What Is Your Favourite Civ to Play as and Why?

thomson_2001 · Jul 2, 2002

What would be your favourite all time civ and why.

Mine has to be the Russians.They are scientific, which is great cos it means you have a free tech every era and cheaper scientific buildings.This frees up your time to creat cultural buildings thus standing a good chance at cultural victory. Due to the scientific advantage you also stand a better chance at being able to build the UN headquarters and win by diplomatic means.

Another factor is the special unit:- the cossack. It comes at the best time in the game. Not too early to become useless quick but not too late to have been of no use. For example, if you play as the americans you have to do well with normal units until late in the game (and u get the mig).If u dont do well early on it will be too late to make an impact. The cossack is fast, Strong and lasts a long time.

Orverall a very powerful civ

Soviet beast · Jul 2, 2002

The Soviet Union is coming back to take over the world.

thomson_2001 · Jul 2, 2002

Ok....what have I started!?

Joe-o-War · Jul 2, 2002

i like the french and the russsians

Portuguese · Jul 2, 2002

Romans and Persians rule the World since the beginning!!!

Trickey · Jul 2, 2002

romans and persians.

Rome because i like the militaristic feature. I also enjoy using the legonaries, they are very powerfull attack tools that are almost impossible to counter attack against.

Persia because the immortals are literally unstoppable. Also, the indoustriou factor adds to the deadlyness (sp?) of the immortals. make a road to you opponents territory, then send in the immortals!

Dynamic Cow · Jul 2, 2002

Chinese

industrious AND militaristic. can it be better?

smallstepforman · Jul 2, 2002

Everyone knows that the Persians are the most lethal in the game - Sci and Ind and Immortals. So I tend not to use them, since the game is too easy otherwise. Lately I've found non-industrious civs harder to play with, since I use captured workers to lay roads for my armies.

MirandaCore · Jul 2, 2002

Sioux. Religious allows u to be democracy in times of peace and switch to communism in times of war. Mounted warriors can whoop even Immortals since Immortals only have two def and the Mounted Warriors can always attack w/ 2 movement.

Expansionist is always useful in pangea or continental maps.

D9phoenix · Jul 3, 2002

What ever the SG im playing at the time decides on

As for my personal games .. Random (though more often then not i get the zulu's for some weird reason :lol:

) and i've gotten pretty leathel with them now.

thomson_2001 · Jul 3, 2002

What do you guys think of the greeks.im thinking of starting a game with them simply cos of their reputation in the real world.

Lt. 'Killer' M. · Jul 3, 2002

Babylon! Religious and Scientific - can't beat that!

Second is Rome - nothing like a Legionary rush

jpowers · Jul 3, 2002

The American combination of early benefits from Expansionist (scouts and goody huts) and late benefits from Industrious (railroading the entire continent in a few turns) make up for the useless UU. By the way, the Americans should actually be Commercial and Industrious to be accurate.

WarlordMatt · Jul 3, 2002

Really Killer? Babylon is ANNOYING!

I like da JAPS because they're religious, which stops anarchy, and militaristic, which helps you whip the other civs ASSES.

BTW, Samurai RULE!

Gastric ReFlux · Jul 3, 2002

Don't know if I have a favorite civ, but I like to play civs that have one of these three traits:

1) Industrious--if you're a player that manages your own workforce, fast workers are a huge advantage over the AI.

2) Religious--cheap temples and cathedrals, no anarchy switching governments.

3) Militaristic--great trait to get your units to elite, and war becomes a way of generating GLs and using those GLs to build infrastructure and wonders. You can save, literally, thousands of shields through the course of a game.

NiteCreature · Jul 3, 2002

Dunno exactly why, but i LOVE the Egyptians... I guess because of their strong trades like industrious and religious, i never seem to fail to do a good campaign with these sfinx-loving peoples :egypt:

Reboot · Jul 3, 2002

The way I see it (might be wrong) the Greeks have the best advantage in tech. They have Scientific, and their Commercial gives them more revenue to be spent (once again) on tech.

The Babylonians are fine... except Hamurabi has a huge scalp problem after the Middle Ages...

but probably not as huge as Joan's.

The Jap Samurai is great too. But I'm not very warlike in my games.

Lab Monkey · Jul 3, 2002

Random, it keeps you out of a dull routine.

alpha wolf 64 · Jul 3, 2002

I like the americans for industrial and expansionist. gotta love those early goody huts with no chance of getting barbs.

Lt. 'Killer' M. · Jul 3, 2002

Originally posted by WarlordMatt
Really Killer? Babylon is ANNOYING!

as an opponent - sure

that's why I liek to take them...... Samurai are good, too. Immortals are better

What Is Your Favourite Civ to Play as and Why?

What is your favourite civ?

Americans

Aztecs

Babylonians

Chinese

Egyptians

English

French

Germans

Greeks

Indians

Iroquois

Japanese

Persians

Romans

Russians

Zulu

The Hero of Sween

Space Tractor

The Hero of Sween

Chieftain

Vassalising Spain

Warlord

Moo

Megalomaniac

Chieftain

Prince

The Hero of Sween

Deity

Emperor

Emperor

Dispatch our Tech Staff

Willem van Oranje

Privateer

Peace thru ultraviolence!

Byte me

Deity

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