CIVILIZATION V: Babylon single city SCIENCE VICTORY Quick Guide

A quick video explaining my take on how to get to a science victory using the Babylonians, limiting yourself to a single city while the other civilizations are free to expand.
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[@BlaizenLeeProductions]

I like how Egypt had pretty much just figured out what gunpowder was, while your leaving the planet on giant space ship. Imagine the stories those soldiers told to there families when they got home.

[@pyrrha7124]

Egyptian Soldier: Hey guys I'm back from the war His friends: Any stories to tell? Soldier: Nothing much , just the usual giant flying ship sent into the heavens by Babylon

[@UNFORGIVABLExGAMING]

***** This is why the egyptians saw aliens and ufo's but we never have.

[@Anton-xe4ze]

+UNxFORGIVABLE true

[@Superjelle108]

M1911coltOwns t

[@Folemaet]

Wait... All this legends about tower of Babel... Now it makes total sense

[@Milos111Zivkov]

Science victory with one city. Bunch of nerds gathered around the fire one day 4000 years B.C. and decided that they will dedicate their lives to leave their planet on which other nations war upon each other. :D Kinda interesting.

[@Cheepe1000]

+Milos Zivkov You know that would be a really good story.

[@Milos111Zivkov]

Cezar Azevedo You think? :D

[@Cheepe1000]

+Milos Zivkov yeaaah!

[@MrTeddy12397]

"unga bunga rocket!" "unga bunga science!" "ugh!"

[@justinbourd4702]

Milos Zivkov to

[@zamarickz]

Making 1,500 gold a turn as Venice, I bought off all of the city-states and won via "diplomacy" once. It was pretty awesome to control the world just by having all the money. It felt super realistic.

[@RealGeminiDragon]

The history of this civilization. Your people discover farming and say "fuck this planet we want out."

[@vulvex392]

actually the Sumerians discovered farming but I get the point

[@Henriki2305]

Vulvex In civ 5 everyone discovers farmin

[@joc9941]

I can just imagine as the Egyptians encroach on his city the astronauts are just flipping them off as they leave.

[@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

And that is how you play as the Dwemer in Civ V!

[@thebreadcraft4216]

KaptainMorganWo I’m not sure if anyone else got that reference, but I did

[@JGDawg1]

Oh so the Dwemer just went and fucked off lmao? I thought they died out.

[@krb6301]

nice skyrim reference

[@spookstermcbone2772]

*Did* the Dwemer have one city? I recall them having multiple ruins, but maybe those were just factories/labs/etc and not cities.

[@germanswede6446]

@@spookstermcbone2772 The Dwemer (aka the Deep-Elves or Dwarves) had many cities spanning much of North and Northeastern Tamriel. Their history is tied in with the Tribunal in Morrowind, as well as the demise of the Snow Elves in Skyrim (once more advanced beings that have devolved into murderous creatures due to the Dwemer feeding them mushrooms that made them go blind). en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Dwemer

[@jriegerhoule]

I wish instead of ending the video there, you showed those primitive Egyptians just discovering gunpowder, the power of a Giant Death Robot.

[@xneutralgodx]

forget conquering the world i am going str8 to space

[@PTCHYOLO]

so that he can be the first one conquer the universe. LOL

[@cep9812]

Rafael Orcullo Everyone is on the rocket :D

[@SpencerWheelman]

Justin Lloyd Pacheco he was just thinking end game the whole time...

[@Raiayasaki]

Bringman John LOL what?, you can't fit an entire civilization in a rocket, the hell?

