Tagmas ONE SHOTTING Cities STILL can't save me from how bad Warrior Monks are

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[venisontron]

Warrior monks should be able to do both religious combat and regular combat, and earn XP from both. That would make them worth it.

[LAZERAKV]

Lady Six Skies: "Stay away from my lands."
Also Lady Six Skies: *Forward settles you*
Also also Lady Six Skies: "I told you to stay away!"

[ichifish]

Warrior monks are particularly bad if you factor in the opportunity cost of using up your faith. They should get a boost from relics, similar to the Aztec lux bonus, or a bonus from multiple levels of holy site buildings, like Nihang.

[gumbycat]

The heavy cavalry (inc Tagmas) that you get from entertainment districts and buildings cost nothing to support AND when you upgrade them to tanks they do not cost oil. Do not lose a single one, they are precious. Crusade works on city states, but you have to be inside their territory.

[JamesMichaelDoyle]

the moksha double promotion thing works on warrior monks, so they dont start with a promotion, but as soon as they earn their first one, they trigger a second one. so you promote 2 monks really fast down different sides of the tree and combine them. then you got a 4 promotion corps/army.

[merlinthetuna]

In addition to not researching Military Tradition, I think you kind of missed the boat by not building Terracotta Army. The monks specifically benefit from promotions, so mass promoting them to levels 3/4 would be huge

[gunzakimbo]

One little bonus I would suggest in these kinds of games is to acquire a friend that you can make a military alliance with for an additional attack bonus. I know the circumstances of this game kind of forced you into war with Nubia so you were kinda just down the war path from like turn 15 but doing that can allow you that nifty bonus throughout the game or if you get far enough ahead that you don't need it you can just switch to religious or economic alliance.

[HarleyMaebry]

“Free Promotions on the Tagmas are not as important as they were on Warrior Monks.” Oh, for sure! That 2x Flanking Bonus promotion giving you a devastating +0 is a real game changer. Cutting corners by ignoring Military Tradition was the second biggest mistake of trying to get Warrior Monks to work. It didn’t help your Tagma blobs, either. Speaking of Tagmata, they have 0 maintenance costs because they were recruited via Hippodromes. A much better 0 value.

[TugaThings]

I feel like you should've invested your envoys in Fez more for that extra science when converting a city

[winoodlesnoodles]

There was a glitch in the game roughly a year after launch and in my game Monty's luxury bonus buffing apostles and warrior monks. For me Monty was a great religious Civ for a time. It didn't take long for that to get patched out though. Since then, I have pretty much ignored the unit.

[RMCbreezy]

Thank you for doing the builds we all never do and usually doing them better than we ever could in extent of trying it out and coming back from the full dive effort

[xtianthemadman]

How much longer until Potato realizes he didn't research Military Tradition for flanking?

[shackledheart]

Crusade does work on city-states but your unit has to be standing on a tile of a crusaded/ converted city state or civ!

[paulstelmack]

Ironically the update that fixed the AI from always rushing the Warrior Monk belief also introduced the Man At Arms unit, which made Warrior Monks pretty much worthless.

[baronvonpicklez]

my man literally just ignore the encampment, just stack your dudes on the city with overwhelming force, and assuming your overwhelming force overwhelms enough, you win, ez game

[CosmicIceCream]

Potato, you are human. Don't sweat it. Let me just remind you that you've taught a gigantic number of people how to kickass at this game, including me. And I think your current position is very strong - I predict once each of your acquired cities have basic infrastructure and a district or two, you will utterly destroy anyone in your path.

[discipline]

the way of warrior monk is enduring pain and suffering...

[Egordon]

"Catastrophic eruption, that's fine" killed me haha

[AnAngelineer]

Learned from your videos :
Emperor => Warrior monks really work and carry you the whole game
Deity => they suck and barely carry you for 3 cities
...Maybe Immortal is the right difficulty to make a warrior monk challenge, then?

[Shauma_llama]

The AI barbarians helping the computer: clearly programmed to do that, it happens to consistently to be random chance.