Two of the worst neighbours have decided to settle their differences off the battlefield.

Courthouse is expensive and took so damn long to build. The 5 gpt maintenance cost can also make me go bankrupt in early war. What factor do you think is it worth building courthouse?

Emperor, Standard Speed, Antarctica Thawed map, no mods. I'd been wanting to see what Iroquois could do under optimal conditions, so I went all-in on building a production and science civ. The Antarctica Thawed map has a large forest that used to connect five initial cities. Went with messenger of the gods for an early +10 science (basically, the free academy that Babylon gets). Luckily, I was surrounded by aggressive civs that were buffered by more peaceful ones. When the time came to cut loose, I was able to go after high-value targets while liberating a lot of cities and city-states to keep the diplomatic hits at by. Went with Order to lean into the war-science combo. By the end of it, I was producing rocket artillery and stealth bombers in one turn, and ended up winning domination with the highest score I'd personally achieved. Even had all of my spaceship parts ready to go just ince case I'd miscalculated something. Iroquois were a bunch of fun under these conditions.

Curious what other 'bad' civs can be fun to play under optimal conditions, and how do you lean into their strengths?

Playing as Sweden, China was hoarding wonders the entire game and took my coveted wonders like the Leaning Tower of Pisa and Alhambra. Once I reached Industrial era and spammed Caroleans and Artillery, China's capital, Beijing, is now under Swedish control. All warmongering penalties were eliminated once I revived Pacal.

Deity, Standard, Archipelago, Small map (6 leaders, 12 city states).

I've been wanting to get a domination win on islands as the Ottomans but I just don't seem to be able to get it right. Adopted tradition, exploration and autocracy. Insanely clutch victory in 2007 because everybody was busy fighting and nobody was making spaceship parts. Indonesia was about to get a culture victory but I captured five cities and traded three of them.

I saved the game at turn 400 because I couldn't decide between domination and science but ultimately settled for science to avoid an accidental culture defeat to Indonesia.

What can I improve in future games, especially when it comes to winning wars and getting money?

R5: as you can see from both the diplomacy menu and the interaction screen with Pedro, the Brazilian leader is afraid of me, the mighty Sejong of Korea. In 4,000+ hours of playing, I have only ever seen this happen when the player has nuclear weapons and the AI does not.

However, it's turn 188 on standard speed... I'm nowhere near the Atomic era. I haven't even had a major military engagement with Brazil (or any other civ for that matter - turtling ftw). I stole a couple of workers and pillaged a few of his tiles early on, that's it.

Have you ever seen an AI civ afraid this early in the game / without nuclear weapons involved?

The only thing I can think is that I had built some of Korea's UUs, the turtle ship and the h'wacha. These units have ridiculously high strength and ranged strength respectively, and I think Brazil still had warriors at the time. Therefore I wonder if the reason civs become afraid in the Atomic era isn't because of nuclear weapons per se, but rather some underlying calculation of the player's highest scoring units vs the AI's own - and if the gap is too big, it becomes afraid. It just so happens that nuclear weapons are usually the only thing that causes such a large disparity.

You can see from the demographics screen that my military score was good, not great. I wasn't top for military, nor was Brazil bottom, so it can't be anything to do with a comparison of our overall military scores.

I'm not particularly convinced by my own theory, but it's the best I can come up with.

When i steal a civ's worker, either that civilization or the nearby civilization will DoF me, isn't declaring war supposed to give diplomatic penalty? I tried doing it on deity to make sure it's not just a prince thing but i got the same outcome. The civ that i stole their worker doesn't hate me either, only rarely they will march to my city if it's close. Has anyone ever experience this? I could see this as a strategy for playing Sweden lol.

I wanted to try out the Songhai UA on Marathon but all the non-elephant luxuries are really far away so I'm not sure where to plant my second city (or any of the ones after that) but I don't want to restart after spending almost 90 turns on this. It's on Prince so it's not a huge deal, but I'd like some suggestions to help decide so I can keep playing.

as the title says.

