Deity Challenge #35 - Greece, Boreal.

Hard built 2 settlers at pop 6 and bought one when I got 500g.

SP: full tradition + honor opener (opened honor after LE) - pat open. will get consulates and secularism and see what to get next.

SV or DV will be really easy. As Moriarte suggested, I will go for CV for some challenge.

I was kinda bored and waiting for the new challenges to come up and decided to bring this one back from the grave. It seems the people who are going to play this one have played it and it is over. So maybe someone will see my game and decide to give this one a try as well. It is a tough map for me and I decided to make it harder on myself by going Liberty instead of Tradition which is easier for me.

Long story short I basically went with a 4 city Liberty approach. I did open up Honor after I realized it was Raging Barbs lol. I read that at the start but just plain forgot till I seen alot of barbs taking down my Capital. Hey thanks to the OP for this game, I got the achievement of "He threw a car at my head!" I've always wondered if that was a possible one to get. It seems the Barbs would of taken my Capital to end the game but I guess that is not possible so I got the achievement and continue to play!

Full Liberty and use of the GE for the NC at around turn 98. Also I am 3 deep into Honor. I decided that Egypt would be the easiest to take down. That thought changed after it took me almost 100 turns to take Thebes. Im not very good at this game so I was happy that I actually got it and they gave me peace right after. It was alot of work for me chewing through about 20 War Chariots and what not. I think if I wouldn't of messed about with secondary city and just went to the Capital it might of been easier. I planted 3 Citadels during the war and have 1 GG left still.

I have 2 CS's allies and my game is where it is at now at turn 198. Im about 10% behind Korea and I have 3 RAs in the works as Im building the PT. If I get it, it will be very late around turn 220! I wanted to win via Diplo VC since that is Greece's strong suit (IMO), even though the post suggests Dom/Cult but it also says if you like, you may play for the other VC's as well.

I slowed down and tried to tech up. I put two knights with all open borders and scouted out 15 of the 16 CS's. I can't seem to find the last one, maybe it was taken over by the AI. Im 7% behind the leader in tech but it is fairly even since I have some cheaper techs still. I've had some loan gold but even if my gpt was max it would be tough to get all these CS's. Ofcourse using spies to help. I usually don't need to worry about any launch till AI is at least 94%, currently they are at 76%. It is going to be a very tight fit for a DV but I think I still can achieve this. Anyway, fun to try and it is fun to basically do whatever you want and win or come very close to winning even under +600spt.

So I never got to +600spt ... the highest I think I had was +576spt or so. I just think it is funny that you pretty much can do whatever the flip you want on Deity and still win. It wasn't easy I had to get a little crafty but since the AI seems to be unable to tech fast enough in the new BNW you have plenty of time to win. So I beelined Globalization with GS's and RA's and the little science I had. I put my 5 Diplomats into all the Civs I could. I got conned into a war with Siam and I figured it would help keep him busy and he was too far to care about me. I figured he would give me peace down the road. It was tough getting peace since he wanted 3 of my 5 cities. I planned out when to make peace with him but first I sold Thebes to Rome for 3000 gold. I had about 3000 myself and after some loans I had my gold over 8000. I had all the CS's that were on the map except for 2 that Siam had since the war. It seems I could not find the 16th CS and only 13 were still alive out of the 15 I found. So 2 turns before the 2nd WL vote I gave up my 2 cities to Siam for peace and that leaves me with my Cap and Sparta which is more than enough. I used my gold to take over his 2 CS's which cost me 4000 and I had 4000 to spread around before the vote and ofcourse the AI doesn't like to use gold for blocking WL win so I got the DV on turn 323. I also sold most of my science buildings to get some more gold as well. You might think it is a cheesy way to win and thats ok with me. Rome only had 86% tech to my 78% so no worries of a launch. I might of even been able to wait for the 3rd WL vote. Almost all the Civs went Order so I went Order and made Order the World Ideology ofcourse. I did not need Forbidden Palace or World Religion. I would much rather of went Tradition but I wanted to try to Warmonger but my lack of skill and taking 100 turns to get Eqypts Capital foiled any of those plans. Last resort was either Science or Diplo and since it is Greece I opted for Diplo. (5 in a row now with a Deity Record on Civfanatics Site 5-3) Looking forward to the #2 Deity Challenge comming up and thanks again to Moriarte for this odd and difficult map!

Once again to any players that have trouble with Deity... keep trying it really isn't very hard to win on Deity if you do just some things right. If you want to win by the fastest turn time possible you will have to play a more precise game but if you just like to relax and still win you can easily do it!