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This is a deity domination list, I'll rank civs and give you my opinions about them. I'm only talking about domination and I'm only playing on deity so this works for every difficulties.
It's very important that you understand this, I rank civ for the help they give to win a domination victory, you can win domination with all of them with just standard units, since science doesn't make you win domination but promotion does. I agree you can sit on science, wait bombers or nukes and do it. However your game will take forever and at this point it's better and quicker to just go to space. We love life on earth as long as we are the master of it.
I'll link videos of my channel to back up my ideas, I'll quickly start by just posting this two videos guide (which explain more in details what I said above and bellow)
I rank civs in order, I'll say the huns is the best, then Mongolia, then Arabia, then the Zulu etc... I played almost all the civilizations of the game and won all of them with domination. I made a lot of LP to show how to play some of them, I also played with liberty, honor and piety (opening and focusing only on it, I won domination with full piety then patronage then ideology) I also used commerce, the three ideologies. I tried everything, I also play on epic and standard. Won deity before industrial era, renaissance, modern etc...
God Tier: The Huns - Mongolia - Arabia
What do I call a god tier? It is basically, three civs that use Mounted Archer Unit. They are game breaking for domination and they win the game quicker than any other civ. You can win deity at turn 100 with the Huns, 200 with Arabia and Mongolia. It's fairly easy to actually archive it, this is all the reasons why they are the best for domination.
Top Tier: The Zulu - Sweden - Denmark - Inca - Poland - Persia - China - England
As I said before, promotions mean everything, so the Zulu are first of the TOP tier, you'll grab quickly promotion, the unique unit is really good and scale well. Why do I rank Sweden over China and England? As I said promotion mean everything, if you go straight for domination you'll start wars with archer, this means, you'll have +1 range and logistic with your crossbowman already, so you don't need longbowman or chu ko nu (This one has less combat strengh than a regulare crossbowman so it's not great...)
Sweden can spam generals from wars, steal great prophet and then gift them to CS, getting CS alliance for FREE, which means, happiness, culture and a lot of good things without spending money. You'll have a full game without worrying about happiness or CS blocking the way and you can grab militaristic CS easily (Hi keshiks), they also have a rifleman start with march, how funny is that? CS with the end of patronage can gift khan, and let's just say a CS give you janissary... Janissary upgraded into Karolean with a khan is INSANE.
Denmark has a very good early melee units, almost as fast as a mounted one and lead to trebuchet (siege units are the best for wining the game quickly if use properly) Denmark also have something really AMAZING ! This make you win wars from sea really easily. Not just sea, you can attack from cost, from lake, it's really great and useful! A good player will always find one moment to use it to flip the game.
The Incas, money is great, hills are awful for world domination but the Incas don't give a damn and that's why they are there, no hills can stop them and it's a good reason to place them here! Plus you don't pay maintenance for building road on hills.. You often have workers to bait the enemy, sometimes they don't do anything so you can build roads everywhere on the map to move your units and siege easily (Hills)
Poland is broken, you can go honor and liberty at the same time! Spam cities and get some early wars is insane, the unique unit they have is INSANE aswell, maybe the best unit of the game after the mounted archers (keshiks, camel etc..) because it's fast, it pushes enemies where you want if you play them well.
Persia, golden age, a good early unit that can win you the game (early wars means everything for domination) longer golden age! Money we love it! Happiness from bank we love it! +1 Movement point for all units? So my catapult can move, set to fire, and shoot? It's great! Persia is an insane civ for domination.
China has a good general spam and more combat bonus from it, this is why I love it, you can also spam more Chu ko nu to speed your world domination.
England has a good fregate, but fregate are already game breaking, it's insane I agree that's why it's in the top.
Good tier : Aztec - Greece - The Ottoman - America -Assyria - Korea - Germany - Japan - Siam - Songhai - Russia - Rome - Celtic - Shoshone - France - Carthage - Iroquois
Standard tier : Babylone - Maya - Brasil - Portugal - Ethiopian - Dutch - Egypt -India - Morocco - Polynesia - Venise -
Standard Tier are civs that aren't useful for domination, science and culture are ok, but you don't need to be ahead to win domination, I won plenty wars against AI two era above me because they were swarm by advanced units (Promoted) you can win domination on deity with them, all of them, but they don't really give anything you need to complete it.
Luck based civs : Spain - Austria - Byzantium - Indonesia
Those civs are great and can become insane if you're lucky! Natural wonders, CS placement and units inside or religion. They are top tier in my opinion but they can be just good tier if you don't get anything special.
