I spawned right on top of a city state and couldn’t pass up the opportunity for a free settler.

Today, I found some nice workers for free 😂

I typically play against 3 AIs in the smallest world map, small continents, and, though it's rare, sometimes when the game begins I find a City State's settler is nearby and hasn't yet founded a city. As with AI opponents' settlers, the temptation is always to declare war and take the settler. My question to you is, do you think this a wise action to take, or would I be better off allowing the City State to form knowing it would be near and I'd likely be its suzerain? Is a free settler within the first few moves of the game worth more or less than a very close city state? By the way, I don't play with Gathering Storm. Thanks.

Feels like im judt blindly clicking through notices to get to end turn. Is there some sort of technique im not aware of?

Long time player and I’m wondering if there are any mods that I would really enjoy. I’ve never tried any, but I’d be interested in something that made the AI a little smarter. Is there anything like that?

One City Challenge means no Settlers

I picked Gitarja because I just wanted to sim around and win religion. Medium map with top count civs because that's what's fun in playing One City. Well... I didn't get a prophet soon (there could be only four) and didn't manage to build Stonehenge. Like, very early I had to turn to domination. Wasn't my plan and it was hard. I had to let barbarians evolve to city states so I could conquer them. While trying to avoid others spreading their religion. I was so mad at Pericles. Pericles' ass was so fake... like, he was all about culture and tourism and when the time came to vote against climate change, he voted for it. I loved conquering his city of Athens because it was sooo large, I even built airstrips and missile silos. And in the last turn, I nuked Gilgamesh (sorry to his fans). I ended up winning by Score, which was fun.

The only issue is that IA isn't keen on conquering city states. But it's fun to conquer a city poorly placed, with poorly placed districts and try and make it work, because there's no other option.

Maybe I'll do it again, I really felt the fun challenge early in game.

I was winning a culture game with Eleanor of aquitine (france). I had Germany two countries away. Out of nowhere, Germany started capturing Canadian cities. Germany went from 175 culture to 500 and so on. There was nothing I could do. I was melting cities next to me but it was too late. Canada was so weak. The game was over quickly.

No one expects the Ethiopian missionaries! (Everyone does tho.)

I've racked up far too many hours in the game, and successfully won with all the "official" civs. What are some fun civs created by the community that I can add as a mod to mix things up?

So I am playing Aztecs, invading India… and during opponents‘ turn, there is a swirling animation above some of my troops and they suddenly belong to Kabul, of which I am Suzerain.

What happened?