Has anybody worked out a top-tier Russian Strategy?

[Evie94]

im considering playing my last Civ 5 game before BNW as Russia, but i've only ever played them on Level 2 before. Any advice?

I always saw three distinct advantages with Russia:
-early extra hammers leading to earlier workers/buildings leading to a head start
-obviously able to support more Units
-able to sell a ton of extra resources to other Civs, draining their gold and knowing that the SRP will kick in if they DOW, so those Units will be massively weak.

i won with Domination back in those days but you could take the Indians to Domination on that difficulty setting. so, any advice? REX and then onto a Science or Diplo? or try to field a massive amount of Units for Domination?

 

[joncnunn]

India is actually a very good civ for conquering civs as long as they wait to conquer until the few cities they self-built are really tall.
A size 20 Indian city has 10 free happiness.

REX: In terms of a Civ III like one (claim all empty city spots as quickly as possible until there are no more good spots left); Still works on that difficulty level, but won't on Prince. Now if you just mean your going to get a total of 4 cities up very quickly and never build any more but instead conquer, that works on any difficulty level (as long as you monitor happiness)

Science / Diplomatic / Domination victory:All three of these types of victories works for every single civ at every difficulty level.

Massive number of units: Is actually fairly small in Civ V as long as they're the right units given 1 UPT. Once you have a screen of melee units with a second line of ranged units behind it's unstoppable against the AI.

 

[Irkalla]

my advice is a liberty start with aggressive expansion. Russia pretty much requires that you go wide to make ample use of the UA.

You might consider going Great General from the finisher. Once you get decent at the game, you can explore other options for the liberty Great Person apart from GS.

 

[Sid Simelia]

Don't let any of the opposing units have full health.

Take 1 shot with your bows or cannons from behind the meat shields, then send your cossacks in to clean up. They are good at that.

 

[kirbdog]

Don't do anything unusual. Nothing whatsoever. Don't prioritize kreposts. Don't expand any more than you would find otherwise ideal. Don't worry about rushing Cossacks. Sit back and play a game of Civilization without worrying about civ-specific traits. And make sure to sell your strategic resources for lots of extra gold.