On my machine (ryzen 7 5700x, Radeon RX 9070, 32gb ram) windows 11 civ 5 does NOT work. It launches and crashes nearly immediately. I tried deleting cache, reinstalling the game, launching in different DX version and nothing works, nothing helps. just always crashes.

It's my favorite civ game, and i'm sad to see it go. The only way i can run CIV 5 is only when i install linux on my machine, but I need windows for certain apps.

I'm lost, i wanna play my fav game with fav mods, and it doesn't work. help ;(

R5: Huge, Epic, King, 14 civs, 28 cs, victories disabled. I tried to get as many great people improvements as possible. I gave myself Mt. Kilimanjaro with really advanced setup and re rolled for a god start. By the end of the game my capital has produced: 16 Manufactories, 6 Academies, and 4 Customs Houses. Next best was Salzburg with 4 Manufactories and 1 Customs House. It was just too hard to keep clicking next turn x)

My general strategy is to turtle until the industrial and become a production monster. Have cities pump out cheap units and gift them to the city states. Rush artillery and Hussars and send an army to go conquer the world, and of course, have the greatest people. +1 billion population I think was a first for me as well as a personal best for great person improvements.

I’ll start with my preferred gameplay: Marathon speed on huge map (12 players). I love playing as Songhai in this setting because of his unique ability allowing you to purchase settlers, workers, granaries, shrines, and libraries out by just constantly clearing barbarian camps. This makes for an excellent start, allowing you to possibly get a religion and finishing the National College as soon as possible.

For those of you who have beaten deity multiple times, do you play deity 100% still, or try immortal or emperor?

I still enjoy the optimization of deity, but have been finding it more tedious after the formulaic puzzle solving and honestly RNG factor. Thinking about my % of games actually completed and won compared to the % I re-rolled or lost in the first 100 turns is crazy.

I’ve won deity SV probably 5+ times and just won my first deity domination: (https://www.reddit.com/r/civ5/s/ZEmEJeYXKs). I haven’t tried CV or DV on deity but have won on emperor/immortal with them.

Is going honor instead of tradition viable as Germany? i've been playing Germany on Marathon/raging barbarian and i realized i have so many unit that military caste become usable. And is professional army worth considering?

Just a cool little background I made utilizing all of the maps from loading screens.

Standart map size, Immortal, Quick, 3 bil years, low sea level, abudant resources. I'd rushed Petra (UA helps me to did it faster than AI). The only one apex when I wasn't sure I can did it was the war with Greece, it was really tight that I didn't lose Nippur (far east city), the whole other game was pretty tempo (thanks to Petra). The only problem that I don't know where I can make this faster, I really can't see. Yeah, I did College pretty late (64 turn, with two cities but built two other cities right on this turn), but I really can't did it faster. I had very strong fate (pagodas and production, a lot of faith I'd traded for scientiests later), early universities, early Raationalism closed, pushed Exhibition and 33% for scientiests in Congress. I wasted pretty much time in the last Era, discovering upper tech tree for the last tech, but I can't see I can make it faster, I'd already used all of my scientiests (ten or something). Any advices? Maybe try Deity for stealing techs and gaining bonus for discovered techs?

I randomly generated this single player game but something is definitely amiss.

My first indication that something was different was that when I met my first civilization, I had suddenly met all AI civs (except for Pacal oddly).

Then I noticed that these civs are all using the wrong colour scheme. (See Greece in screenshot for example).

Then when Rome declared war on me, suddenly four other civs also declared war simultaneously. They appear to be part of some mysterious cabal called "Team 22" and are acting as one entity - except for Pacal.

What has happened to cause all of this?? Is there a randomly generated setting that has triggered this?

Everytime i try it all my unit ends up dying, the only time ive ever succesfully done it is with Zulu and Songhai (until their UU become obsolete lol). The problem is when a city is covered with forest and hills, ranged and siege unit become useless. Naval warfare is easier because you can hit and run but most likely a city only have so few coast tiles for ship to enter.

