Quick Egypt question

[Kid Socrates]

Okay, in Warlords, let's say I am playing as Egypt and I build Stonehenge, which puts a Monument in each city. The Egyptian Obelisk replaces the Monument. The Obelisk, if I'm remembering correctly, lets me make up to two citizens Priests. If I build Stonehenge, can I make up to two citizens Priests in every city?

Apologies if this has been asked before.

 

[Thedrin]

Yes, yes you can.

 

[Kid Socrates]

That's pretty slick. I'll have to try that out sometime.

 

[Thedrin]

It looks good at first but in practice you're only going to have one or two cities making use of the priest specialists. For Ramesses the benefit is still the free culture in all cities; for Hatshepsut Stonehenge isn't particularly great.

 

[AfterShafter]

You bet you can. That's the basis for my Christianity rush with Ramses... Only surefire way to get a religion without crippling your economy on Emperor or higher, if you ask me. I suppose there might besome sort of Oracle snafu for Code of Laws, but...

Edit: As for the above poster, think of it this way... If you beeline to monotheism, you can lightbulb theology and code of laws directly after with the two priests you've procured with your obelisk - founding Christianity, possibly Confucianism, and giving you two very high profile techs for trading. You may say "just build a temple and get the priest there" - but you need a religion for that, and that is not a surefire thing early on for the higher difficulties. You don't need Stonehenge for this (though I like it with Ramses) but it wouldn't be possible without the obelisk, and I find this to be quite a powerful technique for a more peaceful, religiously oriented game - even if only one city makes use of those priests, it's *very* worthwhile.

 

[ShaLouZa]

Besides, Ramses being industrious, Stonehenge is cheaper. So, who not build it ? It's the one early wonder I like to have when I'm not creative, saves me the boredom to build a monument in each city to increase culture before I have writing. And even if you can't finish it because someone else do, you can use the currency to search faster in these critical early turns.

At last, it was what I used to do. The great wall and its great engineer points can make a good replacement if you're flooded with barbarians. You'll have a great prophet anyway sooner or later with the priests.

 

[Thedrin]

Just in case there's any misconception I was saying that it's not a good idea to build Stonehenge just to get free priest specialists in all your cities since you'll only use them in a couple. Obelisks are not expensive. I also made it clear that I think there's a benefit to building Stonehenge if you're Ramesses.

 

[CivDude86]

Even in Sid's tips it said puts obelisk in every city even if you weren't Egypt (I think they fixed that in the patch).