Comprehensive Leader Guide: Justinian

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I know this is an old thread but...

I'm surprised that no mention has been made of the hippodrome, which is surprisingly good for attempting cultural victories in the late game.

This is counter intuitive I know, because the UB doesn't allow you to select artists. But, setting the culture slider to 30% will give you another six happy, you're bound to have horses and the hippodrome without modifiers should give you another 3 smiley faces in your cities. More than enough to manage caste system even when other civs have adopted emancipation: which provides unlimited artists. Put it up to 100% for the final push and unhappiness from any source isn't even going to be an issue.

the thing is, even with another leader, you can push the happy limit with the use of the slider in a cultural game.
This is never an issue for me.

 

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the thing is, even with another leader, you can push the happy limit with the use of the slider in a cultural game.
This is never an issue for me.

Usually not for me either and a cultural victory is not something I would have thought to do with Justinian. But I have used this trick to catch up and overtake culturally in a game where I really thought all was lost. I could comfortably operate using representation and caste system despite waging a lengthy war and with most of my rivals using emancipation. Indeed, I wasn't even close to having any unhappyness issues running at 30% culture, nor had I started out in the game looking specifically for a cultural victory. Most of it was artist specialist related rather than the culture slider so I doubt I was playing optimally.

As it is, the Byzantines are the civilisation where unhappiness won't affect your decisions regarding what civics you want to run.