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>be Iroquois
>4 cities but a large empire
>friends with another large empire
>mid game with only 3 military units freak the fuck out of the Aztecs because of my "power"
>Americans try to go to war with me, but my capital is production powerhouse
>build standing army
>America backs down
>My ally keeps telling me Romans are plotting against me, and they are planning to march on my cities
>whatever
>explore
>Aztecs and Americans are in a perpetual border war every goddamn turn
>Aztecs took an American city a long time ago
>No one really winning these wars
>"Hey Washington is a threat to us"
>"Hey Montezuma is a threat to us"
>me and my ally chilling the fuck out
>Defensive pacts
>Open Borders
>Keep catching Aztec spies and killing them
>Always forgive the Aztec's because they are weak.
>realize at some point i'll have to tell them that spying on me is a no-no.
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>>334713029

Whats the best way to win this game?
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>>334713726
culture
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>>334713726
I usually just go the autocracy route and try to win by conquering other civs.
However, I also try to do science, and culture.
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>>334713963
>>334713726
Science is the easiest and quickest
Diplomacy is second
Culture is the hardest on higher difficulties thanks to the AI bonuses
Domination is the most intensive victory and the only one that doesn't completely end with only pressing "next turn"
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>>334714880
>>334713963
>>334713935
All pleb answers, dominate weaker civs culturally to not bother trudging through them and eradicate the stronger civs.
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>>334713029
Endless legend > Shitilization V
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>>334713029
Why are the 2 most important expansions still 30$. I cant find any vanilla multiplayer games..
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>>334713726
Seems conquering is the most natural form of winning this game.
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>>334716016
you shouldnt even play this game without BNW
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>>334713726
Culture by nuking whoever has highest culture
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>>334716123
I realized this after only 50hrs 2bh
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>>334713029
I really hate civ, how can I learn to hate it less?
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>>334716454
what do you hate about it
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>>334716454
Play with some tasty juice
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>>334716604
or some tasty treats
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>>334716575
i don't really like the mid game, the early game and the end game are a lot of fun but the mid game which feels like the bulk of the game is a mess.

Falling behind is almost impossible to overcome if anyone notices and puts pressure on you and you some times dont realize you've fallen behind until like 10 turns later.

I dunno maybe it's because I only have 40 hours in the game and I'm playing with people that have 400-1000 hours so I don't actually feel like I'm learning anything.
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>>334717210
>git gud
A lot of it i think is your placement of cities
I usually just play singleplayer though. I think its harder for me to start, but as soon as it picks up it gets good Mid game im usually trying to just focus on income, wonders, and culture, and science.
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>>334716454
Also make a goal to nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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>>334713726

Not playing the game

Otherwise you are going to get sucked in for hours
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>>334717841
HOURS
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http://www.pcgamer.com/stop-nerfing-the-plague-strategy-games/

one of the comments:

"There is an excellent Civ V mod that introduces plagues and they can seriously handicap you to the point of being non-viable as a superpower. I've had them hit my capital early on and keep it at 2-4 pop while the rest of the world is at 9-13, it's equally awesome to see it done to your enemies.

Combine that with the Emigration mod and I think it's an incredibly accurate macro model of how plagues work, productivity and population fall (which in Civ V directly relates to workable tiles) and additional populace move to other non-infected regions."

Anyone played with these mods? Any reviews on how fun they are?
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>>334716016
Complete edition goes on sale for $10-$12 all the time
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>>334718043
>playing with any other mods than NQ or CBP, which I have no experience with but heard it's okay
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>Become friends with every other civ
>trade frequently, give and take embassies and open borders
>research agreements
>citizens are almost always happy because of access to exotic luxury resources
>don't build military units, focus everything on production and economy
>military units have stupid upkeep costs that will drag your economy downhill real quick
>in the case that someone DOES attack you, your production level is so high and you have enough gold saved up that you have twice the size of their army built up by the time they reach your borders
>they back off, offer peace treaties
>stay neutral in every external military conflict, don't offer alliances
>propose mutually beneficial world congress bills
>every other civ loves you
>can change gears and focus culture, diplomatic, or science victory at any time while the other civs are beating the shit out of eachother. you could even build up an army in 10 turns and go for domination
>everyone is your friend and gives you open borders, so you can send great musicians overseas and boost culture, more access to caravan/trade ship routes
Why would you ever play non-peaceful?
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>>334720378
>Why would you ever play non-peaceful?

