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I once, as Poland, managed to settle my capital next to Mt. Kilamanjaro. I can't remember how close it was, though I can't imagine it having been more than about six tiles away since I crossed a river to get there. (The city site was on a hill, so that was a pretty incredible start - 5 turns to...

Eh... It's coastal, there are several granary resources and has salt, but there isn't all that much else to recommend this start. If you move onto the gold then this is an above-average start I guess, since there are good growth prospects and you can get an observatory, but I wouldn't say this...

Well, let's consider each different victory type separately. DmV: you simply need to avoid taking every capital, or rather, make certain that someone else holds one of the other capitals. SV: constrict any remaining AIs to a single city with limited resources. CV: this is the one which will be...

One idea which would be more historically accurate but probably wouldn't be a good idea for Civ would be for the game to involve numerous empires rising and falling, with the aim not being so much to conquer the entire world or to have the best/most developed empire at the end, so much as to be...

As has been said above, it depends largely upon the level you're playing at, your civ/aim, and your starting location. On Immortal (and I think on Deity too) you can fairly reliably get the Oracle. If you go for it then providing your starting location has reasonable production (ideally, a...

No, I founded my capital on the starting spot. I would almost certainly be better off if I had moved my settler to the spot you indicated, though: I just hate to abandon a coastal start given how powerful sea trade is relative to land trade. I'm tempted to play on in this position just to see...

So I'm in the process of moving from Immortal to Deity. Load up a game as Poland, run into Pocatello around turn three, see a rather nice river+mountain site, another nice site with Uluru and... what's that? A gigantic Shoshone city right in front of my capital? I have no idea how to respond...

Another science boost from freedom is the tenet causing Specialists to consume less food. If you're going science then you'll have 2 science (4 with Korea) from every specialist. This means that you can happily fill in every single specialist slot for the 8 turns before you bulb your Great...

Dissatisfied with my starting location, I went exploring with both warrior and settler hoping to find a better spot for my capital. Turn three, my initial settler was captured by barbarians.

For me it generally depends upon the victory type I'm going for. If I'm going Culture, then I rush for Radio in order to be well placed to grab Broadway and/or the Eiffel Tower. If I'm going science, then I'm less worried about those so I'll tend to get three factories and save my Oxford and GSs...

Only last night I managed Petra in my second city on Immortal. This was playing as the Americans, so no special bonuses, and it was a late-but-not-disgustingly-late Petra - somewhere around turn 80 IIRC. I didn't just get Writing before going to Currency, I also got Mining (chopping forest, plus...

Coming from England, I'm somewhat disappointed by the English civ being almost entirely militarily focused. IIRC it was Napoleon who described England as "a nation of shopkeepers". The British Empire was not built from having better ships than our rivals (although having better ships did perhaps...

I can't reliably beat the computer above Emperor and tend to play on Immortal; this is my first Deity Challenge. I settled on the spot where the warrior starts, and have so far played 90 turns in:

This list ought to contain Ancestor Worship. Ancestor Worship - possibly useful if you're opening with Piety or Liberty. If you're going tall, then there are other pantheons which will tend to give more culture than this. Faith healers - I've never seen the use of this, but other people seem to...

Somewhere there's a map showing where all the wonders are/were IRL. Of course, if you really want historical realism then you need rules for madmen who just want their name to be remembered burning down wonders. Also, are you counting national wonders which refer to a specific institution...

Might I propose a temporary moratorium on this thread until we've had a week or two with the new German UB? It sounds rather powerful:

To be clear on the Celtic/English thing: there are six distinct surviving Celtic cultures: Scottish, Manx (from the Isle of Man), Irish, Welsh, Cornish (from Cornwall, a region in the south-west of England), and Breton (from Brittany, in northern France). The Celtic civ largely focuses upon the...

African Forest Elephant 20 Atlatist 11 B17 21 Ballista 17 Battering Ram 23 Berber Cavalry 20 Berserker 20 Bowmen 15 Camel Archer 24 Carolean 24 Cataphract 22 (+1) A nice strong unit, faster than infantry, and able to fortify and receive defensive bonuses. Chu-Ko-Nu 28 Comanche Rider...

African Forest Elephant 20 Atlatist 11 B17 21 Ballista 20 Battering Ram 22 Berber Cavalry 20 Berserker 20 Bowmen 15 Camel Archer 24 Carolean 24 Cataphract 21 Chu-Ko-Nu 25 Comanche Rider 18 Companion Cavalry 20 Conquistador 20 Great Galleass 20 Dromon 21 Hakkapeliitta 18 Hoplite 18 Horse Archer...

I thought Alex looked better in Civ Rev: Also, can one of the people who voted for Haile Selassie please explain why? I really don't get it.