A single city cultural victory under the SID difficulty

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Recently I try a single city cultural victory game (20000 cultural points) under the SID difficulty and succeed.

The first most important strategy is to build as much Wonders as you can. These Great Wonders are most important since they provide more cultural points than other Wonders:
1. the Great Library -- it provide 6 cultural points per turn and 12 cultural points after 1000 years.
2. the JS Bach -- 6 cultural points per turn.
3. the Shakespeare's Theoter -- 8 cultural points per turn.
Since the AI always do not research the Literature, the Music Theory or the Free Artistry at the first time, these Wonders are not too hard to build for us.

The second strategy is choosing Byzantine, Korea or Greece as our tribe. All of these tribes have Bronze Working and Alphabet as the initial techs. With Bronze Working, we can build the Colossus. With Alphabet, we can research Philosophy or Literature as quickly as possible. These two techs lead to the Mausoleam or the Great Library. As once as we have (the Colossus) and (the Mausoleam / the Great Library), we can enter the Golden Age. During our Golden Age, we can build more Great Wonders of the ancient times.

 

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The geography settings of the world. Small map of continents. The random seed of the map is 8443235.

 

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Other settings of the game. Choose the opponents such that we are the only one having Bronze Working and Alphabet.

 

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The save file of the first turn.

Turn 0, 4000 BC
Move the settler to a coastal square to build our capital, which has two cattles nearby and lies beside a river.

 

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Turn 5, 3750 BC
Irrigate the square with cattle at the first time so that our population will grow rapid. Produce the Colossus before any other improvement.

 

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Turn 14, 3300 BC
Raise the commerce to entertainment to control unhappy faces such that every citizen can work and produces as much shields as possible.
Put all of the remaining commerce into science to research writing (and then philosophy).

 

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The save file of the 19th turn.

Turn 19, 3050 BC
Complete the Colossus. Since each square with a road can produce at least 2 commerce under the Colossus, we produce a second worker to build more roads.
Under the Colossus, the science output increase a great mount and the turns needed to researth Writing decrease.

 

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Turn 20, 3000 BC
Contact America and Inca. Build a first warrior to defense any possible attack and also make a content face of the labor citizens.

 

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Turn 22, 2900 BC
Produce more workers to build roads. Maintain the population not less than 7 (because the commerce output of the central square of the city is different between 6 and 7 population).

 

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Turn 25, 2750 BC
We only need 5 more turns to complete Writing now. It seem we will keep Writing for a long time. So trade Alphabet for other important techs with Inca. We need to build a granay and a temple.

 

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Turn 29, 2590 BC
Developement of Athen. We can save some food if we finish the granary exactly one turn before the population increase.
The AI's have not yet learnt writing. We can be the first one to research philosophy and awarded a free tech.
The current great Wonders of the world.
Top 5 cities. Athen is the top 1 now.

 

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Turn 41, 2110 BC
We chose literature as the free tech so that we can build the great library, and next research the map making.
Athen complete the mausoleum. The Colossus and the Mausoleum trigger the Golden Age of Greece.

 

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Turn 48, 1830 BC
The AI's finish Map Making before us. So the turns needed to research for us became less. We will complete the map making the next turn.

 

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Turn 49, 1790 BC
The AI's need only 40% shield to produce every thing. But if we switch the production of the Great Library to the Great Lighthouse, we can finish the Great Lighthouse before the AI's.

 

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The save file of the 57th turn.

Turn 57, 1575 BC
Go on to the production of the Great Library in our Golden Age. Complete it next turn.

 

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Turn 58, 1550 BC
The Wonders of the world now.
China has build the Great Wall. This means they are in Golden Age now.
Top 5 cities. The ranking of Athen fell down from the 1st to the 3rd.

 

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Turn 60, 1500 BC
With the Great Lighthouse on the hand, we can let galleys explore the world safely.
We learn most techs of the Ancient times from the Great Library.

 

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Turn 65, 1375 BC
Our galley contact the tribes on the other continent.

 

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Turn 70, 1250 BC
Our territory and the world map revealed (little map in the bottom of the left).
Top 5 cities. China build two more great Wonders in their Golden Age. The cultural points of Beijing go ahead of Athen too much.
Declare war on China and make military alliance against China to slow down their development.

 

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Turn 72, 1200 BC
The territory of our friend Zulu.
New Wonders of the Middle Ages.