[@PTCHYOLO]

Don't take it too seriously.. Why so serious?! >:D

[@zeroc977]

Me: Oh that seems like a great strat! Also me: *Spawns in between two war civs and gets conquered before turn 100*

[@Nicator_]

If the strat hinges on you getting the Great Library, the Oracle, the Hanging Gardens AND the Terracotta Army, it's a terrible strat. I guess he played this on a very low difficulty. On Immortal or Deity, the AI will have those wonders before you have their techs (except for the Oracle, that one is usually doable if you focus it alone)

[@Hawktotalwar]

Industrial Era in the 13th century LoL, btw this doesn't work when you start next to Zulu. Just saying

[@theepicduck6922]

not true

[@simonmalik3745]

+Curtis I My best science record is as Korea, Renaissance in year cca 1000, it was funny, i was on quite big island where i could have 3 cities,and then focus only on science ,because noone could hurt me,and when i discovered Frigates, i discovered whole world,and then "raped" Engalnd with Great War Infatries and arrtileries when she had pikemens :D it was funny

[@Cthight]

yes zulu would just say: "a nice city you have there but soon it will be mine".

[@greatmallard9318]

Curtis I nothing works when you start next to zulu

[@frisianmouve]

Except buying time by bribing them into going to war with other civilizations and letting you tech up. And infantry vs Impis or riflemen: well we know who wins that don't we? Even with their unique promotions. The Zulu almost always fall behind in tech, even when they are conquering succesfully

[@Josh01699]

The noise you get from another civ finishing wonders sounds sort of similar to the "detected" noise from Metal Gear

[@RealGeminiDragon]

I was going to say, as a MGS fan, this video was stressful to watch! lol

[@caldrogo9212]

!

[@hdckighfkvhvgmk]

well, it's backwards, but yeah

[@lcg3092]

Well, the fact that you manage to complete the GL means it's not a high dificulty level, but still, fun little strat, I actually quite enjoy the 1 city challange and most recently the venetian civ

[@WallMarx]

This wouldn't work normally. I mean you start with capitol next to a Mountain (Hubble plus observatory, and tons of jungle which gives you ton of science, and with the coast a good enough defense early game (early and mid only). So You basicly had the best possible start for your strategy and you won't always be that lucky. Also, the diffuclty was low, and so the IA wasn't much a threat, but even though walls of Babylon would secure you until artillery, after that it's just game over. with 2 artillery and a parachutiste or even just a trirem you'd be dead in 3 turns. Sorry for the poor grammar.

[@WallMarx]

Plus a lot of ppl would try to get your capitol with all the wonders built in. And the diffuclty must have been pretty low since the barbarians didn't pillage shit, and that's what they usually do.

[@wmarzan8130]

+Wall Marx So how do you win a science victory with 1 city??

[@m4rs12]

+Waldemar Marzan island nation...with strong navy

[@DannyB1111]

+Wall Marx this was on warlord

[@michaelweiske702]

I have played as Babylon on a continents map, King difficulty, with Moctezuma as my neighbor. He declared war on me. I had already built the Great Wall and started producing composite archers. They never got near my city. He never declared war again.

[@zxcvbob]

Playing just one city is a handicap for science victory (probably for any other victory too), even for Babylon and Korea. An couple of extra cities will contribute more science than their 10% increase in beaker costs, plus they can send food caravans back to your capital, or production caravans while you're building the first few space ship parts (you'll rush the last part with gold or a great engineer) If one city makes for an interesting game, though, go for it; there's nothing wrong with that. My earliest science victory since I've been keeping track was in 1918 (don't remember how many turns) at Emperor level as Poland with about 4 or 5 cities. I'm trying to get one before 1900 A.D. Might have to move up to Immortal or Deity for that (the AI's get tech bonuses, so that pulls you along too until you eventually surpass them)

[@francescobernardini2136]

Shouldn't you use your free technology to research philosophy and then get a national college straight out?

[@hdckighfkvhvgmk]

yeah, that's usually what I do when I great library rush.

[@RealSkelzore]

just watched this for 10 min before realizing it was pre BNW

[@jasonren666]

this is Gods and Kings right?