One more thing! If you like it, agree or not, debate or not, talk about about the standard tier and good one or make more lists (Units tier list)
It's very important that you understand this, I rank civ for the help they give to win a domination victory, you can win domination with all of them with just standard units, since science doesn't make you win domination but promotion does. I agree you can sit on science, wait bombers or nukes and do it. However your game will take forever and at this point it's better and quicker to just go to space. We love life on earth as long as we are the master of it.
I'll link videos of my channel to back up my ideas, I'll quickly start by just posting this two videos guide (which explain more in details what I said above and bellow)
I rank civs in order, I'll say the huns is the best, then Mongolia, then Arabia, then the Zulu etc... I played almost all the civilizations of the game and won all of them with domination. I made a lot of LP to show how to play some of them, I also played with liberty, honor and piety (opening and focusing only on it, I won domination with full piety then patronage then ideology) I also used commerce, the three ideologies. I tried everything, I also play on epic and standard. Won deity before industrial era, renaissance, modern etc...
God Tier: The Huns - Mongolia - Arabia
What do I call a god tier? It is basically, three civs that use Mounted Archer Unit. They are game breaking for domination and they win the game quicker than any other civ. You can win deity at turn 100 with the Huns, 200 with Arabia and Mongolia. It's fairly easy to actually archive it, this is all the reasons why they are the best for domination.
Top Tier: The Zulu - Sweden - Denmark - Inca - Poland - Persia - China - England
As I said before, promotions mean everything, so the Zulu are first of the TOP tier, you'll grab quickly promotion, the unique unit is really good and scale well. Why do I rank Sweden over China and England? As I said promotion mean everything, if you go straight for domination you'll start wars with archer, this means, you'll have +1 range and logistic with your crossbowman already, so you don't need longbowman or chu ko nu (This one has less combat strengh than a regulare crossbowman so it's not great...)
Sweden can spam generals from wars, steal great prophet and then gift them to CS, getting CS alliance for FREE, which means, happiness, culture and a lot of good things without spending money. You'll have a full game without worrying about happiness or CS blocking the way and you can grab militaristic CS easily (Hi keshiks), they also have a rifleman start with march, how funny is that? CS with the end of patronage can gift khan, and let's just say a CS give you janissary... Janissary upgraded into Karolean with a khan is INSANE.
Denmark has a very good early melee units, almost as fast as a mounted one and lead to trebuchet (siege units are the best for wining the game quickly if use properly) Denmark also have something really AMAZING ! This make you win wars from sea really easily. Not just sea, you can attack from cost, from lake, it's really great and useful! A good player will always find one moment to use it to flip the game.
The Incas, money is great, hills are awful for world domination but the Incas don't give a damn and that's why they are there, no hills can stop them and it's a good reason to place them here! Plus you don't pay maintenance for building road on hills.. You often have workers to bait the enemy, sometimes they don't do anything so you can build roads everywhere on the map to move your units and siege easily (Hills)
Poland is broken, you can go honor and liberty at the same time! Spam cities and get some early wars is insane, the unique unit they have is INSANE aswell, maybe the best unit of the game after the mounted archers (keshiks, camel etc..) because it's fast, it pushes enemies where you want if you play them well.
Persia, golden age, a good early unit that can win you the game (early wars means everything for domination) longer golden age! Money we love it! Happiness from bank we love it! +1 Movement point for all units? So my catapult can move, set to fire, and shoot? It's great! Persia is an insane civ for domination.
China has a good general spam and more combat bonus from it, this is why I love it, you can also spam more Chu ko nu to speed your world domination.
England has a good fregate, but fregate are already game breaking, it's insane I agree that's why it's in the top.
Good tier : Aztec - Greece - The Ottoman - America -Assyria - Korea - Germany - Japan - Siam - Songhai - Russia - Rome - Celtic - Shoshone - France - Carthage - Iroquois
Standard tier : Babylone - Maya - Brasil - Portugal - Ethiopian - Dutch - Egypt -India - Morocco - Polynesia - Venise -
Standard Tier are civs that aren't useful for domination, science and culture are ok, but you don't need to be ahead to win domination, I won plenty wars against AI two era above me because they were swarm by advanced units (Promoted) you can win domination on deity with them, all of them, but they don't really give anything you need to complete it.
Luck based civs : Spain - Austria - Byzantium - Indonesia
Those civs are great and can become insane if you're lucky! Natural wonders, CS placement and units inside or religion. They are top tier in my opinion but they can be just good tier if you don't get anything special.
One more thing! If you like it, agree or not, debate or not, talk about about the standard tier and good one or make more lists (Units tier list)
