Quick Diety Win Strategy

[OmniPotent42]

If you are just looking to get an acheivement or are bored of long, tiresome games, this is your lucky day! This strategy only requires 40 turns, and will give you a win no matter what difficulty level, even Diety!

Map: Great Plains
Size: Duel
Civ: Atilla the Hun
Pace: Normal
Enemy Civ: Maria Theresa (Austrain Empire)

Tech order: Archery/The Wheel/Mining/Bronze Working
Build order: Warrior/Warrior/Horse Archer/Battering Ram/Horse Archer

Scout around with your warrior. Since it is a Great Plains map, you shouldn't have trouble moving around, anyway. You want to find an Ancient Ruins to give you "secrets of an advanced technology" which unlocks the UU battering ram. Threaten neigboring city states and take them over and puppet them. (Even on higher difficulty levels, city states start off at the same level you do.) Hopefully you can capture workers from the city states to start improving your land.

Once you finish The Wheel, begin working on Horse Archers. By now you have probably found the Austrians, so begin rallying your units to their borders, but leave one behind for defense against barbarians. You have hopefully taken over at least 2 other city-states, always demanding tribute before you take them over. You will have some unhappiness, but that's ok. You're not planning to grow your cities anyway.

With your gold you've saved, buy another Battering Ram. Immediately rally all combat units to their borders, and once you have, bring your battering rams toward the center and cover them with the Horse Archers. Your warriors are there to help absorb damage from enemy units, and can directly combat the city. Hopefully there aren't a lot of units around the capital. I guess I got a bit lucky on diety, b/c there were only 2 units near the capital, and no archer units at all.

If you do it right, you should have a victory by 2400 BC, less than 40 turns into the game. I have rarely seen a civ expand before then, so it should be a one-hit KO. My score was at the level of Augustus Caesar, with 10,371 points.

If anyone else has quick diety win strategies, feel free to share them here.

 

[Gilgamesch]

If you are just looking to get an acheivement or are bored of long, tiresome games, this is your lucky day! This strategy only requires 40 turns, and will give you a win no matter what difficulty level, even Diety!

Map: Great Plains
Size: Duel
Civ: Atilla the Hun
Pace: Normal
Enemy Civ: Maria Theresa (Austrain Empire)

Tech order: Archery/The Wheel/Mining/Bronze Working
Build order: Warrior/Warrior/Horse Archer/Battering Ram/Horse Archer

Scout around with your warrior. Since it is a Great Plains map, you shouldn't have trouble moving around, anyway. You want to find an Ancient Ruins to give you "secrets of an advanced technology" which unlocks the UU battering ram. Threaten neigboring city states and take them over and puppet them. (Even on higher difficulty levels, city states start off at the same level you do.) Hopefully you can capture workers from the city states to start improving your land.

Once you finish The Wheel, begin working on Horse Archers. By now you have probably found the Austrians, so begin rallying your units to their borders, but leave one behind for defense against barbarians. You have hopefully taken over at least 2 other city-states, always demanding tribute before you take them over. You will have some unhappiness, but that's ok. You're not planning to grow your cities anyway.

With your gold you've saved, buy another Battering Ram. Immediately rally all combat units to their borders, and once you have, bring your battering rams toward the center and cover them with the Horse Archers. Your warriors are there to help absorb damage from enemy units, and can directly combat the city. Hopefully there aren't a lot of units around the capital. I guess I got a bit lucky on diety, b/c there were only 2 units near the capital, and no archer units at all.

If you do it right, you should have a victory by 2400 BC, less than 40 turns into the game. I have rarely seen a civ expand before then, so it should be a one-hit KO. My score was at the level of Augustus Caesar, with 10,371 points.

If anyone else has quick diety win strategies, feel free to share them here.

Really you make a Diety guide for a duel map? And when you set anything perfectly for your civ you call it a guide. Anyway there are enough ways to bet the ai on Diety.
Even if you play on huge maps with random civs, you can find your way. I f you like i will post some strategies.

 

[OmniPotent42]

Really you make a Diety guide for a duel map? And when you set anything perfectly for your civ you call it a guide. Anyway there are enough ways to bet the ai on Diety.
Even if you play on huge maps with random civs, you can find your way. I f you like i will post some strategies.

