Civilization – Strategy to win the Khan scenario

Here's a recounting of my France, Tiny, Pangaea, King game.

Turn 75

7, 2, 2 population.

2 spearmen 2 warriors 2 workers

Completed: Wheel, BronzeWorking, Calendar, Trapping. Civil Service is 8 turns away.

Stonehenge 7 turns away. 3 Monuments. No other buildings.

Social Policies: Tradition 5/6

Notable randomness: Fountain of Youth +10 happy, so ignoring happy science. Turn 2: +1 pop from ruins.

Turn 250 (1700 AD)

21, 11, 10 population

2 Pikemen 1 Musketeer 3 Crossbowmen 1 Cannon 2 Caravel 2 Workers

Science: Archaeology, Acoustics, Chemistry. Fertilizer is 2 turns away.

Wonders: Hermitage, Ironworks, National College, Sistine Chapel, Hagia Sophia, Kremlin, Louvre, Stonehenge, Colossus, NotreDame, National Treasury

Social Policies: Tradition 6/6, Piety 6/6, Freedom 6/6

Culture 272 + 75 + 42 = 399

7 landmarks.

At this point, Science is mainly for defense and production. I don't really need any more wonders to win. My next focus is to get a bunch of artillery, and build any helpful buildings (finish my museums, then happiness due to piety's conversion, then the rest). I hope to win before bombers become any kind of threat.

Notable randomness: My incredibly weak military score has caused all 3 AI's to declare war and send armies (even my ally :( ). Sorted them out, but situation is still risky. I lost a couple workers, and it's hard to build improvments with enemy units standing on those tiles. However, cities were never really at risk.

Turn 350

There are 15 enemy units on my lands, a mix of modern infantry and tanks. I have ~6 artillery trying to sort them out... (note from the future: I wind up losing all military that isn't in a city, but I do enough damage to push them back.)

1.5 policies to go. 14 landmarks.

Turn 370

City pop: 25, 19, 17

All policies done. Starting Utopia project. Currently researching Electronics. Did not research Radio.

Turn 390: 1970 AD

Cultural Victory. Whew.

Additional notes: King is much harder than I remember... by the end of the game, one of the AIs was able to field a ~40 military unit offense. Fortunately, he sent it to another AI. I feel the Fountain of Youth greatly influenced my game - I never hit unhappy and I was able to put off Theater science and buildings for a long long time. I feel I built too many wonders at the start of the game and should have instead built more units.

The AI's took all the city states as allies, I never sent any of them any gold. I never had much spare gold to send them either.

I ran a comparatively idyllic prince game (france, pangaea, tiny). Two city'd my way into a cultural victory on turn 317, 1894 AD.

To construct the spaceship, whenever you move a spaceship module to the capital, you need to choose the option to "add" it to the spaceship. The module will disappear and your spaceship will receive it (if it's the first module you add, a 3D model of a spaceship will also appear near the city). This option should be listed at the command bar on the left, just like other unit options.

However, you cannot add modules to the spaceship if one of these applies:

1. Another civilization has already completed a spaceship
2. You have manually disabled the "science victory" option when you set up the game
3. You have already won the game in some other way

As you can see, the 3rd case above applies to you. I'm afraid you cannot conquer the stars in this game... you have no choice but to start another :) enjoy your all-nighter!