Recent content by Averylongname

http://www.civfanatics.com/civ5/difficulties the only bonus that AI gets at prince is unit cost at 85%, which does help but not a lot. Salt certainly helps, and Inca has a hill bias, which gives them hammers. Or maybe your terrain is very lack of hammer, making you very slow. If you can...

1. To learn, I think it's better to use CIV that don't have a strong UU, so you won't rely on a particular unit too much and learn how to war then you can switch to other civ later easily. My suggestion would be some generic op civs like Babylon so you can ignore science a little and still get...

I had a game immortal, Swedish. I had Alabama and BrandenburgGate and of course barracks, armory and military academy. I tech for rifles and pile up like 10 to 12 Swedish UB riflemen, and I can have them start with medic 2 or cover 2 together with march. Then I quickly tech for plastic, upgrade...

there's no way he can reinforce that city. Don't annex it, just raze and resettle, courthouse maintenance is not cheap. Plus, you can settle a better location. BTW how could you lose this settlement spot? He's 20 tiles away and it's just outside your cap!

I'm not 100% sure but I think you don't get the GP right after you finish research theology. Ethiopia can compete, monument UB give 2 faith and 2 culture. Since monument doesn't require pottery you can build it earlier than Mayan pyramid and on top of that you still have your normal shrine...

Main CIV: random The reason is every time I have something in mind that I want to do I ended up not able to. For example, I pick Brazil I'm gonna play a huge cultural game yay wood camps everywhere. And the game will be like sorry, you are Shaka's only neighbor you gonna build army all game...

Apart from the UA, which everyone have mentioned. I found the caroleans really fun. Build up like 10 caroleans, then upgrade them all to infantry once I hit plastic. Since this is perfectly in the optimal science tech path, I can get very ahead in tech, the AIs are probably still using rifle or...

Japan is not good against impi because steel is too late of a tech, you have to go very away from the optimal tech path to get it and there's no way you are getting it earlier than him getting civil service. Apart from science civ and out tech him, I have two words for you: Great wall and of...

I usually play on immortal quick small pangea, sometimes deity standard size and time. I just don't pile up gold. I don't work gold tile early, just food and hammer and I love buying tiles, I want to work the best tile possible, so almost every gold I have early goes to buying tiles. therefore...

Sorry for my bad English in advance. In general, the best way to rush is with chariot (if you don't have horse, use compo). usually 4 to 6 chariots should be enough, depends on the city placement, city strength, number of units, etc. Why chariot? Chariot is almost as strong as compo, chariot...

since you are already on immortal, I think you understand that population equals science, so grow your cities as much as you can. The wonders that you mentioned are possible to get in immortal. Petra makes sure you reality beeline the tech and nobody took desert folklore and you'll have a good...

I play on immortal mostly, but I've tried deity a few times just to see if I can win on deity. Turns out I've won twice and lost much more than twice. I'm sure I'm not a deity player, I consider those 2 games as luck. In those 2 games that I won, I never have any war at all and I won with the...

India obviously. After 6 pops you are having more happiness and grow insanely tall. And although you mentioned it, Aztec is extremely well in growing tall, as the floating garden is +15% in total food. I had a recent game as Aztec (immortal quick speed) which I got Temple of Artemis and all my...

Usually before I go for any wonder, I make sure I have a settler first to claim land and define my border. Especially when the ai is too close, then in the worst case scenario I'll have at least 2 cities to build military and take their cities as my 3rd and 4th cities if they really leave me no...

Jungle start means your starting location is full of jungle tiles, which takes forever to improve making your start very slow. Turn off starting bias and play as brazil is a good choice, I think brazil is the best civ for cultural victory by far. France is another civ that is good for cultural...