Achievements
 

I just found out that the game comes with 120 achievements. Most of them are easy, but some of them are very hard. Like, there's an achievement for beating a difficulty level. One for each level... so you'd actually have to play and beat friggin' sandbox mode.

Really.

Well i've beat every level on civ4 so i figure civ 5 shouldn't be a challenge.

Does it say non-WB equipped anyways?

lol, I don;t think I ever beat a sid level game in 3 (and if I did I'm pretty sure it was with extreme settings and lots of restarts) and I don't think I ever bothered to play to lower levels anyway.

Civ 4 I never got to beat immortal, I still have a hard time beating emperor more often than not I get my ass handed to me by the ai.

But I love achievements. I know it's stupid but achievements do actually get me to replay games just to get them......

What?

Well you could do it right now by giving yourself a few hundred tanks at anypoint in the game through the WB. would that stop the gaining the achievment?

Oh, worldbuilder. Well, I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised if you can make a script in python that unlocks all achievements at once.

The only time I had a winning Sid game on 3, it was such a mind-boggling, tedious, tiresome experience that I stopped while I was conquering the AI's. And it was a start with 3 cow grasses, 2 rivers, and 3 more cows along the rivers for a few settler/worker factories, on a continent of my own, with shore access to all AI's for trades. Extreme settings, as you said.

You can track the achievements here: http://steamcommunity.com/stats/CivV/achievements/

I don't think getting all achievements will be hard. With some abuse of city states & small map choices even high dif seems quite doable without spending a lot of time on them

Take Greece or Siam on an archipelago duel map. Companion cav and Narunesa phants = 1 turn war for the win, whatever the difficulty.