Non-Location Specific National Wonders?

[Nohbody8]

I was just curious where some of you folks build the non-location specific national wonders like Scotland Yard, Mt. Rushmore, and the Globe Theatre to a lesser extent. Do you simply pick a middle of the road city and plop 'em down?

[rah]

Highest production non specialist city available.
I.E. Not my science, financial, GP, or military city.

[EPW]

Globe theatre and Scotland yard are both location dependent...Mt. Rushmore can go anywhere...

[Supr49er]

In BTS, Scotland Yard is no longer a NW, and may be built in more than one city by Great Spies.

[DirtyMartini]

Rushmore is pretty cheap -- I build it in basically any city that won't get two other NWs. I almost never use a spy on Scotland Yard.

Globe theater I know I'm not using well. Often it doesn't get built. The problem with it is that it would go well with a number of other NWs but not as well as some other NWs do. By itself, it's not that particularly useful. Specifically, it would go well with Heroic Epic, so that you can build units, not happy buildings, and keep producing them even in the midst of the worst war weariness. Unfortunately, I'd rather have West Point or Red Cross with Heroic Epic. I guess National Epic and Globe make sense so you can have unlimited pop to put into specialists, but my GP farm is usually pretty short on hammers.

[Nohbody8]

I do not have BtS expansion pack (don't need anymore distractions during last semester of college) so I didn't know that about the Globe Theatre. How is Scotland Yard location specific though?

[EPW]

Globe theatre = instant army when used in conjunction with the nationhood civic

Scotland yard gives +100% espionage points in bts for the city its built in.

[snoopy369]

Globe Theatre is used in my GP city when I build it (not that often) if I have two cities. The four get Globe Theatre, National Epic, National Forest, and one other that I'm forgetting (usually the Nationals go together, but if the main GPP city doesn't have forests, then it's Globe and NE).

[Nohbody8]

Speaking of NWs, is it possible to capture enemy NWs?

[Ming]

No... it is not possible to capture NW's... they disappear when you take the city.

And like snoppy, I follow his basic strategy. If I have a a high food city, I like to combine NE and GT to create a whip crank early, and then a specialist city later.

[Krill]

Actualy you can capture National Wonders. You shouldn't be able to but suposedly you can (according to Kmad...)

[Supr49er]

Originally posted by Krill
Actualy you can capture National Wonders. You shouldn't be able to but suposedly you can (according to Kmad...)

Maybe you can if it's a NW you don't have ??

[Krill]

I'd assume that; though I must admit I'd like to capture a couple of Heroic Epics when I go on a killing spree.

[Ming]

Originally posted by Krill
Actualy you can capture National Wonders. You shouldn't be able to but suposedly you can (according to Kmad...)

I remember seeing that post... but didn't believe it.
I've never had it happen in one of my games, and theoretically, it's not supposed to happen.

[wodan11]

You can capture National Wonders, but they have the same rules as normal buildings. That is, no culture producers, and even then there's a chance it'll be destroyed in the process.

So, Scotland Yard and Ironworks. But, no Heroic Epic.

Sorry Charlie, Krill.

Wodan