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Full patronage is really good as peaceful Sweden, basically every city-state alliance has a chance of gifting you another free alliance. Early shrine or two is always good, with low faith gain and/or unsuitable neighbors you can always opt to skip the religion and get a city-state ally instead...

What about the original ICS civ mayans? Might not build as many cities now but the pyramid is still excellent for keeping up in science early game.

Tundra starts have usually the worst tiles, but I find them much easier to play out than jungle starts. Needing bronze working to do anything and a lack of production really hurts. Also the fact that jungles spawn near the equator which results in you being often surrounded on all fronts...

I'm interested in the AI reasoning too, I've had plenty of cultural games where I'm just waiting for my opponents to revolt but they never do despite constant city-flipping and unhappiness in the 20s. Then one game I've had Bismarck conquer Egypt in the industrial era and the unhappiness from...

I find Attila can quite easily wipe out a neighbor early on, however he seems to lose steam before industrial era and never seem to excel at anything even with 2 capitals. Shaka is quite similar, a terror to his neighbors early on but a loser in the lategame.

You had me checking through every civ until I realized you had Poland and Morocco both as 35. :lol:

Going through them all feels like an impossible task, so I'm just gonna do my top 5 in no particular order... Rome, Greece, England, China, Mongolia.

From my experience they pick freedom if they only have 3 cities, autocracy if they are the one everyone hates and order otherwise. Which results in order civs always outnumbering the rest in my experience.

I don't actually mind that one since its easy to ignore but there's a certain violin piece that seems to last forever and is just annoying as all hell. Found it, it's called Les Adieux! ARGH!

Not really, Stockholm is called Tukholma, but other than that no major Swedish cities have a Finnish name as far as I know. Finland does have a pretty big swedish-speaking minority and its compulsory to learn at high school level, but most of us are still really bad at it. Förlåt, min...

As a Finn I'm quite pleased with it, makes sense that we are part of the Swedish empire and we still get an unique unit for it in the hakkapeliitta. Yeah they kinda suck but at least they exist. My bigger complaint is with city names, I wish they had used the Swedish city names instead for...

Arabia- 23 Assyria- 16 Austria-11 Aztec- 20 Brazil- 21 Byzantium- 10 Carthage- 22 Celts- 21 China- 21 Dutch- 21 Egypt- 14 England-23 Ethiopia- 22 France- 11 Germany-11 Greece- 21 Huns- 17 Inca- 23 India- 21 Indonesia- 23 Iroquois- 18 Japan- 22 Korea- 17 Maya- 21 Mongolia- 24 Morocco- 14...

Harun al-Rashid - 22 Ashurbanipal - 28 Maria Theresa - 12 Montezuma - 31 Theodora - 23 Dido - 16 Boudicca - 21 Harald Bluetooth - 19 William - 23 Haile Selassie - 18 Pachacuti - 27 Gajah Mada - 23 Sejong - 11 Pacal - 20 Kamehameha - 8 Maria I - 26 Pocatello - 4 Enrico Dandolo - 26 Shaka -22...

Arabia- 21 Assyria- 17 Austria- 20 Aztec- 20 Babylon- 20 Brazil- 21 Byzantium- 18 Carthage- 20 Celts- 20 China- 20 Denmark- 8 Dutch- 21 Egypt- 20 England- 20 Ethiopia- 21 France- 17 Germany-14 Greece- 20 Huns- 20 Inca- 23 India- 20 Indonesia- 20 Iroquois- 20 Japan- 22 Korea- 20 Maya- 20...

I didn't think it was very significant. You might want to beeline science buildings a bit earlier and build an extra archer or two, but most of the time Emperor is still very comfortable and you can still grab most wonders by simply planning ahead a little bit. Emperor to Immortal is the big...

Arabia - 20 Assyria - 22 Austria - 18 Aztec - 22 Babylon - 4 Brazil - 20 Byzantium - 10 Carthage - 20 Celts - 18 China - 22 Danes - 16 Dutch - 22 Egypt - 16 England - 20 Ethiopia - 20 France - 20 Germany - 22 Greece - 16 Huns - 22 Inca - 22 India - 16 Indonesia - 16...

There's nothing I hate more than being surrounded by potential enemies from all sides, so my favorite places to spawn are Europe, southeast Asia and southern Africa. Dislike the Americas though, even on large maps I often find its just 2 civs there. The middle is so narrow that warmongering is...

Washington- 12 Harun al-Rashid- 21 Ashurbanipal- 23 Maria Theresa- 21 Montezuma- 21 Nebuchadnezzar II- 9 Pedro II- 20 Theodora- 20 Dido- 22 Boudicca- 21 Wu Zetian- 20 Harald Bluetooth- 20 William- 21 Ramesses II- 17 Elizabeth- 17 Haile Selassie- 21 Napoleon- 8 Bismarck- 20 Alexander- 14 Attila-...

The ideal neighbor for me is one that plays tall/peaceful and isn't obnoxious about spreading their religion. Good examples are Brazil and Portugal. I also don't mind a neighbor that declares war as long as they aren't deceptive about it. A good example of this is Sweden, he can make for a good...

I play on emperor/immortal and I usually just take the opener at most, secularism if going freedom. Sometimes ignore it altogether. I'm not a fan of playing every single game the same way just for the sake of having a tech lead by industrial. I can deal being a few techs behind the top AI, if...