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I would put the second city on the eastern flood plain. Farm the flood plain, boat the fish, and turn this into your GP farm. My next city I would put up is at one east of the wine and two south of the fish on the left side. Mine the hills and boat the fish. Turn this into your production...

Cash flow is never a problem with OCC. You have almost no corruption and trade routes and bueracracy should be able to support an army. Found a religion and you are golden.

I have to say Charlemege (sp). Traits are really bad. The improved pikeman sounds cool with its melee bonus, but macemen can wail on them and I usually get them before I research engineering. The buffed up courthouse is the HRE only strength. The 75% reduction in corruption is great, but...

The AI also doesnt take into account city improvements (ever conquered the Dutch? Why would you build a city one tile away from water with them?) Lighthouses, harbors, levees, and custom houses make settling next to the water more valuable than settling one tile away from water.

To fight off an AI assault you need two things, mounted units and seige units with collateral damage promotions. Mounted units have a great special feature that allows them to flank seige units after attacking a SoD. Since mounted units are week to spearmen, pikemen, and riflemen throw a...

Beeline to Bronze Working, grab Hunting (spearmen), and Mystism (momuements) than to Construction. Make your second city a production city and have it build something to pop its borders (if not creative or you do not have stonehenge) and a barracks. Build two or three spearmen (to protect from...

I think it is random. In my experience, its usually the most backwater civilization, but one game recently I remember Judism, Taoism, and Islam all being founded in the same city. When Judism was founded it was my newest city, but by the time Taoism and Islam came around it was my second...

Forget about the city. The Vikings are not going to be able to hold on to it. Its going to flip, if not to you to the Greeks. I would continue to press the Vikings. If you break them you can always sue for your city back. Don't fight a two front war. Even if it is Alexander.

I reload if I lose a wonder by one turn or if I accept someone as a vassal and several civs declare war on me. Other than that, its only when I do something I did not want to do, like use a GE to start a golden age.

Go to war with civs that have techs you want. Beat the crap out of them and before you crush them completely, barter peace for the tech(s) you need. Wait ten turns, finish them off.

There are several unbalanced unrestricted leadership combos. My favorite right now is Darius of the Holy Roman Empire. Money is just never an issue. The HRE unique building reduces your maintaince cost by 75%, plus they are cheap to build with the Org trait (in addition to the 1/2 civics...

Wow. I didn't know Dick Cheney played Civilization. I use artillery or ships to lower a city's defense. When the city's defense is at 0, the next turn I throw all of my artillery at the city and march in with troops.

You need four of each type to start your golden age.

The best new civ is the Dutch!!! Fin is a great trait and the East Indianman is nice, but what puts it over the top is the dike. Seriously the dike gives +1 production in every water square. Its the Moi National Wonder in every one of your cities.