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Huge wonders! Start making 'em on land 2. Always make a Norse or Celtic wonder (or three) to take care of resource needs, a Japanese wonder to keep everyone healed, and a few Tibetan wonders to decrease worshippers' food needs. With a good set of huge wonders, you can leave villages unattended...

BW2 vs. BotG: I don't think one's better than the other. BotG's a bit harder. It also gives you a few more miracles, which are fun, as well as new buildings and easier ways to get resources and level up your troops. The enemy god is rather predictable; don't expect it to distract you by...

Attacking enemy troops is neutral when they're inside your influence. Anywhere else, it's evil. To be good: keep your storehouses filled, build more than enough housing for your people, heal your people, fulfill their desires (food, sleep, etc). Don't build evil buildings & embellishments...

You should only need a few male breeders: one per 50-100 women, at a guess. One male breeder can impregnate a lot of women. You should need fewer male breeders if your city is compact -- that way, it will be more likely that a male disciple breeder runs across impregnable women. Of course...

A physical shield cast on the dispenser should protect it. The shield may not last too long, though, so you might have to cast a few more until the vortex closes. Remember that things exit the vortex in the same order that they entered, so on land 2 the first thing to throw in the vortex will...

A happiness tip: you can make any unhappy (yellow/red face icon) building happy (green icon) by planting trees around it. This is useful when you need to place production and civic buildings together, e.g. building a university next to a smelter to increase ore production. The unhappier the...

[apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but this help some folks] One of the reasons your worshippers are dying is the Aztec wonder. It makes worshippers worship faster. You accumulate mana more quickly, but worshippers lose health faster too. It's a trade-off. The second or third time I...

I ran across the solution to this challenge by accident. It takes a while to do.