Choose your top 10 civs!

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
 
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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
 
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!)
 
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