Cultural Victory... Anyone manage this?

[star mouse]

I think the ideal arrangement for a cultural victory are:

• Having good supplies of land so there's many cities all churning out culture. Playing only 80% of the maximum number of civs for the map size also helps.
• The capital city located centrally in an empire where all the cities are close to the capital. This way, corruption effects are minimised and cities have good production.
• A religious civilisation, Babylonians are especially good because they also have cheap Libraries
• Building temples and cathedrals as soon as possible
• Having all good culture wonders in one city, preferably the capital because that's where the palace is
• Sending defensive troops with all settlers so the new cities can build temples immediately
• Keep wars to a minimum. Set modest, well-defined goals, achieve them and end the war quickly.
• Have a slight science edge (1-2 techs in front) so you can build the wonders first

I am heading for a cultural victory in my current game. Babylonians, large map, 8 civs, raging barbarians. Three city defections to me so far. In my only real war (the other war was one single battle only), I was able to quell the resistors in 2 turns in the two cities I captured despite one of the cities being size 10 with 5 resistors.

[nocomply]

I got cultural victory, but it was on cheftain and i dont know if that counts for anything. But i was China, and i just attacked everybody everywhere, and kept all their cities. I didnt raze a single city. And i built improvements in every city, starting with temple, then library, then coloseeum, and so forth.

And i was trying to win with domination, but i guess the cultural victory beat it.

[zulu9812]

Man - I usually win games via cultural victory. Build wonders!

[Lucilla]

Originally posted by zulu9812
Man - I usually win games via cultural victory. Build wonders!

Do you have to build all wonders in one city? I never got a cultural victory so far, although I built all improvements and most of the wonders....

[Jamski]

I got a cultural victory with the evil French on OCC - beat that !
(It was on cheiftain, so not much of a boast.) Paris got to 20000 culture points in the early 2000's building all wonders. I scored an amazing 131 points !

(Why do I get such a low score )

It took about 2 1/2 hours to play... have a try. The French are good because you can start building the Pyramids from the start, and change to Great Library. You need a HUGE tech lead to get all of the wonders, even on chieftain, and the GL helps a bit.

-Jam

[Lucilla]

Yes, apparently it's not only important to build wonders (which is obvious), but also to build them early and concentrate them in 1-2 cities, so that the culture accumulates over time.

[TheEvilCheater]

If u want culture victory. In the first age. Build every culture improvement u can. U need the orcale, prymids. Temples and anything else. I usally get to 80000 culture at the end game without trying. I could get a culture win in most games just theres one problem your vunerable to attack.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by War of Art
I got a cultural victory with the evil French on OCC - beat that !

One of my few OCC tries I won with the Greeks on Regent by culture. IIRC I got 410 or 420 points.

[Solver]

I have won a cultural victory vs. Warlord as Babylon someday. England had half of my culture value at the moment I gained the needed point, but then I declared war on them, capturing their cities and buying a Temple in each one immediately. Soon my culture exceeded theirs enough .

[rmsharpe]

My culture win usually comes around the 1970's or 1980's...

[Solver]

Yes, it can be so, for peaceful players, who will build many Cathedrals and Colosseums just for the culture value.

[Harovan]

The "Season 1 game 3" of the CFC tournament had the goal to achieve a cultural victory. In the veteran division (game was regent level) most players finished around 1800, some even 1750. I had bad luck (no leader for a FP ) and finished around 1830.

[Allemand]

I just won a culture victory playing the Americans, huge map, monarch level. 100,000 points before 1600AD. Wonders don't have as much impact as the city improvements. Build over 60 cities and your culture will be immense. Also immense is the amount of micromanagement in that game.

[Immortal Wombat]

what are the best culture wonders?

[I-iZ-1337]

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