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Emperor NapoleoninCivilization 7is one of two different Napoleon variants, the other being the Revolutionary Napoleon. Both of these variants share a few similarities and can have a similar intent, but they reach where they’re going in extremely different ways, with slightly different victory options natural for both.
While the Revolutionary Napoleon makes better use of individual units and capitalizes on each victory more fully, Emperor Napoleon ensures that no one unit or battle is as precious a thing. He can amass an incredible amount of wealth, all while preventing enemies from achieving any value near his own.
Napoleon Emperor Overview
Emperor Napoleon might seem a bit counter-intuitive in certain ways, but when youlevy the massive fortune that he can amass, you canuse that money for a variety of purposes.
His bonuses include:
These bonuses create a twofold effect for Emperor Napoleon: he canamass a lot of gold per turn, and he can alsomaintain quite a bit of an influence advantage on handto use as he sees fit, with his ability to reject proposals for free and impose sanctions that other Leaders have difficulty combating.
While Napoleon might have unfriendly relations with many other civs, the gold-per-turn bonus helps lessen that blow. On top of that, his influence can go a long way in improving the relationships that are advantageous for him to improve, the moment he needs to.
Emperor Napoleon Victory Conditions
Emperor Napoleon can be best tilted in a couple of different directions:MilitaryandEconomic. The gold gain that he can achieve allows him toamass and maintain a large standing army, creating an overwhelming force for whoever he aims them toward.
Levying Napoleon’s unique sanction against the same target he’s sending his huge army at can rapidly create significant problems for his opponent, hurting them both economically,lowering their happiness, and in terms of military might.
He can also be used tocreate an Economic advantage over his adversaries. While the late-game may usually benefit from good relations with opposing civilizations in order to achieve an Economic victory, Napoleon can often amass such an incredible amount of wealth that the extra cost for achievingeconomic victorywith unfriendly civs is a moot point.
Best Civilizations To Use With Emperor Napoleon
Whether you’re angling for a Military or Economic victory, there are afew good civilization choices spread throughout the Ages.
Rome (Antiquity Age)
Rome is agreat choice for an Economic focusin the Antiquity Age. Their relevant bonuses include:
Economic progress in the Antiquity Age is all aboutamassing a fortune of different resources. This is usually going to require a twofold approach:spreading your settlementsacross the continent, particularly where resources are present, andtrading for resourceswith other civilizations.
You can trade with civilizations that you’re unfriendly with, so don’t worry too much about other civilizations sitting on resources that you’d like preventing you from having them.
Aksum (Antiquity Age)
Another option for anEconomic focus, the Aksum have aprimary focus on trading, particularly trading over water, as opposed to making it as easy to spread your settlements for and wide. Their most important bonuses for us are:
The Aksum can reap a lot of rewards for an economic focus, they’re just not as adept at creating as many settlements as quickly as Rome. What they do have isa significant naval advantage, which can come in big if you’ve built settlements on the coast.
It’s also huge to have a trade ship that cannot be pillaged; this is going to save you a lot of potential heartache.
Persia (Antiquity Age)
If you’re looking toflex military might, the Persians are going to be a fantastic choice. Their most important bonuses include:
The Persians have asingular focus on conquering enemies, helped along by their combat bonus when doing so. They’ll be able tosustain themselves longer in combatby keeping the pressure on their enemy, and their unique improvement combined withNapoleon’s gold bonus for unfriendly Leaders is going to add up.
Chola (Exploration Age)
If you’re still going for anEconomic advantagein theExploration Age,things change quite drastically from the Antiquity Age. Here, you’ll need to sail across the ocean, ferrying treasure fleets to your home.
you’re able to do this in multiple ways, and avaried approach is likely to be the quickest. The first would be toestablish settlementson treasure resources overseasand ferry those back, and the other would be tointercept other civilizations treasure resourcesen route and take them for yourself.
When it comes to the Chola, they’re agreat choice for both of these options:
The Chola canestablish dominance over the seawith ease. Provided you can kick out settlers fast enough, you’ll have the naval power to ensure that your ocean operations are safe from interference, while being able to interfere with others with ease.
Mongolia (Exploration Age)
The Mongolians are one of thepremiere Military optionsin the Exploration Age, with their ability to not only create difficulty-to-overwhelm forces, but their ability to amass units far away from home. When fighting on another continent, this is going to go a long way in keeping your numbers high.
Their most relevant bonuses are:
The Mongolians greatest strength lies in their ability tocreate an overwhelming military force. That can get expensive, but combine the with Emperor Napoleon’s ability to amass wealth in the face of an unfriendly world, and it can be a scary combo.
America (Modern Age)
America has aperfect combination of wealth and productionto make it an option for an economic victory. In the Modern Age, you’ll need to amass wealth, influence, production, and science to stand a chance for this victory type; luckily, gold is going to help you buy your way there.
For America, the most beneficial bonuses are:
America combined with Emperor Napoleon canmaintain thelarge standing army that he’s going to needat this point in the game, with so many other civilizations mad at him. At the same time, they cancreate a ton of production, which is going to speed up the building that you’ll need to get underway.
You’re going to need that gold that you’ve got to quickly build the science buildings that you’ll need in order tocomplete your research, because America has absolutely no potential for science generation.
Prussia (Modern Age)
If you’re looking to finish things with amilitary victory, the Prussians are going to be a good choice. Similar to Napoleon, theygain in strength for each unfriendly or worse civilization; but in their case, their gain is in combat strength, and not gold. That combines for a large and powerful army, if you’ve made a bad name for yourself.
Their relevant bonuses include:
A military victory in the Modern Age is going to require a combination of things, but the one thing that’simportant above all will be military might. You’ll need to beattacking,and destroying,other civilizationsthat have a different ideology than you, and working your way to the terrible pinnacle of the tech tree.
Once again, you’ll need to buy your way to better science production, but you should have the money to do so.
