Possible Stragey to beat Diety

Rustypipe

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Hey,

Well my last 5 games or so I'v been bent on beating Diety settings. After a few hopeless attempts on any kind of land rush map I switched to a duel contients map. Apon this attempt I faired really well and figured I would continue down this path and try my luck. Here is what I found and belive can beat a comp on Diety setting.

Now keep in mind this stragey is a roll of the dice and will only work if you a good roll of the dice. With that in mind here it is:

Start a game on a duel contients map.
Pick your fav civ for me I picked Chineese with Ind/Fin all though I'm sure Phil/Creative would work great as well or any other civ if played right.

Now use your normal stragey when play on a hard settings where you build warriors till your city hits a pop of 3 then settler and then a worker. Making sure your settler has an escort to your next city. Then another settler from your main or try for stonehedge if you can your choice and just keep expanding and building miltary units while rushing your regilion techs. Not to long after you should hopefully have your contient full with 1-3 relgions. Now at this point the comp is destorying you in score becuase of its handicap but here is where the roll of the dice comes in. With a little luck the comp got a poor contient or a small one at that. Best case senario is a small one, which means the comp can't use its MASSIVE diety expanding powers till it gets galleys or even more if there is no small islands near buy. This gives you time to catch up in the tech race.

From here you have two choices, either race to the sea and prevent the comp from expanding via destorying any transport / galley ships to any other islands or populat them before he can. From here on in you will have more pop, more cities, more tech.

If you manage to get to this point your best bet is try and win the space race. This is what I attempted but right before i could finish my last piece somehow the comp pulled a culture victory out of secret culture stash and won, but I feel in the right conditions victory can be yours and I plan to give this another shot tonight.

Now I know this is not a ground breaking stragey in anyway and highly depends on luck, but hey lucks a part of games :D and I thought i would share this with everyone to see if anyone could manage to beat diety. If anyone has any other ways of beating it let me know :D or share your stories.
 
The best way to prevent a culture victory is to build up a massive, technologically superior army before the AI can land on your continent. If you're lucky, and he's the smaller guy, invade him before he can reach your shores. His production handicap will likely balance your size advantage, but you should be able to hurt him without much reprisal (once he can land on you, though, you'll get into trouble). You may want to consider torching anything you take.
 
Yeah I will try a number of ways this time around but the problem with invading him is usally he has his magical research diety handicap so by the time i'm finished expanding and bigger then him or trying prevent him from getting any bigger he is still ahead of min the tech tree and has much stronger more advanced units. It isn't till I cut him off from expansion is when I finally propell past him in the tech tree.

Tonight through i'm hoping he gets a really small desert island :D but we'll see what the map generator gives me :P, but thanks for the info i will defently give it a try :D
 
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