Will the Celts be like the Iroquios
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Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
The Celt's biggest strength is early. I doubt you can chop down all their trees before they get their Pantheon and first prophet and have a huge head start on religion.
Also, how can you do this without declaring war?
Also, how can you do this without declaring war?
Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
Yeah, it's not very efficient. They only need one tree to get faith from it.
Raiki
Warlord
Though the bonus does double if you have 3 or more. So, you could pretty easily *weaken* their ability.
...but who wants to waste time depriving another civ of 1 faith/turn when that worker could be doing better things?
Edit: Also, from now on whenever I play against the Iroquois, I'm going to strategically chop a few forests to deprive them of their trading routes. Mwahaha.
~R~
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Though the bonus does double if you have 3 or more. So, you could pretty easily *weaken* their ability.
...but who wants to waste time depriving another civ of 1 faith/turn when that worker could be doing better things?
Edit: Also, from now on whenever I play against the Iroquois, I'm going to strategically chop a few forests to deprive them of their trading routes. Mwahaha.
~R~
Actually thats why in multi if I am ever the Iroquois I never allow open borders. People are ruthless and would actually do this haha.
Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
Though the bonus does double if you have 3 or more. So, you could pretty easily *weaken* their ability.
...but who wants to waste time depriving another civ of 1 faith/turn when that worker could be doing better things?
Edit: Also, from now on whenever I play against the Iroquois, I'm going to strategically chop a few forests to deprive them of their trading routes. Mwahaha.
~R~
Well, that requires quite a few turns to chop all the trees or else the Celts might just move slightly to still capture them. It's much easier with the Iroquois to create essentially a "fire break" in their trade network by cutting on or two forests as opposed to all of them.
Personally, I'd rather use my worker to build a farm or mine instead. Seems a much better use of my time.
Raiki
Warlord
:shrug: You don't need to pre-empt them. Wait till they build a city, chop the forests. Or y'know, go with your plan B and have your workers do something useful instead.
~R~
Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
If you wait until they build the city, why not just conquer the city? I agree with the latter. That's what I'd do.
Raiki
Warlord
:shrug: I don't usually do domination victories. As a matter of fact, some of my favorite games are when I don't declare war at all, and just ruthlessly repel any invaders without taking any of their cities myself. I find it makes the diplo-AI...tolerable if you're not trying to take their stuff.
~R~
Louis XXIV
Le Roi Soleil
Well, you have to declare war to chop down forests next to their city, so the talk about not declaring war isn't applicable to this thread. Keep in mind the Celtic ability applies to forests directly next to their city. So, in order to chop down their forests, you need to declare war and move your worker directly next to their city and protect it until it manages to chop down the forests. While it might be fun to be mean, it's easier just to capture and raze the city.
