Seraiel
If you want anything from I please ask in German
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Quoted for truth.
Read the guides, visit the Strategy and Tips Forum, and if you're really that good of a player that you say (the OP, not TMIT ^^), you'll jump up to Monarch in a week.
You're right, you don't have to do that for beating Noble, Noble is beatable if you only have basic understanding of games and know how to chop and whip.
For GP-Generation, you should learn, that golden Ages (GAs) and Pacifism and the National Epic (NE) all give +100%, so if you need more of them faster, use one to start a GA, switch to Pacifism, have NE in your most food-rich city having the most Citizens, and work Specialists as much as you can. Like that it's possible to get up to 4 great Persons (GPs) in 24 turns (length of GA with Maussoleum of Maussollos (MoM) on Marathon) . Look into the War Academy what you need to avoid to bulb specific techs, warp with lightspeed to techs you previously reached 1000y later, build Taj Mahal, get another 3-4 GPs, chain another 3 GAs, and you'll have so much production, tech and money, that you'll get Domination in the BCs having some Unit which is Gunpowder!
To Stonehenge: Was surprised, that AI builds it that early on lower Difficulty lvls, 2500 BC is a late Date for SH on Deity, there it gets built from 2800-2500 BC. Your 1800 BC is very very late though, by that time you could already have advanced to Currency by constructing the Oracle, so again, visit the Forum, read the Guides in the Academy, improve, have more fun
And a Stack of 70 Units sounds nearly unbelievable to me
Last time I saw such a big SoD (Stack of Doom) was in one of my Domination games, where Hannibal had like 10%+ of the land (Settings like yours, Huge, Marathon, I play with 17 Civs though) and I let him unharmed for the whole game, as I tried a "Vassalizing-Race" (who gets more Vassals faster and wins in the end) and that was on Deity at 300 AD.Anyhow, if you follow what I've written, you'll next time have 250 Units by the time your enemy has 70, so you'll just laugh crazily and start doing things like conquering three enemies at the same time with split up forces that are so highly advanced, that you'll have zero losses
Then you advance up to Emperor or even Immortal, and you will find, that you can't pay the empire you conquer anymore
(The people who say that Diplo makes 90% of the Difference between a Deity player and a Monarch player are really exegurating a little too much imho, Diplomacy is quite simple and learnable, at least in Civ! Give in to demands, unless they're for a Tech only you have, open Borders, Ressource-Trade, stay away from worst Enemies, adopt the Religion of your Neighbours, and you'll be fine.
The main problem on the higher difficulty lvls really are the rising maintenance costs, at least if you play Huge Maps like the OP who even goes for Corporations (To OP: Try State Property next time and avoid Corps if you aim for Domination, you'll be amazed). For people not believing me, I can post a Screenshot of an Empire on a Huge map, having 100 cities and paying about 7k (!) of city maintenance, that's 2000 financial riverside Cottages that would have to be worked
)Enjoy and have Fun, Seraiel
