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And depening on what difficulty level you're playing on, try for one or a few of the wonders that house great works. Don't feel like you need to grab all of them though, that's overkill. Great works of art are the trickiest of the 3 types; you either need a wonder or some religious buildings...

You could try a France game to get the hang of theming bonuses. I did a cultural victory with France on emperor recently. I settled 3 cities and remained peaceful with neighbours the whole game. One thing to think about is WHEN to expend your great artists, writers and musicians for great works...

What difficulty level are you playing at?

It happened to me yesterday where the AI got GWB while I was trying my artillery push (on immortal). I got one civs capital easily enough, but during the war with the next civ (Siam) is when GWB bombers showed up. Yeah they really do rip apart artillery quickly! My great war infantry held up...

Thanks Browd, it does indeed.

I still use them but don't rely on them heavily at all anymore. I'm finding them consistenly underwhelming! Can anyone explain how the RA mechanic works now, as it's been changed quite a few times? I thought that you couldn't get more science than your trading partner, ie, both people got the...

I'm interested what people think about the civs that are made for, or good for, warmongering before the time of artillery? Civs like China, Arabia, Japan (to an extent) - anything that has a good UU that comes before the industrial era. Are these civs rendered somewhat useless now, with their...

Are you playing BNW or G&K? They made big changes to the warmonger penalty system in BNW. I'm not sure if eliminating another civ is such a big no-no in BNW anymore, since most AIs will hate you already for having taken cities by that time. In my current game Russia used a GG to grab 2 of my...

Skip/delay the oracle and try to rush buy the library in your 2nd or 3rd city.

By the way, Siam can be just as difficult to deal with as Greece in this regard!

I agree with the people who have written about you not needing to control the WC if you're going for a science victory. You need to focus on your chosen victory condition and the things that are going to help that, rather than getting mad at alex. Greece is obviously designed to be strong with...

Regarding the OP comments about cities targetting seige units instead of seige units: I've been having some success lately being careful to move in a bunch if melee units first, letting the city target one of them, weaken it, and then move in seige units on the next turn. The city will tend to...