Well, if you get out of the Prince level, you'd see that sometimes you have to be prepared for early/midgame aggression.
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>>334720378

this only works on King or lower. and on King only on an archipelago
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>>334720378
In case you ever play with Egypt
>be France
Try to build wonders for the tasty bonuses
>keep getting beat out
>getting pissed but still have powerful empire
>find out egypt is in the game
>lot of science since Egypt is cucking my extra culture
>keep plugging away, empire is doing well, people are happy
>happiness starts floating between -2 and 5 but have stupid amounts of gold
>begin building military
>allies tell me Egypt is bad news and we should go to war
>deal.jpeg
>fuck Egypt's shit up and take virtually entire empire and take best cities
>happiness jumps up from 1 to 35
>continue to fuck Egypt up until they are just a 1 city empire place in a brand new city with a population of 3
Good stuff
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>>334720060
> Green texting about shit you know nothing about
Go try advanced barbarians with the white walkers mod on Immortal or deity instead of shitposting, shit's fun as hell.
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>>334720954
>In case you ever play with Egypt
I don't play with Egypt, I'm playing Egypt. :^)
Base game Egypt was fucking OP
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>>334720060
Red pill me on NQ, is it just tweaks to the original values of the game or does it have some drastic changes to it?
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>>334722008
Makes the game more balanced in the "competitive" sense, more fun to play against other players who know their shit.

I myself play it in Single Player too, because the tweaks are so enjoyable to play with. I get bored if the game is too easy with certain nations/strategies, so it's the go to for me.

The most drastic change could be the removal of Venice, which doesn't really affect the single player that much.. HOWEVER the Pantheons, Social Policies and the Ideologies have been changed a LOT which makes other strategies much more viable.
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>>334713029
I can only play Civ5 on the easy or slightly-less-easy difficulty. What's the appeal of playing on harder difficulties? I feel like I fall behind before anyone, AI or Player, even hits the second age.

>>334720378
>Not conquering the world as glorious Nippon
>Not killing tanks with Samurai armed with 1000-folded Katana
>Not generating culture with your sushi
>Not fucking England's navy with your bushido passive
>Not spreading the spiritual Shinto religion to small and weak nations that don't want to piss you off
>Not nuking America by the end of the game
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>>334721320
I usually play alone and do random and just tough it out unless the civ is particularly garbage like japan
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>>334716016
Go to G2A or some discount site, complete edition is on sale for like $9.
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>>334717354
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Would anyone want to play with me to introduce me to the game? I only have a basic, surface level understanding and want to learn how to git gud.
Steam name is The Fresh Czar of Bel Air.
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>>334726230

play as babbylon. difficulty 1. figure out systems
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>>334726230
just try out new things
some advice i can give you though: do the most useful from your starting situation as possible, so for example if you get a bunch of desert hills, try to rush petra, if you got alot of copper/silver, go for that one religion belief that gives loads of faith, same with marble/stone etc
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>>334726674
>>334726917
I'd rather play with someone over Skype or something.
It could be that I'm just lonely
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>>334726230
>asking people to teach you how to play civ, a game series thats been around for fucking 25 years

you know, google would probably help.
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>>334727082
>it could be that I'm just lonely
where am I supposed to find bros to play vidya with? fuck
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>>334726230
I'll be home in 3 hours if you don't get taught by then
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>use a Great Engineer to rush a wonder
>"Napoleon has finished the Sistine Chapel!"
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>>334727303
just ask around subtly in your favorite game threads on v and hope you dont get any annoying ERP/brony faggots
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>>334727407
Yeah, I won't be home for 2 hours. Steam name?
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>Not dominating other civs with your military machine

Playing it wrong.
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>USA
>hate non-coastal cities but settle for an inland capital
>washington ends up putting out 250 hammers per turn

that seemed like a lot, i've never gotten that much since i've played. i've got a little over 500 hours in game
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>>334727445
civ games take a really long time, like a quick game from ancient era to modern era takes an entire day. a marathon game could easily take a week.

you're asking for people to invest their valuable time teaching a casual how to play a series that has been around for a QUARTER OF A CENTURY, when you somehow can't even grasp the basics of things like specialist cities.
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>>3347130

