Terracotta Army: Is it Worth It?

[Nonevah]

I've been planning to do a OOC Culture victory on Emperor as Ethiopia, on a huge 20 Civs Pangaea. Is Terracotta Army worth aiming for?

 

[tomtom5858]

Assuming G&K, yes. It really helps blow through those early policies, and the AI doesn't go for it until late.

 

[Monthar]

CS's ask for it a lot as well.

 

[Deau]

I've been planning to do a OOC Culture victory on Emperor as Ethiopia, on a huge 20 Civs Pangaea. Is Terracotta Army worth aiming for?

The larger the map, the more painful it is to get all of the wanted Wonders. I would likely have overlooked terracotta for infrastructure/growth in your game setup in order to get the empire up and running earlier so as to achieve the appropriate BPT necessary to reach modern era earlier.

The detour to TA is only 1-2 techs so it's not so much that the issue but the hammers invested on it when you are probably already very busy in your capital.

That's my 2cents. I was not much of a CV player through GnK though I hated the super late game spam next turn until you unlock enough trees. That and the piety/rationalism issue.