Too easy as Emperor, too hard as Immortal...

[OneManShow]

Hello,

I noticed i win easily when playing as Emperor(watch the pic), but i loose everytime when playing Immortal. Anyone know why there is a such difference ? Any tips to win as immortal

 

[Martin Alvito]

The huge jump in difficulty probably results from the AI starting with Workers, which take you forever to build the hard way. Unless you steal Workers from an AI or city-states, it's like giving the AI a 15 turn head start on you (plus whatever improvement-building speed bonus they get).

Long story short - you have to play more efficiently to win on Immortal. Stealing a Worker from a city-state or AI rather than building one will speed your development along. Settling cities more aggressively will help. Taking advantage of Maritime allies to work lots of Hammer tiles early on will help. Learning to Warrior rush nearby AIs will help.

 

[vihta]

Yeah, I noticed Immortal is a lot more challenging than Emperor. Currently I'm fighting Persia and it's really slow progress. Doesn't help that it's mostly rough terrains and rivers in their territory. Also Persia's special unit is pretty nasty and they seem to have bucketloads of them. Captured one city so I'm slowly making progress but having 6(!) horsemen I expected a steamroll, but it's more like a trench war

 

[OneManShow]

yes, i always steal a worker from city state but it takes long time too cause you have to wait the city state build it. I dont think problem is workers, but the science. AI start with a lot of tech
Anyways it seems even combat are harder

 

[cman2010]

I dont play on imortal, but I can say that most civ games have been this way there is usualy a huge jump in difficulty from say prince to king ex. It has always been this way.