Jkaen Wrote:Ok, lets look at our SE first. I think its decided you are handling it, are you confident that you want Spi? If so I say we lock Pacal and choose the civ you prefer (I would probably go Arabia).
Then with 2 locked it may make it easier to focus on #3
We can't lock 2 and leave 1 free as that limits us too much. What we choose for number 2 limits too much what we can do with number 3.
While Pacal of India is lovely there is something about it which worries me. I have seen in all my medieval games that Philosophical is really helpful in this game but it needs spiritual to work at its best.
What I am thinking about right now is whether we compromise and go for something like this:
Lizzie (Fin/Phi) of something - Arabia/England/France/whatever.
and
Bismarck (Exp/Ind)/ Shaka (Agg/Exp) / Washington (Exp/Cha) of India
There we minimise Philo a bit, but we have a full on econ person who can do a hybrid economy which would mean it could adapt best to whatever the map produces.
We also then instead use India's fast workers (at half price expansive) to chop out an army and/or wonders. Using Bismarck as an example, we could use half price workers to chop half price forges and then we build up a solid production based player quite quickly which can then be used to rapidly build a supporting army to Cyrus or some targeted wonders (like HG).
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