto the tile, and the road on the second turn as the stack leaves the tile). The team can survive in enemy territory but again, don't park them adjacent to a city.
It usually takes a combination of buildings (wonders), great artists, producing culture in your build queue and the culture slider. There are some good forumlas to follow in the Strategy Articles forum.
You're welcome. That's why we read this thread!
So I built a Swordman, catapult, spearman,skirmisher and a chariot in all my citys and was the forced to change civics and churn them out. Is there any way to come around this problem? I would just love to spew out a complete stack of promoted units right out of the gate. And a follow up question about this. How long can you keep a unit in que before it starts to loose hammers?