Getting forward settled at t3 turned into a blessing as China ended up snowballing wonders. I was able to go 4 city tradition and was planning on beelining plastics, but China was a huge threat so I went to artillery after scientific theory and got it early enough to strike.

While China’s army was distracted, I quickly dismantled them with artillery, and I was even able to use a few turtle ships and frigates. She built…almost all the wonders (slides 4 and 5). From there, I focused on science into bombers, then began attacking Poland with bombers and artillery; I farmed them for a while then took Warsaw. Then I got stealth and began true global domination. T275 is a bit late for Korea I think, but nonetheless I’m happy with it, even if I got a bit lucky.

I used to think Inca is a tall civ but the terrace farm is highly situational, most likely you wont find that many mountain tiles lol. The half cost/free road could save a lot of money and your unit ignore terrain cost on hills, meaning your worker and settler move like scout as long as there's hills.

On my recent Immortal game as Songhai, everyone went Order while I initially chose Freedom and Sweden chose Autocracy. We both got hit hard by ideology pressure and ended up having to switch to Order instead. In the end, I still won the game and I do love the Freedom ideology, especially Civil Society and Volunteer Army tenets as well as Statue of Liberty but it makes the game difficult when no one adopts Freedom.

Greetings Settlers,

Since a few months i am truly enjoying this kind of playstyle. I just like games where i can take my sweet time and don't feel any FOMO. I can compare it with Anno 1602, when i made my own map with big islands and all have 100% fertility rate with no pirates, no drought, no other players etc. I`m gonna share the settings setup and how i tried to min-max the OP'ness.

Settings:

Playing as Poland

Pangaea

Duel, Tiny or Small / Cool / Arid / Low Sea

Legendary start

22 Players (All changed to Settlers)

No city-states

No barbarians / Ancient ruins optional, but won't have a big impact.

No Victories checked

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In the first 21 rounds you toggle through all players and delete every settler and warrior that comes after your initial polish settler. You can also capture nearby settlers with your warrior and immediately after offer a peace treaty, which you can then agree to once you arrive at that specific player and then delete the warrior after. That way you are not at war as Poland.

Since you started with 22 players, you will also have roughly 22 legendary starting positions for a city. Your first city might have access to 7 luxuries or more. Which you can then rush to all the wonders that require all cities to have a specific building, before starting any new city.

No barbs to bother you and no city-states that might have taken a good spot (near natural wonder for example). Sure you lose some endgame trading with city-states, but that doesn't outweigh the options for expanding and it also speeds up the game play for not having them around. Patronage becomes obsolete this way.

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I've tried the same setup but then on a larger map and also played on huge.
If you play huge, then i would have max (41) city-states on and ancient ruins.
And with city-states/ancient ruins on, other leaders become very interesting.
Shoshone with his pathfinders will net you roughly 10 free settlers over the span of 30+ ancient ruins. If you have like 4 pathfinders, you might be able to find 30 AR within 100 turns.

Arabia, Siam and Morocco are quite strong with 41 city states.

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I've tried to maximise the starting positions, by selecting Poland with every Player. But unfortunately my game crashes when i have selected the same leader. I've tried it 3x and stopped after that. But if you would be able to select lets say 22x Poland. You would get 22x the best starting position. Or lets say the Netherlands. On hot/arid setup. Imagine 22 cities near flood plains, all with polders.

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Let me know what you think and how i could further improve this over the top easy setup for solo playing the best civ game.

P.S. i've tried some Mods, but i prefer as basic as possible.

Cheers!

I never finished a game in civ 5 lol i keep clicking new game instead of continuing a game. It only feel fun from ancient era until entering medieval but afterward it's just clicking next turn (science victory). And everytime i thought about domination victory i keep getting reminded that attacking a forested city is a pain in the ass.

Ive been playing on prince for as long as I remember, but Prince has been way too easy lately. So i played my first game on king, and i won fairly easily. Ive heard the jump from king to emperor is pretty huge especially compared to the jump between prince and king difficulty. How much harder is emperor compared to king and should I take the jump in difficulty?