What's your most common type of victory?

[Robert_Marshall]

I usually get Domination or Time. I usually have Space Race turned off though. I got tired of it in prior to Civ4.

 

[Robert_Marshall]

There is no option for "None", so I will say Diplomatic.

You must be playing the higher level. Good one.

 

[Ruler]

How do you achieve "Cultural" win in the Warlords expansion anyway? I see that you need 3 cities with "Legendary" culture but what is considered legendary?

I'm not very experienced with Culture Victory I recently started to play on Shuffle so it has become an option for me on standard map and epic speed legendary culture is 75k, how it basically works, you need 9 cities for 9 temples for 3 stupa (50% culture), people are saying this is necessary so I guess it's, anyway pick 3 of your best commerce cities and build every culture building you can think of, wonders help you here, after liberalism-run, research only towards necessary so for better units, upgrade your own units and trade tecnology with your friends which you should have as many as possible it doesn't matter on culture win. If everything goes right your cities should give 500-800 culture per turn later with 100% culture slider just to know you are on right track.

 

[Jenarie]

It can be done with six cities as well - I find that my palace is usually pretty far ahead of the other cities and can do without the cathedrals if I don't have enough cities to put them in all three.

Or if you have a good great artist farm you can put the cathedrals in your highest two cities and plan to add all your artists to the city that is behind but I think this would be risky (for me at least since I haven't learned to farm people well yet).

"Legendary" in a normal game is 50k but depending on your game settings it can vary... iirc it is 75k at epic and 25k on quick but I could be wrong.

 

[King Flevance]

Really mine is a tie for space and culture. Then I would say domination. I am surprised to see cultural so far down on the list. I think it is the easiest victory to get. I have achieved it on accident twice now.

I think cultural victory (legendary) on marathon is 150000. The best way to do them for me is to pick 3 cities (usually one is your capital) and only dedicate them to building wonders and any other cultural buildings. If they dont have a building to make, they farm culture. 3 cities that are always culture, culture, culture, and more culture. They are entirely supported by the remainder of your nation. Everything else, I throw at domination. Or space when that starts to show up. But alot of times I can hit cultural victory before the space program even shows up.

Also, once you get drama get some cities with some artists to start farming some. Add them as specialists to the lowest CPT city of the 3. Always rush for things that add a % value to culture like acadamies or whatever that require 7 temples. If you end up in late game, get the broadcast towers in asap. It also helps if you can keep EVERY wonder you build in one of those 3 cities.

No other cities get wonders with the exception of a couple national wonders. Obviously, you dont wanna waste you heroic epic in a city that will never build units.

 

[Jorunkun]

IMHO, it's sound strategy to tailor your victory types to the situation you encounter. On isolated starts, I will try for diplomatic or culture; with big continents domination or space etc.

Most commonly, I play for domination and wind up with diplomatic (backdoor domination by voting myself to victory) because it's less of a hassle.