I find a lot of great little tips and strategies peppered through out these forums, but Man do I have to dig through some long posts for some one line suggestions. There are some great macro strategies and ideas that require lengthy topics but I thought it would be cool to here some one or two line ideas that people go to in almost every game. Might be a simple use of a policy card at a given time, your early build order and specifically why, or anything you seem to do on a consistent basis that you feel pretty smart about!
I know we have the big ones like, steal settlers early, conquer your neighbor or at least a few cities, save some trees and chop wonders with Magnus, well until the patch, just always chop with Magnus.
Here are 5 quick ideas that I consider important to me, obviously some are situational to whatever victory type I am going for.
1. Always build a scout second and explore with purpose. The exploration eurekas and goody huts are too valuable. Emperor and below.
2. When going for science victory or insane production build lots of IZ within 6 tiles of your production city so in the late game Magnus gives the IZ bonus effects from all of them.
3. I love a close ally in the late game. Policy card for globalization +5 production and diplomacy +4 production with ally on trade routes make for crazy space project production.
4. On religious victory for King or Emperor I always go for religious combat modifiers in policy cards and promotions. Killing the other civs religious units is the best way to spread religion to a tough civ with strong religion.
5. Antananarivo is my favorite city state. The 2% per great person on emperor and below keeps my culture up when I am going for space victory and makes it crazy high when I am going for culture. I personally almost always consider it the most important CS when I see it in game and I am not going religious victory (Yerevan for RV).
Okay maybe more than two lines but hopefully you guys get the idea. There are so many useful little tips out there that would be great to add to my strategies.
I know we have the big ones like, steal settlers early, conquer your neighbor or at least a few cities, save some trees and chop wonders with Magnus, well until the patch, just always chop with Magnus.
Here are 5 quick ideas that I consider important to me, obviously some are situational to whatever victory type I am going for.
1. Always build a scout second and explore with purpose. The exploration eurekas and goody huts are too valuable. Emperor and below.
2. When going for science victory or insane production build lots of IZ within 6 tiles of your production city so in the late game Magnus gives the IZ bonus effects from all of them.
3. I love a close ally in the late game. Policy card for globalization +5 production and diplomacy +4 production with ally on trade routes make for crazy space project production.
4. On religious victory for King or Emperor I always go for religious combat modifiers in policy cards and promotions. Killing the other civs religious units is the best way to spread religion to a tough civ with strong religion.
5. Antananarivo is my favorite city state. The 2% per great person on emperor and below keeps my culture up when I am going for space victory and makes it crazy high when I am going for culture. I personally almost always consider it the most important CS when I see it in game and I am not going religious victory (Yerevan for RV).
Okay maybe more than two lines but hopefully you guys get the idea. There are so many useful little tips out there that would be great to add to my strategies.