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The AI knows exactly everything about your army. If they judge their armies are stronger, they will keep fighting. You may find their troops retreating but their war machine is on full sail replenishing these units. It doesn't hurt however as long as you can keep them away. One lesson I...

+15% bonus vs. cities is a meh since that is negligible for siege units (the only thing you want to attack a city with in early game). There are so many useful wonders in ancient era that you have to compete for, i.e. GL/Artemis/Pyramid/Stonehenge. This is the last one you want to get.

I totally agree. I used to think India is a tall rather than wide civ until I tried to find out how "bad" it is to expand. However I got much better results since the unhappiness penalty always get negated by happiness buildings. Since pop growth is a function with diminishing return, getting a...

CKN can level up much faster than LB since they attack twice per turn. That means it's easier to get +1 range on CKN than logistics on LB.

Free barracks for first 4 cities+unlimited barb experience would be really nice. Honor is always my first tree to unlock with Napoleon/Monte/Bismark/Kamehameha

Definitely Ethiopia, Sefaris can defeat great war infantries, allowing you to defend yourself even you lag heavily behind in science. In late game the mechanized infantries (upgraded from Sefaris) can crush GDRs with proper bonuses. IIRC a vet. mech. inf. can get a maximum bonus of ~400% in an...

Bad starting position is also a stimulus to explore, expand and conquer right?

In OCC I always plant them unless an AI is beating me to a wonder. Otherwise I always burn them since I will choose Order policy tree and get the super mines.

To me Celts and Swedes are really underpowered. Celts-Founding the pantheon is not a big deal really...and someone will beat you to the race to the first religion if they got the Stonehenge/Desert Folklore (a notoriously OP pantheon). Sweden-GP for 90 influence is such a pain while there are so...

There are really many ways to go. You can basically spam wonders just like on Prince difficulty. The AIs may beat very few wonders to you except Ramesses. But anyway many wonders are not so useful on high difficulties. Great library is definitely doable on King so go for it. Rush your nearest...

A newbie who just played 220 hours of CIV5. This game is so dam addictive!