Favorite Civs in Warlords?

[vormuir]

Not best, but favorite. Though of course the two might be the same.

Me, I like the Ottomans. Decent UU; great UB. Expansive + Organized = cheap granaries, courthouses and factories (and also lighthouses and harbors, FWTW). You're not great at anything but you can do a lot of things, and are very strong for any victory condition. The Ottomans may not be the overall strongest, but they may be the most flexible.

If I were just trying for a fast, brute force win though, I'd probably pick Elizabeth. One of the best UUs, very good UB, Financial + Philosophical. Liz was a midgame and late game terror in vanilla Civ and she's just as tough in Warlords.

Who else?


Waldo

 

[cabert]

I like Augustus for an easy win .

 

[The Navy Seal]

I like to play a person that is spiritual because I hate anarchy. I like the Indians just there UU is junk.

 

[Leifmk]

I like the Indians just there UU is junk.

Junk? I say thee nay! It is possibly the best one in the game.

A move-3 worker can enter a hill or forest/jungle tile and start working on the same turn, effectively making such operations take one worker-turn less (per worker used, if you're throwing multiple workers at the job). Also they take only 2/3 as long to redeploy to distant corners of your empire (as long as they're moving overland as opposed to being transported by ship). Therefore you get that much more work out of them, which allows your empire to develop its infrastructure that much faster (or alternately, at the same speed but using fewer workers, i.e. for a smaller investment in building workers). Therefore your economy grows faster, therefore you can afford more of everything else. And it's available for the whole of the game (well, starting as soon as you can build or capture a worker unit and have something useful for it to do) and never goes obsolete.

 

[Sjaramei]

More about leaders than civs for me. But without leaders? Rome by far.. gotta love those insane Praetorians.

My favourite leader is Napoleon now, Cha/Org and Agriculture/The Wheel as starting techs is awesome. Only thing sucky is the UU, it's ok, but not anything worth beelining for .

 

[Mehmed100]

The Ottomans all the way! Their UU and UB rule the world!

 

[ZB2]

I only play the earth *scenario* maps, so there are already early techs researched andcities deployed, so my favorite Civ would be Russia. yee

UU should be the Leaders unique unit, rather than the civ, like Stalin building a KV-1 and Catherine building a Cossak

 

[Phoenix1595]

I love playing Rome-- if I want to build, I play Augustus, if I want to conquer, switch to Julius. Perfection.

 

[KMadCandy]

my current favorite is probably cyrus. great UU and traits for early warring, and the UB is wonderful for my "calm down and make all my cities as big as possible" phase.

Junk? I say thee nay! It is possibly the best one in the game.
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Also they take only 2/3 as long to redeploy to distant corners of your empire (as long as they're moving overland as opposed to being transported by ship) ... and never goes obsolete.

totally agree about the fast worker. i love those guys. even late game they completely rock, the advantage they have over normal workers when being the "army corps of engineers" to network/get troops to/improve/etc distant lands you're conquering is very helpful.

 

[Rancid Sushi]

Tokugawa with his new trait. Having Samurai become obsolete is really no loss because his gunpowder units get so many promotions. Perfect for a warmonger like me.

 

[50_dollar_bag]

My favorite at the moment is Frederick, Philosophical + Organized. I'm a bit of a builder at heart so I usually go to war then consolidate without creating units for a while so I virtually always end up getting to the early modern age, which means getting to the German UB, assembly plants. If you got coal Frederick builds them twice as fast, that's 8 turns to build in most cities.

My second favourite of the moment is Isabella, I played a Marathon game not so long ago and teched to Engineering and Guilds as quick as I could to get some Citadels up and Conquistadors.

 

[Swein Forkbeard]

Isabella is downright the best leader for Medieval Warfare. Genghis Khan is perhaps the best for Classical Warfare (or it might be Julius Caesar, I just don't know).

I love Industrious leaders a hefty lot too. Especially Roosevelt since he gets half-cost forges and factories, and Bismarck because of half-cost granaries and forges.

 

[mrt144]

i like the vikings if only because their traits can allow me the flexibility to go two directions to victory.

 

[slowcar]

alexander. nothing better then having aggressive troops going after your neighbour while keeping on par with lightbulbing. Phalanges are up-to-date for a long time and make warfaring against horse-based units much easier. and they are the only ones that can reliably kill an elefant - beside of a stronger elefant

 

[uncarved block]

I've had some of my best building games as Saladin. The UB lets you control your GP points well, and if you keep up on founding religions Great Prophets will remain useful well into the mid game. The UU is no big shakes, but Knights aren't a cornerstone of my military strategy, so that's not a big loss. He's probably not the best leader, especially at the higher levels, but that wasn't the question, eh?

 

[@war]

I like Bismarck for cheap forges and fast growth. I also like russia (Peter).

 

[Tatran]

Hannibal and Augustus Caesar

 

[Mack_Jagger]

Well, the thing is, none is more efficent than Augustus to conquer and keep territory. With him it isn't a big deal to make minced meat of the AI. Praetorians, brrrrr. But I'm a builder at hart and can sometimes find this war - build - war - build - war - Domination Victory! tiresome. What I really get my kicks from is to try to build the perfect science city and the perfect production city. A silly smile comes to my face seeing that gourgous science city, shinig bright with coins and money bags, just pumping out research. Or thar production city crammin out the hammers. Score and winning isn't really the main thing for me. I can easily abandon a game when my city specialisation has gone bad, but the victory is still clearly at hand. So for me it's the Ottomans all the way. Biiig citys, yay!
But when I finally dare to take he step up to monarch I'll do it with Augustus just to build up my self esteem.

 

[cabert]

But when I finally dare to take he step up to monarch I'll do it with Augustus just to build up my self esteem.

you can directly to deity
conquer the world with a handful of praetorians and look at your HoF with pride.

 

[Uncle E]

I like the Incas ... had fun w/ the Romans too!