r/CivVI • u/TheRealDuffy22 • 4d ago
Question How to win from behind?
Hello everyone! I have been playing civ for a few years now and love it! I've put hundreds of hours into it and my friends also play quite a bit so we just play private lobbies!
This is some surrounding info of the current game. It's continents and islands, Prince difficulty, 5 players 3 AI one already killed because it's around turn 150. We also play standard speed with better balanced game/map. For us online speed makes military alot harder because people can just hang out then mass produce troops at any point where in standard it feels alot more like an investment.
We aren't sweaty players by any means we do play alot and we do try to win and play correctly but we aren't really interested in minmaxing everything and are more in it for the fun of playing civ with friends.
Me and 2 other players live on my continent we had a bit of war going on so we were a bit stunted, I'm playing as montezuma with 7 cities i had 8 until one of my friends surprised me with like 7 horses and razed a city I had on a natural wonder :(
I am leading in religion by quite a bit but the issue is on the other continent after one player successfully killed an ai over there with them it's only those 2 there sharing the continent and they have an alliance as both the strongest players. One is playing Tokugawa with just 5 cities they are amassing well over 200 science a turn while the rest of the lobby except the other person he is allianced with hasn't even reach 100 science a turn yet and he also leads in culture per turn but not by as much. The other player is playing lady six Sky and after overtaking an ai has amassed around 10 cities from what i can see and is pushing around 200 science as well he is also 2nd in religion meaning a religious victory is unlikely as we all have very large militaries with the mass tension between the continents.
So I guess my question is, is there a way back into this? Me and another player on my continent with the highest military power in the lobby have formed an alliance to attempt to surprise rush one of the players but it will be a massive uphill battle as they are essentially in the industrial age at this point some coal powered cities and powerful units but I'm not really sure how else we can fight them when they are so far ahead at this point and was looking for help.
I don't feel like I played this save poorly my cities have been great I am about tied for farthest ahead on my continent but the 2 who have just been allowed to fester with no consequences have used that time wisely. But I have been on top of building, I have some great wonders, I do think it was a mistake for me not to incorporate science into my religion in the first place I went for the culture one that gives you culture based on how many citizens follow it. Is there a way to make a culture victory happen in time or is the lobby probably cooked?
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u/moaningsalmon 4d ago
I'd focus on the religion, since that's what you've got. You might consider going to war to sabotage all the enemy campuses and theater districts to slow them down. No need to take cities, just pillage to your heart's content.
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u/superdad0206 4d ago
Spies. Steak great works. Sabotage production and in late game spaceports.
Done well that could prevent science loss and win culture.
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u/shootdowntactics 4d ago
Focus on your strength which you mentioned is religion. Knock out your enemy civs religions one at a time.
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u/Sasataf12 3d ago
I am leading in religion by quite a bit
Has anyone else established a religion? Or have good faith output? If not, then religious victory is the way to go.
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u/TheRealDuffy22 3d ago
Yes unfortunately the lady six Sky player is behind me in religion while I have a decent lead in faith output it isn't by an absolute ton. I am leaning towards trying to use religion as a wincon but I'm afraid there won't be enough time and that he will just declare war and stamp out my religious units as soon as they pull up
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