I think that nearly all cities that Russia seized from Japan and Egypt and kept them as satellites initially saved their libraries and universities.Great tech rate. Rationalism is da bomb! Even with Persia i couldn't get away and win the game with Freedom.
Rationalism really shined near the end when you litterally jumped through the tech tree some turns after i got tanks.
I think that nearly all cities that Russia seized from Japan and Egypt and kept them as satellites initially saved their libraries and universities.
When Askia retook Thebes from Russia, I was astonished to see that the city saved its university even after it was conquered 4 timed in total.
I also at first didn't understand how the russians were able to be so fast in teching when majority of their cities (except two core russian cities) were satellites untill the industrial era. As we know, satellites have really low priority for building scientific buildings.
In the other hand, because of so many satellites, the cultural cost of rationalism tree policies was relatively low for Russia, and Catherine was able to adopt them rapidly.
It is public schools that made the difference.
Hello Onan! Nice to see you againCongrats, E, and Foffaren for surviving. And my old ally, RStark, for repelling the Persian invaders!...even if you did take help from my old enemies.
If controlled by Islandia, China might be more tough in resisting persian and russian attacks...It would've been great to see this game play out with all its original players.
I think when playing a quick speed game with hostile neigbouring civs, colonization of the new world has become unimportant. But I believe that Russia has made an alliance with some CS from the New World to acquire their oil or uranium.Interesting how the new world really wasn't a factor at all. Though I bet there was some uranium over there.
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