Hello, I'm Raven. Here I want to share my game tactics in the wonderful strategy of Civilization V! The guide will develop, not all at once)

Character selection:
If you are going to devote the whole game to the war with other civilizations, choose Genghis Khan, he has one very good ability! I personally play for Catherine II, because I am a patriot. I have never played for the rest, I will update this section as the game progresses.
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First steps:
We make a city where there is an extensive amount of resources (The rest will appear in the course of studying the "Tree of Research" we make a city there! Great, the first steps have been taken! Now we need to develop and expand territories! There are 2 options to expand the borders: Make your own cities, capture others. If you are going to capture cities like me, start with the weak ones, and then build a road from your capital to the city! Why? There will be an influx of gold, and it is very necessary here! Forgot to mention 3 way to expand the borders: Buy cells. Cells are quite expensive, but there are purple ones!They are sold for cheap.As you advance, you will meet other Civilizations.Now tips: Every time you capture/create a city, make a path to it!Sell unnecessary resources to other states!Are you going to capture the city? Make a lot of units and besiege the city!I also advise you to buy additional (If others are killed), and now a warning!CITY CANNOT CAPTURE RANGE UNITS! That is, guns, archers, etc! The city can only be captured by: Warriors, Knights, Knights with a long sword, foot soldiers, mechanized infantry!

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Endings:
There are several endings in the game, I will only tell you the ones I know!
Military victory: Destroy states and civilizations, take over the world.
Cultural Victory:-
"Normal" ending: You just get to ... 2060-62 and a splash screen appears saying: Civilizations are mired in war and blah blah blah, and you survived, the world will forever remember your triumph.
I don't know more endings, move on to the next last section.
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Defense, what is better to study?
So, now you have developed a little, but what's next? You need to put guards in your city, it is desirable to put a long-range unit (Cannons, etc.) How to do this? We make / buy a unit, send it to the city and we will have the inscription "Put in the garrison" click on it and that's it, your unit is in the garrison! If you put a unit in the garrison of the city, then the power will increase. What is better to learn at the beginning of the game? It doesn't matter what you learn at the beginning of the game. But when you get to the middle, there I advise you to study those technologies that are associated with military units! Well, that's if you're going to conquer and destroy, and if not, then learn a lot of different things related to culture and build the wonders of the world!
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Here is my guide and came to an end, in the way that I described here I went through the game! Good luck and good mood everyone =)

There are several types of victory. You can win with science by building and launching the first starship to Alpha Centauri. You can achieve cultural superiority over other civilizations or win through diplomacy. In addition, you can follow the beaten path of conquerors: crush your enemies with your chariots and win a great military victory. The first civilization to fulfill one of the victory conditions wins the game. Don't forget to keep an eye on the progress of your rivals: the worst thing is to see an enemy starship taking off from the last city you haven't captured.

Technology and victory

Having mastered enough technologies, you can build a spaceship and send colonists to Alpha Centauri. If you manage to do this before anyone else achieves any other victory, you will get a scientific victory. More details about the ways to achieve victory are described in the corresponding section.

City-states and victory

City-states cannot win the game: only major powers can achieve this.

How to lose

There are three ways to defeat: lose the capital, lose to another civilization, or not score the highest score by 2050.

Loss of the last city

If you lose your last city in combat with another civilization or city-state, you have lost the game. It's just a shame - try not to let that happen to you.

The victory of another power

If another civilization achieves one of the five possible victories: game over - you lose. It doesn't matter how close you were to winning:
whoever wins first wins. Everyone else lost.

2050

If the year 2050 arrives and neither player has achieved victory, the game automatically ends and the civilization with the most victory points wins.

How to win

There are five ways to win:

• military victory
• Scientific victory
• Cultural victory
• Diplomatic victory
• Coming 2050

military victory

If you are the last player to retain control of your capital, you have won. Capture the capitals of all other civilizations and hold your own - it's not as easy as it seems. Let's say in a 5-player game you captured the capitals of three players, but at that moment the fourth one stabbed you in the back and captured your capital. If he succeeded, he won instantly. In other words, it doesn't matter who defeated whom: what matters is who was the last to hold the capital. If you have lost your capital, but own other cities, you can still win - cultural, scientific or diplomatic. However, until the return of your historical capital, you cannot win a military victory.

