Common Sensei
Warlord
- Joined
- Nov 2, 2005
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- 262
I just had a very enjoyable game with Joao just now and wanted to put up a summary of the approach I took up for discussion.
The world type was Snaky Continents, so I wanted to leverage the UB, the Feitoria. I started the game with two early goals in mind, get the Great Lighthouse and the Colossus. If I got the Mausoleum of Mausollus, great, but it was a nice to have as opposed to a must for what I had in mind.
After eliminating a neighboring Japan, and pinning the other Persian neighbor to a small region, I was successful in getting both the Great Lighthouse and the Colossus. Had I gotten the Oracle, I would have picked up Metal Casting, but either way I still got the Colossus. I also got the Mausoleum which would help with the second phase of the approach. From the Colossus, the next goal was to get Economics as quickly as possible for the Feitoria and try to get three Great People of different types to keep saved up. Once I was able to build them, each coastal city was enjoying +2
and +2 
per water tile. Once the majority of coastal cities had their Feitoria built, the three Great People were used for two Golden Ages. With the Mausoleum, this granted the equivalent of three Golden Ages. I held off from Astronomy until the Golden Ages were done. During this time, coastal water tiles had the 5 money bag. This gave the economy a massive turbo boost and Portugal never looked back.
Of course, a landlocked Portugal or a Portugal with few coastal cities in a world unlike Snaky Continents won't be able to make good use of this approach, but it was fun and interesting to leverage the Feitoria this way. When playing unrestricted leaders, a Financial leader ruling over Portugal will leverage the Feitoria and Colossus even more having 6 during its Golden Ages with the Colossus active and 5 after Astronomy.
The world type was Snaky Continents, so I wanted to leverage the UB, the Feitoria. I started the game with two early goals in mind, get the Great Lighthouse and the Colossus. If I got the Mausoleum of Mausollus, great, but it was a nice to have as opposed to a must for what I had in mind.
After eliminating a neighboring Japan, and pinning the other Persian neighbor to a small region, I was successful in getting both the Great Lighthouse and the Colossus. Had I gotten the Oracle, I would have picked up Metal Casting, but either way I still got the Colossus. I also got the Mausoleum which would help with the second phase of the approach. From the Colossus, the next goal was to get Economics as quickly as possible for the Feitoria and try to get three Great People of different types to keep saved up. Once I was able to build them, each coastal city was enjoying +2
and +2 per water tile. Once the majority of coastal cities had their Feitoria built, the three Great People were used for two Golden Ages. With the Mausoleum, this granted the equivalent of three Golden Ages. I held off from Astronomy until the Golden Ages were done. During this time, coastal water tiles had the 5 money bag. This gave the economy a massive turbo boost and Portugal never looked back. Of course, a landlocked Portugal or a Portugal with few coastal cities in a world unlike Snaky Continents won't be able to make good use of this approach, but it was fun and interesting to leverage the Feitoria this way. When playing unrestricted leaders, a Financial leader ruling over Portugal will leverage the Feitoria and Colossus even more having 6
during its Golden Ages with the Colossus active and 5 after Astronomy.
