This is my first legit attempt at Deity and I'm not sure it's winnable anymore, so I would like some advice. I'm going for a Science victory as Korea (yes, I stacked the deck in my favor for my first Deity win).
I got a 3 city NC at turn 80, Education turn 115. Zulu has been harassing me almost the entire game which forced me to hard build enough military units to defend myself. He was a real threat early on and almost captured Busan, but I fought him off and since then he's only been a pest. He planted a citadel next to me, which forced me to plant one of my own to reclaim Truffles.
My land contains no coal, no aluminum, no oil. I've never been deprived of all 3 in the same game. I had to wait to get some off the AI because I was first to get Industrialization/Electricity, which sucks because it negates some of the tech advantage.
I proposed World Fair but could barely get the silver medal prize. The AI has more cities and production than me.
I haven't been putting too much effort on Culture and almost none on Religion. I've been using my Great Writers and Artists for instant culture and golden ages.
I started on the coast that is not connected to the ocean, so I'm unable to explore the ocean. I have 8 CS waiting for me to discover a natural wonder, and I know it's sitting on a remote island somewhere but the best I can do is send an embarked unit to basically fumble around in the dark.
I've been feeding food caravans to my capital for a while and pumped it up pretty well, I think.
My biggest concern is Egypt. I passed him for the tech lead around turn 200, but his culture/tourism is massive. I was first to ideology (Freedom), followed by Egypt only a few turns later. He and China went Order and are giving me bigtime unhapiness penalty (I'm the only Freedom civ so far). To top it off, Egypt managed to pass World Ideology for Order due to all his CS allies. I'm at -2 happiness now, and I can probably nudge it back to positive but it'll be a constant struggle. At this point in Immortal games I'm usually sitting around +40 happiness with clear skies, so this is new to me.
Basically, does it look like Egypt will win a Cultural victory before I can win Science?
I got a 3 city NC at turn 80, Education turn 115. Zulu has been harassing me almost the entire game which forced me to hard build enough military units to defend myself. He was a real threat early on and almost captured Busan, but I fought him off and since then he's only been a pest. He planted a citadel next to me, which forced me to plant one of my own to reclaim Truffles.
My land contains no coal, no aluminum, no oil. I've never been deprived of all 3 in the same game. I had to wait to get some off the AI because I was first to get Industrialization/Electricity, which sucks because it negates some of the tech advantage.
I proposed World Fair but could barely get the silver medal prize. The AI has more cities and production than me.
I haven't been putting too much effort on Culture and almost none on Religion. I've been using my Great Writers and Artists for instant culture and golden ages.
I started on the coast that is not connected to the ocean, so I'm unable to explore the ocean. I have 8 CS waiting for me to discover a natural wonder, and I know it's sitting on a remote island somewhere but the best I can do is send an embarked unit to basically fumble around in the dark.
I've been feeding food caravans to my capital for a while and pumped it up pretty well, I think.
My biggest concern is Egypt. I passed him for the tech lead around turn 200, but his culture/tourism is massive. I was first to ideology (Freedom), followed by Egypt only a few turns later. He and China went Order and are giving me bigtime unhapiness penalty (I'm the only Freedom civ so far). To top it off, Egypt managed to pass World Ideology for Order due to all his CS allies. I'm at -2 happiness now, and I can probably nudge it back to positive but it'll be a constant struggle. At this point in Immortal games I'm usually sitting around +40 happiness with clear skies, so this is new to me.
Basically, does it look like Egypt will win a Cultural victory before I can win Science?
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