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So I just played on a huge map (Big and Small) as the Dutch on Emperor, trying to go for cultural. Neighbouring Spain vassalized the Aztecs and then declared war on me, but I had just started to produce a ton of cavalry. Eventually I managed to vassalize both Spain and the Aztecs and got up to 39 cities. I was able to get 5 religions and built their respective cathedrals. Unfortunately the Holy Romans (40 BUILT cities strong) invaded me on the home stretch. I tried to hold them off but it was useless. In WB I gave myself a bunch of nukes and decimated the massive stacks and biggest cities and even then Charlemagne refused to sue for peace lol.

How do you guys win on these maps? It seems like there is a lot more land, leading to freakishly huge numbers of cities. Conquest and domination would be out of the window for me.

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There was a map that I was going to ask more about, it was a realistic but modified real earth map and the title of the post was "history rewritten" mod, or something like that. Did OP delete the thread? I was going to ask how to play that specific map

I'm playing a game using the Realism Invictus mod and using the huge Europe map. I am playing as West Germany (there is a West and East Germany civ in this scenario); I have the 'change leader after each era' option on. When going into the next era, I am not able to select the leader that I want because East Germany currently has that particular leader. Is there a way to change another civ's leader so that I can get the leader I want for the next era?

Apologies for this post being a little later than usual this week.

Here is the O6 writeup: https://www.sullla.com/Civ4/civ4survivor9-6.html

Here is the O7 Preview, as usual the prediction form is at the bottom: https://www.sullla.com/Civ4/civ4survivor9-7-preview.html

And, after the… interesting O6 result (really, you should check it out), Sullla himself cranked out an emergency Alternate Histories for O6! https://www.sullla.com/Civ4/civ4survivor9-6A.html

See comment for explanation of AHs

Hello everyone, I was hoping to discuss the jump from Emperor to Immortal. I play on Standard size, Normal Speed, Continent or Pangaea, No Huts / No Events. Immortal feels a bit like Emperor on steroids: you can no longer just use your Civ fundamentals to win, you need to whip, bulb, and attack.

I have won several games, mostly through Cultural Victories (my favorite), but also Domination (Boudica on Pangaea) and Space Race (Genghis Khan on Pangaea). But I also lose a lot of games, sometimes to barbs going crazy, sometimes to bad terrain (jungle or desert), sometimes because I overexpand and go into STRIKE, sometimes because I'm semi-isolated with Toku, etc.

If I'm playing for Domination, I focus on early warring, either at Construction or HBR. If I'm playing for Culture, I will rush Phil —> Lib and make sure my diplomatic house is in order. I never succeeded in mastering a Cuirs rush, though I know it's a favored playstyle.

So what would you do to finalize moving up to Immortal?

I’m playing on the Earth18Civs scenario as the Romans on Beyond the Sword and the Greeks seem to have resurrected themselves.

As far as I’m aware, no civs spawn in Australia on this scenario. I wiped out the Greeks early/mid game, but they’ve seemingly come back but now have Hannibal as their leader in Australia. Their Civ color is also the orange Carthage color.

An hour to make predictions! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfSJhwF4SA2yXL37dK5zV2PI24p4Nb\_C99p5pSdFP-LiK7Y6g/viewform?usp=publish-editor

Enjoy, this is going to be a wild one!