Hardest possible game on King?

[Suliz]

I have been going back and forth between King and Emperor difficulties of late. I haven't lost on King since I started playing again a month and a half ago, so the challenge is clearly not there anymore, but it is so comfortable....

So, I am thinking I will ask for challenges. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to contrive the most difficult setup while staying on King difficulty.

You can change whatever settings you want:

My CIV
Opponents CIV's (including how many)
Number of CS
Size and Type of Map (also, you can tinker with any of the advanced map options (age, sea level, Resource level etc.)
Victory Conditions
No/Regular/Raging Barbs
OCC
You can even disable ancients ruins

The only settings you can't pick is to disable Espionage or to change the starting era.

Whichever suggestion seems the most fiendishly difficult, I will try and report back on.

 

[Moriarte]

Your civ: India
Opponents civs : Iroquis, Rome, Greece, Zulu, Huns, Germany, Polynesia.
Number of CS: 2
Size: large
Type: low sea level, 3 bil. years pangaea, sparse resources.
Regular barbs.
No ancient ruins.
Complete kills: ON

Victory Condition - Domination.

 

[thegingerninja]

Your Civ: Venice
Opponents: Monty Atilla Genghis Shaka all allied together
CS: None
Size: Duel
Type: Skirmish
Barbs: Raging
Ruins: No
VC: Domination

Have fun

 

[joshua43214]

Your civ: India
Opponents civs : Iroquis, Rome, Greece, Zulu, Huns, Germany, Polynesia.
Number of CS: 2
Size: large
Type: low sea level, 3 bil. years pangaea, sparse resources.
Regular barbs.
No ancient ruins.
Complete kills: ON

Victory Condition - Domination.

Large map lol
Even on King this will be a long game.
I'm tempted to sand bag this for fun...

 

[greygamer]

Have you tried Barbarian Nightmare?

Map size 2 larger than is recommended for the number of AI/CS so a Huge Map would have 8AI & 16 CS
Raging Barbs

For added challenge take a Civ with late game UU/UB or at least later than Ancient/Classical

 

[comatosedragon]

Assuming Standard Size Pangaea, Pick the following 7 AI's:

Poland, Siam, Assyria, Shoshone, Iroquois, Inca, Persia
Be sure to NOT have random personalities. Have Fun!

 

[zukenft]

your civ : japan
opponents : 14 civ, 18 CS
map : huge continents plus
settings : start bias OFF, diplo victory OFF
restart map until you have tundra start.

 

[kb27787]

Your civ: Denmark! (how come no one mentioned these useless Vikings lol)
Opponents: Shaka, Genghis, Alex, Sejong, Nebby, Gandhi and Rammy (map size standard)
(you will have competitors whether you go for whatever VC)
Type of map: Pangaea
Rest of settings standard.

 

[otaman1]

Your Civ: Venice
Opponents: Aztec France Greece Huns Mongolia Zulu
CS: None
Size: Duel
Type: Pangaea
Barbs: Raging
Ruins: No
VC: Domination
Difficulty: Deity
Always war: True