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Thanks guys, this helped me too cause it sounds like the key is the second bannab. My last try I got to 88 piety and that was the only thing you said that I hadn't done. Maybe I could have gotten it if I built a few less units to take the northern sindhi city and the ghaznavid one they found...

Maybe I'm confused about how faith points work it but I thought fighting muslims would help. You get points for massacring other faiths and it gives you more cities to use missionaries on. If you are ready to take down sindh right after spawn you should have enough time to build the buildings...

I think its fine if you want to leave it as it is for a very tough requirement, but its definitely not simple. I tried this just recently, I avoided fighting other hindu states, got that independent city just east of starting location, and took over all of sindh and one ghaznavid city. I built...

Yeah its pretty simple to get multiple great artists also. Drama is one tech up from what you need for the wonders and you will probably get there first gunning for it. Then you can build a theater and pump out another artist fairly easily before the time limit (when I tried this recently I...

Haven't played on caliph but maybe try building a huge navy and sinking as many as you can before they land. This worked on the middle difficulty for me since you get a turn to respond after they spawn but before the troops land. This was a while ago though so I don't know if anything changed.

Well its important to note that the AI isn't always competent at taking city states. CS usually have the city defense bonuses and if the AI attacks without siege they'll often just die trying to attack it.

Usually I wouldn't get involved unless you can kill the units relatively quickly (at least you can start moving units but don't make the declaration until really ready). I'm not sure about embarked units but I know capturing civilians does count.

So I took a small break from civ5 to try out your new Italy spawn. It was rather frustrating though - I'm not sure how reasonable it is to get optics first. When you spawn you need to get both guilds and compass first while most other european civs will already have one if not both of them...

yes there is a terra map type. look in the advanced options (there are lots of map scripts that don't show up on the basic game setup screen).

All puppet cities are gold focused because you put a trading post on every tile. They will build culture buildings, happiness buildings, other good buildings (library, market...) and sometimes something useless. The first three are good things to have, and you deal with the last category by...

What difficulty was this on? I didn't have much trouble avoiding wars on king and below. As long as you are trading with them so you are useful and they have other AIs to pick on they often won't come after you.

If you can't afford to build more buildings because of maintenance, you can always go for wonder failure gold. Much better return rate than the other choices. It can also be good to switch tile focus from production to gold if you can and slow build units since you will probably need some...

If you go real trading post spam you can puppet indefinitely without too much loss. Trading posts lower the production capability of the puppets so they usually only end up building a few useless buildings. This worked for me on immortal (by modern age I was making hundreds per turn with ~5...

I haven't tried but you can include a file of sql commands right? So yes you should be able to alter tables and add columns. To create a new table you use the create table command (this one has examples in the civ5 sql files that are included).

I think even in this strategy you would want at least 1 high production specialized city. Farms on plains and hills by the river, etc. You might still want to build some things.

One time I said you will pay for this and catherine immediately declared war. Maybe she was going to do it anyway? But I suppose its a possibility.

I got science victory on king (although it was babylon silliness); not sure how well it would work on high difficulty.

It definitely does this even if you have science. Lost a couple units in my babylon game because i didn't shore up my gold generation enough to keep up with my high science.

I think it might be from barbs crossing the trade route and then moving on. I saw this by sea, where the route was blocked because a barb ship passed through. I'm not sure if you actually lose a turn of income, though.

The AI did this to me last night. I have no idea if it was intentional or not but there were two scouts standing by a city state on a peninsula. I ended up farming the city state units for xp while waiting for research agreement to come up. Then eventually went to war.