Favorite Leader(s)

[OceansEleven]

Well, we all have favorite leaders. Just post your favorites and why.

Roosevelt - I always used to pick him because he was one cool dude. USA... that was enough for me anyways. Later I saw the Industrious really helped in the wonders. Organized, not too shabby, but it helped I guess.

Qin Shi Huang - Indsustrious and Financial I think. Works out to be a wonder. Had one of my better games with him. Add Colossus w/ that Financial and you'll be in the lead.

Catherine - Been owning with her for some reason. Forgot her style thing. I think it is Financial and something else? Forgot. I just know I own with her just as well.

Elizabeth - Just found out the true powers of her. Brilliant bonuses or whatever. Work out to be one of the best. Still, it was only 1 game I've played with her, but I owned all of them. I'm sure if I used the Red-Coats for war, I would have won much earlier. But I didn't hehe.

Other ok ones I use.

Louis XIV - I like the Creative and Industrious. Works out sometimes, but usually the Creative kills it.


Anyways, in the end, I prefer Industrious and Financial. Both help in the long run. Creative is very important in the beginning, but in the end it's useless. Philosophical also helps a whole lot. Faster Great People, you could always use them earlier. I don't like Aggressive. I think it's a waste in Prince Level.

 

[Qwack]

I play mostly emperor level.

Gandhi - Spiritual is my favourite trait and the Philosophical/Spiritual combo is the most versatile in the game. Fast workers are nice.

Loius - Creative is better than most people say it is, and industrious for wonder pumpage. I use him when im feeling an urge to build alot of wonders.

Mehmed - Expansive + Organized is a very strong combo, even though it may not seem like it. Cheap Courthouses and Granaries = early productive wars, and cheap lighthouses + harbours means you can concentrate on Trade routes for most of your research. The health bonus is big help on emperor +. His Unique Building is superb as well.

 

[Ball Lightning]

I play Emporer, and i play
Isabella - Starts with myst so can get a religion for a culture/diplomatic win.

Wong Kong - Financial and Protective are always good traits.

 

[wioneo]

Financial is bar far the greatest trait, I think. This puts Ragnar(Agressive) and Hannibal(Charismatic) High on my list. I have been playing consecutive games and switching between them. Ragnar is winning at the moment, but we'll have to see after my galleons only have navigation 1...

 

[zuraffo]

Qin - He's versatile. Protective + Chu-ko-nu = offensive capabilities, Industrious + Pavilion = builder cap. Although in new patch Mao might be better.

Ghandi - Spiritual and Philosophical, my two favorite traits.

 

[Dnomal]

I play mostly emperor level.

Gandhi - Spiritual is my favourite trait and the Philosophical/Spiritual combo is the most versatile in the game. Fast workers are nice.

Loius - Creative is better than most people say it is, and industrious for wonder pumpage. I use him when im feeling an urge to build alot of wonders.

Mehmed - Expansive + Organized is a very strong combo, even though it may not seem like it. Cheap Courthouses and Granaries = early productive wars, and cheap lighthouses + harbours means you can concentrate on Trade routes for most of your research. The health bonus is big help on emperor +. His Unique Building is superb as well.

I agree with Quack, Mehmed is definetly my favourite leader, his unique building is amazing, an aqueduct that gives two happiness, thats like having two temples in each city! Not to mention the fact that he gets workers in a third of the time and cheap granaries, courthouses, harbours, and a 50% civic cost and 2 health per city! Amazing! Very addaptible.

The UU helps to, although it tends to go obselete a bit to soon for my liking.

Although I also like Bismark, he's just a great builder.

 

[cabert]

I stick with random leaders and have not played with every leader yet.
My vanilla favourites were hatchepetsuh for cultural and bismarck for good whipping (cheap granaries and forges + health to counter unhealthiness from forges + an option for the wonder you want) leading to domination.

I played a warlords game with churchill, and it was just overkill! Will try again with the patch, to see if i just got lucky...

 

[drkodos]

Brennus, Mehmed, & Shaka. No particular order.

I think Expansive and Spiritual are my two most efficiently used traits, but when put together they do not have the same synergy as when each is matched individually with another trait. Thus, I never really do too well with Isabella.

Agreement with other poster about Mehmed's UB. Also found that if I beeline to Gunpowder (or sling it off Liberalism) the UU's window is effectively extended by a substantial amount of turns.

 

[InvisibleStalke]

Playing Mehmed now at Emperor and the UU is pretty good. Got gunpowder before metal casting, so it has a reasonable life. The Janisseries can attack longbows pretty well, and excel as stack protectors to escort my catapults - pretty much unstoppable at this stage. Having them for defense allows me to concentrate on getting cavalry next and grenadiers come a whole war later.

