How to beat Diety in 30 turns

[Thantanos]

First let me say i love the game 95/120 achievements, 65 hours logged. I especially love trying to beat the computer on Diety. I looked all over the internet daily since the game came out for a guide on how to win. I finally did it tonight and replicated the victory many times. Ready to get that achievement? Better use this strat before the next patch =).

I picked Ramesees II for wonder production, Future Era (for sceince victory), Standard, Huge & Archipeligo (so they cant get to you in time), Legendary Start, Domination and Sceince victory conditions (so computer doesnt focus on Apollo), no barbarians, no ancient ruins, quick combat. Any two opponets (10 city states) will work but lets say Washington and Darius. Start game.

Build your 3 cities close to each other so your workers will build roads fast, pick the Apollo program, build the many pices of the space ship and send them to your main city and immediatly add them to the space shuttle. I averaged victories in 30 turns easy. Let me know what you think of this guild please positive bump it =). I hope this helps everyone enjoy!

Some side notes, I go tradition diplomacy for the wonder production boost, science in my other two cities until Apollo is up. I always seem to start a Golden age about turn 5. The computer usually builds 4 pieces before me EVERY time but it never finishes, IDK they get enough advantages but I am sure this will be fixed soon. If anyone has a guide for Ancient era Domination victory Diety level please share all I have seen online is multi savers (which is as good as cheating imo lol). Take care guys! MMM the 1% club feels so good!

 

[endymion]

not to take anything away from u, but i consider this set-up cheating too. so do a lot of other players on the forum.

 

[Xymor]

Ok... This works. I'm still new to this game so it took me 47 turns, although thinking back I could have shaved 10 to 15 turns off that time. Only thing I noticed that wasn't mentioned was that you want a near by source of both Aluminum and Coal, once I noticed you needed those it took me a few resets to get it so they were both with in a reasonably distance.

As stated for what ever reason the AI will not complete the Space Ship, I'm not complaining.

When I get better I really want to try starting from the beginning, sounds more fun, but hey Ill take Achievements where I can get them.

 

[Nunya]

Ancient Era Domination on Deity is easy.

Duel size, Pangea, play Germans, Greeks, or Mongols. Go to advanced options, select Ghandi as your opponent and if you're playing Germans set the number of city states to 0 and sea level to low so there will be more room for Barbarian encampment spawning.

With Greeks and Mongols beeline Horseback Riding and hit Ghandi with Companions/Horsemen. With Germany go encampment hunting, then overrun him with your barbarian horde.

Pick Honor policy with all 3 civs. With Greeks and German get Discipline as second policy, with Mongols get Warrior Code for a Khan.

 

[KingMorgan]

I bet the OP goes fishing with dynamite.

Workable strategy, but I cannot recommend it as it feels like achievement farming - which is sad considering how lame they are.

 

[Slowpoke]

Personally I like the play japan marathon, get lucky and start right next to them on duel, win on like turn 4.

But yeah, I wonder if this'd work on nightmare difficulty

 

[Rittmeyer]

what`s the point in beating deity in 30 turns if you started the game in turn 1.000 or something?

 

[K2DK]

One thing I found to work, is just start in modern age with any random civ on duel. Use SP on rationality down to the scientific revolution, for 2 free techs. Select electronics as one of them. Upgrade as many infantry to mech inf. Find the bastard, trade a luxury to upgrade the last 1 or 2 mech inf. Wait a couple of turns until he withdraws from his capital. Kill it.

Takes around 10 minutes.

 

[Thantanos]

I bet the OP goes fishing with dynamite.

Workable strategy, but I cannot recommend it as it feels like achievement farming - which is sad considering how lame they are.

What does OP mean?

 

[boehj]

Personally I like the play japan marathon, get lucky and start right next to them on duel, win on like turn 4.

But yeah, I wonder if this'd work on nightmare difficulty

I think we could shave 3 turns off that with a bit of luck.

The key is to surround the capital - early. Open the World Builder and place three GGs around where you think s/he'll settle. Also take this opportunity to pre-emptively lay down some railroad tracks to the probable site of the AI's cap. Stack a Modern Armor with each of the GGs (you may want to give each of these suitable promos). Now of course, you could use GDRs but many people on this forum think that is cheesy so we shall avoid deploying these. Round out the area with heavily promo'd Rocket Artillery should things get out of hand.

Put a Scout on a nearby hill.

Make sure animations are disabled and defrag your hard drive before any of this happens.

Right mouse button click speed is key here. When the umpire's whistle sounds you need to a) found your cities, b) DOW on your adversary, and then c) slam a Modern Armor into him.

We're no longer even really talking turns here. We're talking milliseconds... to beat Deity. And that's very fast indeed.

 

[Slowpoke]

Well, probably the absolute fastest way is to hack steam to give you the acheivement for winning deity somehow, and you technically will have counted winning deity before even playing the game.

 

[JudgeDeath]

Now you might think that this approach is lame, but I couldn't possibly comment.

 

[Nunya]

What does OP mean?

OP = original poster, the person who started the thread.