You're the Celts, not the Iroquois in your pic. Unless it isn't related.
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>>334727897

war is easy. diplo victory when alex or venice is the favored son of the AI, or culture when brazil or napoleon is
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>>334727897
domination is boring to me because i like doing late game domination, which means you have to set up shit tons of cultural defense, figure out how to curtail AI science production, and also political infrastructure to ensure nobody can get voted in as world leader.
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>>334713029
been playing civ 4 for years and love it. worth moving to 5? i've read the AI is way worse in 5.
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Capturing cities is a pain without artillery.
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>>334729274

i agree. i did a no artillery domination victory a few days ago.

was a pain in the ass, but i came to appreciate melee ships a lot more
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>>334716016
nigga the complete edition is like 12$ every 2-3 months

>>334720060
>>334722008
>>334722748
Link to it?
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>>334713726

90% of my games end with a Diplomatic victory. Since buying all the city states with gold helps you with every other win condition and blocks toe World Congress. And it is the first victory condition that can be done. You can win the game in the Atomic age before anyone else has even researched a space part or gotten to Tourism.

>>334715824

>Endless Legend is better!
Every thread.
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>>334713029

>Play with Ai's
>Hardly any wars happen

>Play with friends
>Wars take up 80% of the game turns

How does /v/ play this game with friends? Because goddamn the amount of wars that get started over trivial things like getting world religion established for my city makes everyone go ballistic. I mean cmon nigga's its the first world congress and I have forbidden palace, theres 2 of you and only 1 of me, vote to repeal it at next congress. But nooooooooooooooo, Go ahead an annex me like fucking warmongers. Some nigga's can't take the heat.
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>>334727441

At least you get a cash return for trying to build it.
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>>334727441
this is where you reload the game

having another civ beat you to a wonder is one thing, fine, whatever. not when i use a fucking great engineer. UNACCEPTABLE.
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>>334727441
>Civ beats you to wonder
>All your production is reduced to gold and given to you
>When you're already making fistfuls of cash every turn because you're not retarded
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are there mods that aren't Project:M tier retarded "muh Civ IV" shit?

like, one of the popular mods has the stupid "we don't want the variety of civs, we want all of them have one unique unit and one unique building!"
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>>334730312

>Play with Ai's
>Hardly any wars happen
Do you play on Prince or something? Playing on anything from Emperor and up, all the AI wants to do is build an army and attack you. Especially if you make a city anywhere near them.
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>>334727897
>going for peaceful victory
>Other civ won't stop stealing technologies/building cities right on my borders
>Get pissed and steamroll them because the AI can't ever figure out how to account for converting your economy to war
>Repeat until only 1 AI left who either gets crushed too or left alone for EZ victory
Every game
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>>334731438
not that anon but i just did a science victory as poland on deity, 10 person game, great plains plus, and not a single person declared war on me until the industrial error. after i beat them away from my borders, i didn't see another war until the information age.

again, this is on great plains plus, a map with basically no water, so everyone is on the same landmass. AI war depends on a lot of factors besides just difficulty.
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>>334731679
>catch a spy and tell their leader to stop
>catch another spy and denounce them
>catch another spy and declare on them, but you're the asshole here
Civ V AI leaves a lot to be desired.
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How good is the CBP?
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>>334731824
>Lie to civ about rolling units up to their borders when both of you inhabit an island together
>No one has discovered how to cross oceans yet
>Genocide other civ completely, along with the third civ on the island who witnessed it so I can have the island to myself
>Finally able to cross oceans many turns later
>meet other civ
>diplomatic penalty for lying to other long dead civ that no one even knew existed
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>>334726230

There's a tutorial mode in civ if you load up it up.

Basically at your level what you would like to do is put cities near good tiles and don't overlap too many times between other cities. Focus on getting some luxuries within some cities to make people happy, some gold producing tiles(some luxuries also provide this thereby getting you a 2-for-1 deal) and a couple of maybe hills or forest for production.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=394180

Here is a good start. Also don't stress if you fuck up and it all goes to shit. It happens. Playing on the easiest difficulty level is recommended if you are an absolute beginner until you get a very good feel for the game and systems.
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>>334732278
Oy vey
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>play Fall From Heaven 2
>everyone hates me for being a nation of lawful good faggots
>everyone hates me for being the wrong religion
>everyone hates me because all the AI are besties with each other
This must be what it's like to be Germany Pre-end of WWII
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>>334732278
huh, i have been playing with days of sadat mod for so long that i forgot jerusalem is a city state, days of sadat has an actual israel faction
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>>334732492
>not playing Calabim

It's like you don't like level infinity vampires and cities.
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>>334731782