Destruction of the capital

No way. The historical capital cannot be destroyed. It can be captured, but not destroyed. Dropping a nuclear bomb will reduce the population to 1, but the city will not be destroyed. Relax, this is a game. (Remember, you can destroy a civilization by capturing or destroying all of its cities, so destroying capitals is not necessary to wipe out all enemies from the face of the earth.)

historical capital
If your first capital is captured, the other city will automatically become the new capital. It will be similar in everything to the first capital, but it will be possible to destroy it; it also does not count towards a military victory. If you regain your historical capital, it will again become the capital of your civilization.

Scientific victory

You can achieve a science victory by mastering all the technologies needed to build a spaceship, then building all the ship parts and moving them to the capital. When all the parts are assembled, you can launch the ship to Alpha Centauri. If the interstellar flight is successful and the ship reaches its destination before the other players win, then you win a science victory!

Spaceship details
Spaceship parts are built and moved around the map like any other vehicle. For the construction of every detail requires advanced technology. Ship parts are considered civilian units, they self-destruct if they fall into enemy hands. When the part is built, ship it to the capital. You will then have to decide if the part should be attached to the ship. When all the parts are assembled, the ship will take off into space and you will win a science victory!

Note: ship parts cannot be bought, their creation cannot be accelerated. They must be built in the city.

Cultural victory

In order to win a culture victory, you need to fully research all five branches of public institutions, that is, every available public institution in the game. After that, the Utopia project will become available to you. Its construction brings a cultural victory. This project cannot be accelerated or bought: it must be built.

Diplomatic victory

Once the player has mastered the Globalization technology, they will be able to create the UN. After the construction of the UN is completed, every few turns there will be a vote for the title of world leader. If someone gets enough votes in the UN, he will automatically win a diplomatic victory. The required number of votes depends on the number of civilizations at the start of the game. The fewer players in the game, the greater the percentage of votes needed to win.

Who votes?
All civilizations and city-states have the right to vote. The power that built the headquarters of the UN has two votes. Civilizations always vote for themselves, but liberated powers vote for their liberator. City-states vote on who is best treated. However, if they were released, they also vote for the liberator.

Liberation
If you take a city-state captured by another civilization, you will have a choice: annex it, install a puppet government in its head, or release it. If you liberate a city, it will always vote for you in the UN regardless of your current relationship. If the same city-state is liberated twice, it will vote for the last liberator. If a civilization left the game and you captured one of its cities, you can annex it, make it a satellite, or liberate it. If you liberate the city, civilization will return to the game. A liberated civilization will always vote for you in the UN. If there were multiple liberators, the civilization will vote for the last one.

End of time

If no player has won, the game ends automatically at the end of 2050. The points rating of all surviving civilizations is calculated and the winner is announced. After that, you can continue the game, but it will no longer be possible to win it.

• the number of cities in the empire;
• your population;
• number of open technologies;

Game rating

Most often during the game, one of the players achieves one of four possible victories: military, scientific, diplomatic or cultural. But if no player has achieved victory before 2050, the winner is determined by the ranking of civilizations. If someone achieves victory before 2050, the rating determines his place in the Hall of Fame. The rating is calculated as follows.

Destruction
If you are out of the game, your rating is zero. It's a pity!

Time to win
By winning before 2050, you will receive a multiplier to the number of points earned. The sooner you achieve victory, the better.

Victory points
You earn victory points for:

• the number of cells in your boundaries (the least important factor);
• the number of cities in the empire;
• your population;
• number of open technologies;
• the number of open "technologies of the future";
• number of wonders built (the most important factor).

Map and game difficulty

The size of the map determines the number of victory points that a civilization receives for tiles, cities, and population. The difficulty level of the game determines how difficult it is to earn a rating: the harder the game, the less points you get for everything (in other words, a crushing victory at the easiest level will cost less rating points than a near draw at the hardest level).

Creating the New Brave World of the fifth Civilization can be a bit confusing at first. The latest official Civ 5 addon has a lot of trade, culture and diplomacy changes, so there are a few things you need to know before you start leading your next civilization to victory. Listen carefully, my lord...

Trade Routes - Your main source of income

The previous parts allowed you to increase income mainly through construction and improvements. Now the trade route system will fill the lion's share of your treasury. If you need to get rich as quickly as possible, research caravans (and later, cargo ships) and you will reach the maximum level of trade routes as soon as possible.

Also keep in mind that there are more profitable trade routes that pass through the partner's resource-rich territory. A wise Trade Prince will want to find more profitable cities for maximum profit. Also, don't forget to protect your trade routes from pirates and barbarians with a good army and navy. Drills Saratov can be bought here.

