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251T Cultural win. Utilized Spains UA and settled some natural wonders to churn out high faith. The faith was later used to buy GAs and GMusicians. GE rushed Petra in the desert city. constantly bribed AIs into war, Japan got huge but was helpful in tying up Netherlands and Ottomans. I...

SV turn 252. settled 4 cities including a mountain city to the NE which has 3 unique lux. signed tons of RAs, allied all CS near the end. Social policies went full Trad, open Patronage, 3 Rationalism til +50% RA boost, then 3 more Patronage til +25% science from allied CS, then close out...

A few questions for the pros: 1. Do you generally skip the Great Library and aggressively build settlers instead even on lower difficulties? 2. When you set up 4-5 cities under turn 60, do you steal most of the workers from a single AI or CS? That seems to be the only way. I found that...

Messed up on the SV, NC too late while wonder hording early, so took Diplo vic at turn 243 when I could. Score 1729. finished Traditon, Patronage, Rationalism trees + opened Ana + an Order level 3 tenet completely dominated on all aspects, had 18 CS allies after the 18 CS was located. Need to...

you can abuse the cheap mercenaries with Freedom+Commerce SPs to ally up all the city states. Since the cheap merc never expires, this works really well mid-late game. Someone already mentioned here but here is the link: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=514135

Does not matter what Vic you are going after, imagine you are going for domination/Science/Cultural vics and have 15 CS allies, it simply boosts your power immensely. AIs suck at this and often sits on 30K gold and not even try to buy the CS away from human players which is another loophole...

Hey TMIT! it is nice to meet again on Civ 5 forum :) been a while... I moved on to Civ 5 this year and quite enjoy its depth and all the new features. In the later eras, 250:c5gold: only buys 15 influence. The trick I mentioned works well with just Patronage opener, no need to burn more SP...

Many players probably have used this trick since the new patch came out. I just got an easy diplo win on Deity as Korea. Thought the following combo was quite overpowered in terms of gaining CS allies: 1. Freedom: Arsenal of Democracy: +15% Production towards Military Units. Gain 15 Influence...

update at turn 87, extended my lead more by burning a GW. Took a city from Portugal since it was easy. Started on Hermitage, wont make a big diff at this stage. Got a cannon to Logistics+Range (2 shots and range 4). Several other Cannons hit Logistics. Still, Portugal's soldier score is 3...

Once I got Dowed by England and Germany at the start, I realized I had to build up a potent defensive force. So I dedicated the capital to first max hammer output, and then military. Caravans were used to deliver hammers, GE rushed 2 factories (traded coal with France). Built a couple of Cavs...

I was playing the Boer as well and made it into a challenge in Strategy & Tips forum, did a search and found this thread. Check it out if you want.

I had a lot of fun playing this scenario as Boer. No mountain to block anyone, tough to balance econ, culture while at constant war with several well established European civs. Ability: each farm +1 :c5food: and +1 :c5culture: UU: Weaker rifleman but + 50% defense and +25 HP if it destroys a...

T68 Just trying to contain GK, been pillaging and stealing workers and etc. Liberty 4 cities, will get some horseman to do better pillaging, and then CBs to hopefully take some cities. Or maybe just focus on growing cities a bit (will trade more lux from Maria). Took Gods of hunts (+1 food on...

Yes, start the conquest earlier the better. You can usually play nice in the beginning while building a solid econ infrastructure for the war. But I prefer to prebuild siege for upgrading to Arty. This will allow much earlier conquest. and they are very effective taking out the first couple...

First time playing Shoshone, looking at its ability and ruins setting, it felt like a quick domination. I had no idea the AIs were so weak, planed on finishing the game with Xbow, but it turned out all I needed was CBs+Pathfinders+Horseman. All one needs is 2 groups of city takers comprises of...