strategy to cripple/troll human opponent's domination victory

[Saaboy]

hi all,

i've been playing on-and-off since civ 3 but never with the difficulty levels and depth as discussed on these forums. i've played 2 FFA civ5 games recently with a friend and 8 civs, 16 CS, continents, normal speed, normal/temperate everything. these games devolved to all-out war as usual. i want my opponents war dreams to come crashing down like a ton of bricks; more specifically in the form of mass unhappiness, large -GPT, or at least defeating this opponent with a slow, creeping, peaceful victory type.

I've tried morocco in single player in the hopes of 'controlling the world economy' but am not sure if that will work.

can you please recommend some strategies i can use to cripple and frustrate my friend? any ideas?

edit: friend usually plays with Egypt; not sure why.
edit2: playing with BNW & G&K

 

[Foffaren]

Just want to troll? Control the world congress is a good way to start. Blocking settler and worker movement. Stealing settler and workers. So many ways to be a douche. Some will hate you, others will learn to not let their settlers go without an escort. If they don't learn then they are bad and you should take full advantage of that.

No expansions or improvement = no happiness or gold.
Just remember that trolling tends to make you a target. Don't be a easy target.

 

[CraigMak]

Well, your civ can't really directly affect your opponent's happiness or GPT. The only way to really do that is to pillage their roads, luxuries and caravans. For this kind of strategy I suggest a civ with a good horse unit like Greece. Greece is also good at controlling the world congress to vote against them which can be very crippling.

If you want to slow their military advancements and crush their dreams of domination, the great wall is a must as well as placing cities in extremely defensible locations such as behind mountains, in choke points, on hills, behind trees etc...

Forward settling them with Shoshone is pretty devastating and OP troll mode as well.

 

[civjou]

Well, your civ can't really directly affect your opponent's happiness or GPT.

Buying their city states (especially mercantile), tourism with a different ideology, banning luxuries in world congress, passing competing ideology in the world congress, banning trade, converting their cities if your religion doesn't have happiness and theirs does - this also affects gold if their religion does that.

 

[salocin097]

I'd say. Religion shonshine fwd settling. And ideology

 

[Godspark]

Choose Huns, get one or two rams and take his capital on about turn 30-40

Choose Assyria, get one Siege tower and two spearmen and take his capital on about turn 45-60

 

[MadHaxxor]

Heres something I did once. Played as polynesia on continents. Got really lucky because I was on my own continent surrounded by ocean tiles. I sent my warrior to explore and ran into Spain and Venice. Spain got a lucky 500 gold from a wonder and decided to buy 2 caravans right away for a nice little snowball effect on his economy. Right around the time he bought them my warrior was there and I pillaged them both. Got myself 200 gold and nullified spains UA. Needless to say Spain and the guy he was trading with hated me for the rest of the game. Later on I sent horseman just to find and pillage more, and some triremes too. The best part about it was the fact that I was the only one who could cross ocean tiles, meaning they couldnt hurt me for another 120 turns at least

 

[Laurwin]

greece and sweden are quite good at this strategy because of city state influence bonus.

patronage helps get CS allies in early-game and mid-game
Freedom policy is also quite good with arsenal of democracy... You spam cheap production obsolete units like lancers, and gift them to CS for cheap influence... you will be able to get congress on your side easily like that.

Then you make nasty decisions to cripple your enemies with congress votes. But, you would still need some amount of tourism to cause unhappiness problems to your enemy, even though you pass world ideology of your own...

On the flipside, he could even change to the same world ideology as you! lose the unhappiness from ideology pressure. But, for the short term he would suffer a little bit. Because of losing policy when switching.