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I also find Emperor to be the most enjoyable. It's not too easy and not too tryhard, with frustrating AI advantages. I would prefer higher difficulties only if the AI is better by the way it works, not by a head start.

Does anyone know which speed is the most difficult? The game dynamics are completely changed between quick and marathon, so achieving victory must have different difficulties. Personally, I play on quick because I like to end the game in one sitting, play rather passively and like to try...

Ok, I think I had a few things wrong. Just to clarify: - if you steal a worker and declare peace on the same turn, do you still get the warmonger penalty from other civs? - if you have discovered 1 civ while stealing the worker, does the penalty apply to only that civ or to all the others...

You are right.. I got it 3 turns later. I was misled by the faith difference, not the actual nb of turns. Thanks.

I am playing as Spain, have 171/134 faith at turn 32, no other religions have been founded, yet I cannot found one myself (no possible great prophet). Is this a bug or am I missing something? Thanks for help.

Ok guys, thanks for the feedback. I usually play tall, tradition & 3 or 4 cities. Growing 1 city as much as possible and rushing NC with similar timing as yours does indeed (most of the time) lead to a easier victories (especially science). Agree with the rest, I also tend to do similarly...

Ok, I see. The 2nd settler did you hard-build (in main or expansion) or buy?

Thanks for the feedback. The timings I provided are already converted to standard speed. On Quick, I get the NC at ~50 anyway. The worker stealing is quite tricky.. If you want to steal directly from a CS, you must wait for them to build one and gamble to not discover another civ by that time...

First of all I'm usually playing on emperor, quick speed, large map. I would like to know what are, in your experience/opinion, the optimal timings for expansion? (assume we don't care about barbs and standard speed as a reference). Specifically, I would like to know: - starting build order in...

First of all I'm usually playing on emperor, quick speed, large map. I would like to know what are, in your experience/opinion, the optimal timings for expansion? (assume we don't care about barbs and standard speed as a reference). Specifically, I would like to know: - starting build order in...

I think some people here overestimate the difficulty of Civ and confuse the complexity of a game with its depth. While Civ is indeed very complex (in terms of features, layers, set-up, micro and macro resource management), the optimal strategies are often straightforward and very similar each...

Chichen Itza - 10 Colossus - 21 Eiffel Tower - 34 Leaning Tower of Pisa - 36 Machu Picchu - 20 Neuschwanstein - 23 Notre Dame - 20 Oracle - 23 Petra - 7 Sistine Chapel - 33 Statue of Liberty - 33: significant production boost to all cities allowing your satellites to fully develop with the...

Harald Bluetooth - 7 -3 = 4: Disney character with a removable hat feature doesn't belong with 3 of the most badass leaders Pacal - 5 Askia 14 +1 = 15: Best leaderscreen among the ones left, certainly creates an unique atmosphere of a powerful warmonger Shaka - 4 IMO, necro-ing pacha would...

Ashurbanipal - 11 Harald Bluetooth - 16 - 3 = 13: too cartoony and overhyped for putting on a helmet Pachacuti - 15 Pacal - 15 Askia - 18 Enrico Dandolo- 7 + 1 = 8: nice attention to details; beautiful background Shaka - 11 edit: now taking into account Moraiwe's post

Sorry, but what kind of reasoning is this? ToA extra food is even greater than HG and it does exist in BNW (Wonders of the Ancient World DLC).