So i've had Civ V since it first came out and I have admittedly NEVER completed a game (Ok once on a duel map on chieftan but come on thats a bit pathetic 
). I always seem to lose interest but since the new patch and tweaks, I thought I might as well give it another shot and i'm really glad I did 
!
I am the chinese, on a large continental map, King difficulty, not really focused on any particular victory but I didnt want to do a conquest win (I really do suck at conducting big wars). I settled my first three cities and scouted the map out a bit. Sea and two or three city states lay to the south and east, a majority of other civs on the west side except for an isolated Askia to the north and two other civs (didnt know until I got satellites) on a seperate continent. Went straight for Writing and after that spammed RA's with every civ I could and traded all my excess luxuries for others I didnt have access to, so I was running a pretty tight economy.
The first thorn in my side came from Ghandi, who apparently wanted some of my resource-rich land. Needless to say he was quickly put in his place and I acquired Mumbai in my endeavor. He remained for most of the game a OPM but a very valuble buffer state from the other Civs. Askia proved to be a much bigger menace
Askia had the largest land coverage, army, economy and was techologically on par with me. Naturally as I was their biggest threat and only neighbour, it was only a matter of time until he asserted his power. Thankfully I had anticipated this and already had a small army prepared near my border. As soon as he DoW'd me I marched towards his nearest city of Jenne. I think his main plan was to besiege Mumbai, but as that meant cutting through a CS, I managed to pick off most of these units with my UU (They are amazing, two attacks per turn which also carries when you upgrade them!!!).
Jenne fell pretty quickly and secured a large area of undefended land around my capital. AI placed it pretty well as it had only a mountain and sea on its right side, and a CS and more sea on the left! Plus he had kindly built Machu Piccu for me! By now the money was pouring in, and I remained the undesputed "King of Cash" for the rest of the game. Bismark now wants a piece of me! After lending him gold and resources, that ungrateful bas*ard decides he wants Mumbai (jeez I dont know why they always went for that city).
Bismark didnt last too long, as his empire was bottom of the tables in all aspects. After I gently forced Hamburg off him, he resolved to be my truest ally all game, probably because he was left with one pathetic city at end game and completely reliant on me. Even India finally managed to take one using just cannons and their UU in the 1900's.
Completely safe on all sides but north, thanks to the joint Indian and German buffer zones, I decided to focus all my resources into defending Jenne. I knew it would only be a matter of time before Askia came knocking at my door again, and sure enough he did. It turned into the longest stalemate war all game. He had more units which prevented any kind of a attack over the hills that seperated us, and I had a stronger defence around Jenne (UU!) which destroyed anything he threw at me. Eventually after a long repetitive campaign, he agreed to a small defeat and one of his stronger cities thrown in!
From this point I pretty much ran the top spot for the rest of the game, and won an eventual Science victory in 2010! The two top Civ's below me were both on the other continent after gobbling up Siam, so I had no threat from them. Napoleon eventually attacked most of the other civs in the 1950's, took Germanys capital and were well on their way to destroying them entirely. Thankfully his last city was on a tiny peninsular and thanks to my superior technology, I blew his foreign legion into the air with rocket artillary and Mechinised Infantry. I then captured Berlin, cutting France off and white peaced with him. Askia tried again and I unknowingly annexed his Capital! Didn't realise it was his capital but after that he gave me everything he owned, bar his cities which retired him as a threat.
Suprisingly, Alexander didnt attack me once, and seemed a pretty honest guy all game. At some point he got a bit envious because I built a couple of his favourite wonders but it never came to blows. Noone had ANY gold left by the late 1800's, so no RA's. Never managed to get any oil tiles and didnt see any all game, but Askia must of had some because he peaced some to me.
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). I always seem to lose interest but since the new patch and tweaks, I thought I might as well give it another shot and i'm really glad I did !I am the chinese, on a large continental map, King difficulty, not really focused on any particular victory but I didnt want to do a conquest win (I really do suck at conducting big wars). I settled my first three cities and scouted the map out a bit. Sea and two or three city states lay to the south and east, a majority of other civs on the west side except for an isolated Askia to the north and two other civs (didnt know until I got satellites) on a seperate continent. Went straight for Writing and after that spammed RA's with every civ I could and traded all my excess luxuries for others I didnt have access to, so I was running a pretty tight economy.
The first thorn in my side came from Ghandi, who apparently wanted some of my resource-rich land. Needless to say he was quickly put in his place and I acquired Mumbai in my endeavor. He remained for most of the game a OPM but a very valuble buffer state from the other Civs. Askia proved to be a much bigger menace
Askia had the largest land coverage, army, economy and was techologically on par with me. Naturally as I was their biggest threat and only neighbour, it was only a matter of time until he asserted his power. Thankfully I had anticipated this and already had a small army prepared near my border. As soon as he DoW'd me I marched towards his nearest city of Jenne. I think his main plan was to besiege Mumbai, but as that meant cutting through a CS, I managed to pick off most of these units with my UU (They are amazing, two attacks per turn which also carries when you upgrade them!!!).
Jenne fell pretty quickly and secured a large area of undefended land around my capital. AI placed it pretty well as it had only a mountain and sea on its right side, and a CS and more sea on the left! Plus he had kindly built Machu Piccu for me
! By now the money was pouring in, and I remained the undesputed "King of Cash" for the rest of the game. Bismark now wants a piece of me! After lending him gold and resources, that ungrateful bas*ard decides he wants Mumbai (jeez I dont know why they always went for that city). Bismark didnt last too long, as his empire was bottom of the tables in all aspects. After I gently forced Hamburg off him, he resolved to be my truest ally all game, probably because he was left with one pathetic city at end game and completely reliant on me. Even India finally managed to take one using just cannons and their UU in the 1900's.
Completely safe on all sides but north, thanks to the joint Indian and German buffer zones, I decided to focus all my resources into defending Jenne. I knew it would only be a matter of time before Askia came knocking at my door again, and sure enough he did. It turned into the longest stalemate war all game. He had more units which prevented any kind of a attack over the hills that seperated us, and I had a stronger defence around Jenne (UU!) which destroyed anything he threw at me. Eventually after a long repetitive campaign, he agreed to a small defeat and one of his stronger cities thrown in!
From this point I pretty much ran the top spot for the rest of the game, and won an eventual Science victory in 2010! The two top Civ's below me were both on the other continent after gobbling up Siam, so I had no threat from them. Napoleon eventually attacked most of the other civs in the 1950's, took Germanys capital and were well on their way to destroying them entirely. Thankfully his last city was on a tiny peninsular and thanks to my superior technology, I blew his foreign legion into the air with rocket artillary and Mechinised Infantry. I then captured Berlin, cutting France off and white peaced with him. Askia tried again and I unknowingly annexed his Capital! Didn't realise it was his capital but after that he gave me everything he owned, bar his cities which retired him as a threat.
Suprisingly, Alexander didnt attack me once, and seemed a pretty honest guy all game. At some point he got a bit envious because I built a couple of his favourite wonders but it never came to blows. Noone had ANY gold left by the late 1800's, so no RA's. Never managed to get any oil tiles and didnt see any all game, but Askia must of had some because he peaced some to me.
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