Originally posted by zorven
Have plans been made to start a pre-build?
As no new MIA has been appointed, probably not.
We're in our Golden Age, and the demands have all been for military and more military. The bloddthirsty nature of some citizens has run rampant, pushing everything else aside for the relentless demands of the military to conquer everything.
When we started (finally!) the two wonders, there was much pessimism and despair - "Oh, we'll get nothing!" "Oh, that'll be the most expensive Knight ever!" "Oh, woe is us!"
As it turned out, these nay-sayers were right - we didn't get Sun Tzu's or Leo's Workshop. And yet, are my eyes blinded? Must I question the sights before me? Did we not, in fact, build two wonders - JS Bach's Cathedral and Copernicus' Observatory? Indeed, we did! Shock! Gasp! We actually built two wonders! Where is that gilded Knight? Ahh, he's on the one of the many paintings inside the Cathedral. And the woe? Must be from the foreign civs, who saw these wonders appear in DR and Groton, and cursed us for completing them.
And now, we are in our most productive state, and few talk of wonders? Of Adam Smith's Trading House? Of Magellan's Voyage? Of Shakespeare's Theatre? Of Newton's University? And that's just the Middle Ages! By the next term, we will be looking at Universal Suffrage, the Theory of Evolution and the Hoover Dam.
Let us take two cities and again start them on the Wonder path. True, we will reduce our capacity to build Cavalry, but do we need that? Truly, do we need that? Look at our income, we can use that to both improve our current troops and speed the recruitment and training of new units! Our GA is nicely timed to give us a tremendous head start on several wonders. Imagine the benefits of Adam Smiths! Look at the culture from Shakespeare's Theatre and Newton's University.
Let us show the world the ability of the French to constuct Wonders! Let us show the world our strengths of production and commerce! They know the strength of our troops, and fear them - why else would Russia attack us so? They know that they cannot stop us in a fair fight, and seek to distract us from constructing glorious buildings for the future.
We dare not turn our backs on the military, for they shield us, and give us the land our future generations need to grow. But let us not ignore our artisans, our engineers and our proud culture. We are in our Golden Age - let the people of the world remember it for more than just our rampaging armies. Let them remember it for the glorious buildings and ideas produced during that time!
-- Ravensfire
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