Post your favorite Leader and your preferred strategy with that leader

[Tacgnol]

Darius.

Grab AH ASAP, settle next to the nearest horses, spend the next 100-200 turns (marathon) building immortals. Of course I only play monarch-prince, but at that level I can usually crush 2-3 enemies easily with immortals, and if I let them get to the middle ages it turns into a drawn out siegefest.

Also with Darius you can afford to take pretty much every city you can hold, and pretty soon with some cottageage you can just sit back after your ancient-classical conquests and get to space with no problem. And the UB gives health, which is really nice for the industrial age, I cant stand seeing my cities sick.

Also, I always reroll until I get a start I like, so I have no problem starting over to make sure I get horses

 

[vicawoo]

Boudica of rome.

Build great lighthouse and pyramids and great library, then bulb to liberalism, get gunpowder, draft an army, and win a cultural victory.

 

[Genv [FP]]

Why the bejesus would you do that? That goes against everything you do to win with rome

 

[Gliese 581]

I would really like Lincoln as the leader with the imo strongest traits, except that I consider the american UU and UB practically useless since they come so late.

 

[Bleys]

Hatty, if lots of land, rush and use CRE to grab land, if a lot of water, head for the GLH and use SPIs advantages for later economy/war/economy civic changes.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Gilgamesh - Rex or axerush a large early empire, use ziggurats to prevent your economy dieing, then turtle. Equally suited to any economy type, tends to be good at espionage because of early courthouses and cheap castles.

Justinian - Run a SE, build Mids, Parhenon and GL if possible, go for Drama early since Hippodromes are great for vertical growth and long wars, prepare for war in the late medeval era.

Hannibal - Cottage/trade economy. Lots of warring early. Numidians are my favourite UU and I've had more success using them than Keshiks plus the Flanking I stays if you upgrade them. Come too late for a rush unless your foe is very badly defended (or you pick up HBR from a hut) but even when catapults are needed for major cities I often find a lot of smaller newer cities are only defended by archers so Hannibal can usually manage quick conquests.

Those are my favourites who I play most often.

 

[Iranon]

Peter.

Farm everything. Grow building military/infrastructure, whip workers/settlers every 10 rounds until all good land is claimed. If possible besides, collect wonders.

Don't cottage at all outside a Bureaucratic capital, spam cities and rely on per-city bonuses like free specialists (up to 5 in the end!) and corporations. Biology is the top priority; the northern tech path can be ignored for the most part.

 

[Gwynnja]

Rome/pangaea. Pwn everyone before 1000 ad. Or random/random and pwn everyone at 1600 ad.

 

[da dick]

lizzy:
draft redcoats until i can't stand the unhappiness. domination or "diplomatic" win ensured. of course, i could also decide on a cultural victory right from the start then... it would be cottage spam + hoard great artists.

caesar:
build one or 2 huge stacks of praetorians(sp?) using slavery and/or chopping, conquer a few neighbouring cities, raze everything else.

kublai khan:
play a rocky map. rush enemies with slavery-built keshiks(or what you call those horse spearmen) and eventually crush them when i move my catapults in. or i could just continously pillage their farms to stun their growth just enough to win a "diplomatic" victory.

 

[Bandobras Took]

Qin:

Wonder-based Culture victory while daring people to try and attack you.

 

[Civman123]

Darius.
With Immortals you can take out 1-2 neighbors and have a large amount of land to expand into.
With Organized, cities are almost always profitable after whipping a cheap courthouse. With Financial you can easily snowball into a huge tech lead.\

 

[Neal]

I do love the Qin Choko rush.

I'm also a big fan of just taking [insert Financial leader here] and cottaging in peace.

 

[CivCorpse]

Sitting Bull and the Fuedalism oracle slingshot. Drill1 cover/shock LB's do mean things to cities.
liz and the super hybrid. Massively cottage the capital and run a GP farm in a second city. Use first GS for an academy then just start settling them. Pray for stone and take a shot at the Mids in a production city. I have had absolutely sickening science capitals with liz. Just keep settling the scientists, andf when you hit PP with towns and Bureaucracy you are making an insane amounts of beakers.

 

[SenhorDaGuerra]

ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB

the most fun i ever have is with this guy, i war alot, if not all the time. superb leader.

 

[dermoth]

Boudica -

Find metal. Start war immediately, spam Gallic Warriors till the money runs out, and keep them VERY busy. Eventually, upgrade to C1 CR3 G3 rifles, assuming you haven't already won by then.

I'm also keen on Willem, Shaka, and Gandhi, but Boudica offers just the right mix of blood, stupidly overpromoted troops, and fun.

 

[vicawoo]

ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB, ZARA YAQOB

the most fun i ever have is with this guy, i war alot, if not all the time. superb leader.

Almost as good as Zara of Rome, too bad they never made a leader like that.

 

[oyzar]

Almost as good as Zara of Rome, too bad they never made a leader like that.

Augustus in warlords much?

 

[Kevie]

HC

IND + FIN + CRE (UB) = own. lol. its like 3 traits.

Expand quickly, cut off land, backfill, and then either go to war, or tech peacefully for either culture or space win. =]

 

[DarkFyre99]

Random Leader

That way I have to adapt my strategy every game, rather than repeating the same one over and over...

 

[Hereditary Rule]

Almost as good as Zara of Rome, too bad they never made a leader like that.

Both of Vicawoo's posts (I believe) are hilarious sarcasm that I'm surprised others in this savvy forum aren't picking up on.