Whatever happened to the "Quantative Analysis of the Civ traits" thread?

[vmxa1]

Theseus I have been missing my Mil trait as well. It seems so much harder to get promotions now and forget leaders.
My current game I killed a stack of 16 units and did not get a single promotion (not to mention 5 elites and no leader, but that seems fine).

[Theseus]

vxma1, you tried Scandy yet?

(I feel like a pimp for Berzerks these days )

[vmxa1]

Only once and that was right after PTW came out. I think I did have them in a preset AU game now that I have my mind sort of engaged. I did like the UU.

[Artifex]

I always find it tough what to do with my first GL. An army or the forbidden palace.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Artifex
I always find it tough what to do with my first GL. An army or the forbidden palace.

I usually go for a tough wonder first, unless I am on the warpath or it is way early in the game. I don't use leaders to build the FP anymore, I just hop the fp down a bit at a time till perfect. A leader would be better used for moving the palace altogether-much steeper price to move that than build the fp.

[vmxa1]

Originally posted by Artifex
I always find it tough what to do with my first GL. An army or the forbidden palace.

It depends on the game situation. Most of the time I will use it to make an army. I want that first army win and the army can be used to bludgeon a city.
Ocassionally I will be in a position to drop it on a wonder, but that is rare. This is because I tend to only get 1 or 2 early wonders at emperor. One will likely be Colossus and maybe GL. I don;t need a leader for the first and I will hopefully have my leader way before the GL.
In fact in my current game I only got the Colossus and nothing more until Sun Tzu and Leos. Then at Newtons, I got untracked and got all wonders since that point.
FP is an iffy one to me. I often build it from scratch, but in this game I slammed it with a leader as I had one and no other crying need.