Thanks to some of the great posts on this site, I was able to revamp a lot of my strategies and post a fairly easy Domination Victory on the Emperor level. The victory was achieved in year 1828 with a final score of 4874, almost 2000 points better than any of my previous victories). Of course, you do get better scores when you own most of the land in the world.
I play the 'vanilla' version. I begin all my games with the following defaults:
standard size, continents, temperate, normal climate, roaming barbarians, all victory conditions turned on, and 7 Random AI rivals.
In this game, it just so happened that all 8 of us were packed onto one large continent so I never had to develop any sort of naval superiority which probably made it a lot easier.
I started off with slow expansion since I wanted to try building a Settler farm, courtesy of the Intro game in the War Academy. I had my settler farm going in 2350 B.C. and my 1175 BC, I was able to catch up to the largest civ. In 750 BC, I began a war with the Americans who were caught completely off guard, but 250 BC they were history. I now have 6 more cities than the Iroquois, the only civilization that will later be able to challenge my domination quest.
It is now 400 AD, and I have basically eliminated the Indians except for one small city in Babylonian territory which I do not want to bother with for now. The bad part is that some of these Indian cities will flip, but I will conquer them back if that happens. I also have a military alliance right now with the Babylonias so they will probably finish the job soon.
The picture below shows the game at this point, if I know what I am doing to try to attach a picture to these posts.
I play the 'vanilla' version. I begin all my games with the following defaults:
standard size, continents, temperate, normal climate, roaming barbarians, all victory conditions turned on, and 7 Random AI rivals.
In this game, it just so happened that all 8 of us were packed onto one large continent so I never had to develop any sort of naval superiority which probably made it a lot easier.
I started off with slow expansion since I wanted to try building a Settler farm, courtesy of the Intro game in the War Academy. I had my settler farm going in 2350 B.C. and my 1175 BC, I was able to catch up to the largest civ. In 750 BC, I began a war with the Americans who were caught completely off guard, but 250 BC they were history. I now have 6 more cities than the Iroquois, the only civilization that will later be able to challenge my domination quest.
It is now 400 AD, and I have basically eliminated the Indians except for one small city in Babylonian territory which I do not want to bother with for now. The bad part is that some of these Indian cities will flip, but I will conquer them back if that happens. I also have a military alliance right now with the Babylonias so they will probably finish the job soon.
The picture below shows the game at this point, if I know what I am doing to try to attach a picture to these posts.