I was Dwarf Sage last age, doing the strategy SirVanir gave in the thread dwarf/sage attacker military (that I can not link to you yet, due to this being my first post in years!)
Where I ran with 20-25% homes, had a 146.7% BE and was basically unbreakable at the end of the age in our last two wars.
Now that they took the extra def points from the elites, I figured I would try Human Merchant this age, see if I could do a similar tactic as sage, but by overwhelming gold production to buy books instead of just making the books cheaper. The idea was that during war I could switch from book buying to dragon buying.
I am running OOW
20% Homes
10% Farms (until I get more food sci)
20% Banks
15% Armories
15% Forts
10% Guilds
10% Towers (ToG is AWESOME!)
Using my same tactic of overwhelming productivity to out produce the thieves and mages during war, what kind of war build would you use?
I'm looking for various different ideas, and honestly there is no wrong answer. I just want to know how you would/are plan for a human merchant during war?