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    Angkor Wat

    The title says it all, has anyone managed to cinch this wonder on Emperor+ difficulty? I've been really wanting to try and grab it for Russia, and I'm willing to orient my build/civilization around it, but it seems like the ai always grabs it around turn 100, give or take 8ish turns. I've...
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    Playing non-Warmonger

    I know I'm far from the first one to notice that warmonger tends to be muuuch easier, but I am finding myself pretty consistently thwarted when I play Science or Diplo (ironically not so much culture, since you have a strong incentive to buddy up with any runaway enemy civ, which in turn makes...
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    Poland vs Arabia: Runaway Civ

    Good to know. I think in this case I am not a fan of Poland, at least pending a greater sense of understanding of how to play them. A domination civ that needs to wait until renaissance to actually push seems like you are just begging for the game to be effectively over by the time the UU comes...
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    Poland vs Arabia: Runaway Civ

    Am I just doomed in that case? I beelined Chivalry so that I would have *something* that could stand up to them. If I wait for bringing my tech up to full medieval, the gap in our tech will only grow wider. Not to mention that we are so close that he can wantonly steal land from me with great...
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    Poland vs Arabia: Runaway Civ

    I've been getting back into VP. I played a brief game on King with Rome, which was just a completely one sided stomp, then I played a science game with Korea on Emperor. That one was very difficult (especially since I had to restart many times due to either being placed in tundra or right next...
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    Surviving Spain as Portugal (AI aggression question)

    So longer story short I started up Portugal, was building up my city and sending a camel archer to explore (I founded both core cities). Spain attacked the moors and I attacked the moors too in order to get OB and relation. Spain took Cordoba and fairly soon after demanded most of my gold, to...
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    Vassal Questions (Cap, Factors, Civics, Tips)

    Thank you. I did do more testing, and have been pleasantly surprised to learn that if you are on sufficiently friendly terms with a civ when you declare war on them, then sometimes they'll actually ask you to vassalize them after if the war weakened them enough (Poland asked me 3 times when I...
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    Vassal Questions (Cap, Factors, Civics, Tips)

    So I have been playing this mod for quite a while, and I've managed to scrape out UHV's for most of the civs (I really like this mod). Between tributaries and the overall benefit of not capturing cities in other's cores I really like picking up vassals. However, I don't really know much about...
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    Advice for playing a non-warmonger

    Having played a bit more, I still think, at least for my mileage, that there's a balance problem here. Not just warmonger civs, but warmonger civics and strategy are like night and day. I finished a game as Mongolia on the Communitas map on king difficulty, and despite most of the continents...
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    Advice for playing a non-warmonger

    It does kind of sound like peaceful victory conditions are what you do when you either want to handicap yourself, or you're stalemated militarily. As far as I can tell a warmonger has to do less fighting, because they are actually aiming to wipe people out, rather than weaken them so you can...
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    Advice for playing a non-warmonger

    I would appreciate some advice on how you use your Hwachas, they do alright as a sort of super crossbowmen (albeit one that moves very slowly in enemy territory), but I tend to have problems with really leveraging them meaningfully. They do speed up taking out cities, but usually if I'm in a...
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    Advice for playing a non-warmonger

    The bit about units is good to know. I was somewhat worried about both the industrial and financial problems of having a standing army that large, but with the Zulu as they were I should have just eaten the cost. In terms of religions I believe I mostly had my pick of beliefs, so your advice...
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    Advice for playing a non-warmonger

    I have 27 out of a supply cap of 50. I have the goddess of springtime (I started with quite a few plantation resources nearby.), The Apostolic Palace (to both supplement golden ages and boom the population of my capital), creativity (there may have been better one, but I was having a problem of...
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    Advice for playing a non-warmonger

    I did go and check more thoroughly. I had forgotten that the Zulu unique promotions gives ranged resistance, which does at least partially explain why artillery/cities were doing no damage to them (edit: I checked again, and that is wrong. Not sure where I found that information about their...
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    Advice for playing a non-warmonger

    I've been trying to play Korea for a science victory on king. After a few different practice runs (including a continents game where ocean travel heralded every nation-1 declaring war on me, especially those on other continents. I think because I was getting wonders and didn't have a big...
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