Don't really have a favorite leader - for me the fun is playing a different one each time. They all can be enjoyed.

 

[InvisibleStalke]

Playing Mehmed now at Emperor and the UU is pretty good. Got gunpowder before metal casting, so it has a reasonable life. The Janisseries can attack longbows pretty well, and excel as stack protectors to escort my catapults - pretty much unstoppable at this stage. Having them for defense allows me to concentrate on getting cavalry next and grenadiers come a whole war later.

Don't really have a favorite leader - for me the fun is playing a different one each time. They all can be enjoyed.

 

[Barney's_Soul]

Rome. Preytorians. THat alone obseletes all the traits.

 

[Barney's_Soul]

Rome. Preytorians. THat alone obseletes all the traits.

 

[drkodos]

Rome. Preytorians. THat alone obseletes all the traits.

Hardly. A properly promoted axeman with shock will teach them what for.

In MP a lot of people grab the Romans thinking they are invincible, but are very surprised when their precious praets get picked to pieces by plenty of properly promoted axes.

 

[B1sh0p]

I've always played as Elizabeth. It's habbit I'm trying to break. I like the Financial trait, but I never take full advantage of the philosophical trait. I'm going to look for a new Financial leader.

 

[drkodos]

I've always played as Elizabeth. It's habbit I'm trying to break. I like the Financial trait, but I never take full advantage of the philosophical trait. I'm going to look for a new Financial leader.

I always felt those traits almost had a negative synergy to them. Financial compels one to run a cottage economy, but Philosophical begs farming. I am sure there is a happy medium hybrid economy, but I have yet to find it with Vicky. But, I do respect those Redcoats. Nice.

 

[flamingzaroc121]

i like the new HC and Lizzy because Ind, Phi and Fin are my three favoritetraits, and they both have great UUs and UBs

 

[Sisiutil]

I always felt those traits almost had a negative synergy to them. Financial compels one to run a cottage economy, but Philosophical begs farming. I am sure there is a happy medium hybrid economy, but I have yet to find it with Vicky. But, I do respect those Redcoats. Nice.

I think it's exactly the opposite. The varied terrain of most maps mean that the a hybrid economy is often the best way to go, and Elizabeth is the queen of the HE. Her Fin/Phil trait combo means you get the most out of both your cottaged cities and the farmed ones as well. If you pick your sites and city specializations carefully, she's awesome--better over the entire game than Rome, IMHO. I was VERY pleased to see they didn't change good queen Bessie's traits in Warlords, though they did nerf the Redcoats.

(If you're trying this with Vicky, I understand your frustration, since she's not Philosophical; lots of people seem to get the two English queens confused, which is strange.)

 

[Thedrin]

I think it's exactly the opposite. The varied terrain of most maps mean that the a hybrid economy is often the best way to go, and Elizabeth is the queen of the HE. Her Fin/Phil trait combo means you get the most out of both your cottaged cities and the farmed ones as well.

Any city with enough food to be a specialist city is good enough for a cottage city.

Elizabeth (Phi/Fin) and Asoka (Spi/Org) both have negative synergy traits in my mind.

 

[jorey]

Hardly. A properly promoted axeman with shock will teach them what for.

In MP a lot of people grab the Romans thinking they are invincible, but are very surprised when their precious praets get picked to pieces by plenty of properly promoted axes.

So true. In my opinion most of the people who pick Romans are usually less skilled multiplayer players. While Romans do have a powerful combination of Exp/Org you can do some quick land grabs and not worry about about the upkeep as much, then with the exp you can have a higher city population from the +3 health. (This is based on not playing with warlords) But in the end, most people don't use pratoreans to their full advantage.

 

[jorey]

Being a person who plays strickly multiplayer without having Warlords these are my favorite leaders:

Loius XIV - Creative/Industrious is great for me. The creative allows me to save approx 10 turns after the city is built from building a obelisk. Instead I can build a granary or barracks right away. Industrious allows my capital to quickly make wonders while the reset of my cities can build military or buildings. Usually a first pick for me if it is a standard or larger map.

Napoleon - Agg is a very helpful trait in maps small or smaller, one extra promotion helps a lot. Industrious is the same as above and lets me quickly build stonehenge early in the game so I don't have to worry about obelisks.

Tokugawa - Totally undervalued leader. I've crushed every single player who i've used Tokugawa with. I make sure my main city has lots of science to quickly get Civil Service/Machinery and I start pumping out the Samurai. Plus with the Organized I can easily make 5 - 6 cities and still have around 80-90% science rate.

Kublai Khan - Again, if it's a small map he's a good choice if I need to get quick land grabs and have the agg trait. This is my first choice for 2v2 or 3v3 Team Battlefield small maps.