Grendeldef
Trancerelic & coffeeholic
@Grendeldef
Ok. So you won easily but why didn't you build an army?
That is the largest X-Com drop I've ever seen by a factor of at least 4. What was your super religion? How much GPT are you making from it, I wonder. With that much faith I would be tempted to go for the "buy any GP" or Jesuit Education reformation ...
Who needs an army for domination? But yeah, I slightly overdid it as I didn't lose units much at all - few W Hussars ran into severe trouble before I remembered how to use them when the turn is ~250 and AI doesn't dry out it's marshes.
In the end I had 29 XCOMs, 13 M Armors & quite a few lesser units.
My religion was Earth Mother pantheon, Mosques, Pagodas, Tithe, Holy Order for enhancer & Evangelism for Reformation - I was much more worried about money, happiness & potential for early spreading than science or military. I even gave a few seconds of thought what to pick but I doubt it made any difference.
The problem with picking the perks was the lack of experience so I took what looked the safest option for converting the world without religious NWs. On Deity I've tested it once but then I was Isabella & hit jackpot on T3 or something like that; I even made a thread about it but I don't remember anyone else trying it out.
Tithe gave me ~150gpt in the end and as I only annexed Ulundi & Palenque I bought 6 Pagodas & Mosques. By the time of Palenque I didn't need happiness but a city to buy the last prophet & few missionaries and an inquisitor as it was too risky to walk them around Russia. Also 3 GSs, last prophet cost 2300 faith and quite a few missionaries & half a dozen inquisitors. GMoD helped out early on but I didn't build Hagia S nor Borobudur.