After many tries, I won my first King difficulty!

[Ninakoru]

That would be somewhat Ok for experimenting, but of course a win earned by this method would count for nothing. You would already know where the resources and other civs were and that would be a huge unfair advantage.

I am not agree. While having knowledge of the map and civs around is a nice advantage, playing that way teachs you on how to plan your game depending on neighbour civs and resources, something that will definitely help you to improve your game in future ones.

Once you cover a basic knowledge of how the game works (culture, happiness, what bouildings/units are good for, etc), its more about having a grand strategy, and knowing little strategies to overcome difficulties (cutting enemy key resources, play around with diplomacy to avoid some wars, using a specific number), thus making good decisions. I feel quite comfort in king right now, but is hard to me when I move to higher difficulties. Not that I play that much anyways

 

[King_Course]

Thanks for the kind reply! But I played on King's level with no barbarians and no city states and even then it was difficult for me! I had to reload the game a few times to get my strategy right!

I wonder how people can win on Emperor, Immortal and even on Deity! Right now, I am too scared to even try playing on Emperor!

To tell you the truth, I like playing on Settler difficulty because I like toe feeling of bullying other civilizations! But I guess that in the long run, this would never improve my gameplay! I am not a hardcore Civilization 5 player and don't have the patience to study the game in depth!

By the way, have you tried playing on Emperor difficulty and won?

I play on Emperor and win, but not always. I play standard size maps on epic speed, and I add a bunch of civs so there will be some action and competition. 14 or 16 civs in all, but low sealevel so abit more land.

I played 2 games as France going for cultural wins. One game my cap was on a grassland river, 2 stones and a marble and a horse, and 2 silvers. 4 squares next to it there was a spot with 4 cows and 2 horses (and a dye) within 3 squares.

These 2 cities quickly got very strong when I had workers out. I build another city, puppeted 1 more. And fought a few early wars against England South and germany North. I think I took lead in 800 BC, and from there on I just increased my lead through all the game. My 2 cities ended at 40 pop around 1900 when I won. I had by then a couple of more cities under my control and a couple more puppets out of ressource necessity.

But this game was a game where I bullied everyone else and did as I pleased, and never was faced with a serious threat and it felt too easy when I had secured my position.

The other game, I started in the midst of a big desert. I got 3 cities up, very low production just lots of river tiles for food. And I did not have a single horse or a single iron. I had to haggle to buy 2 horses and 1 iron for a catapult. At one point the last egyptian soldier fell as he climbed the walls of my capital, which stood it's ground with 1 hitpoint left.

I managed to hold on till gunpowder and the french musketeers, and it was payback time as I followed my plan of puppeting Thebes and razing another city that took land from my capitol. My good friend Babylon captures his last city just before I attack the city to be razed. I do it anyway and become unpopular. I write my name on the deathsentence.

I did this and spewed out more musketeers. With exp bonus and the heroic epic build, they were the strongest units in the world. I was the king of the world. In my overconfidence, I decided to wardeck a big threatening and very vocal China south of me. To get some exp for my troops.

I marched my army of musketeers and knights south into the hell of the cho ko nu. Into the hell of many cho ko nus. I lost a unit, and 1 more and was suddenly no longer on top of everything. I turn tail and start marching back. And Germany wardecks me, with a Landsknechtspam coming up from the southeast. And China pursues me with a finelooking army of her own.

Pretty soon I have 2 troops defending my south, and 2 troops defending my southeast against huge armies.

And I lose.

So it's not just about difficulty, it has alot to do with where you start, what chances you take and how things turn out.

 

[qemist]

I am not agree.

My background in gameplay is from nethack and in that community you may as well admit to being a pedophile as admit to being a save game cheat. Be honest with yourself and others. If you make a mistake accept the consequenses. Play it out or mark it up as a loss and start a new game. If you don't like your starting position, sure you can start again. But remember you just lost a game.

 

[manu-fan]

My advice to you is to play on Warlord. Warlord is a fun setting because it's not too much of a strain, but you get a feeling of accomplishment beating up all those around you. For me, Warlord is a great Beer and Pretzels level to play at.

Cheers.

 

[danieladler]

Deity is a piece of cake to win. Especially if you are alone on an island and go for any victory but domination (because domination will mean war). No one will attack you, even though they declare war on you, because they dont know how to attack across water. So dont be afraid of trying deity.