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Finished a French "peacemonger" culture victory in 1911, King difficulty. Assyria Morocco Siam Carthage Byzantium Iroquois Only Morocco (score leader) and Assyria posed a challenge, with over 200% culture compared to the others. The final turn required a 3-hit combo - winning the...

I played her twice now, once on Prince, once on Emp to get used to G&K mechanics. I am finding religion to be very interesting compared to Civ4, and I am interested in trying her on Immortal/Deity for culture or religious victory. Regarding her UA - I've found it to be very good early game...

I'm noticing a pattern in a lot of threads.. many folks are struggling with keeping your empire slightly ahead in happiness of the growth curve. How expansive you play will have a bearing on which methods of attaining happiness you will require, so keep that in mind! The Basics: Why keep my...

On "Slingshots" Civ V vs IV: This is kind of a misnomer in V. Liberalism slingshot truly was just that, because you could easily backtrade techs, remaining at tech parity or advanced, even in Deity. Without tech trades in V, the best thing we can do is efficiently use GS, wonders, and social...

Looking at steam online manual for the game. It lists Ctrl+R to "show resources" just like it SHOULD with the HUD icon per Civ IV.. nothing happens in both standard and strategic view (although that view shows resources anyway..) Same for Ctrl+Y and "show yields." Can anyone else...

I ran into a recent snag trying to mix it up in a diety game. I was well ahead of the Lib curve (had education when nobody had paper yet). My goal was to take Steel as my free tech and obliterate the continent with cannons. The problem: Cyrus caught up about 3 turns too early and snagged it...

Hey Civvers, Just stopping by to post an interesting game I had. Settings were: Louis XIV Emperor Archipelago, Large, Epic Speed No events, no huts, etc. Screeshot capture fails, sorry :confused: Opening location is good, and the game plays out in a very interesting way! My Tips

I've played civ since the original, and looking back I never really had a clue what I was doing in civ 4 until I followed some of the strategies on this forum :goodjob: Less than a year ago I was starting on Warlord and barely winning games because the strategies from civ I-III just don't work...

I've noticed it often means they are/will be going into war mode with you. It seems weird because this happens even with open borders, where they are free to scout and get your layout in a much more nonchalant way. I know its not always the case, civs also seem to want maps post-Optics when...

Tried my hand at an OCC game as Lincoln last night. Prince, won in 2002 by space. Not too bad, considering this was basically an isolated start (island with Hauyna who is a real tech bogarter, and had no health resources). On to the point! I never realized this but mines don't need to be...

Curious if any Immortal/Diety players ever break out of the norm of combos like TGL+NE+Oxford or HE+Ironworks with success? Last game with boudica I tried dumping all my generals (4), west point and globe theater into a city with hills pig, farm, green horses and a few green mines. Food was...

I like to think I have my GP usage optimized pretty well in most of my mid/late game, but I'd like to move up from emperor to immortal and this is one of the places I'd like to refine my early game. Lately I've been playing HC for the early rush and ability to cherry pick wonders with out much...

You know that feeling you get when you've been making an economic/scientific stretch, perhaps ignoring your military/defenses while you whip uni's, a GE rushed oxford and gun for liberalism? It's that feeling that you get when your neighbor or religious adversary, who you know will DOW at...

One thing I've noticed on these forums is that Wonders seem to be grey area at high level play, not because they're hard to get but what you sacrifice to get them. For instance I used to always build the pyramids if I had stone before playing at Monarch/Emperor. Now I rarely ever do, in fact...

In trying to improve my Diplo skills and understanding of each AI, I ran into a snag in a recent game. It was a fractal map, 2 continents (coast connected), the first being entirely mine save for a few vassaled malinesian cities feeding me techs. Our continent owned every religion except...

Hey all, long time fanatic, first time poster :cool: After winning games easily using my typical strat, I decided I wanted to try an early/mid game rush/conquest on monarch with chm/agg/imp leaders. I get so tired of rolling over civ's late game with rifleman, tanks, bombers, etc. I want to...