Good deity map for Immortal players who want to move up

[Anne Crunk]

Let's play this deity game I generated an hour ago, shall we? I don't want to spoil too much, but I think this is an easy entry game for Deity newbies (like myself, this is my first serious attempt at beating Deity). It's not mindlessly easy, though.

This is our leader (I randomed him! I swear!):



Yeah, that makes beating barbs slightly easy. His UB is also great. I don't feel like industrious is that good for deity games, you probably just don't have time to build world wonders. Good for national wonders, though.


Difficulty and options:



No tribal villages and no random events are standard as far as I've seen on this board. I hope you won't mind disabled vassals, vassalages just turn the game into a giant cluster.


This is our starting spot:

Spoiler :

I guess I'd move 1NE in this spot in order to obtain the juicy irrigated rice. 1N doesn't look that good, there might be ressources in the fog to the east and we'd lose a hill.

 

[Anne Crunk]

640 AD - Won Liberalism race

Spoiler :

I've managed to grab seven cities, one more than I aimed for. I started with settling east in order to block off Charly and took my time with settling the remaining three cities, since we're luckily not in a sandwiched position.

My tech path was pretty conservative: Agriculture, Mining, Pottery, Bronze Working, Writing, Animal Husbandry, Fishing, Aesthetics, Literature, Music, beeline Liberalism.

Not needing to research Archery and being able to skip Animal Husbandry until I was done with Writing was a huge advantage. The AI's techspeed is absolutely brutal on Deity, if I hadn't researched the cultural techs I'd be playing catch-up with crutches.

Getting Charly to like me was very easy. He was the only bhuddist, so I converted in order to keep him some company. I converted back to Judaism after the coast was clear.


I have no idea what I'm going to do next, though. I guess I should prepare for an attack against Charly, but I'm not sure what techs I need to research first. I could either go straight for Steel or I could pick up Democracy. Hm..