The Great Wall, Himeji Castle and The Kremlin will make it very tough for anyone to invade you. There are no real essential wonders for a domination victory but a lot of these options will really help. Russia has the Krepost which increases XP for land units and the Cossack unit. Persia get 50% longer Golden Ages and during a Golden Age their units get +1 move and +10% offensive bonus, they also have the Immortal unit. Thanks to Bushido Japan’s units remain at maximum strength even when damaged and they have the Samurai and the Zero. Germany has a 50% chance of converting defeated barbarians and they get the Landsknecht and the Panzer. France has the Musketeer and the Foreign Legion. The main reason for this is the fact that the AI is very aggressive and fighting a defensive war is pointless.Īmerica gets +1 sight for all land units and has the special units - Minuteman and B17. This highlights one of the flaws with Civilization 5 and indeed every Civ before it – even if you intend to go for a different victory you’ll often find yourself sucked into a situation where domination makes the most sense. It’s tough to narrow it down for a domination victory because there are loads of viable options, you could easily add Songhai, China, Greece, Rome and the Ottomans to the list. Best Civilizations for a Domination Victory If you play clever a domination victory is easy to achieve, let’s take a closer look at how to do it. Sounds easy huh? Well it can still prove to be a pretty tough prospect especially with the new combat rules to get used to. In Civilization V the rules have changed and all you need to do to win a domination victory is be the last civilization to hold on to your original capital city. It also meant the inevitable prospect of turning on your allies.

This would generally result in a pretty tedious end game where you were polishing off your already broken opponents. In the old versions of Civilization you had to conquer the entire world in order to get a domination victory. We have placed the article in our archive. Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in 2010 and has not been updated since that time.

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