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I usually don't build them for fish, but you'll have to make time for luxuries. Later I start buying work boats regularly. They don't just provide more food, but also more gold on the fish tile.

No love for Polynesia? You can stack culture yield with moai to +5 per tile I think. This is later converted to tourism with hotels and airports. It's significant. Seeing as you are probably coastal you won't have too much trouble from lack of food on those tiles. Sending cargo ships back...

IMO the best way is to skip calendar and philosophy. But an immediate caravan for + bpt and a library are priority over beeline to currency. If you go to Philosophy first and actually build the NC, you're too late for Petra. They fall within the same timeline. If you build Petra first, and...

I agree. Piety just isn't worth it. And that's a shame really, because getting a good religion is hard enough as it is. Theocracy sounds appealing but it gave me a lousy +10 gpt at turn 160. As it stands, faith is just currency for buying great people and you should leave it at that...

However, in this case, it definately looks like archipelago. :) I'll play this for sure.

The synergy between religion and culture is really interesting. But how about Piety? Can a cultural victory be done with only Piety and Rationalism (until +2 per specialist) skipping Aesthetics completely? You get similar modifiers to tourism, assuming you're able to spread your religion far...

Besides, both scenario's involved a crowded neighborhood with some bad guys. Keeping the peace is possible, but it would - at least for me - require quite a bit of reloading.

It means that this is the civ to bribe for war.

Jungle in moderation is excellent. The +1 :c5culture: pantheon is very good for the early game. Finishing Tradition on turn 80 is awesome. Besides you've got caravans to grow your cap if you're worried about the 2 instead of 3 /4 food from a farm. It's the dense jungle that is a problem...

@Nigel

That would be a trippy civ I (almost can't) imagine. :D Here's a nice guide that aims at getting CB's at turn 55. XB's around turn 100. http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=503931

Diplomacy is an option. But why not adapt to the situation and be aggressive yourself. Genghis is an early threat and Alexander is one of the most annoying leaders to play against anyway. Take a look at a domination guide, to get an idea of how to ramp up your military fast for turn 50 or so CB...

Rome is an interesting civ for domination, I hope it comes up in a Deity challenge.

It's nice to get Brandenburg Gate in the city of your preference. Getting production and infrastructure up in a conquered city can take a while and youre not producing units then. But I can't say I even built it in Immortal or Deity games. The location of other wonders like Pyramids doesn't...

The $ 300 / 400 should cover everything including monitor?

Good points. I'm by no means an efficient Deity player (I usually get by with >300 turn wins) so pointing out how and where my strategy sucks, helps. Here are my thoughts:

Played until turn 92.

Nice Olodune, could you explain your science strategy some more? You have good science for a domination game with pretty late conquest (meaning you have territory in resistance and without much development). Do you puppet and tradepost the conquered area's?

@Thomazo, that is... awesome!