Happiness Achievement

I'm going for the Happiness Achievement (100 happiness).

Any suggestions on which civ, victory condition and social policies to choose?

I suggest a venice game. Tradition go hard on diplomacy. Perhaps a huge map for added CS. You really won't need many happiness policies. It just piles on with that civ.

For a normal size map, especially if you cut city states ratio down to 1:1, then I'd suggest playing one of the civs with happiness bonuses.

The biggest one of these is Indonesia on Tiny Islands map (4 cities, every city on its own land mass.)
Tradition, at least one religious follower belief with happiness, Top right of Exploration (happiness from naval buildings) as filler, Massive trades of luxury for a luxury.
If you've gone specialist driven, you might be able to get it quicker with Freedom (level 2 tenet with happiness from specialists), otherwise its Order.

If you want to put that happiness to work (as opposed to only having it for the achievement and Golden Ages), then you can also dip into Aesthetics for a policy that gives you culture from happiness.

Think I got that with simple autocracy + commerce 4-5 city combo .. Don't even have to play Egypt/Persia/Celts for it ..

I did the Gotm Occ France challenge and did it two times. Its quite easy w. Freedom and 16x CS allies.

India. Come on.

just keep your number of cities down and build lots of happiness builds and get happiness policies. it shouldnt be hard unless you're playing on diety.

This one poped up without me even knowing about it first time I played as Alexander. Just ally does CS.

Ok Thanks Guys!

So to summarize, build no more than 5 cities
Go Full Tradition
Go Full Patronage
Dip into Aesthetics for the happiness to culture policy
Dip into commerce for the increased happiness per luxury bonus
Adopt Freedom
Ally as many Citystates as possible

Carl5872 said:

Ok Thanks Guys!

So to summarize, build no more than 5 cities
Go Full Tradition
Go Full Patronage
Dip into Aesthetics for the happiness to culture policy
Dip into commerce for the increased happiness per luxury bonus
Adopt Freedom
Ally as many Citystates as possible

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Dip into Exploration for happiness from sea buildings (if most of your cities are coastal)