Adapting difficulty. Bug or a feature?
I am leading my opponents by huge margin. Now all new landmarks I built have 1 or even 0 culture. Is this hidden adaptive difficulty setting that makes game harder when you are doing too well? Edit: I...
View Article"In rough/open terrain"
Might be a stupid question but does this mean the terrain the unit is standing in is rough/open or the terrain the unit is heading into is rough/open. Having a hard time interpreting this. Thanks.
View ArticleHardest opponent combo for peaceful diplomatic victory(Deity)
I was wondering what opponents would make this challenge hardest? 1. Alexander for obvious reasons I think and because you can't select as your civ if he is opponent. 2 and 3. Venice and Austria will...
View ArticleStandard size map cultural victory before turn 50
I think this is doable in Settler difficulty. (Eliminate all civs but Greece, give weakest capital to Greece and then music bomb city that Greece liberated, destroy Greece and win cultural victory) Not...
View ArticleThe Deity Challenge Line-up #16 - China
Welcome to the Deity Challenge Line-up! This was a fortnightly event, but the schedule has changed and new games will now be posted every 10 days. - All the games in this series are set to Deity...
View ArticleQuest for Glory - Deity Challenge #2
Welcome to the second challenge in this new series of Deity challenges! I hope I am not launching this game too soon, but after all the conquering in both GotM220 and QfG1, I felt we needed something...
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Domination on Immortal/Deity - a noob's guide
[Please note this guide is still under construction, so while I value input, it might also be a good idea to wait and see if I add the thing that you think is missing ] Disclaimers:- 1. I am not the...
View ArticleAttila Deity Domination Guide
NOTE: I'm going to be filling in and adding photos as I go, so bear with me. The purpose of this guide is to demonstrate how to achieve sub-t150 Domination with Attila. Even t100 victory is possible...
View ArticleA Guide to Playing Small on Deity (feat. Piety)
tl;dr. This is a guide for Non-Deity players looking to break into the difficulty and Deity players who want to try something new. Intimidated by the rough Deity tech curve? No problem! This strategy...
View ArticleQuest for Glory - Deity Challenge #1
Hi everybody! Welcome to a new series of Deity challenges! Runty and basior came up with a proposal for a new Deity challenge series. So, I took the liberty of generating the first map. However, my...
View ArticleRise of the Mongols scenario. 50 turn Deity walk through.
I am new to civ 5 and steam, playing for domination victories and looking for ideas. I saw a screen shot from Henri https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/the-mongol-conquest.685053/ .. and...
View ArticleA hard challange - rough map and huge size
I would like to share this map in case anybody would like to try out. It is a huge size highlands map with Inca and random opponents. The water setting is "Seas" so there will be a few small seas out...
View ArticleQuest for Glory - Deity Challenge #3
Hi there, I thought it was time for a new challenge. This time we play as Assyria on a large sized Continents map with standard speed. Here the task is to get a Domination win even though all VCs are...
View ArticleBNW Deity Tier List
Inspired by NoobEmperor's noobie BNW tier list thread... I think it would be nice to start a thread on a Deity tier list for single player. I've been working on one internally for a bit, based off of...
View ArticlePetra: tips for getting it
I generally play at King, occasionally at Emperor. If there is a location near my capital with a lot of desert (esp desert hills), I will go for Petra, which is a great bonus in such a situation....
View ArticleEnjoyable Deity Games
Hi there, I was not sure where to put this so I started a new thread for the purpose of sharing deity games that any of us has played and enjoyed. I have no fixed rules in mind for this, but my first...
View ArticleAI use of nukes
I'd like to hear a brief discussion of AI strategy for nuking the human player. It's happened to me in something like 1/4 of games where I'm coasting to a victory. Two things surprise me: 1. AI will...
View ArticleAbandoning my religion? Who will advise me on this and other Civ V questions?
My religion was Catholicism. I let it get out-majoritied, but not actually wiped out, in all my cities where it was established at all. First, is there a way to re-establish it anywhere? Second, should...
View ArticleReligion with 4 buildings discussion + tips + how to
I am a big fan of Religion in Civ 5. As we know there are 4 religious buildings - (Pagoda, Mosque, Cathedral and Monsastery). However we can only get 2 religious buildings at most - (3 with Byzantine...
View ArticleHelp with Unhappiness in Warlord level - bizzare scenario?!
Im at about 1940AD on warlord on small contients maps in quick mode Prior to researching Combined Arms my happiness = +5 Once Combined Arms complete happiness goes to -15 Then if I continue on to...
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