What difficulty level is the lowest you have beaten?

[Emperor Giulio]

Whoever voted Deity, show your face!

It seems some people started on Monarch too, with a totally new game thats pretty sick

When I look at the HOF it makes me and want to hang my head in shame.

Those guys should get paid to be that good at the game.

 

[Diamondeye]

Felt sadistic and went random duel on settler. Ended up crushing petty Korean archers with my Knights.

 

[oldsaxon]

Settler. I got sick of popping barbs and maps from huts at my normal difficulties, so I went off for a jaunt on Easy and made it my mission to get all the huts I could. Along the way, I happened to win... it wasn't too hard.

 

[digitCruncher]

What there should be is some sort of insanely difficult varient rules, so that even the best people would have trouble winning on Settler. Something like: One city challange, with no OCC option, and workers and settlers both banned for the human player (Or maybe, knowing some 1337 players, that would be too easy... )

Good luck

Oh, and I have won on Warlord. Its the only difficulty that I can both WIN and not become bored with. I have "won" with settler, but I couldn't bring myself to the final bit of victory...

 

[qwertz]

What there should be is some sort of insanely difficult varient rules, so that even the best people would have trouble winning on Settler. Something like: One city challange, with no OCC option, and workers and settlers both banned for the human player (Or maybe, knowing some 1337 players, that would be too easy... )

Well there are allready some insane settings. Ever won a allways peace domination victory?

 

[Jabarto]

When I first played Civ 4 (Vanilla), I won on Settler. I had only played Civ 3 beforehand, and was abysmal at it, so I REALLY tried to make my first Civ 4 game easy. In retrospect, I think I went a little overboard; the lowest difficulty and Huge archipelago map with 4 other players ensured that I never saw combat until the modern age, at which point I nuked my Rennaisance era neighbor for no adequate reason. Mao wasn't too pleased with that, but I sure was. My very first mushroom cloud...oh, was it glorious.

 

[Diamondeye]

When I first played Civ 4 (Vanilla), I won on Settler. I had only played Civ 3 beforehand, and was abysmal at it, so I REALLY tried to make my first Civ 4 game easy. In retrospect, I think I went a little overboard; the lowest difficulty and Huge archipelago map with 4 other players ensured that I never saw combat until the modern age, at which point I nuked my Rennaisance era neighbor for no adequate reason. Mao wasn't too pleased with that, but I sure was. My very first mushroom cloud...oh, was it glorious.

Go nukes!

 

[DragonHawk]

My first 2 games on Civ4 Vanilla was on Warlord, won both, upped the difficulty to Noble and never looked back

 

[Civfan333]

I won at Settler! Go me!