My First Diplomatic Victory on Prince

[joekong]

In previous games I tried to have a diplomatic victory through UN I built and failed all the time. This time as Ramesses I got religion victory all of a sudden.

What I did:

1) Found a religion (through Oracle then Code of Law: Confucianism) as a state religion

2) Spread Confucianism to all 9 cities

3) Build the AP

4) Only send a few missionaries to other civs

5) Propose diplomatic victory and got the minimum 423 votes to win (334 votes from myself, 99 votes from Cyrus who has the most votes other than me, and 17 votes from Elizabeth who has the least votes)


While seeking a space victory in this game, I paid no attention to the AP resolution. As I wondered why no diplomatic victory was offered since I built the AP, I then found that Elizabeth has no city with Confucianism. So I sent a missionary to one of her city and spread Confucianism. Once Elizabeth became a voting member, the diplomatic victory option shown up and I won accordingly. I never believed it is so easy!

 

[madscientist]

Congrats!

Some say the Ap diplo victory is cheap or broken. I beg to differ, as in my experience it can be as difficult to get as the UN.

 

[CivMcNut]

My main experience with this was when I played a pangea map and took out two rivals before the game got going good. Then I was asked by the Portugese (score leader) to join Buddism at the time there was only the one city but I noticed that the Persians and the Chinese were both buddists also.

That left me and the Egyptians the lone Jewish Civs. I switched to Buddism and declared war on the Egyptians, my closest neighbor and now the only one with a diplomatic penalty. During the war the AP was built by the Portugese, seeing that I immediately started spreading the religion, even with the war going on. We voted a dogpile war on the Egyptians and wiped Hatty out. After that there were 4 Civs left, all buddist, all buddy buddy with each other when all of a sudden the resolution came for a victory. I didn't even expect it, but they voted me the winner in something absurd like 1300AD, it was my highest score I've ever had.

Best thing to do is to have a large empire with all the cities having the AP religion so you never miss out on a chance for an easy win.