Tourism is your sword, Culture is your shield

The new way to win in Civilization 5 involves suppressing the Culture of another civilization through your tourism. If you are on the path of cultural development, you need to start this process as early as possible.

However, keep in mind that in this case at the very beginning you will not be able to create a large amount of tourism. Do everything to level up the Great Person and get excellent bonuses. Use trading to make the most of these bonuses, however before trading anything make sure you don't need it later.

Control the World Congress, Control the game to the end

The World Congress from now on is arguably the deciding factor for the rest of the game. Aside from the Diplomatic Victory opportunity that allows you to harm your competitors in a non-hostile way, they can do the same to you. This allows for development in a different direction with shared wonders and research funding. Of course, you can ignore this at your own risk.

Broadly speaking, City-State allies are now more important when they come to provide the majority of possible votes in the World Congress. If you're the good guys, allied votes will lead you to world domination.

Learn to love the new ideology system

The ideologies (freedom, order and autocracy) rightly changed. Now you have an incentive not to join the prevailing world ideology like the first civilization, but to choose two. Also follow pay attention to the tourism system. A civilization with a high level of Tourism can cause unrest in civilizations with different ideologies where their culture is popular.

Also beware of blocking power by a large number of allied states, as they can pass a resolution to the World Congress, claiming the "World Ideology", which makes the game very difficult for states that have a different ideology. There is also a similar resolution for World Religion.

You must keep the above suggestions in mind before you face the brave new world of Civ 5.

Guide to duel games from the first number of the League rating CivPlayers.Ru

It is interesting to play with good players, who can be counted on the fingers here.

There are a lot of guides on the net, let's play to civilization, but a few guides and instructions for a good game are enough

Duel Guide

I will mainly describe a map similar to pangea, since a duel on closed maps such as a shootout and plains is peculiar

1 place under the city

For duels, one of the most important is hammers, the capital should have hammers, if there are no hills around, but there are sawmills, then this is tolerable, if there are not even forests, then it is better to move in search of a better start to hammers

The best place for a capital is on a hill near the river count the tiles in the radius of the capital should be 15-20 good tiles that the capital can process (assuming it grows to 15) so sometimes it's better to get away from the water if you lose in hammers and cages

There is a lot of empty water here, but a lot of potential for hammers, by putting the second city on the water and sending caravans, we will compensate for the lack of food

The choice of a place for the capital is very important, I note that cards with a strategic balance give iron and horses for the capital, but as is commonly believed, the usual standard gives more opportunities for settling cities

The capital on the hill will give an additional hammer, which is very difficult to win back in a duel and will be a strong bonus at the start

If it is possible to move the capital up the hill without much loss in the surrounding territory, then this must be done

At the start, think about where you can move to view units, starting intelligence for a multiplayer game is very important, but it is also important to understand that perhaps by moving a settler to the meadows, you will connect additional hills for the capital or additional barn resources

Perhaps the best solution would be to put the city on a suite
the best suites are considered, mining suites that require ore, these are fast suites, because ore is a cheap technology and will allow you to settle quickly

Forget about playing with one city! cities are important in civilization,

There are different strategies for dueling for tradition and for will, both are good and require skill and skill.

Remember the important axiom! pure will or pure tradition is much better than turns and combinations (aqueducts for free are strong and pure will with its bonuses are strong)

For a good game of civilization, the most important place for the second city will be!

The first thing we do at the start is to conduct reconnaissance with your war, look for a place for a fast second city, and possibly for a third, important point, that the second city is traditionally faster than by will, and there is an opportunity to quickly reach an important place under the second city, but the will compensates for the rapid spam of cities

2 what we are building in the capital
especially important for beginners

If you need to reach important cells quickly, then we build a monument, if there are cells with 3 food or 2 food + 1 hammer in the first radius, then we build a scout because intelligence is very important, sometimes you can build a worker from the start, (cases when there is little food or on the contrary, there is a lot of forest, we study good ore with the first tech and cut the forest immediately, speeding up the starting production) but we lose in exploration, and the search for ruins

If you want to learn how to play well forget the game for an early tribute! as an axiom, forget about spamming wonders in your cities, one rule, if you build a starting wonder, then build only one! you have to understand that the best civilization players don't just spend hammers

Those spamming an army at the start for tribute is a fail in 80% of the cases, because you can lose soldiers in an attack attempt or from barbarians and you will have to replenish the army, and there will be little production

Build 1 scout or 2, but the 2nd scout may already be superfluous and the loss of 2-3 moves in the game with a scout can steal a slave, so we steal slaves with the second scout
therefore, you can not build a slave, but steal it, but for the years it will appear only on the 15-22nd move (starting from growth 3, a slave is built near the city of the state)

