I've been playing Civ V for quite a while now, and decided that today I would try to make my 101st achievement a win on Deity. My only other attempt at that difficulty was a colossal failure, but that was months ago.
Knowing that it would be difficult, I decided to set up a world designed to my strengths (a small, tall, pacifistic empire). Thus, I went with an archipelago world and played as Siam, aiming for a cultural victory powered by city-states. The beginning was brutal, but I was making progress. What I did not realize was that my opponents were also making progress at a breakneck pace; the first one finished the Apollo Program when I had Tradition, Patronage, and Piety completed. I was picking up addition policies at a rate of one every seven or so turns, but it did not look good.
When someone had all but one spaceship component built, another of my opponents finished the UN. I had not considered a diplomatic victory because I was so very far away from learning Globalization, but if someone else was going to do it for me, perhaps. I already had all of the cultural city-states in the world as allies, and enough cash in the bank to pick up a few maritime ones as well. The player who actually built the UN had very few allies, and made no attempts to pick up any others. Ten years later, victory was mine!
Knowing that it would be difficult, I decided to set up a world designed to my strengths (a small, tall, pacifistic empire). Thus, I went with an archipelago world and played as Siam, aiming for a cultural victory powered by city-states. The beginning was brutal, but I was making progress. What I did not realize was that my opponents were also making progress at a breakneck pace; the first one finished the Apollo Program when I had Tradition, Patronage, and Piety completed. I was picking up addition policies at a rate of one every seven or so turns, but it did not look good.
When someone had all but one spaceship component built, another of my opponents finished the UN. I had not considered a diplomatic victory because I was so very far away from learning Globalization, but if someone else was going to do it for me, perhaps. I already had all of the cultural city-states in the world as allies, and enough cash in the bank to pick up a few maritime ones as well. The player who actually built the UN had very few allies, and made no attempts to pick up any others. Ten years later, victory was mine!
