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Science victories seem to take longer than culture, so be prepared to play defensively to hold back the AI from a culture victory while you research and build your spaceship. You should probably get your campuses up as soon as possible and make sure you are earning great scientist points...

I've had good cultural victories with France, Poland and Sweden as well as Brazil. I always prioritize getting a religion when going for cultural victory. I usually play tall, with 4 cities throughout most of the game sometimes adding a few more toward the end to act as trade hubs and/or to...

Most annoying to have show up at your capitol on turn 5: Zulu and Assyria. More of a threat in the long run: Rome, Greece, Iroquois, Shoshone, sometimes Morocco. Seldom a problem: Babylon (should be fantastic but never is), Brazil (but Pedro's a nice guy), Venice. Also, Harald...

Map: Continents or small continents Size: Standard Speed: Standard AI Civs: Random (standard number) City States: Standard number Me: Working my way through all the leaders Difficulty: Emperor

"Beady Night" by Bincent BanGogh...

If you are playing an economic strategy, a location like that can be very good, at least in mid-game or later, assuming you need the luxury and it is a good location for trade ships reaching new territory. Since building anything there will take a long time, you want to settle it when you can...

If it shows as a "lake" (and the are sometimes more than 1 hex) then you can't use them for cargo ships. If, however, it shows as coastal waters (as most large inland lakes do) you can use them for cargo ships. And in fact these type of cargo routes are excellent early in the game as they are...

I've only played one full game with the patch and ended up with a diplomatic victory. It didn't seem significantly harder than before although other aspects of the game did--in particular, the AI tech speed. I had hoped for a space victory but took diplomatic victory (it is usually my back-up...

As others have noted, it is very situational, but here are some generic guidelines for a standard/continents game on the king/emperor level, playing tall with a civ that isn't overly war-oriented. Scout (first thing to build) and warrior look for second-city site, then third city-site, and see...

UA-Poland UB-Mayan Pyramid or Ethiopian Stele UU-Shoshone Pathfinder or English Longbowman

Agreed that Poland (or maybe Shoshone) would be good civs to start with. Both are powerful and versatile. And yes, because science is critical, working quickly toward education is a good idea. Or at least to where you can build the National College. I often neglect the bottom half of the...

So far, I like the new patch. Here is what I've seen so far (and some of this may just be random: (1) More wars, and earlier, particularly where borders are close; (2) AI is much more creative with trade deals; (3) Japan may have been buffed enough so that it no longer is always last in score...

I've been using the beta patch today--started up 3 different civs on emperor to see how the changes worked. I didn't notice any great increase in difficulty--at least playing up to medieval era. Possibly a bit more early war--at least, early wars in 2 out of the 3, but it is too soon to tell...

I think you could keep this playing style with a few minor modifications, if you are on the chieftan level. First, in advanced settings, go with "abundant resources" so you will have an easier time getting luxuries for happiness. Also, if you really only want 1 AI opponent, then add more...

How about 2 spaces west of 1? Hill on river, copper and cotton, lots of food (flood plains, oasis and 2 cows) plus plenty of production for when you fight Berlin.

Also, you don't need the other civs to be "friendly" to win diplomatic victory. Neutral is fine. You want to have most of the city-states as your allies, and you want to have enough gold to occasionally buy votes from the other civs in the world congress. But unless you have liberated their...

I just did an emperor game with an isolated start as Napoleon. (I did at least have 1 city state on my island though.) Happiness was a problem until I got caravels and was able to start trading luxuries. Gold also was a problem--I had to work pretty much every gold-producing tile on the...

(1) When you want to march your army through their lands; (2) when you are going for a cultural victory (it increases the tourism rate).

Moriarte has some really good ones but doesn't always explain what he's doing. Marbozir is good about talking about what he's doing, and also he really is good with knowing where to look for information in the menus (something that can be pretty damn confusing even for someone who has been...

I'd say 3 to the west of where your settler is (NW of the tile you suggested). Then buy 2 tiles to grab that elephant before Ethiopia gets it. Yeah, Ethiopia might be a bit annoyed but they will get over it. Meanwhile you have 3 luxes (2 unique) and a sweet location to run your first cargo...