Persia strategy
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tu_79
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Well, you build a lot of immortals, fight as much as you can, and try to synergize with the fact that you will be flooding in golden ages. Oh, and since you are moving extra fast in golden ages, you don't need that many mounted units, you can bring siege units to start sieges earlier, and all that.
It's pretty forward.
It's pretty forward.
besset
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And what about going artistry, is it necessary?
pineappledan
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Artistry isn't necessary, no.
The GAPs from satrap's court are quite negligible; you build it for the happiness and the gold. Persia's secondary focus besides military is gold generation, which feeds more into your military than any of the medieval policy trees. Patronage has little of value to you though, so Fealty and Artistry both have advantages that you will have to judge based on how the game is going.
I would say Industry is a better industrial policy tree than imperialism, especially because you are more likely to annex than puppet, and courthouses in every city with military focus makes autocracy the natural choice
The GAPs from satrap's court are quite negligible; you build it for the happiness and the gold. Persia's secondary focus besides military is gold generation, which feeds more into your military than any of the medieval policy trees. Patronage has little of value to you though, so Fealty and Artistry both have advantages that you will have to judge based on how the game is going.
I would say Industry is a better industrial policy tree than imperialism, especially because you are more likely to annex than puppet, and courthouses in every city with military focus makes autocracy the natural choice
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You don't need to stack every golden age benefit possible, I think this is probably a mistake. You will already get a lot of golden ages, if you dedicate a couple cities to artists you can probably go infinite after a while. Persia is an interesting civ is that his power peaks very early (immortals) and very late (golden ages, autocracy)
besset
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When playing as Persia, what conquered cities do you annex in order to build the UB? Since puppeted cities are so good in vox populi it seems like not a good UB? I mean since puppets don't increase social policy costs or science costs. And how many UB's do I need to get a nice flow of golden ages? I guess I only annex capitals and good secondary cities? If so, how many do I annex?
Puppeted cities may be better in VP than in Vanilla, but make no mistake - Puppeted cities are quite terrible. The only reason I would ever use one is if I'm playing tall and just need it for a specific monopoly resource and otherwise don't want to mess up my science/culture stats; for a Warmonger, in my opinion the only reasonable options are to Annex or Raze.
besset
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What, really? I had no clue. Why is it better to annex as a warmonger though? Science costs and social policy costs will skyrocket won't they?
tu_79
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Because production is crap. You can't invest in buildings. So puppets develop too slowly and they'll end up being a drag in your happiness.
LukaSlovenia29
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Considering the state of puppets, I think Persia's UB could use a bit more love, I'd suggest making it (if possible to code) appear automatically in any city conquered or otherwise gained by Persia. That way you could benefit from it even if you take puppets.
You can build the Satrap's court anywhere. Puppets are never supposed to be permanent.
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Thanks for the reply.
besset
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So perhaps it's better to puppet when you have a big surplus of happiness? Because at that point it's free yields
