[GS] Golden Age OP combos

[DrJambo]

so Monumentality just seems so much better than any of the other options. Combined with Theocracy, I’ve been buying settlers for ~360 faith and builders for ~160 faith and given I’m generating ~100 faith per turn, mainly from some early relics, it’s catapulted me to a position where it is now almost impossible to lose.

This is on Emperor as Nubia.

I’ve experienced some powerful combos in my Civ times, but this one just seems particularly OP!

 

[Sostratus]

I find that a couple civs (Japan and Mali especially) get even more mileage out of free inquiry than monumentality, just because japan can get easy adjacency on harbor and CH (without even a river or fish resources, a Japanese triangle of those is +4 harbor, +4 CH) and Mali has that absurd suguba (see guide in my sig on how to exploit that.) Although Mali could also leverage desert folklore holy sites to extreme effect under monumentality, I feel like all that science is just so hard to pass up. For example, mali can push out 2 settlers, build a cluster of sugubas and get +8-10 on their capital's suguba. Drop in reyna with 1 promotion and now you've got +20 science just from that single district. (and +5-7 for each of the other two.)

If they ever make the late game matter,
The sleeper OP combo is Modern era+ Dark Age combo with Robber barons & collectivism cards, and any civ that goes big on IZ adjacency. (Japan, Dutch, Germany especially.)
+100% IZ adjacency, stack with craftsmen, and +25% prod from factories thanks to robber barons. Feel proud of that IZ you placed next to an aqueduct and a dam for +5? Now it's +15. Have a coal plant? Another 15. Let's tack on +25% more because you're such a good customer. It's how germany ends up with +45 Hansas. It's stupid and unfair.

 

[kaspergm]

On one hand, I love how insanely cheap buying things with faith compared to gold is. But from a rational POV, my mind tells me it's not good for game balance. How much is it Flood Barriers cost if you have Valletta in the game? lol

 

[Troy Bruckner]

If you want to know the true power of Monumentality then play Russia with 14+ faith Lavras.

 

[lotrmith]

If you want to know the true power of Monumentality then play Russia with 14+ faith Lavras.

The Lavras do have the opportunity cost of not having Campuses first. Monumentality is a beast, but you have to be able to play tech catch-up pretty quick lest your mass cities get overrun.

 

[Kmart_Elvis]

Chandragupta and Exodus of Evangelicals.

Pick Mosques for the extra spread and Missionary Zeal to ignore terrain. During a War of Territorial Expansion, your missionaries have 8 spreads and 8 movement, unhindered by terrain. Plus +5 CS which gives a little defense if you get attacked by an apostle.

If you have built Hagia Sofia, you get 9 spreads. Holy Orders religious belief if you want those missionaries cheaper.