Step by step:
1) Found your capital on a hill that borders at least two +2 food tiles. More hills and forests are a plus. You'll also need the obligatory luxury resource in the vicinity. Go explore with your warrior.
2) Research granary -> calendar -> mining
3) Open with Tradition and take the +15% production bonus for wonders social policy next. Continue down the Tradition tree.
4a) Build order: worker, granary, Stonehenge. Buy a scout when you have enough gold.
4b) Alternative build order: monument, granary, Stonehenge. Steal a worker from a city state with your warrior (though this will give diplomacy penalties with other civs).
5) Once you get a worker, improve the food tiles first, then chop down any forests to speed up Stonehenge, build a mine or two otherwise. Balance food and production so that you have enough hammers while still having growth.
6) In the meantime explore and try find religious city states and natural wonders that give faith bonuses. Try to befriend religious city states if the opportunity presents itself.
7) Once Stonehenge is complete, focus on founding new cities and expanding with faith production in mind. Picking the right pantheon belief for your circumstances can make quite a difference. For example, two quarries with Stone Circles will give +4 faith/turn on these already good tiles.
Using these methods, I have been able to build Stonehenge as early as turn 36 (with a very good starting position) and found a religion in 4 out of 5 Deity games. Try to be friends with your neighbors because you'll be quite vulnerable to early DoWs.
1) Found your capital on a hill that borders at least two +2 food tiles. More hills and forests are a plus. You'll also need the obligatory luxury resource in the vicinity. Go explore with your warrior.
2) Research granary -> calendar -> mining
3) Open with Tradition and take the +15% production bonus for wonders social policy next. Continue down the Tradition tree.
4a) Build order: worker, granary, Stonehenge. Buy a scout when you have enough gold.
4b) Alternative build order: monument, granary, Stonehenge. Steal a worker from a city state with your warrior (though this will give diplomacy penalties with other civs).
5) Once you get a worker, improve the food tiles first, then chop down any forests to speed up Stonehenge, build a mine or two otherwise. Balance food and production so that you have enough hammers while still having growth.
6) In the meantime explore and try find religious city states and natural wonders that give faith bonuses. Try to befriend religious city states if the opportunity presents itself.
7) Once Stonehenge is complete, focus on founding new cities and expanding with faith production in mind. Picking the right pantheon belief for your circumstances can make quite a difference. For example, two quarries with Stone Circles will give +4 faith/turn on these already good tiles.
Using these methods, I have been able to build Stonehenge as early as turn 36 (with a very good starting position) and found a religion in 4 out of 5 Deity games. Try to be friends with your neighbors because you'll be quite vulnerable to early DoWs.
/turn (delay monument if not Ethiopia ?) low at the beginning to keep piety policies culture cost low) // domination victory )..
