re: Civ 5: Strategies for BNW

Wish I still had time to play. I have the Chronicles set.

II was always my favorite.

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 I typically get bored around the modern era and want to try a new faction.

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I use to be like that until I started testing out other civs. King Neb and the Babylonians have become my favorite civ. Their perks line up perfectly with my usual strategy. I prefer to lay low and allow world politics to run its course until the modern era.

Babylon gets bowman before most civs get archers, Walls of Babylon offer better defense bonus and HP, upon discovering writing you get a great scientist and you generate great scientist at a 50% faster rate. Towards the middle of the game I can be anywhere from 5-8 techs ahead of the next AI.

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The ability to choose what you want from ruins is stupid great. The extra city border boost is icing on the cake

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Say what? Is this part of an update?

Started a new game on king last night. Went pretty well...I think I might be getting the patch down now.

Went Japan for Bushido to help with barbarians and super aggressive other Civs. Settled coastal on a marble tile (automatic luxury PLUS +15% production to first 2 era wonders) with 3 copper within my range. Also had 2 fish resources, 3 or so hill/desert tiles, few marshes and a couple of forests. Land to my right (about 4 tiles away) had a mountain range extending south with hills around it.

Kinda like this:

W W W W M H
W W W W W M
W W W W W M
W D C F F M

W - Water, M - Mountain, H - Hill, D - Desert, F - Forest, C - City center.

Ended up settling 3 more cities in kind of a diamond pattern. My science city had plenty of hills & desert and was adjacent to a mountain (for observatory). Built quite a few trading posts here. After religion and rationalism bonuses those tiles ended up being +1 Production +2 Gold +1 Science +1 Culture. That city is the bee's knees.

To my southeast, I had China and Greece. Greece had tons of cities and somehow China ended up with one city right between me and Greece by turn 120. I built Great Wall just to rub it in Wu's face, but we became franz. Around turn 200 my DoF with her ran out and Greece went for the kill. I placed a Citadel close enough to get within 1-turn distance of China's capital and let Greece do the dirty work. They got her within 1 hit of falling then I declared war vs. China, moved my unit in, and took her down. No hard feelings between us since she was out of the game, I get a new city in a great spot with 3 luxuries and like 8 flood plains tiles, AND a "common foe" diplomacy bonus from Greece...the most powerful Civ at that point.

I think one of my legendary starting positions went like that, it was back in my wonder whoring noob days. Egypt + marble + all sorts of production tiles had me pumping those suckers out while the AI were at war with one another.

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Founder Belief - Tithe - +1 Gold for every 4 followers
Follower - Religious Community - +1% Production for each follower (max 15%)
Enhancer - Itinerant Preachers - Spreads 30% further

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I almost always go for these.

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I almost always go for these.

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I usually do RC since I'm going for tall cities anyway. I almost ALWAYS do IP. Since each city creates pressure and the AI likes to spam cities, it makes religion spread QUICK