CS Slingshot

[ggganz]

What is it? HUH?

 

[Sisiutil]

From my strategy guide (link in my sig) :

• The Oracle is used as part of a popular gambit called the “CS Slingshot”. Time your building of the Oracle so it is finished in the same turn that you finish researching Code of Laws, or shortly thereafter. You can then choose the relatively expensive and very useful Civil Service technology as your free tech (hence the “CS”). Be warned that it is next to impossible to make this happen successfully in levels above Noble. There, you may want to try for the more modest “CoL Slingshot” (CoL = Code of Laws).

• Warlords 2.08 Patch addendum: this tactic has been made nearly impossible in patched versions ofthe expansion pack, because Mathematics is now an additional pre-requisite for Civil Service. Also, CivilService now has higher maintenance costs, making it a less attractive civic to run early in the game anyway.

 

[FuRRie]

Sisuitil's guide is an excellent guide for many aspects of the game btw.
The CS slingshot has indeed lost lot's of it power after Warlords, but it can still be done from time to time.

 

[ggganz]

Also, CivilService now has higher maintenance costs, making it a less attractive civic to run early in the game anyway.

You mean Bureaucracy?

 

[gettingfat]

If you really want it, play a financial leader (best is Huayna as you can build Oracle easier) and hope you get good resources. It can still be done at monarch level.

In BtS I think it's more difficult to do. The start location generally gives you fewer resources and there are a lot of other things to do. Getting too absorbed in a slingshot may not the wisest thing.

 

[ggganz]

No, I don't think I'll try that.