One small step...

[Cookie Monster]

You guys are all lucky!

[AJ Corp. The FAIR]

deity: just not yet

I guess i've played around 40/50 games (only finished two of them, get usually too bored to continue a game that's decided already on emperor, standard maps, large continents, 8civs).

By now I defeat emperor fairly easy with any religious civ (if starting location is good enough! this is a too important parameter IMO --> not fair in MP), but deity remains a problem.

However, I'm pretty confident that if I'd play on large maps deity is much easier: you'll have more time to build up a decent army. As humans wage war much better than AI's, deity can be overcome.
On a standard map you're usually in a losing posiiton rather fast (in terms of science and more modern/large military).

I'm confident in my words, so I need to prove myself.
I'll start one this evening on large map, continents. I'll get back once I've succeeded ... could take longer ... but I hope I'll get it right the first time. First time large map as well.

AJ

[kcbob]

Hey, AJ, thanks for the encouragement. I kind of gravitate to the extremes in map size, tiny or huge. Maybe I should try standard more often. As for a religious civ, I like them, too. I usually take a random civ for myself and if it's expansionist, I restart. Anything else I give it a go. I may try the Persians again tonight and see what happens. It's my gut feel that the Immortals are the special unit to have for this. We'll see.

BTW, speaking of starting position... is food/population growth harder to come by in the more difficult levels? That appeared to be the case last night. Either that or as I said earlier, my starting positions just sucked.

[SpencerH]

It certainly doesnt hurt to have a good early uu (Romans, Persians) rather than a later one (Germans, Americans). I dont play aztecs or zulus much, they were considered to be pretty effective, but I'm noty sure after the 1.17 patch.

[kcbob]

Is that what I'm missing here? I haven't loaded any patches. Do I need them? How many are there and what do they accomplish? And Roman Legions are good, too.