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I definitely feel that the Heroic Epic + West Point combination is superior to a combination of one of those wonders and the Ironworks. The HE/WP city can then focus entirely upon unit production, while my IW city can focus on my big wonder projects. I suppose if you're not planning on building any wonders, you could combine HE or WP with the IW, but most strategies tend to incorporate large non-unit building projects. If the HE/WP city is not building a unit at any point in time, it's wasting its abilities.
The National Epic typically gets built in my capital, as my capital tends to have the majority of my wonders built in it and therefore the highets GPP yield of my cities. In my current game, I also built the Red Cross in my capital, as it had good production, and wasn't at the top of the list for commerce capacity.
I tend to favor the Oxford/Wall Street combo in the same city when it's possible. My current game has a city with 2 dye, incense, gold, and sugar along with 2 holy shrines: an obvious choice for any and all gold and science multiplying buildings. I forget if shrine income is modified by buildings; I don't believe it affects beakers or Oxford. Oxford should always be placed in the city with the highest commerce value to get its best yield, and I guess religions keep getting founded in my commerce centers.
The Ironworks gets built in whichever city I have that has the highest production. I then use the city for large projects (eg Three Gorges Dam), unit production, or whatever else is necessary. I don't have any preference for what it gets paired with. Forbidden Palace perhaps, if it will be near the center of where I plan on expanding into an enemy's empire, or maybe Hermitage if it's off to one side, as it likely has plenty of culture producing buildings and wonders.
I haven't found a particularly good place to put Shakespeare's theatre yet; it just goes in whichever city is likely to grow the biggest. In my current game, that happens to be an enemy capital with 3 food resources within its borders.
Scotland Yard I'll usually dump in some city with middling to good production, since I don't want to waste any national wonder slots in my really good cities, nor have my really good cities wasting time on spies when they could be building me 10xp units or wonders.
The National Epic typically gets built in my capital, as my capital tends to have the majority of my wonders built in it and therefore the highets GPP yield of my cities. In my current game, I also built the Red Cross in my capital, as it had good production, and wasn't at the top of the list for commerce capacity.
I tend to favor the Oxford/Wall Street combo in the same city when it's possible. My current game has a city with 2 dye, incense, gold, and sugar along with 2 holy shrines: an obvious choice for any and all gold and science multiplying buildings. I forget if shrine income is modified by buildings; I don't believe it affects beakers or Oxford. Oxford should always be placed in the city with the highest commerce value to get its best yield, and I guess religions keep getting founded in my commerce centers.
The Ironworks gets built in whichever city I have that has the highest production. I then use the city for large projects (eg Three Gorges Dam), unit production, or whatever else is necessary. I don't have any preference for what it gets paired with. Forbidden Palace perhaps, if it will be near the center of where I plan on expanding into an enemy's empire, or maybe Hermitage if it's off to one side, as it likely has plenty of culture producing buildings and wonders.
I haven't found a particularly good place to put Shakespeare's theatre yet; it just goes in whichever city is likely to grow the biggest. In my current game, that happens to be an enemy capital with 3 food resources within its borders.
Scotland Yard I'll usually dump in some city with middling to good production, since I don't want to waste any national wonder slots in my really good cities, nor have my really good cities wasting time on spies when they could be building me 10xp units or wonders.
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