
Archery Units, +25% city defense) is perfect to do just that. On deity difficulty the only way to achieve this is playing the Inca: The Quetchua (2 base strength, +100% vs. Furthermore you’ll need Bronze Working for it and also need iron or copper resource to build them. In my opinion this is too late to make up for some of your penalties. Many people favor the Greek Phalanx (5 base strength, +50% against melees, +100% against chariots) and thus chose Greece for the Deity challenge. To me this one is about equalizing the most crucial penalties in the early game… How shall you ever win this? Here’s how! Civ 4 Deity – Which Civilization to choose? You start with nothing and a production penalty.Your opponents start with 4 units, 2 workers and 1 scout and a production bonus.The same applies to Unit maintenance costs, number of free supported units, the Gold-maintenance you’ll have to pay for your number of cities and their distance to your capital and so forth. Research increases from 60% (bonus for you) to 130% (penalty for you) of the original costs for any given technology. Also any combat bonuses against Barbarians and Animals decrease to zero. In the beginning you get a Happiness and a Health bonus. Deity – AI get Archery, Hunting, Agriculture, The Wheel.Immortal – AI get Archery, Hunting, Agriculture.Chieftain – you get The Wheel, Agriculture.Settler – you get The Wheel, Agriculture, Mining.The easiest example is the FreeTechs modifier at the bottom: On the lower 3 difficulties, you still get bonuses, playing the middle 3 levels of difficulty, the odds are quite even, until on the highest 3 levels the AI gets bonuses – on Deity these are massive. When you start playing Civilization 4 (or any part of Civ for that matter), playing on Settler (lowest) difficulty grants the player various bonuses. “Nevermind” put a nice spreadsheet on CivFanatics, accurately listing the AI bonuses and Player penalties when playing on Deity ->. Civ 4 Deity – What are we dealing with? Lists all AI bonuses and player penalties for various difficulties

A hundred years later it would have become a conquest victory, but I didn’t want to take the risk and left domination victory active.

I played the Inca on a huge continents map and won by domination. So here’s my collection of hints and remarks, things that made my life easier, and things that made it harder. But you’ll know this, if you’re looking for Deity Strategies. First of all: In a game like Civilization there’s no such thing as the “one way to win”.
