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T122 quit. Might give Poland Honor a try, as I love HCA games.

I am playing the Aztec map right now. Quite a fun map!

Do Honor-Commerce! :D It's so much fun.

Thanks for posting. Slowly playing through this now as I find time. Fun map so far.

Yes, you are right that Seoul was not in an amazing location for food, and the expos were pretty bad, too. I fed Seoul with a Cargo Ship and Caravan. I originally intended to settle on the Ivory for gold + Observatory, but seeing that it was only 1 tile from the coast, and not in an amazing food...

I just played this map last night out of curiosity. Zero DoWs, and easy to keep a couple of friends to the end of the game. The map is not horrible - one advantage of Continents maps is that often it cramps the AI from expanding out of control and slows them down, but it does slow you down too...

I think that seems to be exactly what the problem is.

@beetle I think your tech times post-NC are a consequence of your play in the first 100 turns more than whatever you did after NC. You can have T100 NC with a great early game or a terrible early game, and it's not a great benchmark on its own. It sounds like your cities are not big enough...

Playing this one now... T145ish. I get that some CDG games are going to be designated for Diplo, but it is such a hard VC to get motivated for... may switch to late-game Dom to make things more interesting.

NC should be finished well before teching Chivalry. In my rusty early game, I had about T95 NC, T108 Chivalry, and T120 Education. Not great, but comfortably good enough on this OP map.

Camp and Plantation luxuries are mostly pretty bad for food/production, so it makes perfect sense to settle on them for the happiness and gold.

@raider980 At T107ish, Great Wall should not be a problem with Keshiks. Worst case scenario, you can citadel bomb. It's not like GGs are in short supply for the Mongols. Imo, it will only get harder/more annoying if you wait to take him out later.

Do you have to play Korea? Yes, they are God-tier, but I find coastal start bias can be really hit-or-miss, and if you're not even surviving the early game, the science from specialists doesn't mean anything. Arabia might be a good choice with Desert start bias and the Bazaar should keep the AI...

T182 DomV Well, that was a fun game, only my second game of Civ 5 in a year.

Hello all, played the first few of these, and now I'm back. :) Couldn't resist playing this one. Just finished T100.

I think the most interesting feature of BNW is Tourism, so I suggest exploring a culture game. Faith (and religion, to a lesser extent) is an important part of most CV strategies so it'll be a good way to experience that, too. The Maya are extremely strong at this type of game but Ethiopia is...

Before the Renaissance, I think Cultural CS alliances are bad because they make it harder to open Rationalism with your 7th SP. Afterwards, you'll have a culture bottleneck so Cultural CS are very good. If you don't have a faith NW and didn't found a religion, Religious CS are probably the most...

GL is only even remotely a good build if you take Philosophy as your free tech and even then, earlier NC doesn't guarantee faster Education, which is far more important than early NC. Give me ToA over GL any day.

I wouldn't put them in the top tier either, but I think they're pretty close. Basically getting Frigates at Compass is game-breaking on any map with 5+ coastal capitals.

Nobody plays Tiny Islands. According to every poll I've seen, Pangaea/Continents/Fractal are by far the most popular map templates, and I'm certain that their popularity is even higher among regular Deity players. While I don't agree with consentient's tier list entirely, it is a fact that...