Simply put, what should we be researching, and how fast? Should we continue with Republic at max, or something else?
Research direction and speed
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admiral-bell
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finish republic then move to military techs for war with MIA
zyxy
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Republic at min.
We will need the technologies Warrior Code, Wheel, Iron Working and HBR long before republic finishes, even at max science speed. Right now we even have trouble with 1 Persian warrior, in 20 turns or so we can expect some immortals.
If we cannot trade for these techs with MIA, then we'll have to stop researching republic and switch to these techs. So republic at max could waste a lot of gold and will ot save that many turns anyway, with republic at min the investment is smaller.
The gold we save up could be used to upgrade warriors.
I guess it all ties in with the despotic GA scare. Personally, I don't mind to have a despotic GA. It's not great of course, but we cannot afford not to build our UU soon.
We will need the technologies Warrior Code, Wheel, Iron Working and HBR long before republic finishes, even at max science speed. Right now we even have trouble with 1 Persian warrior, in 20 turns or so we can expect some immortals.
If we cannot trade for these techs with MIA, then we'll have to stop researching republic and switch to these techs. So republic at max could waste a lot of gold and will ot save that many turns anyway, with republic at min the investment is smaller.
The gold we save up could be used to upgrade warriors.
I guess it all ties in with the despotic GA scare. Personally, I don't mind to have a despotic GA. It's not great of course, but we cannot afford not to build our UU soon.
Robi D
Minister of (Dis)Order
Stop research for the moment and collect gold. Hopefully we can trade with MIA for WC and wheel, then research HB riding. If MIA doesn't trade then we have to research it all ourselves. Once we have HB riding then go back to republic. We need the mounted warriors asap. The immortals are powerful, but the MW put us at an advantage due to the extra movement and distance betwwen us and TNT. If we can keep TNT on the back foot then it negates their advantage with immortals.
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