Well, to demonstrate how singularly jingoistic I am, I always replace the Americans with a custom civ whenever I want to play as any civ other than the Americans. The thought of ever having to nuke my own civilization, even within the context of an innocuous game, is simply too much for my Yankee-Doodle sensitivities to bear.
I usually replace the Americans with the Spanish, simply renaming them in the editor.
Honest Abe becomes King Ferdinand.
The usually useless Explorer unit gets re-christened as Conquistador and becomes the UU of Spain with the following stats: 5,2,1, but still retains the ability the explore & move across all terrain as roads. For the sake of balance, Conquistador becomes available with the discovery of Chivalry and replaces the Knight for Spain.
The F-15 (America's UU) becomes the Advanced Bomber w/ a bombard strength of 12 (bombers can upgrade to this unit), and becomes available w/ advanced flight.
Spain's leaders are:
Cortes
Pizarro
El Cid
De Soto
Coronado
Deleon
Spanish cities:
Madrid
Seville
Cordoba
Toledo
Barcelona
Grenada
Cartagena
Pamplona
Cadiz
Valencia
Zaragoza
Malaga
Valladolid
Bilbao
Santander
Badajoz
Leon
Salamanca
Burgos
Ovledo
La Coruna
Palma
Huelva
Gibraltar
Almeria
Ciudad Real
Vitoria
San Sabastian
Frontera
Alicante
Gijon
Zamora
Linares
Vigo
Castellon
Talavera
Murcia
Caceres
Valdepenas
Logrono
Ceuta
Santa Maria
Puertollano
Aviles
Sagunto
Antequera
Ibiza
etc. etc. , you get the idea.
