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As someone suggested to me recently: -Sent a settler to the artic (or some other useless spot) & build a city. -The worse the spot the better. -Donate that city to the civ you are about to destroy and then take over all of his cities except the one you just donated. -It's highly unlikely that...

Ah yes happiness also matters. Hiawatha denounced me (still no dow) at turn ~500. After I took all other capitals in the world and left some crap cities for those other civs and actually for the first time moved to the top of the score chart (even higher than the runaway civ). I captured half...

No it's domination only. But I got it covered now. - leading in science again - keep your empire happy - got most city states (14 votes for me now w/o hosting) and Hiawatha controls the other 12 votes so we can do whatever we want. - world ideology + embargo's on all enemies - iron curtain...

Crap... There goes plan A :P. Got 3 capitals atm and I did not capture any other city. I'm fighting with battleships and submarines vs caravels and privateers and aircraft carriers (yes it's weird) and I don't even do anything to stall their tech... Even the runaway civ still uses old troops...

Yes I only took his capital but because it's legendary start + domination + right next to my empire I kept his capital (still have it). ~20% is doable and I hope that if he is denounced that it will be even less for those civs. He is a science runaway (I estimate about 0-2 techs ahead of me) +...

What if I take his capital, make peace and get 3 cities through the deal and then donate the captured city back/to another civ. Will this void my warmonger penalty? I started a new game. I built only 4 cities on my own island and I have 4 allied city states. I only took 1 single capital (from...

Lol stolen art. I guess that Germany during WWII would have won then with a cultural victory. So much stolen art. Now I understand. Anyway, the gifting of some useless city is probably a very good idea. Living near a warmonger = trouble but eliminating is too. Next time when my army marches...

I started on an island with Brussels and some warmongering nation. They declared war to me on turn 60 or so and I killed them on turn ~90 (not my fault...). Then I took Brussels as well because it was annoying me sooo much (right between my cities and taking all good tiles). Then I went with a...

Thanks, that explains a lot. Can't believe I missed the -33% cavalry penalty.

My city has ~40 combat strength and a crossbow. Napoleon attacks it with a few musketeers and crossbows and some chariots. He easily takes it unless I defend it with my army. Egypt has a 37 combat strength city with a chariot archer in it and he already lost his entire army. I have 2...

Yes that. By that time there won't be a single tile on the entire world that is not taken. Even a single artic tile in the middle of plain ocean will have a city on it... And defending a single new city far away from your main cities will be hard on deity. Wide empires are only viable on lower...

@jbos thx for the link. The guy does however have a really bad early game imo. 3 cities with hardly any growth, liberty opening (and still somewhat slow expansions) and late NC. But he uses caravans to make up for his missing science. Then he expands to 5 cities. @kamikazees Building 2 early...

At some point they all wanted to be friends with me and if they get the "afraid" status then making RA's doesn't cost anything extra either. Usually I have to pay them like 2 iron on top of the RA. Even if I just donated like 350gold to them (because they did not had enough money for the RA)...

Thanks all. I won that Shoshone deity-science game :). I had to reload once but I did it. It got really close though. - I was being overrun by tourism. Then I paid all other nations from my ideology to attack that 'tourism-nation' and it was done :). - At some point I got massively denounced...

Wow so many replies :). @keirador: 1) When my capitol is about to fall or when a DoW is sent and I see SUCH a huge army that I just know that it's over or when 1 or 2 of my cities next to my capitol are completely overrun. This can set me back so far that I don't find it do-able winning with...