Still struggling towards a cultural victory in my game - so many are attacking me and my tiny army but I am buying time. And time is what I need because it becomes a game of patience, hoping you will survive long enough as I watch the white line slowly creep up the pink line. I have to do all this without only two Musician specialists in one city - I've done four concerts and can get one more bought.
I just won my first one (t.294, Morocco, deity) and if you're still interested i can share how i did it:
I expanded to 5 cities total and went tradition.
Then, between turns 130 - 190 i captured the whole of India with lots of good stuff. (xbows + artilleries + gifted impi). By the time i did it, the world was set for order and autocracy, so my freedom empire did struggle for about 5 turns, until Gandhi's works of art kicked in and i turned exotic with everyone.
Then it was time for Theodora to die and share few works of art with me. With small detour to refrigeration i went straight for flight and spammed GW bombers. After that, it was research labs --> airports --> internet beeline.
I did build guilds pretty early and staffed them easily with the help from a food caravan. Did build few late game wonders, like Sydney Opera, CN and Statue of Liberty, but they didn't do me any good. (or bad) I didn't even try going for earlier wonders, since AI's were spamming them left and right..
Policy path was: full tradition, aesthetics opener, 3 in rationalism, freedom till broadcast towers, full aesthetics for 3 faith bought musicians. Also generated 3 naturally. Used them ALL for concert tours.
Didn't have a religion, just +1 culture from pastures pantheon, so i improved my FPT gradually, until it hit +50. Was lucky to buy 2 R.labs with faith.
Won international games few turns after internet and peaked at 800 tourism.
It started as a domination game until i got bored
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