[@kennyPAGC]

no, brave new world

[@MagicBrianTricks]

Skelzore You can still do it

[@FourEaredFoxHD]

Personally I enjoy Japan, their units fight just as well when heavily damaged which can get you out of situations and their Samurai unique unit replaces longswordsmen and are very powerful for the 1st-2nd quarter of the game. Use them well and you are set up for the final half of the game with a strong chance for the win.

[@sebastiedjuan7468]

Haha the heat in Civ is to win? Hahahaha. The heat is to win faster little noob

[@d3rkaderk4]

Songhai is really good too, you get 3x the gold for killing barbarian camps. I would also say that if you go for domination victory, ally yourself with as many city-states as possible, especially the militaristic ones. Go for the patronage perks, this also helps with songhai because you can take out barbarian camps for city-states while also gaining a ton of gold.

[@FourEaredFoxHD]

I think my thinking was to stop other civs from gaining as many early "one per world" wonders as possible to stunt their own growth. I have just completed a Brazil Culture Victory playthrough so once that is edited it'll be posted soon too! Thanks for your comment!

[@justuslightworkers]

I did it! I won!!! Took me 6167 years, and a late war with the Inca, and heart pounding toe to toe with Darius at the end, but I got it! My very first Science Victory. Very satisfying, indeed. Much much more so than any Diplomatic victory. Ya know, XCOM squads and giant death robots are pretty cool. So are donated units and volunteer foreign legion armies.

[@justuslightworkers]

I've been working on this strategy past couple days, on level 3(?) just to test it out. It's going pretty well, mostly. I am on an Amazon map, so there are jungles everywhere, which helps science greatly. I have kept my army very basic, only for academies defense. Basically just 3 units: two warriors and a scout. Most barbarians just decided to go away once they saw there was nothing to pillage (I only did two tile improvements besides the academies). I made sure to upgrade my units as I went along because with science being so high, I was consistently 2-3 eras ahead of everyone else so I had superior military units. I just recently defeated a Danish war with two infantry, an artillery, and the city. I did end up having to found a new city late game in order to get a tile of aluminum so I could build the spaceship parts. That's what I am still working on. Problem with the jungle map is that there is virtually zero production tiles. I am having to make production internally with buildings like workshop, windmill, watermill, etc. I don't have any hills to mine. So, production has been slow, which is likely why I am in late years. Idk how it is in god's and kings and vanilla, but in bnw I am having to backtrack technologies when I get to certain points that won't go any farther, so that takes time as well. I can't just go straight through to most things. Snd once I got to modern era, the techs started taking significantly more turns, as opposed to just 1-4 prior to that. Definitely having like 9 academies and jungle tiles helps a TON. But again, the production issue..... Jungle is a tradeoff; science or production. I'm lucky I haven't had to build my army, and mostly depending on upgrades. Saves time and money. I know I'll have to buckle down and build/buy a few more soon, but that's ok. Nobody gives a rap about taking over my civ because I keep to myself, I don't expand, and there's hardly any resources or improvements. I don't even have any trade routes to be plundered. So, I'm enjoying this science experiment.

[@danielgisborne3469]

Fun fact: If you put this video to 1.25 speed, his voice sounds normal.

[@PerfectAlibi1]

The science victory shouldn't be just to colonise space, but by building a Deathstar... ^^

[@mikemcwilliams2735]

I have found civ 5 bnw to be very easy. I play on king difficulty and it's a lot of fun! Deity is impossible though... Maybe if I had map hack or something it would be fair.

[@alexandercummins]

what difficulty is this??

[@АртемАсд]

+Alexander Cummins, Since he succeeded building the Great Library it was Prince, probably.

[@PowerLord83]

+Артем Асд You can get GL on King/Emperor as well.

[@АртемАсд]

I wrote "probably" because I never played these difficulty levels:)

[@PowerLord83]

Артем Асд and I just stated something from my experince.

[@BrandyBrandalia]

+PowerLord83 You'd have to be really lucky to get the GL on Emperor, as the AI starts with pottery and seems to have a fondness of going straight for writing. At Immortal, it's a crapshot, and at Deity it's nigh on impossible without something going horribly whacky.

