Swein Forkbeard
Nintendo Fan
Which civ has the easiest historical victory? I just won Egypt's historical victory on Viceroy.
How hard is each one? What's the hardest? The next easiest?
Japan is definitely the easiest. Even the AI can win if conditions are right. France and Portugal are next in line, but they do have some tricks involved. For France, it's settling that awesome production city in Germany, and for Portugal, it's culture bombing Lisbon to make sure the Spanish don't steal your production tiles. (I culture bombed it enough to completely block the Spanish from entering the Atlantic without open borders.) I haven't tried the Dutch yet, but it might be hard to beat Portugal in the map race.
Japan is definitely the easiest. Even the AI can win if conditions are right. France and Portugal are next in line, but they do have some tricks involved. For France, it's settling that awesome production city in Germany, and for Portugal, it's culture bombing Lisbon to make sure the Spanish don't steal your production tiles. (I culture bombed it enough to completely block the Spanish from entering the Atlantic without open borders.) I haven't tried the Dutch yet, but it might be hard to beat Portugal in the map race.
Would you recommend Japan 600 BC or Japan 600 AD?
I am having a hard time as Babylonians.
In addition to the obvious problems with Persia when they spawn...
I keep losing out to researching Code of Laws, Writing, and Monarchy.
I have even cheated my way giving myself extra scientists and an academy but someone is beating me to them still!
get the patch in the RFC subforum, it will "fix" the Babylonian UHV
here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=204
I think the easiest are the Turks. I played in every difficulty levels and each time i succeeded. Their power of assimilation makes them to control important tiles and that gives them more growth and production. In an another forum i read that the Turks had to be moved to Turkmenistan because that makes it more realistic. I am so not down with that. That just doesn't make any sense. The Turks moved as nomads from central Asia to minor Asia (Anatolia), which is now Turkey. Just research Turkish history on wikipedia and you will all see.