Civilization 5 (4,3,2,1)

[Anithola]

I got this game like two weeks ago and I love it! Anyone else playing it? Id be really interested in knowing what techs you like to grab and what strategies you prefer? :3

 

[JustTooRadical]

Civ V is fun, I guess.
I like the hexagons.

 

[Anithola]

Civ V is fun, I guess.
I like the hexagons.

Its a start

 

[Shrimpsy]

My strategy on Civ V is usually as follows:

• Just research everything necessary for giant death robot, and divert all resources possible to researching.
• Build an army, roughly equal in ranged and melee
• Build a huge navy
• Overrun all the cities!

If not, I either rush for the Apollo Project or Cultural Completion.

Civ IV, since one could stack armies, I just went and built extreme armies while upgrading them whenever tech allowed it and destroyed the enemy xD

 

[Anithola]

My strategy on Civ V is usually as follows:

• Just research everything necessary for giant death robot, and divert all resources possible to researching.
• Build an army, roughly equal in ranged and melee
• Build a huge navy
• Overrun all the cities!

If not, I either rush for the Apollo Project or Cultural Completion.

Civ IV, since one could stack armies, I just went and built extreme armies while upgrading them whenever tech allowed it and destroyed the enemy xD

How do you deal with an unhappy population? Whenever i go for a domination victory the unhappiness stacks up horribly fast and I have problems keeping it over 0 :/

 

[K9]

How do you deal with an unhappy population? Whenever i go for a domination victory the unhappiness stacks up horribly fast and I have problems keeping it over 0 :/

REEESOOOURCESSSSS, YEAH!

My personal favourite path is being an economic powerhouse. Going for things like currency and guilds, then moving on to researching quite the army.

Look through the options for researching, then try and find things that add happiness.

Civ V isn't about building a giant army or being super happy. It's about finding the balance between the two. I've personally found that being rich is a good balance.

Going to war? No problem! Your production is so high that it takes you but a few turns to pump out a unit! As a bonus, you can purchase a bajillion units with your cash money dollah.

Unhappy? Buy luxury resources! Build wonders!

-K9

 

[Legion]

If you adopt the correct social policies you can field a massive army and still have plenty of happiness. I waged a lengthy and large industrial-era war and had 45-58 happiness throughout. Was excellent cuz I kept getting golden ages from it.

 

[Tomtomgags]

Diplomatic victory is amazing with Brave New World. I really enjoy playing Morocco and making a huge trade empire and buying people's votes and city state alliances.

THATS EXACTLY WHAT I DID! I also had a full money based religion, which generated about 100 GPT

 

[Legion]

Didnt like brave new world, I just stick with Gods and Kings

 

[Mryosi]

I got gods and kings. Hopefully I will get brave new world soon.
definitely best of its genre.

 

[Anithola]

I recently started a game as Venice. The downside is that theres absolutely no city states on the northern part of the map that i can trade with, and india is the only civ my caravans can reach... The only thing I could do was send two Merchants of Venice all across the map to take two city states.. Doesnt look bright..

 

[Tomtomgags]

I recently started a game as Venice. The downside is that theres absolutely no city states on the northern part of the map that i can trade with, and india is the only civ my caravans can reach... The only thing I could do was send two Merchants of Venice all across the map to take two city states.. Doesnt look bright..

Ouch. I usually turn the amount of City States way up compared to the amount of civs, even when I'm not playing Venice

 

[Tomtomgags]

What difficulty does everybody usually play and finish on?

 

[Anithola]

Prince at the moment, I love the feeling of superiority > : D

 

[Jstar]

I usually play as Babylon, for all dat science

 

[Tomtomgags]

Prince at the moment, I love the feeling of superiority > : D

I play one above normal, I forget what that is, king I think.

 

[Legion]

I usually play as Babylon, for all dat science

Korea is better for science.

 

[Jstar]

Korea is better for science.

Babylon has a nicer name and a slightly better reputation irl :3

 

[roopot]

Babylon has a nicer name and a slightly better reputation irl :3

depends on who you ask

 

[SobekRa]

How do you deal with an unhappy population? Whenever i go for a domination victory the unhappiness stacks up horribly fast and I have problems keeping it over 0 :/

To answer your question more pricesely, you can build special buildings that increase your happiness, get additional luxury goods and adopt the correct policies. As for conquering cities, you can make them to puppets, which add a lower amount of unhappiness, or build courthouses that remove the extra unhappiness from conquered cities.
My personal favourite is razing most conquered cities ^-^