[@nn6404]

You would have gotten your ass handed to you at any difficulty above 3.

[@TRF90]

I have taken the challenge and succeeded. It's pretty fun and I'd definitely recommend to try it out

[@FourEaredFoxHD]

Engineers cannot start a golden age, Artists can though. Plus wonders like the Taj Mahal also give you a "culture per turn" score which helps every turn thereafter. I could have spawned an Artist instead as you say and this would have given me two golden ages but the capital would have been busy building this in the meantime, quick building it allowed me to get on with other construction work to add further perks. it is always a balancing act with what you need for your civ.

[@skiphsf]

Is this the one city challenge or just a regular but you only build one city?

[@FourEaredFoxHD]

Very good point, Getting a decent faith per turn score would help late game in buying Great Scientists with Faith too!

[@AlyssaMcNeil]

In 2000 AD my Civ just got into the Medieval Age(Civ4).....

[@ericshaw6876]

does anyone else like it how even the narrator puts emphasis on " a brave new world" ?? :D nobody saw it coming

[@JazzAK6969]

I seem to be missing something. How did you get so many great scientists so fast? You had one 14 turns in.

[@MClilypad]

Babylon gets a free scientist when researching writing

[@Stiflex]

You're going to have to restart quite a lot to get a mountain start..

[@coolhunter3]

Smite Variety Gaming Having the mountain/observatory isn't nessecary win unless you play immortal/deity. Did the 1 city science win with Boudicca (celts) on emperor difficulty. Babylon is alot easier because of his bonuses that favour a science win.

[@Stiflex]

+Randombanana Yet the mountain gives you 50% more science, it makes the game twice as easy to win.

[@coolhunter3]

Smite Gaming I know but restarting just to have an easier time is lame to me. It's pretty easy without a mountain anyway.

[@Stiflex]

Randombanana Pretty impossible to me on deity tbh, immortal is doable though.

[@Tribune_of_Italia]

Stiflex 1.5x more easy to win*

[@theflyingbananapan3753]

This was on prince difficulty or lower. At 1:15 you can see that he gets a 40% bonus in combat strength vs. the barbarians. I'm not sure if your given greater bonuses on lower difficulties but even so, prince is ridiculously easy. On immortal, let alone diety, one city will almost never work.

[@NathanWubs]

with a few tweaks this can work on emperor or lower as well. But it probably is better in all cases to go for a cultural victory instead.

[@ZeroGDucks]

Radios in 1550. Imagine everyone else's face when they see people communicating across vast distances, instantly.

[@jonathankearney2793]

afterwards of that, I went for optics and then to astronomy, before starting to work on the bottom half of the tree, which I interpreted to be quite military, which I wouldn't need with a neighbor like venice

[@jonathankearney2793]

I've gotten a turn 84 renaissance era (turn 203 domination Vic) by rushing writing to calender, then getting philosophy free, then making a beeline for education

[@TheNipSnipper]

great scientist boost science is based on the last 8 turns of science, not just your current output.

[@horribleville]

Number 1 thing, until I'd say industrial era, plop down any great scientist you get on a good tile as an academy and make sure you work the tile. Second, Don't go for the ancient era wonders if it is 2 human players. Research Pottery, then writing, plop the academy down, get a library made, and then try and get the national college up asap. Soon you will be an era ahead of him in no time to get the wonders he cannot even get to. I don't recommend getting great library, it encourages bad play

[@FourEaredFoxHD]

I haven't tried this yet but I'll have a quick scout of it and get back to you. I don't see why not though, the only issue would be whether you're trade routes can reach the next nearest Civ or city states.

