Sid Meier’s Civilization V

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These are notes from a beginner trying to develop their early game strategy. Didn’t have a better place to store them than here (in terms of me being able to access them and ease of updates, hence here they are). Feel free to use but they are from a green player so take them with a grain of salt. I’ll include my reasons for each in [] so I can see when I come back to them if they still make sense.

Research

• Calender (will automatically also do Pottery) [Allows faith based production]

Build (Don’t queue to avoid forgetting)

• Scout [To get early game exploration benefits]
• Shrine (usually during the time worker is still building, needs Pottery research) [Better to start accumulating as soon as possible]
• Worker [I mean you NEED this as early as possible it feels like]
• Stonehenge (Able to build after Calender but do after worker) [Get this one under your belt to get the faith benefit]

Purchases

• Settler [Use money to avoid stopping city growth]

Policies

• Tradition
• Oligarchy
• Legalism

Ideology

Autocracy

• L1 - Elite Forces, Mobilization, Industrial Espionage
• L2 - Nationalism, Third Alternative
• L3 - Gunboat Diplomacy