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I would think Mississippians could work with the Ashoka settlement spam as well. Their nerf to shell-tempered pottery is minor if you're mostly building warehouses. Aksum's buff also seems minor. Egypt on the other hand... @Bleidraner Here's a quick guide to mine the narrative events data...

All the aspects of diplomacy (war plotting, tech trading, etc., see this thread: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/civ-illustrated-1-know-your-enemy.478563/) are much more important. On immortal for a lot of starts a good player can outpace the AI in land, tech, etc., but on deity that's...

Here's what I did for the opening up to ~turn 60.

It's a very awkward start. After seeing the warrior movement result, I think I would have settled north on the forest to be able to work both floodplains and the cow, and just start with Animal Husbandry. The ideal case for early bronze working is a lot of food and not much production outside...

Here's the math on Oxford rolls (using science costs from deity / normal speed). The annoying thing is that the 2nd "roll" takes into account which tech was discovered in the 1st roll, so you could get both an irrelevant tech and its own mastery. Finish it for 2 tries at getting Mass Production...

You should check the Game of the Month 10 threads in that forum for an example of a fast Economic victory challenge on immortal with Catherine leading Greece->Norman->Russia. I think a fast economic victory plays mostly like a fast science victory for Antiquity and Exploration, with some small...

If possible, you can also work a hammer-heavy tile to produce a quick warrior while your worker is improving the first food resource.

I settled in place but got to bronze working and animal husbandry before fishing. I settled cities 2-4 around the capital to share tiles due to lack of initial happiness: east for wheat/pigs, north for sheep and river, south sharing clams. Got Oracle for Monarchy in 1040BC, then Alpha and...

It's good that they did away with the overpowered stacking % bonuses, but it looks like it pushed the meta further towards a certain kind of "wide" that involves having a lot of cheap buildings, mostly warehouses, to maximize the fixed per building / district / quarter bonuses.

Total: 191 Modern: 37 Exploration: 48 Antiquity: 106 I took Lotus Blossom and another scientific point for mementos. Legacies were lyceums + 15% science / -10% culture + 1pt. science, 2 pts. culture + 1 pt. diplo, 1 pt. economic, 1 pt. expansionist + land of opportunity. I did the gambling on...

The main advantage of NE over SW is the possibility of an island city SW, plus more chops, if you want to build the Great Lighthouse. And a hilly coastal capital with gold makes it very feasible to get GLH, even on deity. I would probably choose that over a stronger Bureau capital from coast tiles.

Turn 48 exploration (106 + 48 = 154 total) Finished 3 paths plus the first milestone of treasure fleets, one civ elimination. I picked the expansionist and economic mementos to get to tier 3 in both trees with the legacy points, then picked fealty and 2 points each of expansionist, economic...

1000 AD update

What I did so far (played to 400 AD)