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I know that some out there have some GPP City Specialization Strats... I didn't really even worry about them until I was reading the Cultural Victory thread where it was pointed out that having a single city producing great artists was a great way to just culture bomb your way to an early victory.
Of course, in order to do this, you want to remove the chance of that city producing anything other than great artists, which leads to GPP City Specialization.
I started playing with this idea in my last game, but I was focused on Great Engineers. They seem to be... well, underused in most strategies that I read. Some do count on producing one to build the Great Library. But after that.. they seem to be ugly little stepchildren in the GP world and I was wondering why.
Anyway.. in order to get a GE factory going, there are three wonders that produce GE points.. Pyramids (always useful), Hanging Gardens (sometimes annoying with its +1 pop), and the Hagia Sophia (+50% worker production ain't bad).
You can also add a forge that allows you to add one Engineer specialist, Factory that allows two specialists and Ironworks that allows three. I think that's it.
So you can have up to 6 engineering specialists in a single city, plus the GPP from the three wonders.
With that flow of engineers, you can then rush wonders in your other cities and make them specialized as well.
Right now I've managed both a GE city (which also acts as my production city, obviously) and a GS city that has the Great Library, and a GA city that has National Epic and the Parthenon in it (GPP boosting wonders create Artists and you don't want them mixing with your scientists or engineers)
Has anybody else tried to focus individual cities on specializing GPP? And why the lack of love for Great Engineers? I imagine that they are actually the most powerful of all the GP because there are only three wonders that will help produce them, and your ability to assign them as specialists is vastly more restricted than with any other specialist.
Any thoughts?
Of course, in order to do this, you want to remove the chance of that city producing anything other than great artists, which leads to GPP City Specialization.
I started playing with this idea in my last game, but I was focused on Great Engineers. They seem to be... well, underused in most strategies that I read. Some do count on producing one to build the Great Library. But after that.. they seem to be ugly little stepchildren in the GP world and I was wondering why.
Anyway.. in order to get a GE factory going, there are three wonders that produce GE points.. Pyramids (always useful), Hanging Gardens (sometimes annoying with its +1 pop), and the Hagia Sophia (+50% worker production ain't bad).
You can also add a forge that allows you to add one Engineer specialist, Factory that allows two specialists and Ironworks that allows three. I think that's it.
So you can have up to 6 engineering specialists in a single city, plus the GPP from the three wonders.
With that flow of engineers, you can then rush wonders in your other cities and make them specialized as well.
Right now I've managed both a GE city (which also acts as my production city, obviously) and a GS city that has the Great Library, and a GA city that has National Epic and the Parthenon in it (GPP boosting wonders create Artists and you don't want them mixing with your scientists or engineers)
Has anybody else tried to focus individual cities on specializing GPP? And why the lack of love for Great Engineers? I imagine that they are actually the most powerful of all the GP because there are only three wonders that will help produce them, and your ability to assign them as specialists is vastly more restricted than with any other specialist.
Any thoughts?
You go on other threads and they have all these ambitious plans for pinning the enemy with "culture bombs" or winning cultural victory by pointing up the cities. Haven't you ever wanted to "change the borders" to wrest away a resource from a bordering competitor 
(or a whole city, but city flipping is rather rare in Civ4, though still possible, I've done it.)
Of course, it is just Warlord.
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