Unimportant Food

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            Rill wrote:

Even after you have 10 cities, a 7-food city will allow you to run a higher tax rate to maintain a larger army.  So again the major consideration is whether you are going to maintain a large army in the long term or consistently be losing troops and wanting to replace them fast.

             The basic tradeoff is between ability to maintain large forces or replace lost troops.  Since there tend to be large gaps between tournaments and wars, many people tend to build for the ability to maintain large armies rather than replace them quickly.

             What I've seen in practice is that many times in a war or tournament players will change sovereignty flexibly:  food sov when armies are big and need tax support, military sov (paid for by lowering taxes and increasing resource production) when armies have been depleted.  With this flexible approach, the advantages of a 5/5/5/5/5 city in terms of being able to support additional military sovereignty are not as noticeable.

             I haven't tried it myself, but I would imagine that for a 5-food city with an emphasis on quick troop replacements, the presence of military sov bonuses could become a significant additional factor in terms of city placement.

         To expand on this - a 7 food city composition also allows you to have more maxed out equipment production buildings (spears, swords, plate, saddles...) through out your empire so that you are more self-reliant.  Mind you, if you also have 2 permasat accounts you can use those to fund your military enterprise and thus the 5 food city becomes more feasible.  