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This is a bit off topic, but in my past several games, I've found a way that's pretty reliable to avoid war. All I do is find the likely warmonger civ and bribe them to attack someone else. Usually, the amount is simply gpt. This method works reliably all the way through to ideologies. For...

Surely, though, others may come looking for the same topic.

There's a lot in this post that strikes me as inaccurate. The Inca make for great Tall civs (up to 4 cities is my definition). Their starting bias makes it very likely that you'll get very large cities around mountains for your terrace farms, and you want a high pop for science, especially...

My last two Immortal games have been peaceful. I'm playing a Deity game and so far at turn 150 I've had no wars, and in fact have defensive pacts with three civs. The key is to recognize who the warmongers are going to be and goad them into attacking someone else.

Trad/Lib as Poland is extremely powerful. As Poland, those few early policies have to go somewhere before you get to Rationalism, and you're best served by maxing out both trees. You get early cities, free amphitheaters (with Tradition only, I find it of a crunch to get all my monuments/cities...

I decided to give this strategy a try as a long time Immortal difficulty player, but just my second proper Deity game. In short, it's quite reliable and powerful. Many of the tips in the strategy are just good advice in general and not specific to Poland. However, there are enough specifics...

Science is crucial to every victory, but it's definitely one of the more difficult victory types. You can get the tech you need for a diplo or culture win much earlier, and a military victory should come even earlier in many conditions. Science victories are less dependent on other conditions...

I love the Iroquois. Their UA is great for early gold and mobility, and the longhouse gives your cores cities great early production. They're one of the stronger civs imo. I've encountered the Iroquois a disproportionately large amount of the time, and they've pretty much always been a...

In the game I was talking about, I was actually making 100 gpt by turn 270. No way you're going to convince me its worth is overestimated. If I was only interested in that early game gold, I don't think the investment that it takes to reliably get a religion going is worth it. Getting a...

Science victory already is the longest victory type, and these suggestions don't seem to make dragging it out any fun. As it is, you get notifications on civs building spaceship parts, so you can attack the capital already. Why on earth (pun intended) would destroying the capital stop the...

Before the expansion came out, I regarded them as a little above average. After playing the expansion and reconsidering (though I still haven't completed a game as Poland) I think that they are extremely strong. The UA is outstanding. A civ's UA is often 'worth' perhaps 2 strong social...

Also, and this is just something I thought I noticed at the end of a game, but didn't test for, but it seems as though GAs no longer decrease the time for each GA when they're triggered, staying at 8 turns. Can anyone confirm? If so, that's another buff to Persia (my favorite Civ). Plus...

You really shouldn't replay it. You'll learn more by trying to get yourself out of a tough situation, and it seems that you already know what to improve for next time. Most importantly, I think the game's easily winnable, so why give up? If you have a tech lead, why on earth would you...

To the OP: try buying or couping whatever city states needed to prevent Alexander from winning before the vote, ideally ones farther away from him. Then, go to war to lock him out from buying them. If you have a solid military and tech lead, you can stop others from winning by force. I got...

I don't think broke is the right way to say it. It would be like me complaining that things start acting funny when I overload a tiny map with 20 civs. It's a silly complaint.

In the last game that I played (on Immortal), I was getting about 75 gpt from Tithe at the end. It was my main source of gold in a start that was gold poor, and it let me use some extra trade routes as food or production. Hard to believe you when you say it's a waste. I built the Hagia...

If you've been keeping up with MadDjinn, then you're aware that he's conquered an enormous empire. Sure, Venice isn't settling cities, but he's still got an enormous empire under his control with a huge population, showing some strategies to balance happiness.

Yeah, you lost me.

I'm not sure that the effort of slotting artists is really that burdensome- we're talking about 6 specialists for the three guilds, spread out however you like, and I think it's usually in your interest to work them, to make more culture, or to use writers and artists golden ages or faster...

I've always thought Germany's UA was uninteresting. Off the top of my head, here are some plain, and probably OP, suggestions. Let's call the UA 'German Ingenuity: -Build workshops, windmills, and factories in half the time. Specialists produce +1 hammers. -Free Great Engineer upon being...