Civ 5 Tips

No1newts

No1newts

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Hi all, been years so be I played a game like Cov despite those being the games that attracted me to PC gaming in the first place.

Just picked up Civ5 and looking for some tips to help me along, finding everyone races ahead of me early and not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Always found my city then go scout>worker>settler onward. Any help is appreciated!
 
It's a really hard question to answer because it totally depends on what map you get, what the surroundings are like, what Civ you're playing, which Civs are near you etc.

Mostly all people will build a Scout immediate, unless you have someone like Maya and it might be more worth the extra 1 or 2 turns for an Atlatist. Getting a worker that early would depend a few of things I mentioned above; such as there's no point getting one that early if you're surrounded in loads of forest/jungle/marsh and you'd need mining/bronze working/masonry to get rid of it. If you aren't getting Tradition early then you probably won't need the worker that early either as your borders won't have expanded enough to utilise it. You can also just steal one from a city state.
 
I don't bother building any units to start with, I'd rather get some buildings constructed instead. I just use the unit you get given to wander around instead of a scout, and I get a free worker from one of the liberty social policies, and I get my first settler free in the same way. I generally build a monument, a granary, and then try to get the great library built, pick philosophy as my free tech and then build the National College. As I pretty much always try to be ahead of everyone on tech.
 
I find a food focused strategy works best. Use internal trade routes to boost food. You will grow population quicker and everything else will follow.
 
I would just lower the difficulty if th AI is surpassing you.

Try India, they are OP. I plan to build 4-5 cities depending on the land/and how many luxuries they will encompass when they are fully matured. With no shared territory they can become monster powerhouses with their unique ability (basically science)

Once I have a stable economy with surplus happiness, even on immortal I have artillery before anyone else and you can just start steamrolling everyone.

No open borders with anyone, ever, until I have a decent army. If I have contested borders I will fortify any of my cities on those borders with a few units to fool the AI.

I good way to entice an enemy to declaring war on you if to have old technological units, and then immediately upgrade them. Need a decent stockpile of gold.
 
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How do you spread religion to your own cities?

Having a decent game as Austria, the ability to buy out city states through marriage has helped a lot.
 
- food = population = science
- great engineers = almost instant wonders
- specialize cities to make get more out of your civ (ie production city with lots of hills etc)
- religion (even not picking piety) can help with science, culture, war and religion itself without needing to do much (I always spam the Hagia Sophia so start my religion late and then religious texts to speed up the spread if im a scientific)
- Religion spreads naturally although there is a bonus for distance, and a bonus for speed (religious texts - good for if you trade w/ trade routes a lot you can spread it to far away countries)
- Make sure you are very very happy if you don't pick Freedom in God and Kings otherwise you will be forced to have a revolution!
- plant settler beside a mountain (50% science bonus)
- settler beside a river and/or hills (for production and extra food)
- spy on other civ s capitals not only to steal tech but to find out which cities hold the wonders they AI built, so you don't waste time with crap cities thus you are able to get the (probs capital) with all them great wonders to shut down any runaway civ.
 
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i've found america to be randomy op [for no apparent reason] in the late game.

tbh, my strategy mostly involves figuring out what my civ is good at and sticking to it. but pretty much anything requires a decent science lead.

science=tech=wonders=culture=great people and also more advanced armies.

i generally dont play against the ai on too high a difficulty, losing to a human is like losing at long chess game [ie honorable and bearable] but i dont like the way civ ai basically cheats to get ahead.

the most important thing is not to chop and change focuses, you cant just go in the year 1800 to decide to try and build a culture civ out of your domination based civ. pick a victory type and head straight for it.
 
Have you got the expansion packs? I'm not sure I can remember how to play the basic game anymore :/
 
If your playing on a medium or high difficulty don't forget to invest in military units otherwise if your rivals will see you as weak and will go all Vladimir Putin on your lands.
 
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