Great Prophet vs Missionary

[RubusRoo]

What's the difference between them? They both cost the same amount of faith.

Thank you

[Tarik Torgaddon]

Great prophets can found or enhance religions, can remove other religions from cities, an found holy sites. Missionaries just spread to other coties.

[di eshor ribly]

Prophets also dont take attrition damage in enemy territory, but their costs scale higher with each one you spawn/buy.

[Kamikaze Velociraptor]

Prophet have more spread religion uses.

[General Malaise]

Originally posted by jrvankirk:

Great prophets can found or enhance religions, can remove other religions from cities, an found holy sites. Missionaries just spread to other coties.

You need an Inquisitor to remove religion from a Holy City, otherwise it will keep coming back.

Missionaries seem OK spreadig religion, where there is none already, but not so good when there's already a religion there.

[The Bored Chairman]

The cost for Prophets increases with the more you spawn.

Missionairies only scale with eras, so they remain cheap and relatively spammable if you're looking to spread your religion. They also move quicker than Prophets.

Basically, you want to use Missionaries to expand your influence and Prophets to either build Holy Sites or "nuke" the an enemy civ's Holy City if they're spamming Missionaries (looking at you Haile Selassie you backstabbing jerk)

[Phil khajeets]

Missionaries=Cancer spreader
Prophets=Cancer builder/enhancer

[ForevaNoob Wonemorturn]

Prophets are much stronger, for big already religious cities, and I think they cost more than a regular priest actually...
I never realized they were immune to attrition by the way, is that for sure?

[cerberusiv]

Originally posted by ForevaNoob Wonemorturn:

I never realized they were immune to attrition by the way, is that for sure?

Yes.