All civs played?

[Tavenier]

I thought of a new way to keep me busy in my free time. Usually with Civ I go for one of the same five all the time. Sumeria, Netherlands, France, Germany (favourite) or Egypt. Very rarely I pick one of the others, like the Celts or Chinese. But there are also a lot of Civs I have never played, and I have played Civ A LOT! Never tried Mongols or Arabs, for instance. I usually don't play with exp, because I don't like the trait. I like Sci best (even before C3C).

Now I have set myself the goal to completely finish an epic game with each and every one of them. Doesn't matter what type of victory, although I intend to win differently as much as possible. And in spirit of the Civ. With Mongols I will aim for domination and with the Babs I will go to the moon and beyond. Today finished a domination victory game with the Sumerians, one of the easiest civs for any victory, I think.
All the easy civs I will play on emperor and the harder ones I will play on monarch or when I am in a good mood also on emp...

Has anybody won a victory with all civs?

 

[Tomoyo]

LKendter probably has. I think he has played all of them in a Succession Game...

Many other people probably have too.

 

[Randy]

The only civ I have never been is Korea. I too wanted to play all the civs. (Huge world). It was a good learning tool. I had just finished the second to the last civ when I started to play the GOTM series. I think by having experance with all but one civ and a lot of victory types this helped me in the GOTM.

I also did all the civ with an "Ancient Age" unique unit on a tiny world. Victory type was conquest.

I did most game on regen but some were higher. The only diety game I ever won was tiny world as the Aztecs.

 

[lukasbradley]

I just start all new games with Random civs. That ensures a complete mix.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I haven't played solo as...

- India
- Mongols
- Scandinavia
- Ottomans
- Arabia
- Hittites
- Netherlands
- Inca
- Maya

I'm not sure if I've finished as England or not. I know I've started plenty of games as them.

 

[Tavenier]

I just start all new games with Random civs. That ensures a complete mix.

And do you use random opponents?
I want to have random opponents, but in literally all random opponents games I have played I ALWAYS get the Incans and virtually all other American Civs.
They are nice to play against, but to have virtually all of them every single game is a bit boring. I have tested it and in about 12 succesive games I played with 11 opponents in all but one all 5 American Civs were present. In the other one only the Iroquois were missing.
I have addressed this in a thread I started some months ago (called 'Stubborn Inca'), but there was no satisfying explanation for it.
It is a pity, because every time I select my own opponents, but I notice I have a prejudice against picking some of them. I rather not tend to have the Germans around, for example. Very powerful and aggressive opponent.

 

[punkbass2000]

The American civ thing is a bug. Turn off culturally linked starting locations for random civ games.

 

[Tavenier]

The American civ thing is a bug. Turn off culturally linked starting locations for random civ games.

Thanks, Punkbass! Never knew that.
And the starting locations are never culturally anyway. Not very often at least.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I have not finished a game as:

• China
• Iroquois
• Spain(altough I am nearly finished a game as them)
• Mongols
• Celts
• Sumeria
• Hittites
• Byzantines
• Mayans
• Incans

 

[Shirastro]

I never finished, nor played the game with any exp. or see. civ. I hate those traits.
Finished with all the others.....if i remeber corectly

 

[smeggo]

The American civ thing is a bug. Turn off culturally linked starting locations for random civ games.

Never taken much notice of what civs I've played as.
On the easier levels, now fighting through Monarch, 80% of the time I'd go for the Persians. Love the science and Immortals.
Now it's random everything with the cultural link turned off, what a great option.

 

[Tavenier]

I have played Arabs for the first time today and yesterday. On paper their UU doesn't seem too much of a great UU. But now I have played them they're great!
Most wars with neighbours can end quickly, because of the 3 movements. You take 2 steps into the enemy territory and often then there is a city to conquer. Did that with a lot of my neighbours and now I am by far the biggest fish around. The Mongols are just as big as me, with pop and terr, but I am at least 6 or 7 techs ahead. And I have more luxuries.

First game with an exp civ that I enjoy, although I have very rarely played an exp civ.

 

[chancellor_dan]

Where do you find the time.....?

 

[Tavenier]

Where do you find the time.....?

I teach history. Teachers have a lot of spare time. And I live 5 minutes from the college I teach at, so I am home at 3 o'clock in the afternoon and start playing.

 

[ghostbuster]

I wanna be a history professor when I graduate.... good career choice

I usually dont play seafaring civs, and civs with a naval UU....I have to get better at my ocean combat

I love the celts and the dutch

 

[thetrooper]

I usually dont play seafaring civs, and civs with a naval UU....I have to get better at my ocean combat

I love the celts and the dutch

Hm... the Dutch are seafaring

 

[Tavenier]

Hm... the Dutch are seafaring

I thought that too, while reading!
But the agriculture is so powerful you don't even notice the other trait...

 

[Tavenier]

I wanna be a history professor when I graduate.... good career choice

I usually dont play seafaring civs, and civs with a naval UU....I have to get better at my ocean combat

I love the celts and the dutch

You should become one!!!! Best choice of my life!

And don't we all love the Dutch?

Smoke and a pancake?
Cigare and a wafle?
Cigarette and a flapjack?

 

[thetrooper]

I have tried most of them on tiny maps (minimal landmass) in war only games. Some I gave up because they were too bad or I was heading for a tasteless defeat. I have my favourites for builder games. I will never have builder games with militaristic civs.

 

[juballs2001]

call me sexist but i have never finished a game that has a female leader, im not a sexist person i just hate invisioning the leader of my great civ a woman, the closest i have ever had to a woman is catharine of russia, er oh she is a woman lol

-Juballs