I am a big fan of Religion in Civ 5. As we know there are 4 religious buildings - (Pagoda, Mosque, Cathedral and Monsastery). However we can only get 2 religious buildings at most - (3 with Byzantine but let's skip that as a special case).
In this thread let's discuss ways to obtain all 4 religious buildings in our empire and how to be efficient while doing so.
As a side note - this is very rewarding especially when using the Reformation Belief from Piety known as Sacred Sites - as each religious building will give 2 tourism. But Sacred Sites is optional and the benefits of having all 4 buildings exist anyway in the form of extra which help our empire in many ways.
Shark_Diver has pointed out that the same tricks could be applied to try to make use of "Jesuit Education" in order to quickly buy science buildings with faith in our cities . This is good to keep in mind and maybe use for the cities with low production.
Sometimes, we are able to obtain access to another religion that has the other 2 religious buildings. With a little micromanagement, we can slowly but steadily convert all our cities so that they obtain all 4 buildings.
Let's see an example of convertions for the buildings.
Our religion (Taoism) has Pagodas + Mosques while Confucianism has Cathedral + Monastery.
Here are the steps that I currently use to get the buildings and re-convert my cities to my own religion after that, using these 4 cities as an example. Needless to say, a lot of Faith will have to be available for this to work but this is another discussion. The empire in this example produces 500 faith / turn, missionaries + inquisitors cost 240 and monasteries cost 180.
We start in Murcia who now has the foreign religion and all 4 buildings. I will put the important actions in bold text.
1) Buy Confucinism Inquisitor in Murcia + Buy Taoism Inquisitor in Salamanca. Just to make sure I have back-up in case the inquisitor's ability will not be enough to convert Rio de Janeiro, I also buy a Confucianism Missionary in Santander (who has 195 pressure for Taoism so it will convert back to Taoism pretty quickly without the need to use Taoist Missionary)
2) Confucianist Inquisitor goes to Rio de Janeiro and uses ability. Unless the population is too high the effect will be immediate. If the city is not converted, the Confucianist Missionary will have to complete the job.
3) Buy Cathedral + Monastery in Rio de Janeiro
4) The Taoist Inquisitor from Salamanca goes to Murcia and removes heresy. Murcia now has 4 buildings and our own religion!
5) Buy Confucianism Inquisitor in Rio de Janeiro. + Buy Taoist Inquisitor in Murcia. Move the units to the next city and repeat the process.
NOTE: whether or not you buy inquisitors of your own religion (in this example, Taoism) to re-convert your cities depends a lot on whether if you want to expend faith so that this happens quicker. Normally, in an empire with a lot of cities, cities have 100+ pressure for your religion so if you just wait a few turns, depending on how high populations cities are, they will come back to your religion. If you are not producing that much faith, it might be better to not buy missionaries or inquisitors for your own religion.
Very important! Always make sure to have a foreign religion missionary (in this example Confucianism as backup AT ALL TIMES or else there exists the possibility of losing access to the religion!
Share your tips and experiences and swift convertions!
In this thread let's discuss ways to obtain all 4 religious buildings in our empire and how to be efficient while doing so.
As a side note - this is very rewarding especially when using the Reformation Belief from Piety known as Sacred Sites - as each religious building will give 2 tourism. But Sacred Sites is optional and the benefits of having all 4 buildings exist anyway in the form of extra which help our empire in many ways.
Shark_Diver has pointed out that the same tricks could be applied to try to make use of "Jesuit Education" in order to quickly buy science buildings with faith in our cities . This is good to keep in mind and maybe use for the cities with low production.
Sometimes, we are able to obtain access to another religion that has the other 2 religious buildings. With a little micromanagement, we can slowly but steadily convert all our cities so that they obtain all 4 buildings.
Let's see an example of convertions for the buildings.
Our religion (Taoism) has Pagodas + Mosques while Confucianism has Cathedral + Monastery.
Here are the steps that I currently use to get the buildings and re-convert my cities to my own religion after that, using these 4 cities as an example. Needless to say, a lot of Faith will have to be available for this to work but this is another discussion. The empire in this example produces 500 faith / turn, missionaries + inquisitors cost 240 and monasteries cost 180.
We start in Murcia who now has the foreign religion and all 4 buildings. I will put the important actions in bold text.
1) Buy Confucinism Inquisitor in Murcia + Buy Taoism Inquisitor in Salamanca. Just to make sure I have back-up in case the inquisitor's ability will not be enough to convert Rio de Janeiro, I also buy a Confucianism Missionary in Santander (who has 195 pressure for Taoism so it will convert back to Taoism pretty quickly without the need to use Taoist Missionary)
2) Confucianist Inquisitor goes to Rio de Janeiro and uses ability. Unless the population is too high the effect will be immediate. If the city is not converted, the Confucianist Missionary will have to complete the job.
3) Buy Cathedral + Monastery in Rio de Janeiro
4) The Taoist Inquisitor from Salamanca goes to Murcia and removes heresy. Murcia now has 4 buildings and our own religion!
5) Buy Confucianism Inquisitor in Rio de Janeiro. + Buy Taoist Inquisitor in Murcia. Move the units to the next city and repeat the process.
NOTE: whether or not you buy inquisitors of your own religion (in this example, Taoism) to re-convert your cities depends a lot on whether if you want to expend faith so that this happens quicker. Normally, in an empire with a lot of cities, cities have 100+ pressure for your religion so if you just wait a few turns, depending on how high populations cities are, they will come back to your religion. If you are not producing that much faith, it might be better to not buy missionaries or inquisitors for your own religion.
Very important! Always make sure to have a foreign religion missionary (in this example Confucianism as backup AT ALL TIMES or else there exists the possibility of losing access to the religion!
Share your tips and experiences and swift convertions!
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