Civ 5 drafter
So I would say before we could even talk about metas in civ we need to split between multiplayer and singleplayer. That was on emperor, got rekt because they snowballed out of control and all the civs couldnt do anything (or were willing) to do anything about it. Rescources are fine and lucky start is great and all but if you are surrounded by 2 or 3 warmongerers you are going to need to go hard military early on or you WILL die.Īlso RANGED UNITS, RANGE RANGE RANGE!!!! Its ridiculous how strong they are early game, didnt believe it at first when I read the post on Civfanatics and the immediate game after the Huns had about 8 horse archers and around 4 battering rams and a bunch of swordsman. You don't get that lucky.Ĭant forget to add that the AI dont get lucky starts and placements of them. While the very best of us just need a fortuitous start.Įither way I think someone calculated how lucky you would have to be beat the AI to great library on deity and it is nutty. That is to say the average good civ player is still narrow enough in their play style that they need both a fortuitous start and a fortuitous start that fits into their own personal wheel house. The trick is that very few of us are flexible enough to really play a broad range of starts well, so unless we get really lucky we need a miracle on deity to win. I think on Deity (which I haven't won) something about your start needs to be lucky, and the trick is finding it and exploiting it, so you need to be a skilled and flexible enough player that you can spot it and make it work. It is possible to have a bad start and not be able to recover, but barring just flatout sad dice rolls from the map gods you can win. You need to avoid getting unlucky and then make use of what you have. On immortal you don't need to get lucky to win.
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I have occasionally seen other early wonders got on Deity, but if you look at the start they took to post their game on youtube you realize that on average you would probably need to reload 10 times to get that start. Most people can't get it on Immortal except for winning the lottery on map, so no matter how good you think it is you can only go so far with it before the act of going for it is the thing that is holding you back. The first meta-meta strategy is whether you play to eventually beat immortal and deity on standard settings or you play to win the map and difficultly you are on.įor example, you can't get Great Library on deity.