Myth and Legend
Prince
- Joined
- Jan 16, 2014
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So after reading Civ Fanatics and a few restarts I can honestly say I owe my two Deity victories to you guys. I started playing Deity from day 1, and only through reading here did I manage to win my games.
I restarted a great many games I could have won probably, but I wanted to experiment with startup to get the hang of early game. My first victory was a Cultural one as Poland. Poland is OP for sure. At end game i had maxed Traditon, Aesthetics, Exploration, Freedom and had started gonig for Patronage because I had nothing else to do. I could have won much sooner but I wanted to fill Broadway in with GMs instead of popping them to take down the biggest cultural civ earlier.
Second victory was a space launch with Catherine. Very standard 4 city tall game but Moscow started tucked in a crescent of mountains, next to a river with 3 gems and marble (on grassland). I wanted to rush nukes but they ended up just basically scaring Wu Zetian from declaring and I launched without a single DoW on me.
I'll try to win an England Archipelago (low sea level ) domination game now. Then probably go for a Pangea Mongols game.
Here are some of the things I've found about Civ 5 Deity:
1. Not all games are winnable
2. Tradition is OP
3. Religion is not worth it on Standard size unless you get lucky or are a faith civ
4. Pre ideology wars generally slow you down and are too terrain dependant, barring some exceptional early war civs and a specific map setup
5. A lot depends on which civs end up as your neighbors
I restarted a great many games I could have won probably, but I wanted to experiment with startup to get the hang of early game. My first victory was a Cultural one as Poland. Poland is OP for sure. At end game i had maxed Traditon, Aesthetics, Exploration, Freedom and had started gonig for Patronage because I had nothing else to do. I could have won much sooner but I wanted to fill Broadway in with GMs instead of popping them to take down the biggest cultural civ earlier.
Second victory was a space launch with Catherine. Very standard 4 city tall game but Moscow started tucked in a crescent of mountains, next to a river with 3 gems and marble (on grassland). I wanted to rush nukes but they ended up just basically scaring Wu Zetian from declaring and I launched without a single DoW on me.
I'll try to win an England Archipelago (low sea level ) domination game now. Then probably go for a Pangea Mongols game.
Here are some of the things I've found about Civ 5 Deity:
1. Not all games are winnable
2. Tradition is OP
3. Religion is not worth it on Standard size unless you get lucky or are a faith civ
4. Pre ideology wars generally slow you down and are too terrain dependant, barring some exceptional early war civs and a specific map setup
5. A lot depends on which civs end up as your neighbors
) are winnable. 
