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About this game: Sid Meier’s Civilization is widely recognized as one the greatest PC game franchises of all-time. Heralded as one of the top ten games of 2005, Civilization IV is a must-have for gamers around the globe.
With the (welcome) influx of new players playing Civ IV because of the Steam deals, I thought I could write a small guide / reference post to avoid having players turned off by the game's complexity. I know when I first played I gave it a few tries and uninstalled, and only almost a year later a friend told me about some common strategies and got me really hooked on the game.
Why so many games? If you bought the Civilization IV Complete you have four games on your Steam list (seven, actually, but those duplicates are the Mac / PC versions and are a result of having a third party doing the Mac port). What should you install? Let's do a quick rundown of the options:
Civilization IV - The vanilla, original game.
Civilization IV: Warlords - The first expansion pack
Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword - The second expansion pack
Civilization IV: Colonization - A spin off of Civlization, based on the original Colonization game by Sid Meier. Gameplay is very different from Civ IV, only the engine is the same.
We'll leave Colonization for later. It's a different kind of game, you should play it, it's flawed in some ways but very fun, but right now we want to get you addicted to Civilization.
So what should you install? If you want the whole thing you should install just Beyond the Sword: it has all the gameplay mechanics and additions from Warlords and BtS. The only difference between Warlords and BtS is some Warlords exclusive scenarios. But BtS has both the vanilla scenarios and the BtS ones, so you'll likely never even think about the ones you're missing from Warlords. Relax, you won't be missing anything.
Now, most people will tell you installing Beyond the Sword and getting the two expansions content is essential. Well, they are right. The expansions add a lot to the game. But I think if it's your first time playing, you're better off without them. First, the vanilla Civ has a tutorial, the expansions don't. Second, they add some new concepts to the game, on top of those you have to learn on your first playthrough. Well, anyway, it's up to you. Either just install vanilla for now and later, when you win a couple of games with it, install Beyond the Sword or just install BtS right now and get the full experience from the start. Your call.
What are all those difficulty levels? When choosing a difficulty setting, you have to keep in mind that they ramp up pretty fast. Settler level will be a walk in the park. You can do everything wrong and still win, but you probably won't win on Noble for a while. The higher ones? Forget about it for now. I would recommend Warlord or Chieftain for a start. One thing about Civ is that if you are winning every time you should always increase the difficulty. The game is at the funnest when you feel like you have to outsmart the AI or you won't make it. If every game is as easy as easy can be, it won't be fun for long.
Alright, so you know the mechanics, you understand what food / production / commerce means. You know about the Victory conditions (right? If not, do the tutorial, it's available in the Civ IV vanilla install. I told you you should have installed the vanilla first). But how do you actually win this thing? Well, let me tell you about a website that's going to be your resource from Settle difficulty to Deity:
Trust me, they are fanatics. In the left sidebar there is a link under the Civ IV section called the War Academy. It's a wonderful resource and has enough guides to blow your mind. You should start with the Introductory Courses. In particular, I recommend these two guides:
http://www.civfanatics.com/civ4/strategy/sisiutil.php (lot of very good tips. Maybe is not a Tutorial as much as a reference guide, but you should read the whole thing)
http://www.garath.net/Sullla/civ4_walk_1a.html Is an explained walkthrough, very instructive.
The CivFanatics forum is very, very good for strategies and tips. There's a series of posts by Sisutil called the All Leaders Challenge where he plays a game with almost every leader in the game, playing around 10 turns at a time, commenting on them and letting the members give feedback in each round. It might be a bit too advanced for newbies, but it's very good to get an idea of how advanced Civ players think.
Also in the forums there is a topic called Condensed tips for begginers. The tips are all over the place, but are all sound advice.
Lastly, I would like to give three tips that helped me greatly. I think Civ IV players will be very unanimous that they are helpful, but I would like also some feedback and input from some other redditors:
Specialize your cities and don't build everything on every city. This is the basic one. At first, you'll want your cities to do everything: build stuff, have lots of great people and generate golds / beakers for your empire. This is not a good idea, because then each city will get diminishing returns from the so called specialist buildings: banks, grocers, universities, forges and factories. Ideally, you want to have production cities, built around hills / production resources, and commerce cities built around grasslands / flood plains with lots and lots of cottages in it's fat cross. Then you build commerce buildings in commerce cities and production buildings in production cities.
A corollary of this tip is that you don't have and you shouldn't build every building in every city +25% gold is useless if your city makes 4 gold each turn. You could better use those hammers to build a military unit. Conversely, if your city is only making 4 hammers a turn, you should bother with a forge.
Go to war early but don't go to war often. If you never go to war you won't expand much and won't get a good head start. There are two optimal moments early game to go to war: when you just research Bronze Working and get bronze, build lots of Axemen and attack the closest neighbor so you get him before he builds good units, and when you research construction and you build catapults. If you have gone beyond Construction and didn't conquer any territory you either started alone in the continent (which is usually a bad thing) or you blew it. The reason why conquering is so good is that more land is (almost) always better and the map generator makes sure that each Civ starts in a good location, specially the capital, so having two capitals in control is a no brainer. Just make sure you are careful when expanding (see below).
Don't go broke with overexpansion. Each city you have and the distance of the city from your capital increases it's maintenance. Eventually, you'll start losing money and will have to reduce the science production to pay for your cities. Needless to say, getting behind in science is one of the most dangerous things that can happen to you. So when going to war, always keep a look at your science slider. As a rule of thumb, it should be not less than 60%. If it's 60%, stop conquering and start growing. This is specially important if you start very far from your nearest neighbor. In that case, taking his capital early can cripple you instead of giving a huge boost.
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I'll leave other tips for redditors to give. The thing about tips is that you don't have to try to incorporate them all at once, just try to improve one thing at a time with your game (and start with city placement).
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I hope you all get as addicted to Civ IV as we are. Any questions, just ask away!
EDIT: Oh, yeah! I forgot! There's a Reddit Civilization Steam Group right here so make sure you join it! Right now the member have more TF2 hours than Civ hours which is a shame!
