Lennier
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If you do that, you no longer have a city with low/no production.
How do you manage zero production cities?
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Robert Mokler
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Also, don't forget that a forge will open up the only chance to get an engineer specialist (+2 hammers/turn) early in the game!
But this works best only if there are enough extra food to support a specialist or two. I always whip a forge early on for any of my island/peninsula citys with some seafood resources to provide enough extra food to support a few specialists. Then whip a temple and you can also run a priest specalist (+1 hammers/turn), and if it's the AP religion you get the +2 hammers/turn for the temple as well. If you have Ankor Wat it will also bump the priest up to +2 hammers/turn. It's not going to be a great production city, but it will at least make it so that you don't have to whip to get anything built there!
But this works best only if there are enough extra food to support a specialist or two. I always whip a forge early on for any of my island/peninsula citys with some seafood resources to provide enough extra food to support a few specialists. Then whip a temple and you can also run a priest specalist (+1 hammers/turn), and if it's the AP religion you get the +2 hammers/turn for the temple as well. If you have Ankor Wat it will also bump the priest up to +2 hammers/turn. It's not going to be a great production city, but it will at least make it so that you don't have to whip to get anything built there!
Tristan_C
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I would have thought that a city with no hammers is a city working mainly cottages or buffed water tiles. Is it really a good idea to whip away commerce tiles? When will forges and libraries and courthouses pay for themselves? Are you gunning for a time victory or something? Build wealth.
If not a commerce city, then a food-rich whipping post or GP farm, in which case the construction paths are quite clear-cut.
And finally if the city lacks both a food surplus, hammers, and commerce, you have to wonder why you built it in the first place.
If not a commerce city, then a food-rich whipping post or GP farm, in which case the construction paths are quite clear-cut.
And finally if the city lacks both a food surplus, hammers, and commerce, you have to wonder why you built it in the first place.
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You'd be amazed how fast Libraries and Forges pay back. I frequently win with Cuirrassiers or Cavalries, and yes, whipping away Comemerce-tiles is often worth it.
A good example for some 0 production cities i. e. are the 4 overseas cities that you found in that conquest game where you want those overseas trade-routes for your GLH cities.
A good example for some 0 production cities i. e. are the 4 overseas cities that you found in that conquest game where you want those overseas trade-routes for your GLH cities.
Yeah, I was going to add this. Forges are a must-build even in low production cities for this reason plus whip efficiency, +25% on production, and so on. Put another way, if you have a low production problem it's a good idea to build the building that directly addresses it in three different ways.
You can't get around it with Caste System, either.
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