Did you always have a larger army than they did? And did you keep from expanding near them? There's obviously ways to avoid war. That's how I prefer to play. But that other anon said the AI 'hardly' ever declares war. Which is just not true.
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>>334732492
Why didn't CIV5 ever get any god tier mods like FFH2?
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>>334732626
definitely did not have a larger army than catherine for a very long time (first to declare war on me), i honored all requests to not expand near anyone that asked me not to.

i had maybe 10-12 military units, all of them were an era behind catherine because i was using gold on more important building purchases. when she did end up attacking me, it was easy to beat her back because of the wonder that gives you higher combat strength in friendly territory (himeji castle? red fort? I forget)

it was really odd seeing only 2 wars against me in an entire deity game with NO WATER before i got my science win
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What's everyone's favourite civs?

I've really been enjoying playing wide Rome recently, especially when I get Angkor Wat and can amass a huge amount of land. Always fun pretending to be a arrogant cocky warmonger while annexing cities.
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>>334732635
The creator of FFH2 made a mod for Civ5 that allowed stackable units. That's pretty much it. Less mod support maybe?
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I just picked this game up yesterday. Do any of you faggots have resources so I can git gud?
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>>334732492
Sounds like the world needs some good 'ol fashion purging.
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>>334733139
read the thread
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=394180
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>>334733139
Check FilthyRobot's vids on YT. They are heavy on theory, but they are easy to understand
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>playing with friends
>go full focus on science
>I am a full 2 eras ahead of everyone
>they realize they have to stop me or I will win
>they attack with their crossbowmen thinking it will be an easy victory because I have no army
>I just purchase Gatling guns and Calvary with the gold I have been hoarding since the beginning
>its getting late so we stop playing
>they never want to finish that game
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>>334732635
Not as easy to do total conversions as Civ4.
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>>334733260
Ha I get it, that's a phallus
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>>334732931

You must have gotten really lucky and other computers angered Russia more. Probably some other computer players expanded close to Russia and she hated them more.

I've had similar games where computers hate each other so much, I never even have to bribe them. Or if I do, all it takes is 5 iron to make them go to war.

>>334733139

Play on the easiest difficulty (settler) and learn the basics. As you keep playing, if you beat the AI by a wide margin, increase the difficulty up one level. Repeat until you reach a point where you struggle to win or lose some games.

I'd also suggest playing a civ like Inca or The Celts to learn the basics of how happiness and specialists work. And once you learn the build order, how to improve the land effectively and specialists work, try some other more technical civs like Korea or Maya.
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>>334717210

>new
>multiplayer

Found your problem, you should really learn the game first by playing a lot of single player. Also, look up FilthyRobot on YouTube, he has some great explainer and tier videos that's great although lengthy.
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>>334733278
>play with friends
>at some point I mention I'm using the Enhanced User Interface mod
>"Dude that's cheating"
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>>334733101
vanilla? poland (free social policies strong as FUCK) and Venice (unique playstyle)

Modded? The Papal States (starts with piety gain) Adolf Hitler (gains bonuses for each civ at war with/denouncing you) and Syria (from Days of Sadat, bonus religious belief, units fight harder in their own territory)
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>>334727441
>Spy in enemy city reports that they're building a wonder
>Look at the city itself to find it only has one more turn to build it
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>>334732278
Can't spell Jerusalem without USA
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>>334732396
this is shit, it doesnt even have anything related to G&K and BNW, it still says you have to build the utopia project to get a cultural victory.
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>>334733960
>not Rhodesia
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>>334734424

Sorry I thought the guy only had base vanilla Civ 5.
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>>334732134
>AI gets pissy because your units are on the border no matter what your intention
>no option to bitch at other civs for doing the same thing
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>>334734642
there's a fucking rhodesia? their unique unit better have FALs god damn it, i'm looking for this now
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>>334732931

Pangaea maps are actually easier than continent maps because you find everyone and city states early. As well as not needing to waste time getting sailing techs.

Great Plains is even easier.
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>>334732278

Is this with mods? I have about 450 hours and have literally never seen a city state capture another city, so how did that happen?
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What do I do? He claims to he peaceful.
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>>334735565
i just dont like water heavy maps because the AI is shit if a map is divided by too much water

can you recommend a map type that i should try besides pangaea or great plains? not interested in ultra heavy water maps like archipelago or whatever where its nothing but small islands
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>>334735959
Remove Kebab
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>>334735895
Nope. 100% unmodded when it happened. I was achievement hunting on a piss easy difficulty and the XCom Squad I gifted to Jerusalem captured it and burnt it to the ground.
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>>334732278
A city of jews captures another city of jews.
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>>334735959
hella ep*c
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>Tripfags ITT
Reminder to filter them.
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>>334736012

I mostly just play Pangaea myself. Unless I'm playing Carthage or Polynesia, which require a water map (and I prefer large islands for that).

