Golden Age Triggers by Great Wonders

[CommandoBob]

Golden Age Triggers of Great Wonders

• AGI Wonders
  • Ancient Times
    • The Hanging Gardens (Monarchy -> Steam Power, 300s)
    • The Pyramids (Masonry, 400s)
  • Middle Ages
  • Industrial Ages
    • Hoover Dam (Electronics, 800s)
    • Universal Suffrage (Industrializtion, 800s)
  • Modern Times
    • Cure for Cancer (Genetics, 1000s)
• COM Wonders
  • Ancient Times
    • The Colossus (Bronze Working -> Flight, 200s)
    • The Great Lighthous (Map Making -> Magnetism, 300s)
  • Middle Ages
    • Magellan's Voyage (Naviagation, 400s)
    • Smith's Trading Company (Economics, 600s)
  • Industrial Ages
  • Modern Times
    • United Nations (Fission, 1000s)
• EXP Wonders
  • Ancient Times
    • The Colossus (Bronze Working -> Flight, 200s)
    • The Great Lighthous (Map Making -> Magnetism, 300s)
  • Middle Ages
    • Copernicus' Observatory (Astronomy, 400s)
    • Magellan's Voyage (Naviagation, 400s)
  • Industrial Ages
  • Modern Times
    • SETI Program (Computers, 1000s)
• IND Wonders
  • Ancient Times
    • The Great Wall (Construction -> Metallurgy, 300s)
    • The Hanging Gardens (Monarchy -> Steam Power, 300s)
    • The Pyramids (Masonry, 400s)
  • Middle Ages
  • Industrial Ages
    • Hoover Dam (Electronics, 800s)
  • Modern Times
    • Manhattan Project (Fission, 800s)
• MIL Wonders
  • Ancient Times
    • The Great Wall (Construction -> Metallurgy, 300s)
    • The Statue of Zeus (Mathematics -> Metallurgy, 200s)
  • Middle Ages
    • Knights Templar (Chivalry -> Steam Power, 300s)
    • Leonardo's Workshop (Invention, 600s)
    • Sun Tzu's Art of War (Feudalism, 600s)
  • Industrial Ages
  • Modern Times
    • Manhattan Project (Fission, 800s)
• REL Wonders
  • Ancient Times
    • The Oracle (Mysticsm -> Theology, 300s)
    • The Pyramids (Masonry, 400s)
    • The Statue of Zeus (Mathematics -> Metallurgy, 200s)
    • The Temple of Artemis (Polythiesm -> Education, 500s)
  • Middle Ages
    • JS Bach's Cathedral (Music Theory, 600s)
    • Knights Templar (Chivalry -> Steam Power, 300s)
    • Sistine Chapel (Theology, 600s)
  • Industrial Ages
  • Modern Times
• SCI Wonders
  • Ancient Times
    • The Great Library (Literature -> Education, 400s)
    • The Mausoleum of Mausollos (Philosophy, 200s)
  • Middle Ages
    • Newton's University (Theory of Gravity, 400s)
  • Industrial Ages
    • Theory of Evolution (Scientific Methods, 600s)
  • Modern Times
    • Cure for Cancer (Genetics, 1000s)
    • Longevity (Genetics, 1000s)
• SEA Wonders
  • Ancient Times
    • The Colossus (Bronze Working -> Flight, 200s)
    • The Great Lighthous (Map Making -> Magnetism, 300s)
    • The Mausoleum of Mausollos (Philosophy, 200s)
  • Middle Ages
    • Magellan's Voyage (Naviagation, 400s)
    • Smith's Trading Company (Economics, 600s)
  • Industrial Ages
  • Modern Times
• All Civs
  • The Internet (Miniaturization, 1000s)
• No Civs
  • Shakespeare's Theater (Free Artistry, 450s)

I created this as a self-help for my HOF game and thought it might be useful to others.

 

[Spoonwood]

If I didn't know half of this by heart already, I'd surely bookmark this. Thanks for this CommandoBob!

 

[del62]

Interestingly if you are commercial and you dobt have a productive city on a coast, your UU becomes your best way of kicking of your Golden Age.

Commecial Tribes

English - Capital should be on a coast - UU at sea
French - UU is Muskateer - defensive
Korea - UU is cannon replacement
Greece - UU is anciant age but defensive
Hittites - UU is chariot
India - War Elephant - Chivalry is ideal for India
Rome - Ancient age UU require Iron

 

[GamezRule]

Thanks for the much needed addition!

 

[Ataxerxes]

Thanks, Commando Bob! Nice, easy to consult resource. For certain of the AA wonders, this might be an additional reason not to build them so you don't get an AA golden age.

 

[Puppeteer]

Interestingly if you are commercial and you dobt have a productive city on a coast, your UU becomes your best way of kicking of your Golden Age.

As I understand from reading SGs, you can also capture the wonder(s) you need, but the GA check doesn't happen until you build a wonder, so:

Capture or build a needed wonder, capture another needed wonder, self-build any wonder = Golden Age

So if you're commercial, go capture a commercial wonder and then build your other wonder, or if you capture the commercial wonder second, build any other wonder after that to start the GA.

 

[darski]

Thank you for this Cbob. I was just wondering what would trigger a GA in my Myan game and this post came in very handy. I like stuff like this - see it all in one place

 

[dalgo]

This is a very handy list. In my current game as Portugal (sea, exp) my first wonder was the Great Lighthouse and suddenly I was in my Golden Age. If I had read this first I would have known it was coming, fortunately I had just changed government from Despotism.

That set me to thinking which other civs also had a useful one-wonder GA:

Byzantines - Mausoleum of Mausolles
Celts - Pyramids
China - Great Wall
Egypt - Pyramids
England - Colossus
Hittites - Colossus or Lighthouse
Japan - Knights Templar or Statue of Zeus
Maya - Hanging Gardens
Portugal - Colossus, Lighthouse or Magellans