Scholars: How do you use them?

[Alsn]

I've just got the game and discovered that I now have scholars. But what exactly to they do and how do I get them to do it. The game guide seems remarkable silent on the subject.

You move them into schools where they contribute to your research rate(hit 'T' in-game to get to the technology page). The more stars they have the more points they generate per turn(unfortunately I haven't found a way to see how many points a particular tech requires but the earlier ones are like 40 points or so). In general it's quicker to build more schools than try to spawn more gentlemen(especially since schools themselves spawn gentlemen) but just watch out since you take a pretty severe happiness penalty if you have too many schools.

They can also duel other factions scholars.

Do note that like Zerg says Scholars cannot duel like gentlemen. The eastern factions(muslim and hindu) get scholars while the western factions get gentlemen.

[antisocialmunky]

I dunno about that whenever I decide to make an education camp, I build equal parts schools and taverns and transform the province to a weekend binge drinking college town.

[andrewt]

I think CA has modeled the modern college campus pretty effectively. You need the tavern line to counter the effects of the college line. I guess that gave rise to binge drinking in college campuses.

[Fisherking]

In that line…Has anyone had trouble building the Modern University building?

I teched up to it but it never became available to build. I never even saw it as not buildable for “X” Reason.

[Quillan]

Someone said here that the MU was only buildable in your capital province. That makes me wish I had not dismantled the two I captured in India from the Maratha and Mughals, but it would still have been a royal PITA to ship all the gentlemen down there.

[butterfingers158]

Someone said here that the MU was only buildable in your capital province. That makes me wish I had not dismantled the two I captured in India from the Maratha and Mughals, but it would still have been a royal PITA to ship all the gentlemen down there.

That is correct, Modern University is only buildable in your capital.