For example, a good place for a second city on diamonds is a fast ore resource + 3 food nearby
we put those second city on hammers and food! moreover, in the new addon, the river has already become not so important, but desirable, hammers and starting food are important, so that the second city can grow to 3 quickly enough

Let's settle down! New cities on the hills are as strong as the capital. Even stronger. hammers are more important for the second city (in my opinion, King Solomon's mine is the most powerful natural wonder for the second city)

There are 2 resettlement tactics

The first one is making settlements on size 3 to the barn, the second one is making settlements after the growth of capital 5, but you can also take a super risk to build settlements on the growth of capital 2, this is a risk, but it will allow you to get a settler earlier

The tactics of the game are different, the game of tradition in 4 cities is very good, but an important point to understand is that such a resettlement will not give you the opportunity to build a fast national college, but it will give you a lot of hammers

For playing 4 cities the most important thing is having horses, stones on the map and luxes, those 4 luxes and horses/elephants in each city will give you 4+4+4+4 = 16 happiness from luxes and 2+2+2+2 = 8 happiness from circuses 1+1+1+1 = 4 happiness from quarries

Those for the development game, the most important thing is happiness, and you will have enough hammers anyway, the advantage of such tactics is a lot of production and science! 4 cities you must place before turn 50

Those buildings scout scout village slave (archer, archer) village village
then the barn, etc., first of all, we process horses for the circus, since at the start, happiness is very important, when there is happiness, according to tradition, your 4 towns will grow in an instant by leaps and bounds, with caravans and free aqueducts, and especially with the opening of the civil service!

But one of the best strategies is a game of 3 cities, because there are not always horses in all cities and 5 suites) we put 2 fast cities, build a national college and then settle,
those if you see such a strategy does not include the construction of miracles! and if you want a miracle then make it a rule that only one!

Religion will be an important point, and if it is possible to build a sanctuary (usually it is built in the second fast city), you can also build a sanctuary in the capital in front of the village

Those even early Stonehamge can give you religion and happiness, which is so necessary for tradition, we let the caravan go as early as possible, but if you don’t have happiness, then first of all solve the problem with smiles for growth, as the caravan will be useless at the start and will give you only that 3 food, if you let it go later you will get 4 food, the water caravan seems to be 6 food

You must put the second city in a protected place and the second factor in a place where you can easily lead it

Make it a rule to play from defense and not to waste hammers, if you are building something, you should understand why! control the approaches to your city keep recon units on the approach routes! good rushers can push through even 1 tile!

It's always easier to defend than to attack! the one who plays on defense always wins and for defense we build 3-4 chariots a couple of peaks and horses, we go out to the well-aimed if it doesn’t help

Saving up money because in the new addon, money is very important, and it is important to buy cells and pantheons for culture, because it takes a very long time to reach the 3rd radius with the second city
to be continued!

Someday this war will end.

And again we will take on the role of the embodiment of the people's will, hidden behind the mask of an eminent ruler. Led by us, yesterday's savages will invent the wheel, discover America, curb nuclear energy and soar on a gigantic starship to Alpha Centauri - if this nuclear energy does not turn them, yesterday's savages, into the smallest radioactive dust. In the meantime, let's figure out how to achieve one and avoid the second. What paths are available to us to achieve the highest goal?

Absolute world hegemony.

Do you like the sound of swords and the chirp of machine guns? In this case, military victory is your method. Like 19 years ago, the scheme is simple: roll all opponents into concrete. And allies too. In the early stages of the game, as well as on tight maps, conquest is the fastest and most efficient way to win. But nothing prevents you from waiting for your personal Oppenheimer or Kurchatov, and then show everyone Kuzkin's mother! It is a pity that the possibilities of military expansion in the last creation Firaxis very limited, but more on that later.

And we are not dreaming of the roar of the cosmodrome.

Patient's choice. Having studied the necessary technologies, you need to build the elements of the spaceship, bring them to the capital (the enemy does not sleep - if a starship part is attacked, it will self-destruct) and put together. A team of daredevils plunges into suspended animation aboard an interstellar vessel, a column of flame escapes from the nozzles, and the expedition leaves their home planet in order to overcome four and a half light years to the star Alpha of the Centaurus constellation in thirty years. “Our footprints will remain on the dusty paths of distant planets…”

Yes, and mister Meyer either a hoaxer or an ignoramus. There is not a single planet in the closest star system to the Sun...