Yeah, the AI does suck on water. But it sucks on land too. Once you learn how to exploit the computer, any combat will be tedious. Which is why I tend to avoid wars.

As for your question, there is a DLC option where you can download a bunch of maps inspired by the real world. North America, South America, Africa, East Asia, etc. All of these maps have no ocean and are mostly land. I like the East Asia one the most.
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>>334735895
I sometimes covertly gift a shit ton of units to an enemy's city state ally that's on their border. Insert spy, mount a coup, declare war gg
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>>334737350

>Lhasa has 4 melee units and one cannon
>Russia has 100 military units and artillery
>Russia loses to Lhasa

I admit, I love seeing this. But it just points out how horrid the AI really is.
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>tfw never done a domination victory because I prefer having a friendly civilization and using my military only for defense
I need to stop playing this game based on my personal beliefs
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>>334722910
I doit exclusively on Prince (normal) now so I can feel like less of a casual while playing, I'll never go above that though given that the AI just cheats past that level (ie buying out city states with no gold and having ridiculously huge armies).
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>>334738745

Play a game as the Huns, Aztecs, Zulu or Germany. When you're sitting there with 15 melee units before turn 100, you really want to use them.
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Is there a Civ4chan for Civ 5?
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>>334739076
I win 100% of my game on emperor setting playing normally (always science victory). The real cheating that need cheese to beat is immortal and above
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>>334731679
>going for military victory
>start to feel bad about attacking people who don't deserve it

How do I learn how to be a dick?
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>>334739782

you are liberating them
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>>334739782

You have to realize that they're literally just 1's and 0's anon. It's just pixels on a screen. Just don't do that shit in real life and you'll be fine.
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>>334739076

Everything up to Emperor, all the computer gets is free pottery and early game gold. its actually quite easy to surpass the computer even on Immortal, when they get a free settler on turn 1.

The biggest thing that keeps you back is not so much the AI, but your own starting location and what you prioritize. 99% of the time, you can use world congress, bribes or trade to cheese the AI and make them lose. But if you get a bad starting area (all jungle/tundra) or never build'buy military, you will screw yourself.

Once you hit the Modern era, you don't even have to worry about the AI at all outside of military and world congress. Its just a race to who can get to Hubble Space Telescope and Globilization/Internet first.
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>>334739782

Brazil and Polynesia not mad at you? Bribe them to go to war against another civ. Suddenly they become a warmonger. Attack them and the rest of the AI praises you for it.

Then you attack the rest of the AI.
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>>334713726
Spreading your culture by the sword
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>>334739782
I always feel bad for declaring for on America. Washington looks so dismayed about it.
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>>334713029
Are all Civ players autistic?
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>>334739782
>setup an army at the other civ's borders
>decide I'll get them to declare war on me so I don't feel so bad about what comes next
>demand they give me all of their resources and gold per turn
>they give it to me
Well...fuck.
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>>334713726
4 cities tradition start then go for science all day every day. The game is won by how well you set this up in the 100 first turns.

Nobody ever beat this except by doing the exact same thing and beating you by a few turns on a few key wonders.
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Are there any mods that add more ideologies and options with them?
I always hated how they only have Freedom, Autocracy and Order as the most arbitrary choices ever.
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>>334713726
Science.
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What's a good guide/video series to get me into Endless Legend? I want to become gud.
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>>334741635

Just play it on easy and learn the mechanics yourself.

What is with all these people who need a guide? You won't get 'good' at a game by playing it on hard right away, even with a guide.
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>>334741762
I guess it's because this genre is prone to being "solved", even though I think EL does a good job of avoiding that.
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>>334740280
Montezuma best leader for military playthroughs.
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>>334741915

Endless Legend seems to go against some problems Civ has while creating other new issues. I tend to enjoy Civ V more because there's a lot more options for playing a passive game. While in Endless Legend, most games are quests involve some level of war.

