Sid Meier's Civilization Guide - Game Concepts

This is the guide for Sid Meier's Civilization V! This shows the game concepts.

Basics
Your goal is to ''build a Civilization to stand the test of time. ''You will start at the Ancient Era, around 3000 BC, and end in 2050 AD, and of all this time, you build incredible things, research technologies, interact with other civs, meet city-states, and go to war. Also, you build cities, find resources, make people happy, and more, and more.

Use of cities
You can't finish the game without Cities. These build units, buildings, and wonders the world's never seen before. In the beginning of the game, you have a Warrior and a Settler. Settlers found cities, using the unit up. The first city you found will be your capital. A city cannot be built 4 titles away from another city (including city-states and other civs). Founding a city is easy. With a Settler, go to a place where you like, and then (after a turn) look on the left. A button depicting a city is shown. Click on it to found a city.

City screen
Click on the city name to enter the city screen. This shows you about the resources, buildings, wonders, citizen management, border growth, and what the city is currently building. Under the name, there is a "edit" button. Click on it to change the name of your city.

Taking over a city: Puppets, annexed cities and burned cities
If you take over a city, you can annex it (take control over it, but produces a lot of Unhappiness), use it as a Puppet (cannot take control over it, but it is yours to keep), or to burn it down, destroying the city.

War
War can destroy your civilization, or destroy the enemy's civilization. War can occur when denounced (publicly telling the world you or the enemy not to be trusted), border crossing, refusing deals, and sometimes, for no reason. To declare war, click on a civ. Then, once the leader menu is shown, click Declare War. Confirm you want war, and enemies will be heading your way. Wars can end in 2 ways; You can also control a city (see Concepts < Cities < Taking over a city).
 * 1) The players want to make peace.
 * 2) When the capital is overthrown.

Combat
Combat is fighting and its army. These can be well used in wars, as they will lead you to victory. Combat can siege cities, destroy capitals and units, and attack barbarians, men who want to destroy your city for no good reason.