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[thecaesar]

The_J made that E18 and you choose which ones mod.

Portugese Brazil would be my suggestion.

For the other 17 go with
Zulu
Egypt
Rome
Persia
China
Japan
Mali
Aztec
Native America
Maya
Inca
England
Viking
Korea
Arabia
Khmer
Russia
Ottoman
India


(I'd love seeing what Pacal and Monty and Sitting Bull do)

Correction: we ALL know what MONTY will do.

 

[Jwitti]

Well, if Sitting Bull gets enough Dog Soldiers and CG2 archers

 

[thecaesar]

Well, just because he declares war doesn't mean he'll win...

 

[Lelouch]

@GHalfrunt: What about Siberia?

OH OH I KNOW! Antarctica!

 

[Optical]

He'd have to turn all the Ice into land ice (snow) in WB, but it could be fun to watch

 

[strijder20]

What about a French Quebec? I tend to place them there in my games, and move Lincoln to Australia (where he still fails utterly against the barbarians, but I can't help him more than that ).

 

[MaxWar]

What about a French Quebec? I tend to place them there in my games, and move Lincoln to Australia (where he still fails utterly against the barbarians, but I can't help him more than that ).

That would be a tabarnac de bonne idée!

 

[GHalfrunt]

OH OH I KNOW! Antarctica!

I used to settle Antarctica in Civ 1 a lot purely because I could... I wish I could play as Antarctica. An entire continent to myself until Astronomy? Awesome. Just make some fog-busting units to stop Barbarians from spawning and expand to my heart's content...

Anyway, I like the idea of Quebec... Siberia is questionable, since (1) I suck at war and therefore don't want to start next to Genghis Khan if I have the choice and (2) I've tried settling as much Siberia as possible as a peaceful Mongolia before and it was pretty failtastic.

So, my favorite ideas so far, in no particular order:

- German Philippines
- French Quebec
- Greek Tibet
- Portuguese Brazil

I think I'll give all four of these a try eventually. I also had another very ambitious and difficult idea (I repeat: I suck at war) to try to colonize America as Babylon in RFC —an idea that I came up with purely because I think settling "New Uruk" on the site of New York is hilarious. I am easily amused.

 

[Optical]

Or even "New Ur"?

I am also easily amused, as I'm sure you can tell

 

[christos200]

Greek Tibet

 

[thecaesar]

Did christos just change his pic? That is the first time I have ever seen that happen...

 

[christos200]

If you know who is the man in my pic i will give you the Christos cookie.

 

[Jwitti]

I can't see it very well, but Leonidas is my guess...

 

[christos200]

No. Its Theodoros Kolokotronis. General of the greeks during the war of indepedence ( 1821-1832).

He was know to be a very good general ( He helped the british take over the Ionian islands from the french) and he won battles were he had a few, but brave greeks, against numerous turks, who although they were many but didnt had the courage of the greeks.

 

[thecaesar]

That sounds suspiciously like greek propoganda... Not the "he was a great general" part, but the "few but brave" and "more numerous but did not have the courage of..." are definitely propoganda-sounding no matter what country we're talking about.

 

[Lelouch]

 

[christos200]

The turks had twice size of army but they were beaten back.

Also here is a story about the bravery of the greeks.

Around 1770, Haci Osman with 16,000 men besieged the two towers in Kastania. The defenders were Constantine Kolokotronis and Panagiotes Venetsanakis with 150 men and women. The fight lasted for twelve days: most of the defenders were killed, and all prisoners of war were tortured and dismembered. The wife of Constantine Kolokotronis was dressed like a warrior and fought her way out carrying her baby, Theodoros Kolokotronis, the future commander of the Greek War of Independence.[45]

From Kastania, Hasan Ghazi advanced towards Skoutari and laid siege to the tower of the powerful Grigorakis clan. The tower contained fifteen men, who held out for three days until the Turks placed gunpowder in a mine and blew up the overall garrison. By this time, the main Maniot army of 5,000 men and 2,000 women had established a defensive position at which was on mountainous terrain above the town of Parasyros. The entire army was under the command of Exarchos Grigorakis and his nephew Zanetos Grigorakis. The Ottoman army advanced to the plain of Agio Pigada (meaning "Holy Well"). They sent envoys to the Maniots telling them that Hasan wanted to negotiate. The Maniots knew that if they sent envoys to the Turks, they would be executed by Hassán if the negotiations failed. The Maniots sent six men to discuss the terms.[44]

Six Maniot envoys were sent to Hasan and, without bowing, asked him what he wanted. Hasan's demands entailed the children of ten captains as hostages, all Maniot-held arms, and an annual head-tax to be paid as punishment for supporting the Russians. The Maniots answered Hasan's demands saying, "We prefer to die rather than give to you our guns and children. We don't pay taxes, because our land is poor." Hasan became furious and had the six men decapitated and impaled on stakes so that the Maniots could see them.[46]

After the envoys were killed, the remaining Maniots attacked the Ottomans. The fighting was fierce, and only 6,000 Turks managed to reach Mystras. No one knew exactly how many casualties the Maniots suffered, but the Turks definitively lost 10,000 men.

 

[Lelouch]

heres the mod: starting points

 

[christos200]

What?????

I am confused.

 

[Lelouch]

the earth 18 civs and you choose which ones