[@frisianmouve]

I had a really funny thing happen to me when i was playing Korea OCC. Monty was getting out of hand on our continent and i was at war with him to protect Persia with some ranged units against his hordes. Got influence on him with my freedom vs his autocracy and his empire was very unhappy because of it. One of his cities rebelled against him and decided to join me, except it got insta-razed as i couldn't have more than one city. Poor souls just wanting to be free from Monty, but having their city razed instead

[@joaovfeijo]

Hey man, can you tell me which civilizations you think are the best for a domination victory ?

[@BaiDobchan]

Been trying this a lot. Best I managed was T270 Deity OCC win with Oxford for Astronomy Rationalism jump, architecture steal and GE build Porcelain Tower. So this strategy should work.

[@therandomchicken6517]

This was an amazing start. Jungle, mountain, fish...

[@Alexisnotburning]

I personally would advise against allying with a military state for the unit as the maintenance will cost you in the long run. The only thing you really need military units for is barbarian deterrent. That said, ally and click 'stop spawning units'.

[@disappointedfather9394]

That's probably why I'm more of a fan of the total war games. I really like the concept of the Civilization games, but I find it boring and anticlimactic when you can win with science/culture instead of having to form alliances, conquer, and still have the need for science and culture to obtain advanced units, have the gold to sustain your army and buy free ones, get access to naval warfare, and so on. That's just my opinion.

[@RivalOfAngels]

you do know you can disable them victory types?

[@disappointedfather9394]

RivalOfAngels I found out sometime later when I played around with the options. I got more enjoyment out of the game then, but still I rather the Total War IP. Especially now since their new game was released literally today.

[@coolhunter3]

Stone Ban I find domination in Civ 5 boring as hell and science/diplomatic victory is far too easy. Would prefer it if the combat was abit more exciting like in Total war. Civ 4 was alot more in depth in my opinion.

[@Chaossdruid]

Randombanana That's the point of difficulty levels. You increase it to give AIs a bonus, Deity is not easy. You can also play multiplayer.

[@coolhunter3]

Chaossdruid I'd rather play solo or with friends then play multiplayer vs people that take long to take their turns, too much downtime. As for difficulty, i usually play om Emperor, the thing that makes it boring to me is not the difficulty but the predictability of the AI. Yes, i could increase the difficulty to immortal/deity but other then changing your tactic abit and minmaxing more the game still is the same. Religion feels not worth it to invest in, wish their was a victory condition for that. Diplomacy is terrible since you know even before the game start how it will all play out. For instance if you go science: At some point early on if you focus science you will 90% sure get attacked by your neighbour, after defending till he wants peace you just spam science till late game where they will either all love you or hate you. So yea basically i think every game feels the same and that's what kills it for me. I don't often go for domination victory because if i wanted to play that i'd play total war wich has far superior combat.

[@LFGRETIRED]

I always get the porcelain tower with the free great person leaning tower of Pisa strategy.

[@vanthomias5538]

Your Strategy is all about wonders, does this work in god-like difficulty?

[@atomcraze8969]

The Jamaican way of saying Babylon at the start was best part of the video😂

[@hdckighfkvhvgmk]

why no ToA? It is super good for late game, as it provides a boost to TOTAL food produced by a city, not just the EXCESS food. It can end up giving more food later on than the hanging gardens in EVERY CITY (not that that difference matters here). Very few things give a percentage boost to TOTAL food yield rather than EXCESS food yield.

[@LupineLoonatic]

Could you make another video showing how to do this for BNW? There are some things that have changed that were essential back during G&K and there's a level 3 policy in the freedom ideology that allows you to buy the spaceship parts.

[@karlmeisner99]

It says it happened in 1989... Did I miss something?

[@rylle3404]

Seriously how do you manage to keep up with food/gold when you focus all on sience?

[@Bob23973]

because growth = science.

[@michaelbarton2549]

whats better for a science victory korea or babylon?

