R5: Acted like how an AI John Curtin would play against me but this time, I'll be doing the shitty moves. Forward settled, warred their city-states, surprised war them, stealing their settlers, builders and razed their lands. They hated me, but do you see how the man is unfazed? He is even smiling. It didn't bother him because he wanted it. Its all for the purpose of getting that juicy 100% production bonus. Now I finally understand.

Anyway this is an exhausting campaign of min-maxing and I will stay away from science games for a while.

Game modes are deity, small map with 8 players, standard speed, barb clans mode, legendary start then default all.

How the World Congress looks at you when you defend yourself from a surprise war against someone with 150 grievances towards you:

So, Poland had a dark age and the city nearby, Lódz, rebelled and stole this settler. I feel like it's impossible for it to escape the barbarians, but if it was somehow able to, would it be able to settle a city?

Short and sweet, Gilgamesh I hate you , despise you, every single game that you are on my map you cause me issues and waste my time with stupid wars. I am over tryin to be nice to him. From now on, it's on sight!

ok silly question, but I've never finished a full game start to finish besides a single 4 civ game that i was lowkey jus kinda messing around in {I lost to a faith win by germany i think it was? lol}

I don't have concrete settings really but ik I wanna do a huge map with about 16ish civs, and prince difficulty or close to it cause I'm newer n Deity scares me and hoping to do a domination victory!

The pic up above is the civs I have access to, wondering who would be fun to play as but also not an absolute struggle or a total breeze. I want a game that will feel earned but not a constant struggle for survival if that makes sense? {open to suggestions for civs to be opponants/setting suggestions too tbh}

Played a couple of games on Prince or something and then said. Why not try out deity? Won my first ever deity game with Trajan as domination victory. And lost the second one because I didn't turn off diplomatic victory but would have won a culture victory.

Anyway, where would you settle? I would settle on the Stone personally.

Playing with Germany

I managed to get two industries in two of my cities during a Border Control Treaty event in the World Congress. You can really pop off your cities by doing this since the modifiers from these industries stack.

I may not have a large army at home but I have nukes and death robots and he has… adorable weak units from eras past.

Aztec is god level for domination victories.
Prince -> King -> Emperor done. Going for Immortal next.

Learnings :
1. spam eagle warriors initially but ensure that you upgrade them as and when possible. The builder's aren't worth much when you have multiple cities.
2. Build religion and put all beliefs into production. You'll need it for the army, builders, markets and traders.
3. Try and aim for 50+ production cities by age 150-175 to boost some wonders to get more card slots specially colosseum and zimbabwe.
4. Gameplay: Make enough slingers and trebuchets early and keep upgrading till the end. Start making navy into corps to save $.

I'm a newish player who has only played vanilla before. I want to try a R&F leader for a culture victory. The guides I've seen haven't really highlighted a clear culture person. Who should I try?

The Better Spectator Mod doesn't work anymore in the new versions. Is there another mod or workaround? And don't say code it yourself I am trash at these things and would need help.