Optimising the Globe Theatre Draft City

[DaveMcW]

Optimising the Globe Theatre Draft City for Dummies.


Q1: Where is the best site for a GTdraft city?

A: A city with a lot of food resources. A few floodplains or grasslands to farm are optional. On Epic and Marathon speeds, floodplains and biology farms are more important.


Q2: What is the minimum population needed to draft?

A: 6 population. If you conquered the city, you must also have 10% culture.


Q3: What buildings do I need in the GTdraft city?

A: Granary, Theatre, Globe Theatre, Barracks.


Q4: What tiles should my citizens be working in a GTdraft city?

A: Your five best food tiles. If you have more than five tiles giving 4+ food, work all of them and don't draft those farmers. Extra 3-food-tiles can be useful to save up population before you switch to Nationalism, but they don't speed up your draft rate once you start drafting.

 

[Crusher1]

@ POM

Thanks

@ Dave

Cute

 

[VoiceOfUnreason]

At Normal speed,

it's 15 surplus food for a cycle between size 5 and 6.

For every extra pop point, it's 1 extra food.

( 10 + Pop(crnt) ) * 2 * game speed factor

 

[PieceOfMind]

( 10 + Pop(crnt) ) * 2 * game speed factor

Then divide by two and round up with a granary

 

[PieceOfMind]

Optimising the Globe Theatre Draft City for Dummies.


Q1: Where is the best site for a GTdraft city?

A: A city with a lot of food resources. A few floodplains or grasslands to farm are optional. On Epic and Marathon speeds, floodplains and biology farms are more important.

What about your GP farm? Your best food site will normally go to that. If you are playing on quick speed and there are two potential sites, using the article here may help you to make sure food doesn't go to waste.

Q2: What is the minimum population needed to draft?

A: 6 population. If you conquered the city, you must also have 10% culture.

For anything before infantry. 7 for infantry. 8 for mech infantry.

Q3: What buildings do I need in the GTdraft city?

A: Granary, Theatre, Globe Theatre, Barracks.

Q4: What tiles should my citizens be working in a GTdraft city?

A: Your five best food tiles. If you have more than five tiles giving 4+ food, work all of them and don't draft those farmers. Extra 3-food-tiles can be useful to save up population before you switch to Nationalism, but they don't speed up your draft rate once you start drafting.

Extra 3-food tiles can increase the draft rate. In fact, they usually do (excepting the rounding that happens for Epic and quick speeds). While they increase the rate at which you can draft units, they decrease the conversion efficiency of food into hammers. If there are no other cities to use those grass farms, it is probably worth letting your gtdraft city use them, doing the draft cycle at higher than 6 pop.

 

[DrakenKin]

I'll get a closer look at the numbers in the article later, but I think your article could answer one more important question.

You said 4 food ressources in the BFC was too much and it would be better as a GP farm... So what is the minimum food surplus you need to be able to draft every turn at the minimum size (6)?

 

[PieceOfMind]

10/15/23/45 is the answer, for the four gamespeeds. This is assuming we're talking about 1pop drafts.

You raise a good point that it's an important question to include.

Do note that the 2 from the city centre is included in the surplus. So subtract 2 from each of those numbers and divide by 5 if you want the average food surplus per tile required for your setup. The division is by 5, not 6, because the city spends the end of each turn working only 5 tiles but growing to size 6.

 

[DrakenKin]

13/5= ~3 food. Meaning you don't even need food ressources as long as you have 5 irrigated grasslands to farm?

That's a lot less than expected... thanks for the great article!

 

[PieceOfMind]

13/5= ~3 food. Meaning you don't even need food ressources as long as you have 5 irrigated grasslands to farm?

That's a lot less than expected... thanks for the great article!

Sorry, in my attempt to make it sound simple I actually probably mislead you.

The roughly 3 food average is the surplus per tile that is required. What I mean is, you'll need 13 food as well as 2 per tile. 5 grass farms will give you only 5 surplus out of the 13 required.

Even at Quick speed you will need at least a couple of food resources or floodplains or some other.

 

[DrakenKin]

Ah 13 sounds more like it, and it is even easier to remember. Mea culpa for not paying attention to details.

Now I just need a game where I can test this.