[@hhjobbo]

just finished a game on turn 276 :) standard size fractal map quick pace and king difficullty rly nice rush strat :)

[@raiden548]

he's like: fuck the world, I want the galaxy! muahah

[@LupineLoonatic]

It might help if you play on an archipelago map so you are isolated from the other civs on an island (at least until they get optics or Polynesia is in your game)

[@stormtrooper86]

Wow, this is silly and very wrongly played. Not only did you waste the free tech by not using it for Philosophy and starting NC as soon as GL is done, you also build Colossus and Terracota which are pretty much useless. And then you waste social policies on Liberty even though if you don't policy save even, it's better to invest in Patronage and scout out CSs, they will give you bonus science when allied. Also, the bonuses from the Freedom tree would greatly outweigh anything you picked instead, and would have saves a lot of earlier hammers. Also it would have boosted the output of your academies by a LOT. Not to mention finishing Rationalism so you can faith buy great scientists which you can use to bulb your way to more distant spaceship parts

[@NewNew-qn7kh]

Why are you watching this if you're such a know it all?

[@stormtrooperelite1453]

Ben Macdowall Because I very much like playing OCC games, and always want to look up different strats. This one makes little sense, just saying, and it highly unlikely it would work on Emperor, possibly even King

[@hdckighfkvhvgmk]

My biggest gripe with him early on was that he did not build ToA, which is REALLY good late game as it boots the TOTAL food generated by cities, not just the EXCESS food, which can let your cities very easily get over 30+ pop, very useful for going science

[@fernandoleamshake7031]

@@hdckighfkvhvgmk the what?

[@hdckighfkvhvgmk]

@@fernandoleamshake7031 Temple of Artemis.

[@breadmakingcheesecake5646]

How is he getting 1 gold per coast tile?

[@COALSER]

how did u make the UI blue?

[@martindg93]

well, my guilty pleasure is to try to to be advanced on technology as much as i can then attack the other civilisation with a technology well more advanced te us... attacking knights with some heavy bomb is just funny...

[@ZeroGDucks]

+martindg93 I'm stuck in the converse, using lancers and artillery against an information-era Russia. I'm managing to win, but trust me.... it's very, very, hard ._.

[@linminhtoo]

what difficulty were you on?

[@Tornad0Gaming]

question from a noob: Instead of using a great engineer to finish the Taj Mahal instantly for a golden age, why not use him to start a golden age which would hopefully end just as the golden age from the Taj Mahal begins?

[@uni77able]

This video is to fast to understand

[@ijemand5672]

Carlos Laasi too fast*

[@xpscape7506]

Just to flex : I won a scientific victory on emperor with Netherland on year 1999. Obviously with multiple cities ( I even razed Babylon, how ironic)

[@Elwirfy]

Would love to get a written order on everything so i can follow it, just copied the order of the research and trying to follow production order.

[@jacklee6004]

it doesn't work on high difficulties at all

[@ZettaFan]

+Jack Lee because higher difficulties are made to be more aggressive towards players so war is inevitable

[@Redicat]

one stopit part on this victory tutorial is you didnt buy a giant death robot to stop pp from dominating you

[@holdenmakok6778]

And what difficulty was this?

[@GruntGP]

Easy i'd say.

[@KaennC]

Bonus against barbarians was 40%, so this was on warlord.

[@collink6118]

settler XD

[@HybridMarco]

I struggled with this one on deity to be honoust, I tried with Egypt for their Wonder bonus but couldn't keep up with my Great Scientist production. Suggestions? I feel like I went to heavy into Culture v. Gold production.

[@alpertunga3505]

You can build trading post and also try to spread your religion to get Great Scientist.

[@stormtrooperelite1453]

Egypt is more suited for a Culture win tbqh

[@HybridMarco]

Thanks Stormtrooper, I'll give it a try this week!

[@redeye8805]

Markus Leung try a duel map domination victory on deity. It is not hard 😂

[@kmangel1767]

i cant add ss stasis chamber to the spaceship. why doesnt it work?

[@greatmallard9318]

I played a standard one city game with Babylon with Venice in the game. Venice ended up eating all the city states and almost won a dip victory

[@GrammeStudio]

is this Vanilla/Gods & Kings and not brave new world. how did he get additional gold and food on coast tiles?

