What should i do!!??

[Altern Pa]

Hi,
I m not able to understand for which victory should i go for, all my neighbors are friendly to me, so should i go for
1) conquest or Domination
2) time
3) space.

i dont want to go far cultural victory....
So, Please Do reply.
I m attaching a save from my game for you to check out....

 

[Anysense]

Hi,
I m not able to understand for which victory should i go for

Whichever you like most. Domination is the shortest way to victory, if that is what you are after. Shame its not BtS, religious victory would be even faster.

 

[Altern Pa]

It is BTS

 

[sampsa]

BtS saves are *.CIVBEYONDSWORDSAVE. The save you gave is *.CIV4SAVEDGAME, which I guess must be Vanilla. I have only BtS installed and can't open it.

 

[timmy827]

From your current point, Domination is best. Use your Nationhood to draft muskets while having your cities all build catapults plus a few other misc units.
Research should queue Rifling which allows even stronger drafting.
You are working a ton of bare forests and unimproved tiles...for this game it means you can whip/draft a lot of those pop into military to start your conquest push. For future games, really need a lot more workers.

 

[Anysense]

Why muskets and catapults? Make all your cities whip cavalry and roll over the map. And yes, that's vanilla save, and that is also why you can build cavalry without rifling.
Edit: A few cities will first have to whip granary.

 

[Pangaea]

I've never played vanilla, so sorry if this is an ignorant question, but if all your neighbours are friendly with you, wouldn't diplo be a good way? Or is that a BTS only feature? It's pretty deep in the tech tree, though, at least in BTS. So yeah, domination is fastest.

 

[Lennier]

You’d have to tech up to Mass Media and build the UN to get diplo, if the other five are friendly enough with you ( and not the #2 Civ) to vote for you . OP is only on muskets now; looks like domination would be quicker.

Note no AP or vassals in vanilla.

 

[Altern Pa]

Used some Cavalry, Got Alexander's 5 cities including his capital.. And Thanks for the tips...

 

[Altern Pa]

Hello Again,
Now i again have a prob with Alexander,
He has got Rifleman..
I got to Sparta with an army of 10 Cavalry.
His 2 Rifleman killed 6 of my troops and the rest 4 are in worst condition.(too low helath). And he still has his 2 Rifleman Alive..

 

[Fizz'l]

Hello Again,
Now i again have a prob with Alexander,
He has got Rifleman..
I got to Sparta with an army of 10 Cavalry.
His 2 Rifleman killed 6 of my troops and the rest 4 are in worst condition.(too low helath). And he still has his 2 Rifleman Alive..

Definitely need to check the combat odds before attacking if you lost 6 units for zero kills. Is Sparta on a hill? What's the cultural defense? Looks like you need some siege units to take it especially now he has two highly promoted units defending it.

 

[Anysense]

May be just attack someone else? Or replay this part and try to improve, if Alex got rifles then you definitely were rather slow. I made a quick run, and by the time I had taken 6 cities he did not even have Printing Press let alone Rifling.

 

[Altern Pa]

I got 2 of his cities, after upgrading my riflemen to infantry.. and that too highly defended cities but now i dont think i can go for domination vic. M in 1900s