Produce 10 warriors and take the capital of a rival naton at start. Proceed to take over any other city. While doing this macro up science and buildings. These remaining warriors will be your defense. Upgrade during macro. Get siege and attack any other nation before and during medieval era
I've changed my mind about Civ 5. There's a lot of things I overlooked that no one has ever highlighted to me before, will discuss later if you would like me to 1=1.
bad victories objective: the game costantly pushes you to fight and domination is the only worth type of game victory?
barbarians at high difficulties are just imbarassing. they spawn in huge groups near your least protected cities and destroy it in few turns while to YOU it would take much longer to do it.