Civ 5 is great fun, I'm even considering buying the expansions. It really feels pretty nostalgic for me, so many hours playing Civ II having to dual boot win 3.1 into DOS just to have enough RAM to play ;_;
Strategy spoilers if you want to ruin the game:
Capital build order: scout (x2 or 3) -> worker -> monument -> settler x2 -> archers x2 (for clearing barb camps and warding off attacks, (Granary sometime, maybe before archers and/or settlers)
2nd city build order: worker (if you can't steal one from a city state) -> monument
Social policies: liberty, 1 free settler, 2 for half off -> Tradition: +15% on wonders
4 cities 7 tiles apart. On higher difficulties, it's really important to have tiles that have luxuries and the tech to improve them, otherwise you'll be stagnated really fast.
Tech: depends on race. You'll want to pick up tech for improving luxury tiles, and then fast tech to certain things depending on race. E.g., Arabia you'll want to fast tech to bazaar. China, you'll wan to fast tech to paper maker. Egypt tech up to philosophy for great library and further wonder spamming. France, you'll want to try to avoid steam for obvious reasons.
If you get the 2nd expansion, poland is supposedly extremely imba.
After that focus on increasing your numerical advantages, which will start to snowball into a massive end game advantage. Spam wonders. Have enough units to ward off attacks, especially at borders. It's very important NOT to expand more than 4 cities, the penalties and costs are just too large.
In higher difficulties, supposedly some wonders are impossible to get due to cheating AI. I'm only playing on emperor? difficulty at the moment.
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