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I'd like to mention that in my games things are A LOT different from what TD described. In my games (3000 BC):
(1) Spain gets Conquerors less than 25% of the time. Instead there's a variety of Conquerors, including Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Khmer, English, French, Viking, Byzantine, Portugese, and others.
(2) AI Mongol never manages to accomplish anything. They'd be lucky to hold 1 city in Russia, and their Iranian/Seljuk conquerors more often than not simply melt away against Independents. This is because Mongols flip a lot fewer cities (Samarkand almost always gets razed by barbs, and there is no Merv/Kashgar at all) or units (due to late Great Wall) in the 3000 BC spawn.
(3) Instead of mega-Mongols, I always get mega-Russia. It's always huge and often leading in tech. And that is when it does NOT control any Islamic Wonders, which it sometimes does (which means Russia teching to Rocketry around 1850).
(4) England is OK. Neither good nor bad - they definitely tech slower than the Prussians and the Chinese; sometimes even the Russians, French, Japanese and Vikings are faster. This is because in 3000 BC start, Indian city locations are crap, so England gets much less out of conquering India.
For very obvious reasons, 3000 BC starts are a lot more diverse than 600 AD ones. I suggest playing some 3000 BC starts before you complain about the lack of variety.
(1) Spain gets Conquerors less than 25% of the time. Instead there's a variety of Conquerors, including Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Khmer, English, French, Viking, Byzantine, Portugese, and others.
(2) AI Mongol never manages to accomplish anything. They'd be lucky to hold 1 city in Russia, and their Iranian/Seljuk conquerors more often than not simply melt away against Independents. This is because Mongols flip a lot fewer cities (Samarkand almost always gets razed by barbs, and there is no Merv/Kashgar at all) or units (due to late Great Wall) in the 3000 BC spawn.
(3) Instead of mega-Mongols, I always get mega-Russia. It's always huge and often leading in tech. And that is when it does NOT control any Islamic Wonders, which it sometimes does (which means Russia teching to Rocketry around 1850).
(4) England is OK. Neither good nor bad - they definitely tech slower than the Prussians and the Chinese; sometimes even the Russians, French, Japanese and Vikings are faster. This is because in 3000 BC start, Indian city locations are crap, so England gets much less out of conquering India.
For very obvious reasons, 3000 BC starts are a lot more diverse than 600 AD ones. I suggest playing some 3000 BC starts before you complain about the lack of variety.