Poll - what's your favourite map to play on?

[SlowwHand]

Large random map. So no one has an advantage or preconceived idea.

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[duke o' york]

I will admit now that I've been playing Civ II on my mate's Playstation and so we lack lots of the features that you PC users enjoy, particularly in terms of map customisation. You only get the choice of small, normal or large worlds which restricts the game a bit, but also means that you can't "cheat" by playing a map you already know. I used to play Civ 1 on my Amiga (remember them anyone?) and found that the globe map made it incredibly easy to conquer other civilisations as soon as Tacitus announced who they were as a simple grasp of geography told you where their capital would be. It was useful in two ways though. If you fancied a real challenge then you could choose to be the English as it would stick you on the British Isles with only four land tiles you could use until you discovered the trireme. If you were introducing someone else to the game then you could choose the Chinese as they start miles away from anyone else with an ideal capital position on a river and would allow a gentle intro and a relatively easy game. IMO it's much better to have a random map because your exploring forces have something to do. The gameplay constraints of the PSX version ensure that (apart from naming your cities _CasH) it is hard to cheat and you are guaranteed some kind of challenge.

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