Grifftavian
Emperor
No, mainly because I didn't know you could do that. Still learning how to use different strategies for Civ V....
For this game, please let us know whether you used the sell your cities strategy, or not?
Wound up with a Diplomatic Victory because it was taking too long to get all the culture points I needed. I never considered saving up the social policies either, just took them when the became available. Completed Honor (which helped with conquering the Western continent) and Patronage (with help with all the City State alliances) and had most of Piety (4 of 6 IIRC) when I won the UN Vote. Lots of Puppet States and City State allies were the keys to my Victory.
Spoiler :
Settled in place. Second city to the West for the Horses. Ramesses built his second city just to the north of Paris, near where I was planning to build a third city, so I took it and his Capitol, making them both Puppets. Next I took out the Songhai, since they were pretty close to Egypt and I had the troops ready to go. Three more Puppets. After that, Capetown and Almaty both wanted the other eliminated, so I took out Almaty and annexed it, since I didn't have a coastal city yet. DOWed on Iroquois and captured one of his three cities, and he offered his other city and all his gold and resources for peace, so I accepted, then took out his Capitol after the Peace Treaty expired. Three more Puppets. With the neighbors conquered, I made allies of most of the City States on the Western Continent.
I sailed a Scout over to the eastern continent to look around. Stayed on pretty good terms with Japan, completed two Research agreements with them, and had a third in the works when I won. Siam was down to just their Capitol city when I met them. Japan eventually took them out.
I had some small footholds on the eastern side. Captured a City State on the northern end of the coast at the request of one of the other eastern city states (forgot their names, another Puppet and Ally). Then captured the Chinese city of Xian on the southern end of the coast right after Japan had captured the Chinese Capitol.
I sailed a Scout over to the eastern continent to look around. Stayed on pretty good terms with Japan, completed two Research agreements with them, and had a third in the works when I won. Siam was down to just their Capitol city when I met them. Japan eventually took them out.
I had some small footholds on the eastern side. Captured a City State on the northern end of the coast at the request of one of the other eastern city states (forgot their names, another Puppet and Ally). Then captured the Chinese city of Xian on the southern end of the coast right after Japan had captured the Chinese Capitol.
Won the UN Leader with 11 votes (10 required) thanks to all my City State allies. Maybe could have won a Diplomatic Victory earlier if I had bee-lined for Globalization, instead of just researching whatever the Advisers recommended. And possibly could have won earlier by pursuing a military victory of some sort.
Thanks for the enjoyable game. IMO, the Training Series games are a good way to learn how to play Civ V.