How are you supposed to play Civ 5?

Alright, I defeated England (after I defeated all their soldiers and the soldiers the city-states allied with them sent at me in my territory and started pushing toward one of their colonies, they suddenly asked for peace ((they would give me gold for 25 turns and I would give up my good standing with all the city states)). I really had no choice to accept because I couldn't support an army large enough to carry on the war. The war would have bankrupted my nation (both financially and culturally), and England would slowly start losing colonies and city states that supported them to me and my allies. So it was a win-win situation to just pay off the debt I got into to fight the war, and relinquish my standing with the city states that they couldn't get to attack me, and call peace.
 
Civilization V is one of those games I'd love to be good at.

The idea of it is unique and rather interesting and the gameplay seems very diverse and rewarding if you can master it.

The issue is that I'm not very good at it,and getting a hold of simplified tactics for newbies is like trying to smash a brick wall by running at it head first.

Despite all that, I have completed the game, but not quite in the way I desired.

I set off as England with the goals of creating an Ultra-Dictatorship that would conquer the world with Military might and willpower (God save the Queen!).

I ended up being a tiny nation comprised of three cities that watched several World Wars occur across the planet (Which we proudly discovered was round first! Take that China!) and eventually fucked off to space under everyone's noses just before China and the Iroquois (The only remaining Super-Nations on Earth) sent each other into Nuclear oblivion.

I've tried and failed numerous times to achieve a complete playthrough of Civilization V again, each time attempting a different Victory, then eventually realizing I'm rubbish and watching all the AI nations succeed in all the many areas I failed. By that point I usually quit.

My ultimate Civilization goal is to reach that British Ultra-Dictatorship and win a successful domination game.
 
Heh, I got my civ-dragon to chase myself, I try a similar scenario, obviously, just become a bloated mega-power.
I did this originally in Civ 3, super-sized map, with the shape of the actual world. In the end, before I just had to give up, I had all of the Americas under my control, as well as Europe and half of Africa. The rest was algorithmically impossible to take on by then, the AI had just... gone miles beyond me, mass producing hardware. The rest of the world consisted of two other nations, both superpowers.

This was curbed in Civ 4, and ever since, I've never had that feeling again, of being so deadlocked against another superpower. If I play it too easily, it's too easily, and you just grow, and never feel that resistance. If I play it too difficult, then I am constantly terrified of being overrun, and attempts at war will naturally have much more realistic outcomes.
Not complaining tho, especially since nostalgia in itself can be quite manipulative in that sense

One problem, if anybody knows what's happening, is sometimes I am using oil, without using oil. I'm not trading it away, or actually using it, but will have -5 for example. This is pretty bad on a small map, where you might have only a single source of oil found

Another one, decided to play an easy world-map game, surf through, got another thing coming, on my fourth war now, I'm still using warriors and archers to defend myself. I fight only defensively (duh, 1 warrior and 2 archers), and now I'm apparently a war-mongerer, with nation after nation turning to "Hostile" o_o for being attacked! I'm not even sure why I'm being attacked so much, probably cus I'm attacked so much :I
 
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