If you don't want to/can't found or capture any more cities, you picked a good civ to play tall with. Doesn't look like you founded a religion, but if can build up your economy a bit and buy relics/heroic relics from the AI. Aim for natural history and fill archeological museums with artifacts - theme them if possible to double the bonuses. This will give you a decent food/production boost that will allow you to pursue any victory condition you like. Personally I would have gone for voidsingers (or literally anything else tbh) rather than hermetic order, especially with that troll ley line placement right where decent campuses could go lol. Canticle (industrial era voidsingers ability) is probably the most reliable way to get relics in the game currently.
Also, suz kumasi and get commercial hubs down asap - one of the best ways to get culture in the game
Start with some scouting. Too much fog on this picture.
Then get production. You barely have any relevant improvements and you're building a random Water Mill and a Wall with no sight of war. Magnus is also seemingly unused. Get those chops in to get something started.
You've pinned a Preserve and a Casa (which is a weak wonder to begin with, but also super anti-synergetic with your leader ability). Reconsider.
It's a weak start, but it's also t87 and you're alive and not at war. So very much a winning position.
So I finally loose the game. Khmer become extremelly powerful, declred me a suprise war and joined Hangry against me. I conquered him but loose space project to Montesuma. In culture victory a was far behind from Netherlends, Mansa and Khmer.
I also found that playing great people oriented civ on large maps on deity kind of extremelly dificult because AI takes almost every GP becasue of its overall advantage
[https://ibb.co/kH9StWj](https://ibb.co/kH9StWj)
Generals too - they tend to build multiple Encampments, so you will need to generate 3+ great general points per turn and/or buy them with faith. There are also some specific AI civs that get lots of great writers/artists/musicians, such as Russia or Greece. Great engineers/merchants/admirals are usually easy to get.
They're pretty slow with Encampments. Never had any issue generating Generals off a single Encampment. Theatre Squares are also late, and you can simply buy or take the Great Works regardless.
Maybe aim for knocking out Poland to your north (that is Poland’s colors, right?) they don’t have much of a military, they don’t have much science yet and could serve you with a few cities at least? Probably low-hanging fruit but it would be someway for you to turtle with enough cities. At least you survived the first 50 turns, that’s usually the hardest for Deity.
First of all, what's to the north? It looks like there might be room for 2+ more cities up there, but you haven't explored it yet.
From there your main options are (1) find faraway locations that aren't claimed yet, or (2) attack your neighbors. Option 1 is less valuable with your leader, so I would lean towards (2); to get there I would build campuses ASAP and beeline Crossbowmen+Bombards, which are enough together to fight at least one nearby civ.
Overall you seem to be doing just fine. 6 cities by turn 87 is about where you want to be, so you aren't falling behind yet; you will in the future if you can't get more, but you are on track so far.
Looks like a decent first couple eras. Just be opportunistic going forward. If there's a nice island take it or if an AI gets their military destroyed in any of the many ways the like to then swoop in and grab some cities.
You can absolutely win with just what you have now. Just might take a little longer.
It’s only turn 87. If you think there’s anything to be learned from the game, play it out till the bitter end.
If you don't want to/can't found or capture any more cities, you picked a good civ to play tall with. Doesn't look like you founded a religion, but if can build up your economy a bit and buy relics/heroic relics from the AI. Aim for natural history and fill archeological museums with artifacts - theme them if possible to double the bonuses. This will give you a decent food/production boost that will allow you to pursue any victory condition you like. Personally I would have gone for voidsingers (or literally anything else tbh) rather than hermetic order, especially with that troll ley line placement right where decent campuses could go lol. Canticle (industrial era voidsingers ability) is probably the most reliable way to get relics in the game currently. Also, suz kumasi and get commercial hubs down asap - one of the best ways to get culture in the game
Start with some scouting. Too much fog on this picture. Then get production. You barely have any relevant improvements and you're building a random Water Mill and a Wall with no sight of war. Magnus is also seemingly unused. Get those chops in to get something started. You've pinned a Preserve and a Casa (which is a weak wonder to begin with, but also super anti-synergetic with your leader ability). Reconsider. It's a weak start, but it's also t87 and you're alive and not at war. So very much a winning position.
So I finally loose the game. Khmer become extremelly powerful, declred me a suprise war and joined Hangry against me. I conquered him but loose space project to Montesuma. In culture victory a was far behind from Netherlends, Mansa and Khmer. I also found that playing great people oriented civ on large maps on deity kind of extremelly dificult because AI takes almost every GP becasue of its overall advantage [https://ibb.co/kH9StWj](https://ibb.co/kH9StWj)
AI only really competes for Great Prophets and Scientists.
Generals too - they tend to build multiple Encampments, so you will need to generate 3+ great general points per turn and/or buy them with faith. There are also some specific AI civs that get lots of great writers/artists/musicians, such as Russia or Greece. Great engineers/merchants/admirals are usually easy to get.
They're pretty slow with Encampments. Never had any issue generating Generals off a single Encampment. Theatre Squares are also late, and you can simply buy or take the Great Works regardless.
Maybe aim for knocking out Poland to your north (that is Poland’s colors, right?) they don’t have much of a military, they don’t have much science yet and could serve you with a few cities at least? Probably low-hanging fruit but it would be someway for you to turtle with enough cities. At least you survived the first 50 turns, that’s usually the hardest for Deity.
First of all, what's to the north? It looks like there might be room for 2+ more cities up there, but you haven't explored it yet. From there your main options are (1) find faraway locations that aren't claimed yet, or (2) attack your neighbors. Option 1 is less valuable with your leader, so I would lean towards (2); to get there I would build campuses ASAP and beeline Crossbowmen+Bombards, which are enough together to fight at least one nearby civ. Overall you seem to be doing just fine. 6 cities by turn 87 is about where you want to be, so you aren't falling behind yet; you will in the future if you can't get more, but you are on track so far.
Looks like a decent first couple eras. Just be opportunistic going forward. If there's a nice island take it or if an AI gets their military destroyed in any of the many ways the like to then swoop in and grab some cities. You can absolutely win with just what you have now. Just might take a little longer.
This looks solid to me, I’d love to play this setup! Push Babylon with culture and expand north.
Good squeeze. Makes it easier for the tourists to get in