Silverblade
Lord of Vikings
What is your strategy guidelines in Civ in order for to achieve domination so fast as possible.
Thankful for any tips/suggestions/help what so ever.
Thankful for any tips/suggestions/help what so ever.
Domination as fast as possible
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Learn how to fight with early offensive units like archer and swordsmen.
Focus on building units and money make building (to pay for techs, units, and military alliances)
Have contact with everyone as early as possible (even if that means that you have to buy it) so you can buy military alliances to keep the world in a constant war.
Don't build culture/science building until you have to, otherwise you will trigger a culture victory before your domination victories.
Learn when to get in and when to get out of a war. This is especially important when you are under democracy or republic.
These are my strategies, you should be able to find tactics in this forum fairly easier. The earliest I got was around 1400AD in a large map with max number of civs in emperor. I am sure many people could get it sooner but I wanted to get more points.
Focus on building units and money make building (to pay for techs, units, and military alliances)
Have contact with everyone as early as possible (even if that means that you have to buy it) so you can buy military alliances to keep the world in a constant war.
Don't build culture/science building until you have to, otherwise you will trigger a culture victory before your domination victories.
Learn when to get in and when to get out of a war. This is especially important when you are under democracy or republic.
These are my strategies, you should be able to find tactics in this forum fairly easier. The earliest I got was around 1400AD in a large map with max number of civs in emperor. I am sure many people could get it sooner but I wanted to get more points.
Bamspeedy
CheeseBob
Larger maps you want to go with horsemen for thier mobility. An ICS settler flood may work, especially on huge pangea maps with minimal civs. The settler flood may work on smaller maps, but I haven't really tried it yet. You can read about the settler flood in Aeson's article in the strategy articles section.
Just be Persia, make sure you have iron and start making a lot of immortals. Or be the Iriqouis and make lots of mounted warriors and run over your competition. Or make tons of Aztec warriors and run at their cities. Personally i like immortals
Silverblade
Lord of Vikings
Maybe I should try that. Have never played with those civs too serious. Don't like them simpley, but that can be changed though.
Go with a pangaea map, and follow Aeson's ICS strategy. Or, at the very least, an early tight build, get as many workers and settlers as possible (build a road to the next city city - 2 roads. The 3rd is wasted, since the settler stops there anyway. Expansionist is good. Also, I found the Aztecs work wonders with a tight build for clearing out a section of land, quickly. They're cheap swordsmen. I had 46 jags, and 20+ swords once in a tournament game. 
Zachriel
Kaiser
Hit them fast and hit them hard. For a fast finish, you need to conquer at the very least one Civ in the Ancient Age. Meanwhile, use political means to keep your rivals from joining forces. Keep them at war so they will be weak when the time comes. If things work out right, sometimes you can just keep going without an interregnum of peace.
Even if we have no military units, do declare war to the farest civ anyway. By the time their invasion force travel half around the world to get to our lands, it's time to negotiate for peace.
Now, get one of its neighbor to attack on its open back door. By the time, its main force travel back home, there won't be much of a home left.
Yeah, there are many ways too keep the AIs busy on killing each other while we secretly build up our instrument for doomsday. Once we attack, we won't stop until the entire world is in the palm of our hands.
Now, get one of its neighbor to attack on its open back door. By the time, its main force travel back home, there won't be much of a home left. Yeah, there are many ways too keep the AIs busy on killing each other while we secretly build up our instrument for doomsday. Once we attack, we won't stop until the entire world is in the palm of our hands.Dragonlord
Fantasy Warlord
IMO, the Egyptian War Chariots are even better for early conquest: you get them earlier than Immortals and MW and they're strong enough against almost all early defenders - better than JW. I've had good results even on Deity.
If you're trying to achieve a Domination Victory, you have to be concerned with your cultural boundaries. A Conquest, while a victory, is not Domination.
So, in addition to hitting the AI's, keeping them off balance, you'll also have to either build additional settlers to fill in the spaces, or plan to rush Temples in captured cities to expand your cultural boundaries.
The problem with an early military campaign is that the other civs have not colonized all their 'space', so to achieve Domination you have to supplement the military force with a settler force. If you plan for an early Middle Ages Domination, you can set up a large chariot/horseman force, build a treasury, research Chivalry, due massive upgrades, and hit the AIs hard. At this time they've usually built up their empires so that rushing Temples in captured cities works with minimal need for Settlers. This is most successful if you can get Chivalry before they get Feudalism, or if you can control the sources of Iron. Later on in the Middle Ages you can attempt a similar method with Cavalry; this time you'd be concerned with controlling sources of Saltpeter, to restrict their Musketmen
Another consideration: for Domination you need 66% of the landmass and 66% of the population of the world. If one or two well developed civs are still in play, with large populations, you might have 66% of the land, but not have a Domination Victory. You'll have to reduce their population (or increase yours) to achieve the Victory.
So, in addition to hitting the AI's, keeping them off balance, you'll also have to either build additional settlers to fill in the spaces, or plan to rush Temples in captured cities to expand your cultural boundaries.
The problem with an early military campaign is that the other civs have not colonized all their 'space', so to achieve Domination you have to supplement the military force with a settler force. If you plan for an early Middle Ages Domination, you can set up a large chariot/horseman force, build a treasury, research Chivalry, due massive upgrades, and hit the AIs hard. At this time they've usually built up their empires so that rushing Temples in captured cities works with minimal need for Settlers. This is most successful if you can get Chivalry before they get Feudalism, or if you can control the sources of Iron. Later on in the Middle Ages you can attempt a similar method with Cavalry; this time you'd be concerned with controlling sources of Saltpeter, to restrict their Musketmen
Another consideration: for Domination you need 66% of the landmass and 66% of the population of the world. If one or two well developed civs are still in play, with large populations, you might have 66% of the land, but not have a Domination Victory. You'll have to reduce their population (or increase yours) to achieve the Victory.
Clown2TheLeft
Prince
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Silverblade
Lord of Vikings
Originally posted by NHJ BV
Just nuke'em
That's one way around the problem. But it isn't very fast on the tougher difficult level settings, becaus the science improvement aren't going speciel fast then. So it takes quite a long time before I actually can nuke them.
