Let's focus on what we like for a change! :)

Out of all 34 civs from Vanilla, Warlords and BTS, what are your Top 10 civs you like whether you have throughly played them or not? Do not account for leaders (i.e. ignore traits), try look at this at the level of the civilizations themselves (think of just UB, UU, flag, flavour, "feel", kewlness, personal taste, and eras/themes you prefer).

I would like to make this a multi-vote poll but I cannot exceed 25 options! Maybe a moderator can do something?

Anyways, here's my Top 10 civs (in alphbetical order):

The Arabs
The Babylonians
The Dutch
The Egyptians
The Indians
The Japanese
The Mayans
The Native Americans
The Russians
The Vikings

I will repeat this question (and perhaps change my mind again :rolleyes:) after I get my grubby hands on a copy of BTS... :D

Dutch
Portuguese
Byzantine
Carthaginians
Russians
Americans
English
Indians
Celts
Vikings

Celts
Egyptians
Germans
Native Americans
Vikings
Holy Roman Empire (I used to play as them in Civ II, III, modding them from Germany)
Mali (mod them into barbary pirates when I play)
Persians
Russians
Dutch



(no particular order)

In terms of feel, never seen much of the new BTS civs. The previous civs, the Russians and Celts have a good fell ... love the Dun and the Cossacks. The Viking UU is very cool too. The Celtic flag is cool, but really traits are important for gameplay. I'm not that broad in the civs I play. I usually the Russians (Peter and Stalin), Vikings, Celts or Arabs; once or twice as the English, Germans and Incas, though I hate late UUs. Vast majority of my games have been either as the Celts or the Russians. Never used the civs in BTS, but I'll definitely play the Native Americans a lot, and the Khmer, possibly the Maya too. Ask the question again though a year after BTS comes out.

Americans
Arabs
Dutch
Eygptians
Japanese
Khmer
Mayans
Native Americans
Persians
Vikings

When I choose what civ to play, flavor is often a big factor. I enjoy to play with a people whose history I find interesting. Of course, I've found with the right piece of literature, any civ in the game can become the most exciting subject in the world. Though some civs always get me in the mood to play Civ, only by the mentioning of their very name. Among these, my ten would be:

Arabia
Aztec
Babylonia
Byzantium
Carthage
Egypt
Inca
India
Maya
Persia

Honorable mentions to Japan and the Celts.

In no particular order:

Carthage
Greece
America
Khmer
Egypt
Aztec
Incan
Porteguel
India
Celtic

Americans...hmmm i dont really play with anyone else

I'm sticking with most of my Van./Warlords civs, but I am happy with all of the new civs in BtS (just not my favs):

ROME
Persia
England
France (DeGaulle only)
China
Inca
HRE
Russia
Greece
Germany

Voting out out of flavor:

Babylon
Inca
Vikings
Dutch
Persia
Greece
Russia
Ottoman
Byzantines
England

Americans
English
Dutch
Germans
Russians
French
Celts
Carthage
Rome
Holy Roman Empire
These are my best in prefered order. I'm all of those ethnicities besides Carthage(:lol:), and Rome (italian). I'm guessing the HRE could count as Germany or France? If anybody said Spain I'm going to laugh...(Izy)

Byzantines
Romans
Greeks
HRE
Egypt
China
Spain
Mongolia
Carthage
France

Rome
Carthage
Russia
Maya
Portugal
Mali
England
Arabia
Greece
India

My most hated is China, both in the game and in real life.

Not quite ready to talk about my BTS favorites yet, but here are the ones I enjoy playing as the most, in no particular order:

China
Korea
Persia
Rome
Aztecs
India
Japan
England
Vikings
Russia

Have to say that I'm looking forward to playing as the Dutch, though. I love to build up my navy.

Portugal (first one)
England (second one)
Dutch (third one)
Inca (SOUTH AMERICA!!!!!!!! UHUUUU!)
Holy Roman Empire (France, Rome, Germany... 3 in 1)
Japan (I just love it)
Khmer (Missing a tropical Asian civ)
Ethiopia (My african one)
Russia (Stalin is one of my fav leaders)
Byzantines (I prefer it instead of Rome and Ottoman)
Arabia (They are the arabs!)

10 is a lot to choose

Arabia
China
India
Inca
Persia
Egypt
Zulu
Greece
Russia
Spain

for the new guys, Native Americans sound way kewl, as do Babylonians, Holy Roman Empire :blush:, and the Dutch.

Russia
Egypt
Japan
Khmer
Byzantine
Rome
Mongol
Mali
India
Germany

Okay, great start everyone! :)

I have tallied up the numbers so far and the more popular civs posts so far looks like this:

The Russians = 12 votes
The English, Egyptians & Indians = 8 votes each
The Arabs, Dutch, Inca, Persians & Vikings = 7 votes each
The Byzantines, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans = 6 votes each
The Americans, Celts, Germans, HRE, Japanes, Khmer, Mayans = 5 votes each

So, not a big sample of votes yet... It's not scientific, but interesting to see what's going on :)

Let's go folks, let's see some more "Top 10" lists! :D

PS: I have a spreadsheet going to keep track :p :crazyeye: :D

In alphabetical order:

The Byzantines
The Carthaginians
The Dutch
The Egyptians
The English
The French
The Germans
The Greeks
The Mali
The Romans

Two civs that didn't make it in order to make room for the Dutch and the Byzantines:
The Chinese
The Russians

Just bade about a coolness or of shiny factor

French (mousketeer!!! yay!!)
Celts (well, they're just the celts men!!! love to build stonehenge with them)
Russians (really fun to play with)
Khmer (south east asia!!!)
Japan (samouraï, bushido!!! here i come)
Egypt (love to build pyramids!!! and pyramids are egyptian!!!)
Mali (i just learn so many thing because of their inclusion)
Incas (Fear the feather snake!!!)
Vikings (berserker!!!!)
Carthage (i just love them!!!)

Celts
English
India
Greeks
Romans
Egyptians
Inca
China
Japan
Vikings

I hate to limit it to ten ;) But these ten are those I play the most. And I've left out BTS ones, since I don't know them yet... but I like the look of at least the Portuguese and Native Americans. :)

The Dutch.
...
...
...
English (elizabeth)
Germans
Khmer
Japan
Ethiopia
Korea
China
Arabs
Ottoman

Dutch (Obviously)
Zulu
Rome
Japan (expecially back in the vanilla days)
Arabia (again back when Saladin's traits didn't suck)
Persia
Ottomans
Byzantine
India
Mali

America
Babylon
Egypt
England
Germany
India
Japan
Netherlands
Portugal
Russia

Ottomans
Arabia
Mali
Celts
Sumeria
Carthago
Zululand
Babylon
Aztec
Maya

Add a poll to this thread!! ;)

Happy 200th post for me :D

France
China
Incans
Zulus
Vikings
Celts
Carthage
Rome
Korea
Russia

England
Germany
Greece
Japan
Mongols
Ottomans
Persia
Rome
Byzantine
Ethiopia

The first 8 are the ones are play most (but not in any particular order) the last two are the ones I'm looking forward to playing most in BtS

Russia
China
France
Germany
Ottoman
Persia
Arabs
Egypt
Mali
Rome

Dutch
English
Germans
French
Romans
Greeks
Chinese
Japanese
Zulu
Americans

America
Inca
England
Native America
Maya
Ethiopia
Dutch
Zulu
Aztec
Vikings

In no particular order:

Rome
Greece
Egypt
Portugal
Persia
Arabia
Japan
China
Mongolia
Byzantine

England
Germany
Carthage
France
Rome
Russia
Japan
Celts
Aztecs
Egypt

I only chose those who I have played. But I am very excited to play the Dutch and Portugal.

Okay, everyone :) This looks good! The votes for the more popular civilizations are spreading out:

The Russians = 18 votes
The English = 16 votes
The Egyptians & Romans = 15 votes each
The Dutch & Japanese = 14 votes each
The Arabs & Germans = 12 votes each
The Carthaginians, Chinese, Greeks, Inca, Indians, Persians & Vikings = 11 votes each
The Byzantines & Celts = 10 votes each
The French = 9 votes
The Americans, Mali & Portuguese = 8 votes each

I've seen many civs move around in popularity as more top 10 lists are added, so expect some changes on the next "poll" :D

Babylon
China
Egypt
Ethiopia
Mali
Netherlands
Ottomans
Persian
Portugal
Rome

My 10 are:

English
Inca
Maya
Vikings
Persia
Ethiopia
Egypt
Carthage
Ottomans
Byzantines
China

Well, these, I think, will be my favorite civs to play. I play as a builder who occasionally goes to war, so the war first civs have less appeal to me.

Mali
Korea
Inca
Ethiopia
Khmer
Maya
Dutch
Native American
England
India

Byzantium, Rome, Greece, America, Egypt, Sumeria, Babylon, Spain, France, England

1. Russia
2. England
3. Mali
4. Greeks
5. Romans
6. Persians
7. Carthagians
8. Maya
9. Byzantines
10. Babylon.

Babylon
Egypt
Japan
Maya
Germany
Persians
Zulu
France
Ottomans
Indians

China
Ottomans
Persians
Egypt
France
Germany
Greece
Zulus
Indians
Mongols
Babylonians

I'll reserve comment on the BtS civs until I've actually played them :)

Incas (Quechas + Terrace + Financial + Industrious = overpowered)
Carthage (Financial + Charismatic = easy fast start, UB rules on water maps)
England (Two good financial leaders + stock exchanges + REDCOATS!!)
Persia (Immortals just rule)
Egypt (War Chariots rule almost as much)
Rome (Forum is an awesome UB, and Praets... 'nuff said)
Vikings (Serious water map ownage)
India (First civ I played, and I still like fast workers)
Mongols (There's just something about going to war as Gengis Khan...)
Russia (Man I miss when Catie was Creative/Financial...)

Ten is a lot to pick from but, ok, here's my top.
Zulu(Play them 'most' of the time)
Ethiopia (I wanna them in since civ3!)
Mail
Egypt
Russia
Germany
Okay, thats only six, but really, I mostly only play the Zulus and when BtS comes out I'd mostly play the Zulus or Ethiopia!

Yay, everyone :) We are on a roll! The votes for the more popular civilizations continue to spread out as follows:

The Egyptians = 22 votes
The English & Russians = 21 votes each
The Romans = 19 votes
The Persians = 17 votes
The Dutch = 16 votes
The Germans, Indians & Japanese = 15 votes each
The Carthaginians, Chinese, Greeks, & Inca = 14 votes each
The Byzantines & Vikings = 13 votes each
The Arabs, French & Mali = 12 votes each
The Mayans = 11 votes
The Babylonians, Celts & Ottomans = 10 votes each
The Americans, Portuguese & Zulu = 9 votes each

Lowest showing BTS civ: Sumerians with 2 votes
Lowest showing Warlords civ: Koreans with 4 votes
Lowest showing "Vanilla" civ: Spanish with 3 votes

Wow look at the Egyptians storm up to the top! I thought the Russians would keep their lead as they seem consistantly very popular to play, but the results continue to evolve :D

in order of more or less my preference for playing

India
France
Inca
Mali
Russia
Egypt
China
Ottoman
Korea
Germany

Greece
Byzantium
Germany
France
Rome
Spain
Britain
Carthage
Egypt
Russia
China


(11?) Yes
Notice a trend ?

In no particular order, just as they come to mind

Persia
India
Russia
Babylon (Rhye's and fall addict)
France
Mali
Inca
England (or should I say the Brittish empire ?;) )
Egypt
Romans, althought would you believe I've never actually played them :crazyeye:

Yes, I just love those ancient civilizations (mesopotamia cradle of civilization...)

In no particular order:

English (Elizabeth only))
Dutch
Byzantines
HRE
Chinese (Qin, Drill 4 Chokonus rule)
Greeks (pericles only)
Incas
Romans (Augustus rush to Praets)
Russians (cossacks rule but this will probably change in BTS)
Egyptians (never play them but everyone else seem to think they rule so I should probably try them)

In order?

Inca (Inca fanboy wee)
Dutch (Love the traits, like the civ)
Maya (Yay, Maya)
Native Americans (Yeah I like Native americans, except Aztecs)
Celts (only cus of Boudica)
England (Go go Lizzy)
Carthage (Like Hannibals traits)
French (Like Louis's traits)
Ottomans (When I feel like phat cities of doom)
Germans (I don't use either Fredrick's traits all that often, so he gives me a good chance to use them)

Egypt
China
Japan
India
France
Germany
Rome
Celt
English (only cuz I have to have a sworn enemy)
and oh.... Maya

==bump==

Any more before I post another tally? 46 people replied - can we make it 50? :D

1. Rome (Praetorians)
2. Germany (they speak German :rolleyes: )
3. Russia (Cossacks)
4. England (Redcoats)
5. China (As Qin Shi Huangdi it is very funny)
6. Ottomans
7. Mongols
8. Babylonia
9. Dutch (They will be a good colonizing-civ)
10. Portugal (same as for the Dutch)

11. Vikings (I like the Berserker-Guys)
12. Spain
13. France
14. Korea
15. Greece
16. Maya
17. America
18. Zulu
19. Egypt
20. Inca
21. Carthage
22. Persia
23. Aztec
24. Arabia
25. Celts
26. India
27. Mali
28. Japan
29. Ethiopia
30. Sumer
31. Khmer
32. Byzantines
33. Native Americans
34. Holy Roman Empire

Dutch Canuck:
Do not account for leaders (i.e. ignore traits)

Interesting idea since I'd usually rank civs by their traits. Predicted top ten BtS civs based on unique buildings and unique units (and maybe with starting technologies as a tie breaker):

Holy Roman Empire
Greeks
Native Americans
Carthaginians
Celts
Arabs
Malinease
Spanish
Chinease
Zulu

:trophy: Portugal
:trophy2nd: Dutch
:trophy3rd: Holy Roman Empire
4USA
5Japan
6Roman
7China
8India
9Aztecs
10England

In no order

Egyptians - I like spiritual and the War Chariot is great for early warmongering.
Incans - I like financial and the Quechua is great for early warmongering.
Romans - Praets are the best UU in the game and organized lets you take more cities.
Carthaginians - Charasmatic and financial are both great traits and the UB is amazing.
English - I like playing as Elizabeth because financial and philosophical allow me to run a highly effective fusion economy and Redcoats are usually a game clincher.
Indians - For some reason I've fared really well when playing as them. Probably the best civ for builders.
Malinease - Financial and spiritual are both great and the mint is useful as well.
Vikings - Aggressive and financial are fun together, though I don't have much use for the UB and UU.
Koreans - Financial + UU madness.

That's all I feel like listing.

I like:
1. Arabia
2. India
3. France
4. Incas
5. Mayas
6. Aztecs
7. Germany
8. Chinese
9. Japanese
10. Malinese

I am a little heavy on the pre-Columbians, but whatever.....:goodjob: :lol:

1. Persia (easiest to play, cool people too)
2. Celts (gotta love em druids)
3. Japan (I'm a fan of almost everything Japanese)
4. Native America (When we do the ghost dance, the buffalo will return!)
5. Mongolia (My lucky civ, I always pwn with them on any game)
That's my favourite ones, can't really say which one is most favourite.

6. Inca (Industrious + financial + quechua + terrace :crazyeye: , cool culture)
7. Arabs
8. Aztecs (Gotta try out the mayan now)
9. Greece
10. Egypt (Chariots!)

1. Korea - is my absolute favorite civ in the game. I always end on top when I'm playing them. It's like they attract everything positive and good in me. And there is absolutely no way a noob could lose a city with this powerhouse. :trophy:
2. Vikings - financial/aggressive is probably better than financial/aggressive but the UB and UU can't match the Korean ones. :trophy2nd:
3. Carthage - charismatic is the least of the three war-traits, so it makes sense that Carthage comes behind Korea and the Vikings. :trophy3rd:
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4. Maya - this will be a total powerhouse with huge cities (ball court+expansive) meaning more merchants meaning more money for me to research.
5. Zulus - there are certain times when I just want to play with the impi and then I play with the impi! It is so fun!
6. Russia - I don't particularly like Cathy and Stalin, but Peter is the king of the specialist economy
7. Mali - he has nothing war-like to him (makes him weaker than Ragnar, Wang and Hannibal) but still Mansa is fun to play.
8. Inca - quite lousy UU and UB .. but good traits. Fine..
9. Celts - Boudica will be fun to play for sure
10. Germans - UU and UB come too late but Bismarck has wonderful traits

honorable mentions:
Japan, Rome, Native Americans, Persia, HRE.

These are the civs I usually play with sometimes for the traits and unique stuff, and other times because I'm just a fan of the civs...

1. Zulu - I <3 Impi and Ikhandas.
2. Native Americans
3. Maya
4. Vikings
5. Celts - I'd dig'em even more if we could get Vercingetorix!
6. Greeks - Huge fan of the Greeks.
7. Carthaginians
8. Aztec - They were pretty brutal
9. Indians
10. Egyptians

Excellent job folks! :D Well, 54 people voted and below's a full listing of popular* civs from "vanilla", Warlords, and BTS as follows:

The Egyptians = 30 votes
The English = 29 votes
The Russians = 27 votes each
The Romans = 26 votes
The Chinese, Germans, Inca & Indians = 22 = votes each
The Carthaginians & Dutch = 20 votes each

After those 10 we have the following:

The Greeks, Japanese & Persians = 19 votes each
The French & Mali = 18 votes each
The Celts, Mayans & Vikings = 16 votes each
The Arabs & Byzantines = 15 votes each
The Ottomans = 13 votes
The Babylonians & Zulu = 12 votes each
The Native Americans & Portuguese = 11 votes each
The Americans & Aztecs = 10 votes each
The Ethiopians, HRE, Khmer & Mongols = 8 votes each
The Koreans = 7 votes
The Spanish = 5 votes
The Sumerians = 2 votes

Lowest showing BTS civ: Sumeria
Lowest showing Warlords civ: Korea
Lowest showing "Vanilla" civ: Spain

*: 'popular' being loosely defined as among the top 10 civilizations preferred whether in play, concept, and at the least, personal taste (trying best to avoid selection predicated upon leaders or traits - which is hard to do in some cases).

PS: This exercise isn't necessarily finished... don't be shy to add your top 10 favourites if you haven't done so :) I will check in daily for the next week... :D

Ok, here goes..

Despite obviously not having played the BtS civs, I can definitely say there are quite a few that interest me greatly..

Nr. 1: The Dutch. Mostly because that's where I come from, but also because I really like the the leader traits and the UU. I'm not too happy about the UB, but hey.. :D

Nr. 2: The Japanese. On a map full of bad guys, they never fail me. With their free offensive and defensive traits, they offer an excellent combination for warmongerers and defensive players.. :cool:

Nr. 3: The Romans (mainly under Augustus). They're the Romans, come on! I love the Praetorians, really like the Forum and there's just something special about hearing your units speaking Latin.. :)

And, in no particular order:

- The Americans (Washington)
- The Russians (Peter the Great)
- The French (Napoleon)
- The Germans (Bismarck)
- The Aztecs
- The English (Elizabeth)
- The Portuguese (Joao II looks very interesting!)

==bump===

Anymore? (My final post of results at end of week.)

My initial comment on these results: I am amazed as to how popular England & Russia as civs are doing - ahead of The Romans! At the other end of the spectrum I see Sumeria doing rather poorly... Perhaps not the best choice by Firaxis to add to the main game afterall? Look how the Dutch are doing by comparison - and the XP isn't out yet! I suspect reknown and popular Babylon, being the "child" of Sumeria, is the cause of this. (Sumeria got only 2 of 55 people listing the civ in their top 10 favourites... Ouch! Maybe Sumeria will play better than expected and gain some new respect...)

All-in-all very interesting! :D

1. India
2. Native Americans
3. Egypt
4. England
5. Netherlands
6. Vikings
7. China
8. Mali
9. Ethiopians
10. Zulu

PERSIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D MY PEOPLE :D
French ( cheese ) :D
Ottoman ( TURKS :D )
Egypt ( Nanananana Pyramids)
Carthage( Like there history :) )
Vikings ( SWEDEN AND ETC :D )
English
Indians
Russians ( STALIN YEY LOVE HIS MUSTASCH)
Japan

The French
The Spanish
The Romans
The Ethiopians
the Vikings
The Portuguese
The Aztecs
The Greeks
The Arabs
Carthage

1. Rome
2. Holy Roman Empire
3. Byzantium
4. Greece
5. Carthage
6. Celtia
7. Egypt
8. Sumer
9. Persia
10. Babylon

in random order

Zulu
English
Japs
Aztecs
Indians
Arabs
Russian
Egypt
Mongolians
Rome

Can't w8 for BTS...I want to play with HRE and the native americans...and since the Dutch are doing pretty well in the polls I might have to give them a go!!!:yup:


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I hope you enjoyed my noobish statements:spank:

Great work everyone! :D

One more time here's a full list showing the popularity* of the 34 civs from "vanilla", Warlords, and BTS with the civfantics community...
60 civfantics have listed their top 10 favourites (to play/want to play); this is a good sample size. So, survey says:

The top 10 favourite civilizations for civfantics to play are:
1st) The Egyptians = 34 votes
2nd) The English = 33 votes
3rd) The Romans & Russians = 30 votes each (i.e. a tie)
4th) The Indians = 25 votes
5th) The Carthaginians, Chinese & Germans = 23 votes each
6th) The Dutch, Inca & Japanese = 22 votes each
7th) The French, Greeks & Persians = 21 votes each
8th) The Mali & Vikings = 19 votes each
9th) The Arabs & Celts = 17 votes each
10th) The Byzantines & Mayans = 16 votes each

Looks more like top 20! ;) - and the rest in order too:

The Ottomans & Zulu = 14 votes each
The Aztecs, Babylonians & Portuguese = 13 votes each
The Native Americans = 12 votes
The Americans = 11 votes
The Ethiopians = 10 votes
The HRE & Mongols = 9 votes each
The Khmer = 8 votes
The Koreans = 7 votes
The Spanish = 6 votes
The Sumerians = 3 votes

Lowest showing BTS civ: Sumeria
Lowest showing Warlords civ: Korea
Lowest showing "Vanilla" civ: Spain

Highest showing BTS civ: the Dutch
Highest showing Warlords civ: Carthage
Highest showing "Vanilla" civ: Egypt

*: 'popular' being loosely defined as among the top 10 preferred whether in play, by concept, and of course as per personal taste.

My comment on the results:

A larger survey would probably be more conclusive regarding the popularity of civs people like to play, but 60 is statistically a good sample size. Egypt has always been the greatest icon of the game, and it comes as no surprise it is at the top. Likewise Rome ranks well, and the non-ancient civs of England and Russia have ranked very highly too - higher than I expected, I thought that the Chinese would be at least as popular as England. But then again, the civs from "vanilla" are more likely ranked by playability over any other civ, so it may be that China doesn't play as well as England?

The BTS civs have yet to be released and not everyone has Warlords (I'd imagine most players do). Rankings of civs from Warlords are possibly more influenced by taste than mechanics right now - it is hard to say. (This survey isn't that thorough on distinctions anyways. Next one I do will possibly be more comprehensive.) Regarding the civs of "vanilla", why does Spain rank so low in popularity to play? I know Spain is often reviled as an AI opponent; but does that influence the choice to actually play as Spain? Or is it simply that the Spanish UB and UU do not perform as well as those of most other civs?

A civ's popularity to play can change with each iteration of the game, based on that civ's mechanical performance, and I suppose that factor more than anything will affect future marketing on civs in future expansions or versions of the civilization franchise. Thus, the Dutch of the BTS expansion are ranked best of all BTS civs based on player anticipation which itself is based on player game knowledge synthesizing pre-release information on that civ. But once people play the BTS expansion, we could see big shifts in civ popularity if there are surprises in civ playability! That will be fun to find out! :) As I mentioned in a previous post, Sumeria doesn't look so "hot", but perhaps that'll change after July?

Do these votes reflect what civs people want in their game? Well, only partially because while some civs may/may not be popular to play, we also have to consider those civs people like to play against. For example, the Mongols, a "vanilla" civ, do not rank high as a civ to play, but they have been a staple of the civilization franchise from the beginning, they were historically a very important force in changing history and as such probably more popular as an AI controlled civ to play against. This survey doesn't account for the popularity of AI controlled civs; at a later time, it would be interesting to see which civs civfantics prefer to play against - the favourite rivals! Then comparisons between civs to play and civs under AI control could be made and the results could be enlightening! But that is for another thread another time :)

I will consider a new survey of top 10 civs in the coming fall, once people have tasted the goodness of BTS; I'm looking forward to this expansion and the outcome! :D

What surprised me was how popular England was and how the Zulu's did not rank so high. I thought there'd be a few warmongers who'd push the Zulu's up higher.

Sumeria doesnt look that bad, there are worse civs than it, its not on my list, but all the same I'll be sure to give them a run.

The top 10 favourite civilizations for civfantics to play are:
you mean:
The top 20 favourite civilizations for civfantics to play are:
;) :lol: :lol: :D

@ yatta77: yeah, with so many tied one would have to say top 20! :D (Added small remark after list...;))

@Dutch Canuck, You should turn these results in to a moderator, they could do something cool with it...

I've myself made a few games like these.
The best civ (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=186124)
The top 10 was like this:
Persia - 1. place
Carthage - 2. place
Scandinavia - 3. place
Rome - 4. place
Russia - 5. place
England - 6. place
India - 7. place
China - 8. place
Korea - 9.-10. place
Inca - 9.-10. place

I also made a Best UU (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=189363) game.
This was the top ten there:

1st place - English Redcoat
2nd place - Russian Cossack
3rd place - Chinese Cho-Ko-Nu
4th place - Indian Fast Worker
5th place - Viking Berserker
6th place - Ottoman Janissary
7th place - Korean Hwach'a
8th place - Carthaginian Numidian Cavalry
9th place - Japanese Samurai
10th place - Roman Praetorian

This game is going really differently it would appear. Egypt is winning this game but it was not even in top 10 in neither of those lists :p