Your Best Civilisation (Game Played)

[marblearch0]

Just won my first game on Emperor last night and it definitely qualifies as one of the strangest games I've played so far.

Decided to give Polynesia a go and fired up a standard speed game on Terra map. Started out on a pretty isolated part of the continent with decent resources and luxuries but very limited possibilities to expand.

After getting a scout up and running I produced a settler and headed out west over the ocean together with my Maori to find the new world. 15 turns later I founded Samoa by a sweet river mouth with both iron, marble and gold nearby. I used my scout on the old continent to discover all the other civs and CS for RA:s and selling luxuries and then focusing completely on my new continent.

The isolated placement of my capital in the old world kept me out of most of the wars that raged over there for most of the game. In my new found home on the other side of the ocean however things were calm and prosperous. I found a few more sweet spots to settle and founded 3-4 more cities. The first visitors didn't show up until well into the 1600's but no other civ made any serious attempts to settle there. I won an easy cultural victory by 1880 while all the other civs were pretty much decimated by all the wars that ravaged their continent.

It might sound dull and slow but it was actually really entertaining.

[m202]

My best Civilization game is a prince multiplayer game on a central ocean map. I was Egypt I was playing with a friend who was Japan. The match was FFA but, when you play with friends alliances naturally happen usually.
The opponents were Greece and Rome. This was a while ago, so I don't remember the early game, I do know that there was no war though. Then I'd say around turn 100 I had to leave for a little bit. I rejoined the game later at turn 175ish.
When I joined I had gone from 4 cities to 7, as the person playing Greece had left and given me all of his cities. I was behind on tech because we all know how stupid the AI is. But the game had not changed much; there still had been no war so we continued on. Athens was the only Greek city left, and they were an AI. Since they were an AI no one had any problems with me taking Athens. I took it in 3ish turns and the game continued on. NOTHING exciting happened between the renaissance and modern eras.
It was mid 1900's and I and my friend were planning on a war with the Romans. I had settled a new city near Rome's land and stupidly moved a nuclear missile there. It was plain daylight that it was there so he launched a nuclear missile of his own taking out the city and the nuke in 1 shot. At this point I got way into the game and actually let him piss me off with that move (lol) so I built more nukes.
At around 5 turns later he had started to head into Japan, he was much closer to Japan than to me. About 15 turns later we both realized that we could not best him, militarily. He had taken 3 of Japans cities, and needed one more before he could Have a path to Kyoto. So my friend started the Apollo project, to attempt a science victory (in Kyoto).
(This is where it gets interesting) About 10 turns later he had lost his one city in between the Romans and Kyoto and already had units headed on Kyoto. I had just sent 3 nukes on Antium (A 20 population city) and completely destroyed it. (I taunted the guy playing Rome and asked him if Antium had reached record temperatures ) I saw the Roman units and came up with a crazy plan, because I knew he would not get the last spaceship part there in time. I quickly purchased a nuclear submarine and 3 missiles to go along with it. I had moved the nuclear submarine and the nukes close to Kyoto (Which I forgot to mention was a coastal city) and then proceeded to tell my plan to my partner.
"I am going to nuke you to save you." I said (The Roman units where in his territory). "NO YOU WILL NOT" he said in return. I ignored him. The next turn I perfectly placed one of the nukes on Japanese land hitting every tile including the one right next to Kyoto, but not hitting the city itself. He said to me "Wow, nice shot" in return. I fired the last to into the tiles that I couldn't see as a precaution. I lost the game because I helped him win it, 3 turns later. But still, that is the most epic Civilization game I have ever played.

[kingrc69]

id have to say my best was as Spain on the world map Huge 22 civs. started in africa on the nile, A LOT OF SUGAR next to me and a city state nearby who i uh liberated as a settler before they settled (they were too close) and was able to plop Madrid in the right area for 9 sugars in one city. So yeah, ended up with all of Africa, Middle East and most of west Europe til i won an easy space victory.