Hannibal/Carthage - the best Civ in BtS?

[Jedoc]

Hmm...it's been a while since I played Hannibal, and I've been trying to find a handful of good leaders to wean me away from the Dutch. I have to say, though, giving up my auto-popping borders and Dikes is always a wrench. The only more addictive trait to me is Spiritual, and at least the new Golden Age mechanics helped drop that habit.

Believe I'll give ol' Hanners a try in my next game.

 

[fugazi]

Charismatic gives you a good reason to build Stonehenge or to chop some monuments though

I love Hannibal but damn, how could anyone ever beat my main man Darius.

 

[Kadasbrass]

I love Hannibal and Carthage, but I just never do well as them. I've played them alot just never had a decent game as them.

 

[mboettcher]

There is no best leader/civ combo. More flexible maybe...but best? no.

 

[Stuck in Pi]

Hannibal's traits are top noch, the only thing I don't like about him is the UU. Never in play in my games(not a rusher, play on Noble)

 

[mystyfly]

most flexible definitely is darius.

 

[Stuck in Pi]

What traits are Darius?

 

[mystyfly]

organized/financial

 

[Stuck in Pi]

nice, but playing on Noble dosen't like organized much.

 

[bardolph]

My first Emperor win was with Hannibal. Terrific traits, UB and UU. Numidian Cavalry rock! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise (but they probably will anyway) .

What's not to love?

 

[mystyfly]

nice, but playing on Noble dosen't like organized much.

hughe empires like organized
no use playing it in an occ - thats like a SE with financial

 

[Tiago Mefisto]

Carthage is good ,especially in Archipelago -- for his very useful UB
and financial is always an excellent trait

 

[Squarg]

I love Hannibal he is my favorite leader.
I always use him when I move up a level and have won both the Noble to prince and prince to monarch with his awsome UB.
On my monarch game I played Fractal and got stuck on a continent with peter. I built the GLH and beelined Compass to get cothons. After rushing peter once I serriously outteched him untill someone made contact with him durring our second war (I had made contact with them way earlier but I wanted to finish him off) and vassalized him. in the end I had cavelry vs his (very new btw) muskets.
I ended up using free market to get 6 trade routes that where 9-10 each in each of my cities.
good times.