Of all the arts, the most important for us is ...

Want a truly epic game? If so, head for a cultural victory. Previously, this had to increase the level of abstract culture in the capital and throughout the empire; now everything is easier. The key to victory is the Utopia project, which will become available for construction after a full study of the five branches of social institutions. More on this later.

In the name of world peace.

According to Civilization The United Nations is the most powerful organization in the world. We will not talk about secret Masonic lodges and Zionist conspiracies, but simply agree with the henchmen Sid Meier. After the construction of the headquarters of the Blue Helmets, every few turns there is an election of a world leader, who immediately wins a diplomatic victory. Not only full-fledged powers vote, but also city-states. About them, again later.

And what have you been doing all this time?

According to tradition, if no one bothered to win before 2050, then the game simply counts the points scored and determines the winner by their number. The easiest and most uninteresting way to get the better of your opponents.

There is no dominance victory in the game for the first time in many years. Now it is not enough to take possession of vast territories and feed a whole legion of inhabitants. Feel free to buckle up!

City-holiday, city-dream... city-prison?

Perhaps the least changes have affected cities and their management. Most of the innovations are cosmetic.

Bread alone.

Each citizen eats 2 units of food per turn. If more food is grown than needed, then the surplus is sent to the barn: when it is full, the population will grow by one. Nothing new. Equipment of colonists and workers freezes the growth of the city until the end of their production, as in Civilization IV. With enough shields, expansion can be carried out at truly Mongol speed! The main thing is that the population of the city has already reached 2, otherwise the settlers cannot be hired. Discontent greatly hinders the growth of cities - the surplus is lost, if not completely, then partially.

As before, the lack of provisions causes the population to decrease to a level where everyone is fed. The poor location of the city can be compensated by farms, various buildings or Wonders, which will be discussed later.

Happiness for everyone, for free!

A very, very interesting solution - the mood of all cities is summed up into one common indicator, and all changes relate to it. Population growth and empire expansion decrease National Happiness, Rare Resources, Cultural Buildings and Wonders increase. If the indicator falls below zero, the growth of cities slows down, and a significant drop also reduces the combat effectiveness of the army! So it is difficult to be a bloody dictator, although an ordinary dictator is not forbidden by anything. However, in any huge power will never be calm. Something reminds...

Despicable metal

Who would have thought that roads would turn from a source of income into a bottomless abyss for government money? So now each road tile costs the government 1 gold per turn. A little? And if under your command is a huge empire stretching over millions of square kilometers? You can, of course, do without roads ... Again, deja vu.

There are many ways to get hold of some money: at the beginning of the game it is very profitable to rob barbarian camps (sweet revenge!), later - ringing "gifts" from friendly city-states, trade routes (the city's connection with the capital brings regular income) and so on. But the costs are different anyway! The maintenance of units and buildings is fixed and does not depend on a bunch of factors, as in the previous "Civilization".

But there are also useful costs. Now for a certain amount it is allowed to buy cells so that they join the city. The problem when one city could not seize several resources at once with its influence is solved: just buy these territories, and that's it. For gold, you can purchase buildings and units, if time does not endure and the enemy is at the gate. Or if a colossal pile of money burns through the pocket. Yes, the modernization of obsolete troops still requires financial investments, and considerable ones. As well as buying a "friendship" with a city-state; more about this in the relevant section.

Culture-multur.

Since ancient times, every city in Civilization(from the 3rd part) annually produced a certain amount of culture points, having accumulated which, this very city expanded its borders; v Civilization V it is not necessary to wait for expansion, since the territory can be purchased for currency. In addition, a developed culture has a beneficial effect on the minds not only in their own country, but also abroad. Settlements with disgruntled residents and weak culture, being close to your borders, may defect to your camp.

However, now the role of culture in games has become more significant. The general cultural level of civilization affects the availability of new social institutions (more about them in the relevant section). Points are accumulated, and upon reaching a certain number of them, you can choose a new policy. Each time the required amount increases.

Everybody is dancing!

A high mood is not only an indicator that is pleasant to the heart. A positive number of happiness points are added up, and when enough has been accumulated, the Golden Age will begin. Each cell will increase productivity: +1 to shields and +1 to income; the development of new technologies will accelerate, and the mood will rise. And so for 10 moves; if the Golden Age is initiated by a Great Man, then the heyday will be shorter.

Away, dilettantes!

The need for specialists has not disappeared to this day. Since the 4th part of the game, their number has decreased, and only four varieties remain: