Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Austria - Maria Theresa

Unique Info
  • Unique Units
    • Hussar (Calvary)
      • Extra Sight
      • Extra Movement
      • Enhanced Flank Attack (10% => 15%)
  • Unique Buildings
    • Coffee House (Windmill)
      •  +5% production in this city
      • +25% great people generation in this city
      • May be built in any city, not plains exclusive
  • Abilities
    • Can spend gold to annex or puppet city-states that have been an ally for 5 turns
 Strategy
  • Freedom/Order
  • Get caravans
  • Use money to buy off city states, unless going for a diplomatic victory
  • Coffee Houses increase production

Monday, June 3, 2019

Assyria - Ashurbanipal

Unique Info
  • Unique Units
    • Siege Tower (Catapult)
      • Cover I promotion - defense against ranged attacks
      • Extra Sight
      • Sapper - when next to enemy city, other units within two tiles get 50% bonus when attacking city
      • Can only attack cities
      • Melee only
  • Unique Buildings
    • Royal Library (Library)
      • One Great Work of Writing slot
      • Extra XP to units when slot is filled
  • Abilities
    • Gain a free tech when you conquer a unique city
Strategy
  • Autocracy
  • Domination victory
  • Attack fast and early
    • Siege Tower will make quick work of cities

Friday, May 31, 2019

Arabia - Harun al-Rashid

Unique Info
  • Unique Units
    • Camel Archer (Knight)
      • No penalty attacking cities
      • Only ranged attack (21)
      • Reduced strength (17 vs 20)
  • Unique Buildings
    • Bazaar (Market)
      • +2 gold
      • Provides 1 extra copy of each improved luxury resource near city
      • +2 gold for each oasis and oil
  • Abilities
    • Caravans have +50% range
    • Trade routes spread religion x2 effectiveness
    • Oil resources doubled
Strategy
  • Autocracy/Freedom
  • Settle on desert
    • Do desert pantheon
    • Build Petra - top priority if near lots of desert hills
  • Excellent at trading - make caravans quick and trade extra resources for money
  • If doing war - use camel archers to your advantage
    • Can move quick
    • No health lost since no melee
    • Can move after attack 
  • Use extra oil to make bombers
  • Buy off city-states to win diplomatically

America - Washington

Unique Info
  • Unique Units
    • B17 (Bomber)
      • Siege I promotion - better at attacking cities
      • Evasion promotion - reduced interception damage
      • Slightly extra strength (70 vs 65)
    • Minuteman (Musketman)
      • Drill I promotion - rough terrain
      • Ignores terrain cost
      • Golden age points from victories
  •  Abilities
    • All land military units have +1 sight
    • 50% discount when purchasing tiles
Strategy
  • Settle cities and take land early - cheap to buy land
  • Ideology - Autocracy/Freedom
  • Raise money quickly
  • Use extended sight to see cities from several tiles away and attack with artillery
  • If need to be defensive, make Minutemen
    • Quick troops
    • Not too expensive