Done and done. 100k Emperor no science.
Gram--the only reason I suggested a change in the roster is because Fe is new to SG's and with a lurker at the end we don't know what level of play they're at.
I'd like to talk a little 100K strategy.
Here are the key numbers for culture. Culture doubles at a 1000 years so early temples and libs can be very powerful.
You can see that early temples will produce the same amout of cpt as unis after 1000 years for half the upkeep and 30% of the shields. Libs will produce double the culture compared to caths at 6cpt (after 1000 years at half the shield and upkeep). These two items are key to our victory while the others are going to be important as well when they start doubling. Colosseums are the least attractive culture build (shields and cost for the culture) but will be necessary where we can afford them.
The question is will we pop rush in despotism and feudalism or pop rush in despotism and cash rush in republic?
If we are pop rushing then two wonders are huge and lots of food essential.
Temple of Artemis puts a temple in every city. This would be great conquest from the AI because handbuilding it is 500 shields. Ikes.
and probably more important are the pyramids.
The pyramids would allow us to pop rush citizens faster.
A foreign city with pop 6 can rush a temple in one turn (3 pop). Remember you can only rush half the pop so at pop 5 it can be done in stages. IE for a temple you can rush rax first (2 pop=40s) pop goes to 3 then rush the temple with 1 pop (20 more shields). Next turn you have a temple.
With a lib it would be done over 2 turns. Rush walls (1 pop) pop goes to 4 then rush the lib (2 pop) pop to 2. The next turn you rush the last person for a finished lib.
As far as hand building culture there are a few that I think we should get.
1. Colossus. 3cpt, reasonably cheap at 200s and big benefit to zero research.
2. Sistines 6cpt is expensive (600s) but doubles the impact of caths.
3. Shakes (450s) and Newton's (400s) are also 6cpt but don't give a broad based benefit.
What do you guys think about pop or cash rush?
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