I've played the game at every level, won at every level, been beaten numerous times on pretty much every level except the very lowest, built every UB, played every civ, and played just about every map combination possible (except Huge maps, which I don't care for very much because of the amount of waiting between turns even on my near-brand-new rig).
I make no claim to be a great player, especially since my preferred difficulty level is just Emperor, but I have to say I've experienced nearly every possible scenario in the game that doesn't occur only because of a substantial mod.
Long story short: I've never felt almost any impulse whatsoever to rush to get Kreposts.
They are about the only UB I don't make some conscious effort to tech towards. And when I do build them, I'm only concerned with their regular function as a barracks and the need to build one in every city to get the Heroic Epic. Their other, unique function, is almost always irrelevant in my gameplan because I'd rather build cultural buildings and get both culture and bigger borders at once than build a Krepost just for the sake of expansion. By the time I build them for the Heroic Epic, I've usually expanded sufficiently in my cities, especially because as Russia I prefer to go Liberty as my opener and pick up the production bonus and free settler.
Maybe I'm missing something. I've read about the possibility of combining Angkor Wat with Kreposts and trying to have massive borders beyond your workable 3 rings, but I just don't see much point to that unless I want to expand even more and improve tiles before my settlers even get to them. But by the time I would have Angkor Wat and a bunch of Kreposts, chances are I'd have happiness issues anyways and not really want to expand.
If there are any compelling arguements or links to threads that could convince me otherwise, I'd be curious to see what reasoning there is to make an effort to build them more quickly than I otherwise would for the sole purpose of the Heroic Epic.
I make no claim to be a great player, especially since my preferred difficulty level is just Emperor, but I have to say I've experienced nearly every possible scenario in the game that doesn't occur only because of a substantial mod.
Long story short: I've never felt almost any impulse whatsoever to rush to get Kreposts.
They are about the only UB I don't make some conscious effort to tech towards. And when I do build them, I'm only concerned with their regular function as a barracks and the need to build one in every city to get the Heroic Epic. Their other, unique function, is almost always irrelevant in my gameplan because I'd rather build cultural buildings and get both culture and bigger borders at once than build a Krepost just for the sake of expansion. By the time I build them for the Heroic Epic, I've usually expanded sufficiently in my cities, especially because as Russia I prefer to go Liberty as my opener and pick up the production bonus and free settler.
Maybe I'm missing something. I've read about the possibility of combining Angkor Wat with Kreposts and trying to have massive borders beyond your workable 3 rings, but I just don't see much point to that unless I want to expand even more and improve tiles before my settlers even get to them. But by the time I would have Angkor Wat and a bunch of Kreposts, chances are I'd have happiness issues anyways and not really want to expand.
If there are any compelling arguements or links to threads that could convince me otherwise, I'd be curious to see what reasoning there is to make an effort to build them more quickly than I otherwise would for the sole purpose of the Heroic Epic.