>that fucking Vaulters lore quest that tells you to destroy an enemy city so you can check a ruin
>can't pay for open boarders to check the ruin, you have to physically destroy the city
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>>334742469
EL is great but the main quest system is awful, forcing you to go to war with random players is just retarded
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so anon, would you build a city on the tile with Horses in this situation?

i'm fantasizing about stealing that other gem resource from pedro but i'm not sure if its worth it just for that
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Just completed the game on difficulty 5 (dont remember if thats prince or king)

What tips should I keep in mind for trying harder difficulties?

Also

>be poland
>choose continents
>Exploran at the start
>Sandwiched between Ghengis, Iroqois and the Dutch
>all 3 constantly shit on me when Im not busy paying them off to fight eachother
>eventually lose my cities

This game is a blast
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>>334744149
I don't see much benefit in it, but I'm not an expert at the game so take that with a grain of salt.

I'd just take Rio 2bh. The jungles will make it a hard battle though.
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>he doesn't use the CBP
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Why is this game so shit at difficulties above Emperor? Sieging cities is near impossible.
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>>334744149
My autism prevents me from settling cities this close.
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>>334744149

Your new city is going to be too close to your starting city to have any use.

But Pedro seems to have you hemmed in so you have little option.
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>>334744642

AI rushes nothing but military and defense. You're probably trying to take a city with walls and castles on turn 120.
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>>334744778
It's impossible to get close to a city with catapults because they get one shotted by cities. Are you supposed to zerg rush the AI cities with cannon fodder instead?
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>>334727441
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>>334745060

You're suppose to just follow the same tactic the AI does. Attack when you hasve overwhelming numbers of troops. Using tactics to avoid damage doesn't really come into play until you get Artillery or Bombers.
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>>334744604
My nigga, this game isn't that good without the community patch project
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>>334744149
Build the city with one square next to a mountain to be able to build an observatory later on.
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>>334745702
Best tip for anyone that want to git gud is to read lots of threads on civ fanatics forums. Went from shitter that could lose on prince to 100% winrate on emperor.

Kill one asap if you dont have enough room for 4 cities so AI will forget about it later on. You never ever need more than 4 cities.
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>>334745702
Steal workers from city states instead of building them (you can declare war and make peace in the same turn)
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>>334746050
>winning 100% on easy
grats
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>>334740814
aribitrary? they're obviously capitalism, communism and facism
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>>334747147
Thanks that still leave me better than anyone I ever played civ with so thats good enough for me.

Good for you if you are better, I sure dont have the motivation to git better without competition.
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What's your favorite way to win, anons? Mine is
>find the single most bullied civilization
>protect them as soon as they're down to just their capital
>conquer every other civilization but the one I protected, annexing every city
>while on the warpath, start building shuttle parts
>after bringing the entire world but one capital city into a unified dictatorship, gift all my cities and resources to the poor bullied civilization
>assemble the space ship
>fuck off to space
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>>334747479
emperor and below you can basically win as any civ with any victory condition on any start, immortal is where it starts to get challenging
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>>334745168
Perfect.
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>>334747550
peaceful cultural victory deity only final destination
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>>334747550
I know it's cheating but
>Be British on Archipelago
>Build up some longbowmen
>Be the biggest dick to whoever is near and has stuff worthy of conquering
>Blatantly invade their capital
>Be a general dick to everyone who gets upset
>Build Ships of the Line as quick as I can
>Get people to hate me more
>Start projecting my force cross the globe with SotL's
>Conquer almost every city and win almost every battle because SotL's in their prime are stronger than contemporary capitals
>Remain at war with literally everyone till I get nukes
Nothing like pushing your own limits in logistics in war like this
Quickly striking the enemy where it hurts and reacting just as fast on an enemy fleet coming for you
Disrupting global trade with submarines, crushing the opposition with your SotL that are level 12
Britannia rule the waves
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>>334747786
Who said it wasnt the case once youre good at the game ? im always randoming my civ.

Durr the level after the one I said I had a 100% winrate is when it get challenging... no shit sherlock maybe thats why I dont win all my game while playing it...
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>>334748345
for queen and goddamm country
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>>334748536
That fucking war theme just gears me up for total conquest
Same foes for the Mongolian war theme
When they start playing peace is out of the question, if only so that the theme continues playing
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>>334731438
On diety in BNW if your army is powerful, no one will fuck with you because they know it's a war they can't win.

You know what REALLY grinds my gears? When Morocco asks me to mutually declare war with them on someone, and then I fight the entire war myself while they don't contribute a single soldier.
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