He got an ~800 culture social policy towards the end, to put in perspective. His cities had incredibly low population in general, the vast majority out of 10-12 were less than 4 pop, but had incredibly faith and culture generation. religious attributes and got a reformation belief that gave +2 tourism to all religious buildings purchased with faith. byzantium got an incredibly early religion, around turn 40, and adopted piety. Yes, 58 ing tourism in medieval age!!! Basically, byzantium went incredibly fast expansion, doing the civ 4 strategy of infinite city sprawl. Nonetheless, byzantium won a cultural victory at turn ~120 with 58 tourism this is in the mid-medieval age, nobody had gotten to renaissance yet. (Quick speed, everything standard, usual mp settings) However, I should note that at turn ~100, the host quit and became a single player game, after which I just idled all my units and finished exploring the map for curiousity.

It was a pretty competitive multiplayer game on pangaea, with ppl only quiting after loss of their capital (I took the cap of the 2nd biggest military in this game!!). Sorry for reviving an old thread, but i just witnessed something pretty ing amazing. a pangea-type map is that this way I won't have to deal with the AI civ much (if at all) during the game & get a whole huge continent to myself for barb hunting.the drawback is that I won't meet most of the CSs until well into the Renaissance Era. With that experience, I think the overall settings are right but a 3-4 city approach would work much better. Despite a less than impressive start location & absolutely horrible luck popping culture ruins, I was on track to win around 500 AD while having constructed every single world wonder to that point.the issue I was having was getting enough science going to reach the Industrial Era before I closed my 4th policy tree. Each camp captured = another unit to hunt camps.all those barb kills should make up for the disparity in CS benefits, at least on the culture front.Įither way it should be achievable pretty early, maybe even BC on marathon speed.ĮDIT: Played through most of a Songhai game on huge continents, max CS, 1 AI (Japan) while going with a one-city approach. Which are the best leaders in Civ 5 Fans of the Civilization series know that no strategy is good for more than a month before players catch on, patches balance the game, and DLCs and expansions flip the script. Explore like the wind & hope to pop as many culture ruins as possible, plus glean enough cash to get some early cultural CS allies.Ģ) Songhai, same setup but with raging barbarians. After plenty of updates, Sid Meier's Civilization V has settled on a definitive tier list.

If you just want fastest possible, you're obviously going to want to play on Settler.ġ) Siam, largish map with few (one?) AI & max CS.

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