it's almost a whole other world the way they use it, you're basically treating food resources as production by trading pop/workers for hammers. you can sacrifice two pop for some bizzarely high number of hammers, i don't really understand the mechanics fully but you can get up to 60 hammers for one pop and that seems to scale up linearly so that you can get nearly 120  for 2. there's a penalty for whipping on the turn you start building something but otherwise it seems to be grossly overpowered to some degree, although you build up a happiness penalty over time if you don't let the initial penalty go away every time you whip.

i highly suggest you start a new game and concentrate on using slavery and the whip and don't worry too much about winning and losing, it's worthwhile to master that strategy. i mean hell you can win on immortal with it without setting up some gay dual map with lame conditions that guarantee your victory (not criticizing you for dual but some people win by the set up and that's lame imo). so far the trick seems to be to let the penalty wear off in between whips and get the timing right to get the max use out of each whip. another thing is if you whip say an axeman, you want to have another queued up behind him so the overflow hammers will be put to his production, if you cross genre/type from unit to building you lose the overflow.

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