Well, do any of your strategies work in less than 40 turns? I didn't think so.

 

[OmniPotent42]

Really you make a Diety guide for a duel map? And when you set anything perfectly for your civ you call it a guide. Anyway there are enough ways to bet the ai on Diety.
Even if you play on huge maps with random civs, you can find your way. I f you like i will post some strategies.

Sorry if I seemed rude. I actually think it would be possible to use this on any other map (except maybe islands) and even with bigger maps. The thing is that Atilla is extremely good against city states if you can battering ram rush with ruins. The main issue is happiness, and you don't want yo be caught by unhappiness in the early game. I'll have to test him out in some more games.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

If you're going to be gaming the system anyway, an easier way that doesn't involve nearly so much luck is to start in the last age, turn CSes off, beeline Globalization, build the UN, win. With only you and one opponent, you win the vote by default as you get an automatic vote for building the UN and the opponent can't vote for themselves.

 

[Adjuvant]

If you're going to be gaming the system anyway, an easier way that doesn't involve nearly so much luck is to start in the last age, turn CSes off, beeline Globalization, build the UN, win. With only you and one opponent, you win the vote by default as you get an automatic vote for building the UN and the opponent can't vote for themselves.

I lol'd. Thanks.

 

[Andulias]

If you're going to be gaming the system anyway, an easier way that doesn't involve nearly so much luck is to start in the last age, turn CSes off, beeline Globalization, build the UN, win. With only you and one opponent, you win the vote by default as you get an automatic vote for building the UN and the opponent can't vote for themselves.

owned!

 

[ShahJahanII]

Setting yourself up to win isn't a strategy.

 

[S.K. Ren]

For an ancient start as Atilla, just run your warrior at the opponents capital and hope you get a weapon upgrade hut on the way. Instant win!

 

[ggmoyang]

If you're going to be gaming the system anyway, an easier way that doesn't involve nearly so much luck is to start in the last age, turn CSes off, beeline Globalization, build the UN, win. With only you and one opponent, you win the vote by default as you get an automatic vote for building the UN and the opponent can't vote for themselves.

Actually I used this for win as X cis achievements and 100 wins+etc achievements.

 

[OmniPotent42]

owned!

As I said before, I think it would be possible to continue on with your captured civ and just take over your continent. This might have a practical use in a normal diety game.

 

[OmniPotent42]

For an ancient start as Atilla, just run your warrior at the opponents capital and hope you get a weapon upgrade hut on the way. Instant win!

That won't work on diety. Warriors own battering rams, and the AI starts off with like 3. City States are the only other cities that start at your level.

 

[Feyd Rautha]

If you're going to be gaming the system anyway, an easier way that doesn't involve nearly so much luck is to start in the last age, turn CSes off, beeline Globalization, build the UN, win. With only you and one opponent, you win the vote by default as you get an automatic vote for building the UN and the opponent can't vote for themselves.

I can't tell you how many times I've ragequit deity games in a vain attempt to get the Flawless Strategy achievement. You just made my day. Now I never have to play above my level again!

 

[Glassmage]

Austria
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[GlobularFoody]

I used a memory editor to give myself infinite culture back when the game was launched, wish I didn't because Deity win is actually a worthy achievement, unlike most of them.

 

[StormEye]

I am not sure why some posters are trying to put the OP down for his quick deity win strategy.

Its a 'quick' strategy for probably those who want the achievement, but without actually cheating using tools that are not standard to the game.

Not sure if it works quite well, but if it does, it sounds like a short victory, which gets the job done. It should take more than 40 turns to build UN, and getting vote takes longer.

Its not like he is trying to write a strategy that works against more 'regular' situation, but an achievement guide its pretty useful.

 

[thadian]

agreed, this "achievement" guide is pretty golden. when our just going for achievement it is irrelevant if your technique will work in a normal game.

 

[S.K. Ren]

That won't work on diety. Warriors own battering rams, and the AI starts off with like 3. City States are the only other cities that start at your level.

Not if the AI screws up and A) has a blank spot you can DoW, move into and attack in 1 turn and B) Has their Warriors 2 turn away due to rough terrain. I've seen it happen, just not as the Huns. 2 Turns should be enough to take the capital if you hit it ASAP.