First Cultural Victory

[omnimutant]

It only took me like 7.5 years but I finally won a cultural victory. Lakes Map, Tropical, Large, Marathon, Barbs, 7 AI's, UL's, Pacal II of Inca. Instead of the usual Dan Quayle Victories I get I finally landed a Cesar.

 

[mdesy]

Congrats! So far I have failed at my only attempt to get a cultural victory on Marathon, not easy!

 

[Pangaea]

Congratulations When did you achieve the victory? You didn't mention the date.

 

[mdesy]

Forgot to ask, what did you change in your strategy that made it work this time?

 

[omnimutant]

Congratulations When did you achieve the victory? You didn't mention the date.

End date was right at 2000 AD.

 

[omnimutant]

Forgot to ask, what did you change in your strategy that made it work this time?

I was actually going for a Domination victory, and managed to max my tech out really early. I noticed I was culture flipping my neighbors pretty fast and figured if I could focus on that I'd flip myself into domination. So I decided I'd set all cities to produce culture instead of troops or buildings, and then 100% the culture slider. The idea was I would flip cities way faster, and it was working pretty good. I was flipping a city every few turns. Then out of nowhere I won the Cultural.

I generally like to play without Space race or Timed or diplomatic options, as it completely changes the game for me.

 

[sydhe]

I've found Cathedrals (and Sistine Chapel) are essential. You want as many cathedral-type buildings as possible in your three cultural cities, which means missionary spam to your other cities.