Evidently the Ethiopian AI also earns VP through culture from defeated enemies.

Sub-Saharan Civilizations earn Victory points through their Culture per Turn. This year, I’ve had an amazing game with a score of 4368 that wasn’t a victory due to Ethiopias 7k score. Earlier I’ve some games where I survived but scored only around 1500 VP.

Berber Heritage: +25% production of mounted unitsĮgypt Deity being the only North African or European civ to unlock all Social Policies EgyptĪlso in 2020, inspired by the updates to this blog and particular catching up with some guides for games played in 2014 I was eager to try Morocco again.

Army of the Sahara: +50 combat bonus fighting in the desert.

Conscription: -33% Unit Maintenance costs.

The third “tree” focuses on the military: Two of the three Social policy “trees” are directly impacting Gold generation via cities and trade routes. Naturally the Social policies of these 3 civs support GPT. North African Civilizations earn Victory points through their Gold per Turn income (GPT). If that helps you, please Facebook-like or Google+1 this page at the bottom to help others find the page! Cheers! 3 North African Civilizations I also provided my initial save games so you can play the maps that I won. Here’s the overview and links to the Scramble for Africa strategy guides, I created up to now.

Belgium 4766 (in 2014, the 2020 game barely won with only 3027 VP).

Ethiopia 6128 (in 2014, the 2020 game came close with 6082 VP).

Here’s the scoring board of how well I did with these civs: Since then I wanted to win this scenario with all playable civilizations – on deity difficulty. The Scramble for Africa scenario really got me hooked when I was going for the Boers deity Steam achievement.

Scramble for Africa Strategy Guides (Deity) Sometimes even meeting Ethiopia very early and accepting embassies can grant you the discovery of a Natural wonder: Kilimanjaro also often is in Ethiopia or a little south of it. The source of Nile is usually in Egypt or south of it in Ethiopia. If you’re lucky you will find King Solomon’s Mines with your riflemen already a little south of the Ottomans. It’s really not that hard: Play on the lowest difficulty, so you start with more units already and more importantly: Probably the AI starts with less! Then build some explorers, open borders with the Ottomans and Egypt and send your troops into the heart of the dark continent. Whereas I first thought this was a tough nut to crack, I got this Steam achievement in the 3rd attempt. Playing as Italy in Scramble for Africa, earn the VP for finding two Natural Wonders.

Civilization 5 culture victory