How to win?

[ABU JAFAR]

i lose my first 2 games, as German and Indonesia.
I manage to get 3 golden era playing as german and being friends with other countries and in alliance with indonesia. helped taking back city and returning it to the owner. but in the end i lose to brasil which have bad relations with other countries .

i play as indonesia, invading china, brunei, japan. and at the end lose to russia. because my boats cant handle their robots....

[SLG]

What victory were you going for?

[colostmy4]

I've been told that jet planes are the best weapons to use against the giant robots.

[Sstavix]

There are several ways to win the game. In my opinion, the religious victory (where at least half of all the civilization's cities follow your chosen religion) is the easiest, followed by domination (capture everyone else's capital). There's also the cultural victory (you have more foreign tourists than they have domestic), science (be the first to colonize another planet) and, if you have Gathering Storm, Diplomatic (you get to 20 Diplomatic Victory points first). Finally, if all else fails, you get the highest score when time runs out.

It generally works best to decide which victory you want to pursue before you get too far into the game. Personally, I usually strive to discover a religion as soon as possible, just so I can keep that victory condition in hand, in case one of the other ones falls through.

[Dupmeister]

Originally posted by colostmy4:

I've been told that jet planes are the best weapons to use against the giant robots.

mine always get shot down when going against robots.

[grognardgary]

Okay what size map you playing on what setting My victories few and far between though they be have all come before anyone had GDR, Even in a huge map you should be able to do a conquest victory by the end of the medieval period on prince on a Pangaea Map.

[ABU JAFAR]

Originally posted by Lee:

What victory were you going for?

how many are there? this is my first time playing civilization game btw.

[ABU JAFAR]

Originally posted by grognardgary:

Okay what size map you playing on what setting My victories few and far between though they be have all come before anyone had GDR, Even in a huge map you should be able to do a conquest victory by the end of the medieval period on prince on a Pangaea Map.

i was playing on prince difficulty on standard size map,

[Complaintdesk]

Try playing on a larger or the largest map, then delete the computer opponents until there is only 4 or 5 opponents. I always try to build my first or 2nd city near stone, so I can be the first to build Stonehenge. That way I am the first to establish a religion. Even if you are not going for a religious victory, this should prevent you losing to an opponent who is trying for a religious victory. A larger map with fewer opponents should help you to get established and strong enough so when you do meet opponents you are ready for them.

[Dupmeister]

When setting up a game, you can also disable victory types that you don't want to compete with. I always turn off Religious victory myself.

[gdshore]

If facing GDR. the best counter is your own GDR. Also effective, artillery with drones allows a three range, cheaper than a GDR which is good cause as soon as it ranges your slaughtered. Best way to handle GDR is to save often, go back in time before your enemy gets GDR, declare war and then pound him/her/or it into the ground.

[Lora Grim]

I never ever witnessed the AI actually get far enough to produce a single plane, let alone a death robot on prince difficulty.

I tend to have modern tanks as early as 1600 and ICBMs by 1700. The AI is already dead by then.

Man... ai with robots... Spooky. This is why you gotta kill everybody first. The only person with a giant mech should be you. Even in MP, really. You shouldn't let others have fun.

The last time i saw the ai use nukes and robots in a civ game was in 5 when the Gandhi AI goes crazy. Sometimes, not even tech rushing with Poland will spare you from a Nuclear Gandhi.

[jmerry82]

The best counter to GDR is winning before the game gets that far. How? Well, that depends on your chosen victory condition - and you should absolutely have one by the midgame that you're working toward. Your strategy will be shaped by that choice.

If you're going for a domination victory? Then you'll want to be at war basically all the time. Don't try to fight on multiple fronts unless you have a truly overwhelming advantage, but you should always be advancing somewhere once your war machine gets started. (That's usually the classical era for me)

A religious victory? Then your cities should be focusing on infrastructure (holy sites and their buildings first), while the religious units you buy with that faith go out and convert everyone. War? Maybe some wars with your neighbors to grab more territory, but you don't want to be at war with anyone you're actively spreading your religion to unless you can afford to defend all of your religious units with combat units.

A cultural victory? You want to be trading with everyone, while you build stuff that provides tourism and buy in naturalists and rock bands for even more. Tourism is hard to come by early, but explodes in the Modern era on both tech and civic trees. So you can't just focus on culture, but need a balanced mix of all the yields.
Culture is also the victory condition that it's easiest to reach by accident; if you're just generally ahead of everyone, you'll often pile up enough tourism unopposed that you just get there.

A science victory? This one's the most insular; all you really need is a lot of science to research the entire tech tree, and a lot of production in one key city to build the spaceport and the projects. Everything else hardly matters; feel free to hedge your bets with your other cities and open up chances at other victories. I recall one game in which I just kept building stuff in my other cities, and the one rock band I bought for the inspiration got incredibly lucky ... so I ended up winning a culture victory before I could finish the space projects.

A diplomatic victory? This, more than anything, is a backup plan. The main way to get out ahead is to win all those aid request competitions at two victory points each, and you can't predict when they'll come in. But a lot of the time, it's cheap - you can win that competition with just a small gift, because your rivals aren't building the aid projects and won't just give away gold. So you can have a decent shot at a diplomatic victory without significantly impacting any of your other plans.

[Sstavix]

One thing for us veterans to keep in mind is that the OP did say this was his first time playing a civ game. It's easy for us to win before GDR even make an appearance. But for those new to the game? I still remember that my first few victories in Civ VI were score victories, and I've been playing the franchise since Civ II!

To the OP, don't get discouraged. Civilization is a complex game, but rewarding if you keep at it. Before too long you'll be winning your games before your opponents reach the point where Giant Death Robots become a thing, too. Then you bump up the difficulty and try it again!

If you have any more questions don't hesitate to ask. There are a lot of friendly people here who can give you advice (and at more than 880 hours I'm still learning things as well!). Keep it up, and have fun!

[SlasH]

Originally posted by ABU JAFAR:

this is my first time playing civilization game

Originally posted by ABU JAFAR:

i was playing on prince difficulty on standard size map,

I strongly suggest to play at the easiest level, if you haven't played the game before. You may also want to watch a tutorial video on YouTube to learn the gameplay basics.

[Shortylax]

I suggest not playing on easiest diff. Game will cheat in your favor and handicap ai. Its normal that u loose if u are new player. Eventually you get better. Prince is fine. You dont get bonuses or maluses nor do ai. But of course feel free to do what you want.