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I dunno, I've had plenty of DoWs on Prince, it just depends on how I treat the AI. If I'm trading them luxes, setting up lots of trade routes, and establishing my religion in their territory before they have one of their own, our shared benefits are enough that they won't screw with me. On the...

Catherine has large... tracts of land, but I prefer Boudicca

I still love Japan, but I like creating Citadel grindfests and watching the AI implode on my units, and they RULE the late game air and naval game, which is fabulous. Not a big fan of the Danes, and was kind of disappointed in Carthage - as a history nerd I love the Qarthadasim but they're...

If you do end up using the Sanguo Yanyi, I'd go with the Peach Garden Oath, it's the most iconic moment for those with casual knowledge of the romance and is pretty snappy. "We three, though of separate ancestry, join in brotherhood. . . . We dare not hope to be together always but hereby vow...

Going to war profitably is a lot harder, but the rewards can be good (especially if you're on a continent with only one or two rivals - clearing them out early gives you lots of room to sprawl) The big thing is that BNW heavily rewards more balanced empires - you need culture to protect your...

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That's something to consider, as well - should we pick out a snippet for Great Works of Writing? I'm trying to think of a really characteristic quote in the Sanguo Yanyi and can only think of either the Peach Garden Oath or Cao Mengde's infamous (and probably apocryphal) "I'd rather betray...

Having an extra GG can also allow you to quickly snap up borders that might be contested later but aren't yet - nothing like settling a city close to a neighbor and claiming all those neutral tiles to choke off their growth (especially if this forms a military bottleneck) Lots of rough...

Oh yeah. I had a very successful run as Arabia using a combination of Faith and the Commerce tree to beeline out Faith-purchased Great Merchants and score an easy diplomatic victory literally the turn the first UN vote happened, using similar benefits like their high number of luxes (which...

That's not a bad idea, although promotions are, I feel, more impactful in Civ V than before (March is an enormous benefit, so getting closer to that and some of the other powerful promotions faster is a huge boon) Of course, a Great General is now going to affect fewer units with such an...

Except as discussed there are plenty of those deviations - a lot of tech quotes can be seen as, at the very least, a bit tongue-in-cheek about the concept being introduced Personally, after the Hitler and Al Capone quotes in 4, I was half-expecting them to replace Oppenheimer's famous speech...

Now you've got me thinking about ways to grab workshops early and use them to snap up Wonders - who says Rome wasn't built in a day? I bet Italy could get some mileage out of other cities shipping production to Rome - Rome snaps up new buildings, making them cheaper everywhere else.

The city-state problem has to do with how warmongering is calculated Part of the calculation is how many cities the controlling civ has - conquering a city from a civ with 30 cities is less impactful than taking one from a civ with four. Since city-states are always one city, the hit tends...

It helps that the AI has no idea how to deal with Citadels I've seen the AI swarm a single samurai fortified in a Citadel - with him not weakening, and them losing HP and up against that defensive penalty, the enemy lost a bunch of units Economic powerhouses that have a lot of gold stockpiled...

But no, really, there are some interesting possibilities. Mexico's early years were politically pretty fascinating.

I'd love a Czech/Bohemia civ, entirely on ethnic bias. Barring that, I agree that Sumer seems like an obvious missing option.

People be hatin' on the Kris Swordsman. Is it a little unreliable? Maybe. But they work out, by the numbers, something like 77% of the time (7 of their 9 promotions are positive, and of those, at least three are practically gamebreaking) As Indonesia you're already trading a ton. Trade for...

Oh yeah Like he said, it's not cut and dry - two coastal cities sending a cargo ship back and forth can result in explosive food growth that can be a big bonus to getting tall as fast as your happiness can handle. On the other hand, getting those four extra beakers early in can be a big...

Agreed. Now, Europa Barbarorum for Rome: Total War... But then, that was made by a group of disgruntled history nerds. REALLY fun though, I love playing Carthage. Wish they were better in this, I'm something of a Hannibal Barca fanboy. He's a fascinating figure.

The AI, in my experience, only suffers in a couple areas. One, they're a little careless with their gold. Two, they're not very good at army maneuvers. Most of the 'strategies' for victory at higher levels are just exploitations of these facts rather than necessarily more efficient play, so I...