My favorite use for Great Generals

[axident]

A ship that already has good odds vs. enemy ships, when promoted with Blitz+Drill, can easily generate enough XP to generate another GG soon after.

 

[LlamaCat]

just so I'm clear, it appears the only way to attach a GG to a water unit is to move the unit and GG into a city ... right? (most naval units don't have cargo capacity so you can't load him onto the ship)

and if you want all the GG points going just to the ship, make sure to move other land units out of the city first otherwise the points get spread around. kind of a convoluted process; maybe this is why it never occurred to me that you can attach GG to naval units.

 

[KMadCandy]

a fort should work, so you don't have to clear out the city.

 

[xanadux]

yes, move all units out of the city, move the naval unit in, and all the GG exp goes to the ship, and the GG attaches to it.

 

[TheRisen1]

Replying to myself: GGs can not be attached to air units.

 

[Diamondeye]

a fort should work, so you don't have to clear out the city.

This is infact the easiest way to do it, IMO.

 

[URSExelcior]

1-ship navies sound fun...

 

[Airefuego]

I did it with a Privateer once And I had the tech lead. So my massive super pirate was cruising the seas picking off every outdated caravel and galleon in sight. I escorted him with one other privateer, which paid off when the AI attacked him with three caravels in one turn, but he survived.

Funniest part was there were only two Civs left in the game - me and him -(I play small maps) so it's pretty obvious who the privateer was working for!!