King of the World #8: ????

[Neal]

All right, gang. The time has come to select a new King of the World. This time, we'll be using Earth34, which not only adds a boatload of new Civs to the party, but even changes around a few leaders of established Civs.

I plan on playing this at Emperor/Epic, with all other settings being standard. I'm thinking I'll play the version with Ireland being the home of the Celts. This kind of tucks them out of the way, but, honestly, Europe is packed enough as it is. I'd like to keep myself at least reasonably in the dark, here, though I can guess at certain changes and their effects (With Shaka, Hannibal and Zara showing up, it's looking like the Mali are going to be even less of a factor than they used to be).

So, without further ado, let's hear it! Who is the people's choice for the eighth King of the World?

As a note: Both because I don't want to be horribly isolated and because the poll only allows 25 options, I'm grouping Lincoln of America, Pacal II of the Maya and Sitting Bull of the Native Americans into "New World Leaders." If there's enough clamor, I'll consider it.

 

[Capellan]

I say Elizabeth, since her island-but-not-isolated start might encourage a different style of play than the last game. Variety is the spice, and all that ...

 

[AndrewN]

I say Elizabeth as well, but I am biased and I said all this last time

As for a 34 civ map, I have never played it but I can't see that it would make much difference. If anything it would be easier as there are even more capital cities to take and even more single city civs. As before once you get a start then the steamroller effect takes over and the map becomes a walk. But still, we will see soon.

 

[Mizar]

Hannibal !
Win would be very satisfying given his startin location.
Good traits, tough.

 

[Lone Wolf]

but, honestly, Europe is packed enough as it is

Just mod the Celts and other new **** that crowds Europe out. It's easy, just open the WBS file in the notepad and set their respective leaders to LEADER_NONE.

Carthage, Elizabeth (without early rushing), Gengis, are fine by me.

 

[JammerUno]

I vote for a cultural victory, don't really care what leader (voted Zara, his UU looks the coolest) but cultural with 34 civs seems interesting

 

[Sian]

cultural with Zara ... try to stay in Africa

 

[DMOC]

I voted Shaka.

 

[assass1n]

Gandhi
I want Europe colonized by India

 

[KingMorgan]

Willem van Oranje of the Netherlands

the world would be a better place with dutch rules.

 

[Gorrable]

I'd like to see you close enough to Europe to watch the horribly-cramped-chaos unfold, but not so close that you end up in a OCC fighting off huge amounts of culture.

I voted Stalin, but Liz would also be neat.

 

[Kwibuss]

I voted Willem too, but i'm obviously biased. I kinda like the idea of dutch domination in the world.

Haha nice one KingMorgan. Just keep in mind that it sure ain't all sunshine over here, but personally I like our little liberal/social kingdom

Just for fun, as I found this Foxnews item about Amsterdam hilarious.
http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/330471/7e3dccdb/foxnews_over_onze_coffeeshops.html

Propaganda lol It's really dangerous in Amsterdam! =)

 

[Ai Shizuka]

Ragnar, and go introduce the New World to Mr. Berserker.

 

[Fetch]

I like the Elizabeth idea. But don't go cultural. That would be boring to read about.

 

[DMOC]

As for a 34 civ map, I have never played it but I can't see that it would make much difference. If anything it would be easier as there are even more capital cities to take and even more single city civs. As before once you get a start then the steamroller effect takes over and the map becomes a walk. But still, we will see soon.

I think Europe is upscaled to provide more room for cities. Or maybe that was in Genghis_Kai's 36 civ map, I can't remember.

 

[Maaximillus]

In this map there is more or less only 1 city for civs in europe. I suggest that you really take holy roman empire away from the map.

 

[SillyGoat]

Genghis. Let the hordes roll!

 

[Lone Wolf]

I think Europe is upscaled to provide more room for cities.

I think it still uses the same map. It's not RFC.

And take the extra European civs away.

 

[Belisar]

Europe is not upscaled, the map is the same as earth-18, only a few ressources got moved because of the new starting locations.
I strongly suggest to remove the additional European civs (maybe leave the Vikings as Scandinavia is empty) or to remove some traditional civs if you want flavor.
For example, I removed Spain and let Portugal stay in the game to get other religious dynamics.

A word of caution: last time I checked the 3.17 patch couldn't handle the 34-civ version, I play 3.13 instead but there should be an inofficial fix somewhere.

And I vote for Shaka too

 

[Soirana]

Boudica.

And free some land in Europe. on civ 34 it is really overpopulated.

Edit: I meant delete few civilizations.