I am considering a holy war!

[JokerZ]

So far I've managed a couple of CIV IV victories. One of them at warlord level and the other at noble level. Both of them were wins by building the spaceship.

I'd like to try something different and really want to try a war based victory where I can dominate every other civ. It would be especially nice if I could make a holy theme out of it.

Does anyone have some strategies I should look at employing, wonders to build etc? Also starting race. I'm considering one of the khans, but I'm leaning towards a spiritual and expansionistic leader.

Should I use my workers to build lots of forts? I haven't found much benefit in them to date. Should I try and ramp up my science quickly to lead me to a few strong units and wage an earlier domination campaign, or wait until the last 150 turns or so and try something more advanced from a military perspective.

Any thoughts appreciated.

 

[PekkaM]

Try Aztecs! Spiritual and Aggressive, I made an early Jaguar rush to gain dominating position. Although the UU is not as impressive as Roman one for example it suited my town invading purpose (never had to actually defend with them).

 

[suspendinlight]

Go for the Romans. The Praetorian rush is unstoppable once you get a couple cities ready in the early Ancient so you can pump them out. Make sure to shoot for Iron Working early so you can find the resources and set up an outpost there.

 

[Ace4nyC]

Pick of the weakest civ on your border, make sure you build up army first hit em hard and fast i perfer fast moving units (horsed archers) stack of 6 with 6 catapults with first promotion in collateral damage.

Bombard the city to 0 defense bonus send in your horsies and make em squarm. bring in 2 archer units after you take the city and move on. if the city is truly hard to conquer destroy the resources around it make the civ pay economicly it will disband units.

 

[mrjepson]

Try the Incas, instead of warriors you reciev strength 2 units with +100% versus archers. Since the AI (and most players) uses archers to defend their cities you just need to put up a barracks and give you units city raider upgrades. Four guys will usually take out 3 defenders. Once you get up to city raider 2 and 3 you will almost always win each combat. Upgrade these units later and you will always have a special city taking team.