Best Civilization For Dominination

[OttSens91]

I am looking to play a game with a goal to win by domination. What civilization(s) do you recommend I try?

 

[DarkestOnion]

Depends, what kind of Map?

 

[kingfish101]

Well for starters, Assyria and The Huns have good units to start your quest for world domination.

 

[OttSens91]

Probably just shuffle

 

[docbud]

Mongolia is pretty good. But if you don't get horses you'll might as well just quit.

 

[kingfish101]

Go with the Huns. They don't need horses for their Horse Archers.

 

[OttSens91]

Ok thanks guys

 

[OttSens91]

http://strawpoll.me/2467561

 

[kingfish101]

I ended up voting for Japan. :/ Who's the one that voted for Assyria?

 

[OttSens91]

Me, lol

 

[DarkestOnion]

Hmm with Shuffle, you can't select base on predetermined values. As such, chose Random Civ as well I think.

 

[kingfish101]

I see.

 

[OttSens91]

fair enough

 

[Primacide]

One word: Shaka

Anyone who tells you different is just trying to sell you on their pet civ.

(No it's not MY pet civ.)

 

[OttSens91]

Oh yeah forgot about them

 

[Xiao Xiong]

England.

Take out your close neighbours with longbows. Take out the rest of the world with ships of the line.

For a slightly different take - Greece or Siam - the bonuses with city states will help keep your economy chugging along after everybody despises you, you'll still have your city state friends and allies. And a lot of CS allies are awesome in a war too -- the AI spends all its time battling the CS's and ignores the juggernaut bearing down on its capital.

 

[Vitruvius]

I would split it in 8 tiers:
Tier 1: Civs with overpowered UUs
- Arabia
- Huns
- Mongolia
- Zulu
- England
Tier 2: Civs with significant combat bonuses and/or UUs
- China
- America
- Persia
- Inca
Tier 3: Civs that are just overall OP
- Babylon
- Maya
- Poland
- Spain
- Korea
- Russia
Tier 5: Civs geared for domination but tricky to play
- Assyria
- Denmark
- Rome
- Ottomans
- Japan
Tier 6: Not domination oriented but can be surprisingly good
- India
- Sweden
- Germany
- Austria
- Shoshone
- Egypt
Tier 7: Civs that are just so much better with other things than domination
- Brazil
- Byzantium
- Carthage
- Ethiopia
- Celts
- France
- Indonesia
- Morocco
- Siam
- Polynesia
- Portugal
- Venice
- Aztec
- Netherlands
- Songhai
- Greece
Tier 8: Crap
- Iroquois

 

[kingfish101]

Whoa, whoa. Germany should not be in Tier 5.

 

[frozen]

I agree. Germany is definitely domination oriented. The Shoshone should also be grouped with civs that are just overall OP.

 

[RCM88x]

Camel Archers are the single best unit in the game, (not including Shakas which I have never played), if you use them right they can take and entire continent in 50 turns with only 1 or 2 melee units.