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More things to consider: You're diplo relations with AI's is ( I believe ) an average of their relations with you and your vassals. If you have a vassal that they are friendly toward and they are cautious with you then I think it averages to them being pleased with you. On the other hand...

Hi Bibor, I don't tend to check here much these days, you'd have better luck carrying on a conversation on my youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgT_HmP4nlz5wECKOkIlj9Q Anyway, right now I'm working for my brother doing iphone programming. -Cheers.

Well I posted a link to the playlist, so from there you should be able to find all the videos. I don't really want to copy and past all those URL's if I don't have to :crazyeye: *edit* Oh you want me to post the saves too? Yikes. I'll think about it for next time. The only hesitation I have is...

Yeah this one was pretty nerve wracking. @Pangaea & Dubioza - Thanks for the kind words. I actually play pretty slow compared to TMIT, but I guess I've never seen anyone play faster and win on deity civ 4, so maybe I'm playing pretty fast after all. I'm convinced that a good 10-15% of deity...

If you have 3+ AI's to trade with then it shouldn't be a problem, and usually in my games one of them gets to friendly by that time with little to no effort. If you have only 2 AI's then you should cozy up to one of them and get them to friendly. Trade them resources early, even if you have to...

Knights are an important part of a medieval stack, they counter xbows, maces, siege and musketmen. By themselves they just don't cut it, unless you're the byzantines, and even then a pure knight attack is not easy on higher levels.

I'm pretty sure writing is the most crucial tech. Open borders, scientists, +25% research, culture, opens up a bunch of other key techs.

Nukes can be a key strategy to winning some games on deity. Usually it's when you have a couple of runaway AI's with big troop stacks. If they are more advanced ( say to mechanized infantry while you only have tanks ) then you can go for nukes and just level their entire army and come out on...

If you have stone or marble then failgold from wonders is a pretty good way to generate gold. Considering there are only 2 players there should be plenty of time to build each wonder in more then one city.

Going for the late game diplo win by switching to environmentalism ( for the health bonus ) and trying to grow your cities as high as possible is the only reason I can think of to voluntarily use environmentalism.

The idea is to hook up iron and get the rush started, THEN catch up on stuff like AG and AH. Though you should beeline writing and not waste time teching more then one food tech until you can at least secure writing ( writing is key, if you don't get it you could crash your economy with no way...

Why go AG and hunting? All you need is BW -> IW and ( unless you're lucky ) the wheel. That speeds up your attack date by quite a bit. After you get IW and are kicking some ar$e then you should go to writing ( probably by going pottery first ) and get alpha somehow. Once you're to alpha you can...

Deity / normal Played to UN win.

Congrats silverbow :goodjob:

I almost never do the mids->early rep thing. I've seen some people do well with that style, but it's just not my way of playing. Either I cottage to lib or I attack someone. However, one of my favorite ways to play is to get mids with Ramesses, switch to police state and pump out war chariots.