grs
nameless one
Persia is regarded overplayed so often, I did in fact never play them in any SG yet 
Ank10 - 3CC AWM
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Persia is a sound choice:
1) trait combination is excellent. The Regent game depended as much on industrious workers as miltary leaders.
2) In a limited city AW an early GA, even as despots, is a solid ploy. The production boost just puts that many more troops in the field which IMHO is crucial.
3) What really dooms a 3CC game is having to depend on late MA technology. The costs are way too high after the Ancient Age for a 3CC to keep up and fight the wars at the same time, even with the Great Library.
My conclusion from all this is Persia and take it to 'em early and often.
1) trait combination is excellent. The Regent game depended as much on industrious workers as miltary leaders.
2) In a limited city AW an early GA, even as despots, is a solid ploy. The production boost just puts that many more troops in the field which IMHO is crucial.
3) What really dooms a 3CC game is having to depend on late MA technology. The costs are way too high after the Ancient Age for a 3CC to keep up and fight the wars at the same time, even with the Great Library.
My conclusion from all this is Persia and take it to 'em early and often.
Sir Bugsy
Civ.D.
Let's think about why we lost first. I think industrious workers would help, but is it the most important thing we could get from a civ?
Certainly an earlier UU would help. I think having weak attackers in the early MA is what hurt us. The other civs had knights and we had horses and pikes.
So a early MA UU is important. If we want industrious, we could go for India. Although the religious trait is wasted.
Edit - didn't see Bede's post. We're thinking the same here. We want a AA UU or an early MA UU.
Certainly an earlier UU would help. I think having weak attackers in the early MA is what hurt us. The other civs had knights and we had horses and pikes.
So a early MA UU is important. If we want industrious, we could go for India. Although the religious trait is wasted.
Edit - didn't see Bede's post. We're thinking the same here. We want a AA UU or an early MA UU.
grs
nameless one
Hmm, is the vanilla war elephant worth it?
India's religious trait is useless. And the war elephant isn't really anything else than a knight that doesn't need resources but in vanilla resources are quite often close... so we don't need that. In this game we had 2 horses within reach from Bursa and 3 iron really close too... so I doubt that will be much.
IMHO Persia would really be it... although industrious is a little wasted... we'll have slaves a lot anyway if we succeed. but scientific is a must I guess so we can build cheap libraries and universities.
Germany has perhaps the best traits for a 3CC but the UU is useless. Militaristic is great for leaders..
Now what are the mil civs?
Zulu - mil, exp, impi - defencive UU? no thanks
Germany - mil, sci, panzerwagen - UU way too late
China - mil, ind, rider, but was played
Azteca - mil, rel, jaguar... not a good UU: too early.
Japan - mil, rel, samurai - what about Japan? But it was played in DI1 AFAIK
Did I forget someone?
IMHO Persia is a good choice as it will have an attacker like a knight that is less than half of the price available all the way from IW, which can be researched immidiately.
My vote is Persia, and I think grs wanted it too.
EDIT: I was bored, so I started a new thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=105200
Ank12 - will this do the trick?
IMHO Persia would really be it... although industrious is a little wasted... we'll have slaves a lot anyway if we succeed. but scientific is a must I guess so we can build cheap libraries and universities.
Germany has perhaps the best traits for a 3CC but the UU is useless. Militaristic is great for leaders..
Now what are the mil civs?
Zulu - mil, exp, impi - defencive UU? no thanks
Germany - mil, sci, panzerwagen - UU way too late
China - mil, ind, rider, but was played
Azteca - mil, rel, jaguar... not a good UU: too early.
Japan - mil, rel, samurai - what about Japan? But it was played in DI1 AFAIK
Did I forget someone?
IMHO Persia is a good choice as it will have an attacker like a knight that is less than half of the price available all the way from IW, which can be researched immidiately.
My vote is Persia, and I think grs wanted it too.
EDIT: I was bored, so I started a new thread: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=105200
Ank12 - will this do the trick?