[@minecraftlover909]

i like them, helps ease the ungodly amount of wires behind my desk, and i can move that and my keyboard for homework.

[@NiTheGod]

what difficulty?

[@nopartyforpapke]

Yeah, what difficulty? I'm also wondering.

[@Naf12286]

kinda only works this way if you get a perfect start have a mountain and on the coast.

[@zzgodyr465]

+Felipe Frota its Gandhi dude :D

[@jamief415]

+Felipe Frota gandhi only becomes an asshole once he gets nukes. He'd actually be a great neighbour for this game if you could get friendly with him early on as he's the most loyal AI. Nukes wouldn't be a problem either as you could probably grab the victory before he could use them anyway.

[@lelouchvibritannia3613]

What difficulty is this, did he tell us at any point?

[@arshiakhoshnood185]

any ideas on strategies for Babylon in Brave New World?

[@Larknok1]

Babylon is one of the best three civs in the game (highly OP), there's not much more to the strat but pump science like a mofo.

[@herobrinesblog]

It is much harder to get ositive gold when you dont have BNW! I can see that in BNW the ocean tiles dont give you gold, sinc the caravans kinda make gold tiles useless.

[@steven1716]

You can make observatories w/o mountains in NQ?

[@uxpeanutxu]

do you have a pic of the tech tree so i can see what path you took and which techs you unlocked?

[@wholcikedme]

What if you dont get so much jungle? will this still work? 9sorry noob question)

[@simonpelletier3886]

How does your border grow that big?? I thought it was only two tiles from your city?

[@DagarCoH]

With culture. What made you think that border growth stopped at 2 tiles? You can work in a 3 tile radius, but your borders can grow over that.

[@autisonm]

+DagarCoh I learned that recently when I played as a money based mod Civ and challenged myself to not found another city. I got really far in tech ahead of the other civs since its on warlord difficulty and forced them to stop taking cities over by razing all of their cities. Fun times.

[@exoticcats6119]

If I can’t use Babylon what should I use

[@nathandaniel5451]

King difficulty - Turn 32 - 2 civs just declared war on me as well as another civ which is just hostile.

[@Zamolxes77]

Heheh, I had a similar game with Greece, but my goal was to create a city state alliance and act as a power broker on world stage. I put down about 4 academies and 5 workshops, so I was a production powerhouse, churning units every turn. I surpassed every other civ in military power and technology. Also you missed a lot of science by not allying yourself with as many city states as you can. I had something like +700 science with half the number of your academies.

[@wilbursoderberg9533]

Why do your water tiles have base 1 food and 1 gold

[@Griexxt]

This is pre-BNW. I think it has to do with that.

[@jameswilson5580]

Not sure if this is single city challenge or not. Science is population based. I think unless your trying to prove something you'd never make it with one city on any difficulty above emporer. Try building a few cities on the coast. You can bum rush your first coastal city and build cargo ships for an extra 7 food per turn per ship at the beginning of the game and an extra 15 food per turn per ship towards the end (more with iron curtain social policy.)

[@pm8909]

How did you get the great scientist that early because every time i try i don't seem to get a great scientist, help plz xD

[@Alexander99602]

+Paul Moore Babylon,read about Babylon on civ wiki

[@I_EAF_19882]

how do you get the graphics to look stylized like that?

[@wegawind8747]

... it do seems a little bit strange that you don't say which difficulty level you are playing right at the start. I haven't watched the whole video, do you mention it at anytime? I'm just doubting it'd work on deity.

[@Griexxt]

I'm convinced that the only victory you couldn't get with a one-city challenge on deity is domination.

[@wegawind8747]

Oh really? If you choose a small map where the AI cannot get more than 3 or 4 cities without oblitering others, maybe. MAYBE. Competing against 5 or 6 naturals? I doubt it. Only if the map gives you not only a economic but also a very strong strategic advantage.

