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Aside from an AP win, is this map unbeatable?

Hi all! Every once in a while I get a map that, for some reason or another, I like to play over and over again. Here's an Immortal Ramesses II with random events and goody huts disabled. All other settings are default. I like this one because the land seems to give you a lot of different...

Arrrcanelli:

Congrats! Just so you know, settings - including map size and speed - will affect gameplay. So if you post a game, it's useful to make note of the settings if they aren't the default ones (normal map size, normal speed, 7 civs). huge with 16 civs tends to have lots of barbarians and trickier...

Yeah, without a doubt, it's easier said than done. I guess the devil is in the details. How many units to build, how many cottages and where, which cities should build wealth, which techs to go for, whether or not the map can support enough production, etc.. Almost like there's a special...

The main problem is that a courthouse is expensive. 120:hammers: and X number of turns spent building it (plus the maintenance that the city pays during those turns), in order to wind up saving 5:gold:/turn isn't necessarily the best idea if you stack it up against all of the alternatives. So as...

Building wealth is part of the strategy..

...I'm telling!

(Hmmm... would you like it if someone razed one of your cities? Maybe you'd hate them forever...?) Razing cities creates negative diplo points, and it's cumulative for each city. IMO, it's a bad idea to raze too many cities unless you plan on eradicating that leader or permanently crippling...

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1280AD resign

Yeah, the Banana Fields will work. Two food resources plus grasslands is not ideal but it's good enough. Drop the cottages there. Just work both plantations and both mines, and farm everything else. Maybe throw a mill or workshop in there at later on. You don't need to farm every single tile...

1 A.D.

You sir, appear to have an axe to grind. I stated that "Plains farms are almost useless until Biology. Most of the other plains improvements are better." Almost useless. Sure, you can use them to store people until they're whipped, but you're not going to get high yields out of a plains farm...

Plains farms are almost useless until Biology. Most of the other plains improvements are better. Farming grasslands to support plains cottages has a net result of working 2 citizens for 1 cottage, effectively cutting your yield in half. Okay, so you get one hammer. Cottaging the grassland...