How To Beat The Early Game - The Civ 5 Deity Guide

A strategy guide showing you my top tips and tricks to beat the early game in Civilization V on Deity (difficulty 8). The early game is one of the hardest parts to master in Civ 5, but the rewards are HUGE. Every super fast game revolves around having a superb early game, so here's everything I know on how to do it right!

As always, I use this logic every time on my Deity Lets Play / Gameplay videos, so you know it works!

Links to other guide videos:

Let me know in the comments which details you agreed / disagreed with, and why! Everyone has their own opinions, but it's always great to know what others think!

Questions also welcome in the comments on any part of Civ 5 strategy!

---------- Contents of this video ----------

00:00 Intro To How To Beat The Early Game
00:59 (1) - Starting Phase
04:34 (2) - Settling Phase
10:04 (3) - Post Settle Phase
13:21 (4) - Staying On Track
15:39 (5) - How To Grow
20:49 (6) - Workers!
28:38 Ending

#civ5 #strategy #tips

[PCJLaw]

A guide to help you all beat the early game in Civ 5

The key to almost every super fast victory time is to have a kick-ass early game, so in this video I share my best tips on how to get it done!

Hope you find this helpful :)

[Foosyari]

I have been playing civilization since civ 3 when I was a teenager, I'm 35 now. I have NEVER beaten any civ game on Diety (yeah I just suck). BUT, after having watched this video and the one you made on the easiest types of victories, I learned exactly what I needed to get the job done, and I JUST NOW beat the game on diety. You really changed the game for me dude thank you.

[RockEsper]

It's rare to find a guide this clear and useful

[bobaf]

Haven't won on Deity yet, but it has helped me enormously to get my cities up and running quickly.
Looking forward to beating the game on Deity one day.

[minkak]

I' ve been trying to win deity for 2 years. With your tips, I managed it the same day I watched the video! Sincere thanks!!

[Andrew-mxet]

Videos like these are great and more digestible compared to the tips within hour long vods. Thank you for the tips!

[stewstyle]

These tips are deadly. I started a Poland game last night and followed this to the letter. Had a 4-city National College by turn 82 on Emperor, which is incredible for me. Thanks for the tips!

[Gbee]

Thanks for sharing this info!

Never having beaten civ5 on Immortal or Deity, I followed your advice from this video series and managed to win on Deity for the first time ever! I used Darius and won on turn 210. It was my first try after watching through this video series.

Many thanks!

[haren]

Fresh civ content! Thank you for making these! Have over 1k hours in the game and still enjoy it after 8 years :)

[lukesmith]

So good to see you getting more and more confident at delivering information you know is helpful and solid. Thanks for the tips and the content bro

[uncleiroh]

Thank you so much for this guide! You've turned me into an efficient civ player.

[msflak]

Every tips guide on Youtube needs to have an accompanying powerpoint.

This guy knows how to teach!

[raekwonfinsrud]

Summary:

- The most important thing is to prioritize growing your city to population 3. Settle your first city immediately. Once your city reaches population 3, it's time to move to settle other cities.
- Scout for the location of your cities. Choose tradition. Settle 4-5 cities depending on the number of unique luxuries you have (generally 1 city per luxury).
- Use your two scouts and your warrior to protect your settlers while they travel to their designated spots.
- Aim for 3 food tiles per city to allow your cities to grow quickly.
- How many workers do I need?: Two times the number of cities you have minus one.
- Make sure you have enough happiness to keep cities growing. Again, tradition is a good social policy because it provides happiness bonuses. Build entertainment complexes like circuses and coliseums to generate more happiness.

[illan]

I play the Vox Populi with raging barbarians, which is a bit of a different ruleset. This is hilarious to watch from that perspective. My recent Askia game had 150 population (15 cities) by torn 130 on Normal speed. Workers, caravans and 2 scouts would get annihilated by barbs. 9 combat units early game with farming barbs and Authority civic is efficient.

[streetninjas]

Best Civ V tutorials by FAR. Especially loved the typed up slides I could print screen. Thanks for all the advice!

[rgqwerty]

8:15 never thought Id hear the John Barnes rap in a civ 5 video lmao

[harrydoxisthechubaca]

knocked it out of the park with this one mate!!! absolutely smashing video!!

[maj.kingkong]

Thank you so much for this guide! I think it is the best Civ V tutorial I’ve found on YouTube. Very well organized and presented. Loved having the slides spelling it out as I’m a visual learner. And best of all I can testify it works as I just won my first Deity game since I started back playing Civ V, despite multiple wars from AI’s.

[idlehands]

I was about to comment that "I need to write this down my memory sucks" and I noticed you have a pdf of the instructions in the description.

You Sir are a god!

[stephenhardy]

Thanks PC. You're an expert of the game and an expert at explaining the game... rare combination! Just so I'm clear, are you switching cities to production focus as soon as they are founded? Or do you wait until pop 3?