No caravans - how to rush wonders?

[sekong]

Advantages:
1. Seems you have to have an army to use units like catapults and cannons.
2. mixing units with offensive and denfensive advantages.
The best candidate units for army is ROMAN legion:
3/3/1 make it the best defensive unit in the ancient time, yet with good offensive ability.
I image the best army in ancient time is the mixture of 2 ROMAN legions and a catapult. That makes Roman legion the best unit in ancient time.

[RobC]

Re: $$$

Originally posted by Blake
It may be possible to do some trick like rushbuy a large facility then switch to a great wonder. Really depends if such behaivour is explicitly prevented.

If they maintained the restrictions in SMAC, you would lose something like half of your production when you switch between units, facilities, and wonders, so this would be quite expensive and wouldn't get you very close to finishing the wonder.