When do you prefer your GA?

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Originally posted by RealGoober
Hmmm ... Time for a naive question: What is a GA?

I know it must have something to do with your UU, but I can't quite figure it out. If it is the time period that your UU appears, then I do like the Panzer, in the Modern Ages. The Zulu Impi also gives you a good head start defending yourself in the Ancient Era.

A GA stands for Golden Age. A GA occurs when your UU wins a battle, or when you make two wonders that have the same traits as your civ, then the next wonder triggers it.

 

[keiselhorn]

Late Ancient/Early Medieval as well.

Out of despotism, so it's max benefit. I don't see a reason to grow in Industrial when you can get a better effect on Mid Ages and then be already big enough on Mid/Industrial to build wonders and such without the help of a GA.

 

[Vancouver 2010]

I prefer to have my GA in the Ancient age when I can really use the boost to science, production, and commerce. By the time I reach the Modern age, I'm already researching techs at 4 turns per, and my core cities are usually producing 75-100 shields and ~75 gold each, so I'm not gonna notice an extra gold here or there. However, in the Ancient Age, I'm not producing things terribly fast, so the bonus really helps in gaining supremacy.

 

[Stapel]

Originally posted by anarres
For me: Late Ancient / Early Medieval (basically when I have Republic).

I guess I will sometimes push my GA back a bit if my FP is very new - I like to grow my second core (in terms of size, not infra) if I can first.

I use the same strategy. If it comes a bit later: all fine. If it comes earlier: bah!

With some early UU reli civs (Iroquis, Egyptian), I even might change gov during GA.

 

[Park Ranger]

I prefer to hold off on the GA until late middle ages, but often am forced into it earlier.

When playing a civ with an ancient UU I might stategize for a despotism GA, whereby I focus on building roads and expanding as fast as possible. For civs like Carthage it still helps significantly in building a sizable military.

Since I build the Great LIbrary in 3/4 of my games, I really try to avoid having the GA during the late ancient/early medieval while the GL is active. If it happens, though, I try to hoard money (since I'm not researching) and then research at a deficit as soon as I get Education.

The latest I've ever had a GA was with the Americans when I built Hoover Dam. Very, very nice to have the GA while building tanks.

IMHO, the French and the Ottomans (among others) have their UU ideally timed for a GA.

 

[bru]

Late Medieval / Early Industrial. This is the time I start looking at Wonders to build.

 

[Goober]

Ahh ... Makes sense ... all these acronyms, I realize that we as humans are lazy, but anyway, back to the topic ...

I definitely prefer my Golden Age early in the game, in the ancient era, it give you a great head start. I usually play Egypt, and usually get mine with the Pyramids built. Really rather convenient. Ironically, I tend not to build the Egyptian UU, so I have never gotten a GA by UU battles ... should try it though ...

 

[rtil]

Industrial. I really need a surge at that point in the game.
But it always happens in the ancient times for me. And I mean ancient.

 

[Seanirl]

I like the medieval times. Basically just as I get chivalry which used to tie in nicely with Riders when I was the Chinese.

I never really make an army before getting knights. I just feel the ancient times go by too quickly and when I make an army it'll be obsolete by the time I get to use it.

 

[Strengefuhrer]

Industrial age.
That's when lots of the fun stuff is happening.
Having it around then means you can have cavalry crushing any civs without nationalism and/or getting tanks and crushing infantry.
So really I'd rather have it as early industrial OR late industrial, but not in between heh.

 

[JonathanValjean]

I like mine in the industrial era.

 

[Ville]

Middle Ages or Industrial Ages

 

[Mark Young]

Originally posted by Stapel

With some early UU reli civs (Iroquis, Egyptian), I even might change gov during GA.

If you have a GA with a non religious civ and you change governemts during the GA, does that decrease the amount of time spent in anarchy?

 

[Frostyboy]

Yes, that is ONE of the great things about being religious.
I see you haven't got Conquest yet, since the Iroquis still are religious.