Iron Works

[Sirp]

The ironworks are really overrated...they come just at the time when shields really become lots less valuable than gold. With factories and power plants coming along, all your major cities are rolling in shields anyway. Who really cares if one city can build a modern armor in 1 turn instead of 2?

It is nice for building Wonders or spaceship parts, but other cities can do that well enough, especially with prebuilds.

It's nice to get, but certainly not worth doing anything like moving your palace over. Think of the commerce hit of doing such a thing! Commerce is what really counts at this stage, not shields.

-Sirp.

 

[Hygro]

you need at least 1 coal and one iron hooked up, and then one coal and one iron in the radius. So yes, if you already have coal and iron you don't need them roaded, but if you don't, well then you do need extra roads.

 

[farting bob]

Originally posted by marceagleye
If youbuild both factory and a power plant in the city with Iron Works, you can often achieve production of over 100 shields per turn, enabling you to build a tank every turn....

factory plus power pant plus iron works??????
if you only get 'over 100 shields per turn' from that iould be seriosuly worried abou your skills.
with a nuclear plant, all RR ive gotten 200+ shields in cities without iron works.
in some areas you can get 100 shields with jus a factory.</rant>
ive neverr got the iron works so im no sure how effective it can be to your game.
does it basically provide what the nuclear power plant does, adds 100% to base shield output, or does it add 100% production to your total shields, not just base count?
if it effectivel doubles your total then i really must look harder for a site in my next game...

 

[Hygro]

It doulbes the base but that still does a helluva lot. Since going nuclear is only 50% more than the average powerplant, and this can be used in addition to such plants. Thus, with IW you will find a great production boost, often as large as 50+ shields if in a developed city.

 

[Greyhawk1]

In my last game I had two 98 shield production cities without a manufacturing plant or Ironworks, just a Factory and a Nuclear Plant.

 

[anarres]

Lets not forget that on Deity your OCN is just 70% of the normal value. You have much higher corruption and your chances of building the IW in a city with low corruption is very minimal.

When you can build IW in a non-corrupt city it's great, but more often than not the city with IW capability is not viable. I consider it a real let down that I have only been able to build it 5 or 6 times in all my games.