sticks and BRicks will break their bones! {spoilers}

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btw, I preferred your thread title before you added me :P

[BRickAstley]

It's been held up so I went ahead and picked a spot. Still time to discuss Leader/Civ options.

[thestick]

I'm definitely not good at Philosophical. I can't easily build Wonders, I focus on Cottages and whipping instead of Specialists...

Willem (Cre/Fin) and Pericles (Cre/Phi) look like the economic leaders. Kublai for if we want to lean more on the war side.

[BRickAstley]

Pericles could be good.

The reason I've been pushing Phi is that I fell based on what's available and things that have gone before that it's very powerful. I'd be willing to do my best to learn it to try and make use of it this game cause of its potential, but I suppose it isn't essential.

Plus, if you've never done it before you could try and learn too maybe. Something to break up the established cottage spam gameplay and all.

[thestick]

Why is it powerful? (Genuine question, not pointed remark)

[BRickAstley]

well, you can do things like boost your early numbers with settling Great People, to get extra money and all, and if you get a Great Sci an early academy. Since you dont have to worry about cottages you can farm a lot and grow up your cities to run lots of specialists, which give you more extras, there are a good amount of things you can boost that make those specialists more powerful (Representation giving each one an extra 3 beakers!), and later on after you have a good amount settled, you can be bulbing techs with them to supplement your research.

[BRickAstley]

stick if you're around get on chat

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PHI with a monk economy (SPI helps the monk economy a lot, synergy there) would mean grabbing a couple of early religions, spawning several great prophets - the key would be bulbing tech more than settling, I believe.

34s spoiler for global lurkers in that game (well probably not, but to be safe)

if you plan to go that route, scooters thread in 34 shadow is must read. he's doing pretty damn well with ghandi of india using a monk/GP bulb strategy. and the map will likely be very similar to this one

if you're gonna pick PHI, though, you need to go all out - if you can't break the cottage habit no point in picking PHI

[BRickAstley]

Of course, Even if Fin is nerfed it's still pretty good....

Willem could be our 'Original' pick since it's not what most people would pick for this type of map

[thestick]

stick if you're around get on chat

Sorry, wasn't on.

I think we should go with Willem. Get cultural borders popped instantly and Financial for tech. Just leverage the cottage-building habit. We've decided, then?