This morning, just messing around a run-through, I played Emperor, standard size continent, standard speed, no alteration of number of opponents/city states or map, ancient start, no mods.

that would be like Shadows of War on Gravewalker difficulty. I don't even wanna see a higher difficulty then Emperor.

I hate how easy games with vs AI tends to be, but this is just cheap. and spawning them like every 2 turns, a camp from the south and east. I manage to defend it cause the AI was super stupid by basically funneling thier ownr troops and ignoring my weakened troops Then barbs come at me immediatly starting with 3-4 warriors and over 2-3 achers. Polish pretty much rushes 2 cities and a decent army. This happens after a game that i get cheaped in also. Honestly, i all did wrong was turn around and went for a settler after a 3rd warrior. and that owuld just maybe equal thiers, but have no chance after they expanded all over the map to produce units faster. Basically i would have to SIT ON ONE♥♥♥♥♥♥♥city until i had built me an army. It came down to my 3 warriors vs 4-5 warriors, 2-3 slingers, and whatever else i have yet to see. Then the next just kills me thanks to a massive headstart. One i defend thanks to AI being so stupid with forests. Do I restart until i get some sort of crazy production capital?. They're starting off with a settler, 4 warriors, slinger, probably 1-2 builders.

Civilization 6 difficulty