This is a very good guide, and obv a good player, and a lot of newbs flaming him for it. If you play according to this guide in SP, you're obviously learning a lot more about the game, gearing up for MP. By playing like this in SP games, you basically test your MP skills in SP variant. In MP, you CANT spam cottages, you should DEF not put instructors in your cities (MP games = razing only). You should gear up from war from the get go, lagging behind the stupid SP-donkeys who think lib race has anything to offer for them on MP
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. If you play SP on this strategy, and NOT on noble/settler, but rather on a level where AI gets at least a nice SOD ready (monarch+ i guess), you get a decent test on MP skills. Wonderbuilding is for morons on MP, but the SoZ is EXTREMELY powerfull. You simply declare war on the whole board, THEY get WW, you DON'T, and that WITHOUT MOVING A SINGLE UNIT TOWARDS THEM! Overpowered?? YOU BET!
that thing is a friggin disaster. The SP thing i get too, the extra happy is usefull, though you don't wanna set off ai's in SP too much, so you wanna go for the happy bonus only. In MP the early religion is prob bad as it makes you lag military, and then SP is nice too, as it unlocks the rel civics w/o spending a single beaker in it that can be spend on military.
EDIT: comment on the mercenary thing. Def. a nice possibility, however, if someone is getting pounded, he's prob not very good, so isn't it better to just declare, get OB with the weak one, and go pound yourself?
VERY GOOD GUIDE! Im supercereal. Ripe for the acedemy (however, I don't read that, as I think of SP more like a puzzle, finding things out by asking/looking for help/thinking as I go).
PS: very sick that even the SP experts don't get this guide. Maybe that's why I kick so much *** in MP. I usually make my first kill around 2000BC
. Yaaaaawn, SP-peepz are so dumb lol. Even on islands, I usually drop a big stack of swords around 500 BC. Good luck with your CS slingshot sir, that's gonna be of so much use to you now. I just went IW->construction (for target nr 2 obv). Also, nice wonders, theyll look nice on the bottom of the ocean.
Another nice addition, the 1 warrior rush. If you're on the same cont, you start with a warrior build obviously. Or I walk my lone warrior towards you and raze your capital (duuuhh).
now Im gonna reply to some comments:
Well I'm talking when the city can feed all the cottages without needing to work the pigs for growth, so it is late game. You can always renegotiate your trades, it's better to work a village or town than to trade a resource I think.
You build cottages lategame?
Food>>>>commerce in any game, any stage. You get 5food 1H for a pig, you really give that up for 2food 1H 1-8 coins? Sounds crazy to me, esp late, where hammers>>>coins.
Gents... stop feeding the troll!
who's the troll? I don't see the bad guide, read it again till you get it.
Makes that you try to run eco's in such a way, that you gear up for MP. Makes sense to me. Single player will be a walk if you can really abuse military focus like this.
I mean you can’t get more awesomeness than amphibious war elephants.
Im cereal. PLZ LINK ME. I wanna read that guide. However, I never get so lucky on phants in MP. They are quite ez to beeline for such a smashing unit. Really sounds like a good strat, esp if you promote em to be allround city attackers.
Fact- Skipping early religious techs in favor of Animal Husbandry is the superior
Fact- Let the morons build sub par wonders like the Great Lighthouse to fullfill unconscious phallic desires - they are good to conquer
Fact- Having played over three hundred fifty five thousand games has given certain clues to wiley play
Fact- Shadowayne- Free Releigion- no need to worry the whole game -let others zap you with their religions- have better relations, have more culture
1. true story, that lighthouse especially, Ive seen it go down like a brick (literally) so often. The great library has a red roof for a reason. It's like a laser from a sniperrifle, if you wanna be a target, then it's a good idea to build it.
2. Probably still has to go AD for the first time.
3. It'll spread anyway. That makes theocracy bad, and makes that you get the free +1
here and there. I get it.
why it was moved to "tips" is beyond me.
QFT
Hyuana Capac is the weakest leader in-game.
I def. don't doubt this on MP, on SP high level his UU is overpowered, but his traits are both worthless imo.
I seriously hope that you were joking when you said all that above. Funny "guide" 