[@Griexxt]

I didn't say you would be able to do it under any circumstances. Obviously it would have to be very favourable ones, such as the ones in the video.

[@samwili1287]

Would it be good to ally a militaristic city state for the free unit ?

[@gustavsk6096]

What difficulity were you playing on?

[@SuperAussie999]

Warlord. He's a fucking noob lol

[@ronaldomaynard4816]

how do you stop making units ? I have enough already.

[@seapanther909]

Is having only one city the best strategy? Wouldn't it be better to have 2-3? I'm so desperate b/c my friends always crush me in civ. They're always leading by at least 100 points in science and I fall behind technologically really fast. Sigh...

[@AprelMey]

Getting cities out is more important than science early game - Late game you will overtake them if you have more cities because you produce more science

[@TheEpicSamuel]

It's a really really bad strategy, definitely against players or higher level ai. He won a science victory by the year 1989, which is honestly really slow. Looking at the ai tech by that year, he was also playing on warlord, maybe prince at best. If you want to win against your friends, go tradition and try to crank out your 3 settlers once you hit pop 3 or 4 and get your luxuries online to stay happy. That way you should have you 4 cities by turn 50 (on quick speed). Tech wise you should get all the techs you need to get your luxuries online and then you go writing and philosphy to get your libraries and national college. You should have the national college by turn 60-80 and then you can start teching up. A decent player should definitely be able to win a science victory before the 1900's start this way.

[@seapanther909]

Thanks!!!

[@flyingdutchman9053]

seapanther909 watch ppl like "filthy robot" if u wanna get good (thats what I did and meanwhile i win vs diety ai) ... also the guy in this video is extremely bad (eg not 100 sience turn 100 but 70 at turn 70 and then it should grow exponentially; taking liberty; well I ll stop here...)

[@MeHesHovMe]

I have all spaceship parts but I can't attach them D:

[@nathandaniel5451]

What if you don't have any mountains nearby? When the hell do you get a worker when there is no city states nearby? What do you do if ANYONE declares war on you?

[@nathandaniel5451]

How did he win? Every time I followed this I just get rolled over by other civilizations. I am usually ahead of the guy in the video (getting the great library at turn 25) even with a bad start I got the great library at turn 30. So here I am, doing so well with this build until BOOM war declared and I get rolled over.

[@МөнхтэргэлОюунбат]

Note that he is on jungle tiles to get those science squeezed out from and its the big thing of it you never destroy those jungle tiles and you use it to your own advantage, you can keep getting a lot of gold with combos based on your location and surroundings and while you dont have anything to build you can build barracks up to arsenal keep some gold on yourself as if war comes around, you can do good peace treaties and never allow embassies because they can see your capital, and more to your non existent army.

[@nathandaniel5451]

There comes a point where you need more cities... I had 1 city producing 350 science/turn then I killed a civ (the celts), not long later I was getting 1000 science/turn. Also it is good and all to rush techs but the science bonus from them along with full freedom it would give 20 science each (with the buffs it's more like 70). 1 academy put my 700 science/turn into 770 per turn. Sorry if I made any grammar/spelling errors, I am in a big rush.

[@МөнхтэргэлОюунбат]

I mean I don't think it'd be much of a problem if anyone declares war on yyou because you're so much ahead in tech i once had 2 helicopters when they just had musketmans at that point you just roll on them when they attack you. Also if you rush kremlin and other wonders that boost your defense it gets so damn hard as you're dishing out huge damage and basically kill unit with just city attack only problem is pillaging academy. Have some units man, Science victory is fun because you are so much ahead that domination victory is also so easy.

[@nathandaniel5451]

Funnest game ever: Babalon - archipelago - Huge map - Domination victory only...

[@wonderfulworldofwhitetails9763]

Free tech hack where did you find that?

[@john_smith_john]

What difficulty is he on?

[@chalminge7500]

what difficulty did he accomplish this in?