A fun map, full of aggressive Civs who were easy to bribe. Immortal is a really nice break from Deity simply because I don't have to worry about falling behind in techs and can focus on all-out war.
I met Mongolia really early on and decided to go aggressive earlier than usual. After a scout/monument/granary I built 5 archers (2 later on as well) and camped around his capital earning xp, eventually taking it on about turn 70. He took out Kabul, the liberating of which enabled me to finish Honour by time I DOW'd Japan:
After the 5 archers I built a shrine to get God King. I had wanted food from camps but it went super early on so I delayed the shrine. I eventually got an extremely late religion, but it was useless so I just took production and ignored it.
I stole a Japanese (didn't want to DOW Attila before I was ready as he rarely makes peace afterwards) and a CS worker pretty early on.
I went for a 1-city NC on turn 80; planning to General bomb the truffles and wine later on since China+Honour earns GGs ridiculously quickly. One city was still enough to be the tech leader by the end of the game.
Japan/America were next in order to kill them before Samurai and Minutemen. All of the Civs in the east were Ancient/Classical powerhouses, but had many out of date Rams/Horse Archers/Hoplites/Legions left over. Well-promoted Chu-Ko-Nus made short work of them later on.
With my archers upgraded to CBs, I marched on Japan. It was a pretty uneventful conquest, as he had been pointlessly splashing units against Sidon's walls and had next to no army left. Tokyo died on turn 107 and I waited a couple of turns to upgrade to CKNs before hitting America. Washington fell after a quick swim across the sea:
While attacking Japan I built The Oracle and Great Wall (mainly to deny it) because I had hit my unit cap and needed other stuff to do.
Washington also had 8 wonders; Collossus, Chichen, Pyramids, Parthenon, Artemis, Terracotta, Hanging Gardens and Great Library. I annexed it to go full gold focus and stop it from growing. Only Washington and Karakorum were annexed.
I had prebuilt a road east and west of Karakorum in order to assault Boudicca quickly:
She died and I captured and razed her other 2 cities because they hindered my moving east to The Huns:
Next came the long march across the snow to kill Attila - actually really easy terrain to move across! Because he'd been warring Rome for so many turns, he had next to no army to deal with, though he had taken Rome's snow city Neapolis to the north.
As I started off towards Attila, I prepared a second army to finish Alex. Half of it landed north of him in the snow, and half to the south west of Athens (Astronomy helped here). He was the only AI with a decent army, but for some reason 15+ units headed south east towards Ragusa - probably aiming to hit Attila's Court I guess. I later bought Florence as an ally, so his entire army was effectively cut off from the fight:
Attila didn't put up much of a fight because, as I said earlier, he only had his 2 Ancient Era UUs and ironless swords because I sold him iron, not knowing he had none of his own:
I finished Astronomy just in time for a quick swim north to besiege Rome and took it on the same turn as Athens to finish the game up:
Main army: 7 archers/comps/CKNs, 1-2 spears/pikes, 1 warrior/sword. 2 knights later on.
Social Policies: full honour, 4 commerce.
Techs: Philosophy ---> Construction ---> Machinery ---> Civil Service ---> Education ---> Chivalry ---> Astronomy (with GS bulb).
I play Civ 5 for war and war only. You're unlikely to see me go for another victory condition because I get bored easily, sorry
