Game should be much easier at this point.

Two more wars between turn 100 and turn 150.

If you manage to do this, you're half way to victory. These two wars are the most important ones. Same goal: knock out another neighbor and make sure he doesn't come back.

Another war should be started around turn 80, and be finished around turn 100.

Usually, the AI should have ~5 cities at this point, you should take 3 from this poor neighbor and ensure he never rises again. What should you, a human player with no bonus, do to catch up? You take all the bonuses from the AI! Prepare for an early war, and take one of your neighbor's cities. Why? Because the AI cheats, they get tons of bonuses.

Some early game tips: You MUST go for an early war, preferably star it around turn 50 (at normal speed, that is).

You also want to play some proxy wars to make sure no AI ever grows too big, or at least delay their growth.

Therefore never wipe out another civ, just let someone else do the dirty work. When you fight wars, you want allies (even if they provide no help at all), and you never want to become a warmonger. This is very important as you never want to fight more than one AI at a time.

You can check if your army is big enough from military advisor. Keep a large enough army to avoid unwanted wars.But you can take all the wonders from them later. Forget wonders in the early game, the AIs will build all the wonders.Trade with them if you can, this can ensure a declaration of firendship later. go out your scout, two if you can, to discover other civs and make friends. My tips, mostly for military victory but also works as good start or other victory conditions: I find them entertainling to be honest - better than most TV. I've watche a few more playthroughs now, Japan, Mongols and been Watching Korea too, and part of his Aztecs. I won my first Deity game as England on Continents, after watching his Deity game as Germany. I'd find it a bit boring, so never try for Space Race win, and quite often abstain when I could win Diplo.Īlso, I'd recommend watching Marbozir(given this advice so many times). I'd expect science to be much eaier to be honest - I mostly get in the lead with Tech, and was miles in the lead as Arabia. I've also won as lot of none maritime Civs.Īrchipelago is really all about naval units. I've won as all Maritime Civs on Archipelago except Carthage I think. I've just won as Arabia, after a few tries, and am trying as Korea, but got a far from ideal start. I can win on Continents too, but it's harder. I've gone into much more detail somwhere. They will kill your precious promoted Frigates with Bombers, so don't risk it. When the AI gets Flights, go for peace untill you have Battleships, Fighters(not Triplanes), and a Sub - then you can resume. The first I try and get myself is Brandenburg. Hopefully the Civ you're attacking has nice wonders. Just attack Ships and units until you get Range promotion, then attack cities(need 15 shots on Ships/units to get Range). Build a few Frigates and buy a few, then go to war. Get your trade routes going, get your Universities, get an Armoury. If you know the basics of what to build when(which you must if beating Immortal) and can get your science sorted, it's often straight forward. Yep, easiest way I know to beat Deity, and the most fun - is England or Venice on Archipelago. I tried his strategy and it worked, so if you make a couple searches through the discussions you should find his comments. Originally posted by lukebaird84:Deity is doable, but you have to take good cities from the AI rather than building them has made a few replies to several threads on beating deity, he likes England + Archepeliago.

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