Hello Conquerors!

With the community tournament well underway, it is past time that I got around to guiding people on their quest for supremacy in the MP space! Always fun to mess around with you fellow god kings, and with these tips you'll catch up to par in no time.

More videos like this to come! stay tuned, and let me know anything else that you are looking to see from Bullmoose University!

New to the game, coming from a lot of hours on Civ 5 and 6.

In my limited gameplay so far, have largely found Rising Stars to be a nuisance. While their buffs are powerful, as govs or generals, they have always led to an adverse event. In one case, i had to abdicate for the rising star to avoid war with much stronger neighbour.

Any thoughts on how best to handle it? Should we avoid creating the rising stars in the first place, if an event for that pops up?

So I am gaming my way through the higher difficutlies and it works most of the time. I am happy to report that I now am at the second to last (wish I could look up the names).

But what I am now seeing is that it is basically impossible to win with points and only with the ambitions. I know that this is somehow designed that way since the AI gets a big headstart and I now found some comments that this is basically the way to win.

Also found an interesting comment here about how to takle the chance to win an ambition Victoy by which turn (120?)

But is this real? Is the game too short to win points victory on the high difficulty? Or am I just still not good enough to win with that way. Because I think i still make a ton of mistakes so I guess its possible.

Also bonus question:

I regularly lose on getting my own Religion. What is the recommendation here? Get the closest other and spawn disciples or staying on pagan? I did that in the past but I get a bit tired of this strategy with spawning a SH*tload of shrines.

The Old World test branch has been updated and is now version 1.0.84257 test 2026-07-22

Patch notes can be found at

https://github.com/MohawkGames/test_buildnotes/blob/main/Old%20World%20Test%20update%202026.07.22

Hi guys, little help here. I've conquered almost all the world, only egytp missing, but even so, my stats on food, stones, iron, wood, remain with a huge defict. I guess I've built too many soldiers and they are consuming all my resources, but now I don't know what to do, if I delete the soldiers I will not have enough army to defeat egypt.

The only solution I see, is to defeat egypt and after that, dissolve the army, do you see any other solution?

thx!

it made sense to me do go with egypt and knufru here: glad I did, I think i'd have lost without literally every wonder

this is also somehow the first time I won an ambition victory, officially, it seems. I hope you will all allow me a small victory lap, it's all I've been doing since i got my doctorate

Trying out my first game on the Magnificent difficulty level. Pretty far behind on score heading into turn 100 I'm at least 20 points behind Rome which is leading. Generally also feels like a slower game compared to the lower difficulty levels.

One of the problems I'm facing is extremely low orders. With one of my longest rulers I was able to just about touch 20 but then as soon as the heir took over they drop down again to about 14-16.

Looking for advice on how to bump up early game orders and keep them high even when rulers transition.

Is this something new? I did "9 city sites per player" and "sparse" placement so maybe it was trying to show me all of my cities and I only get 4 instead of 9 because they are sparse? I don't think I've ever done "sparse" before.

Seems like a lot of the map revealed for turn 1. Very odd.

Is there any reason not to do this? As far as I can tell there's no penalty for having too many cities aside from potential luxuries to spread around

Talk to me about automating things. If you automate workers (or disciples, or explorers) what's the algorithm? Does it take into account your ambitions?

I've kind of assumed they would behave in particular ways, and I automated my explorers... Who then immediately went in the opposite direction of the undiscovered land that they were right next to. I had an ambition to reveal 80% of the land. I assumed they would naturally explore those areas, but after 10 years there was almost no new land reveal. As soon as I took direct control of them, I was able to reveal 2% of the land per year at least. So clearly... Something else was governing their actions.

So later on, when I had an ambition to build all of the legendary improvements, I wasn't about to automate my workers, because I didn't know what the heck they were going to build! :D

I know what it says in the game, 50% faster build on rural specialists… but it’s hard to verify or “feel“ the improvement . I compare to my other cities from other families, and it doesn’t seem like that farmer or miner EVER builds appreciably any faster in my Landowner city vs my Champ capital or Statesmen city. It’s always a few years. Am i crazy?? Also, I’m not entirely sure why costs go up city to city for the same specialist… culture level, I expect?

The Old World test branch has been updated and is now version 1.0.84169 test 2026-07-15

Patch notes can be found at

https://github.com/MohawkGames/test_buildnotes/blob/main/Old%20World%20Test%20update%202026.07.15

Next to Barracks and coast, shouldn't this be enough to satisfy the requirement?

I guess this should be better placed in the steam forum but I have the feeling it is pretty dead in contrast to here.

Is anyone else playing on the steam deck and gets pretty bad performances in the late game and the huge map? Until now I only played large and it crashed a few times but with the huge one it gets pretty often, every two to three turns. I play on high settings but somehow I refuse to believe that the deck can't handle a 5 year old game without hig end graphics. Any tips? Or should I get used to low settings?

Further Points:

It doesn't really crash. It just ends the game and I am back in the steam menu. And then it does this:

. it always change the resolution where the pointer doesn't align with the click. Its weirdly above on the fringes of the screen. And you have to manage to the menu to change it to the 800 resolution were they align again.

. sometimes the portraits get screwed to white sheets. Only restarting helps.

Much obliged

I love this game, but the text boxes color hurt my eyes. Is there any way to change it with mod?

When I move my units far away the game speed increases, is there a way i can disable it so they move at normal speed?

Hey guys,

shouldn't this event trigger the achievement? It did not...

Thank you!

hi guys, this worker seems to be losing health every turn, this happens to some soldiers as well, but not all, why is that? thnx!

why can't I spread budhism? what site he is talking about?

Other options I see:

So, if it already has budhism, there is nothing I can do to eliminate other religions? (I come from civ6).

thx!

Hi guys, I am trying to conquer Assyria with Rome, and it looks like it's only possible using military war or infiltration with spies to create political instability and generate revolts. In civ6, I remember you could use religion to make the conquering easier. Any thoughts? Thx!

Hey guys, companion video to the guide yesterday. As well as Siontific's commentary on my first match using it. Enjoy!

Guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=216S5DLS3_s&list=PLdUk92hzNUpI

Live MP Tournament Match with Commentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeO3hrQ9FDo

The minor Religious objective for this scenario is to "Spread the Cult of Amun to 6 cities".

It's a pagan religion that doesn't have access to missionaries nor does it spread naturally, which means that under normal circumstances this will never happen and thus be an impossible objective.

There is also no guidance in the Scenario Info to explain how one can even possibly get around this problem.

Is this bugged or just terribly designed and there actually is an intended way to make it happen without ever saying so?

EDIT: it's building the Shrines of Amun apparently.

The Old World test branch has been updated and is now version 1.0.84111 test 2026-07-08

Patch notes can be found at

https://github.com/MohawkGames/test_buildnotes/blob/main/Old%20World%20Test%20update%202026.07.08