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The Q-Meister
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Well if you're defensive, Japan might also be a good choice - all of their units start with city defense bonuses, relatively isolated from any serious attack, esp if you stick to the main island(s) of Japan and stay out of the Asian mainland.
3Miro
Deity
Do Egypt, that is the first one I did. Once you find a good spot for your capital it is fast and easy victory.
blizzrd
Micromanager
Japan is probably the easiest civ for a defensive player. I'd go as far as saying it is one of the easiest civs for any player actually, but their special defensive promotion bonus for all units is extra-defensive.
India is a very peaceful civ, you don't really need much military at all - maybe just the odd Spearman to defend against barbarian elephants.
India is a very peaceful civ, you don't really need much military at all - maybe just the odd Spearman to defend against barbarian elephants.
Úmarth
Megalomaniac
I would say:
a) Egypt is the easiest UHV, and a short game
b) England is the easiest modern/colonial Empire
c) Turkey is the easiest warmonger
d) Japan is the easiest isolationist.
a) Egypt is the easiest UHV, and a short game
b) England is the easiest modern/colonial Empire
c) Turkey is the easiest warmonger
d) Japan is the easiest isolationist.
Babylon is quite easy but has a huge luck factor (getting Writing first, razing India with that warrior). Egypt is fairly easy, Japan is pretty easy. Greece was a hell of a lot of fun for me. Those are the only UHV's I've beaten. India is.. well... infuriating. I can easily get the first two, having a lot of trouble on the third.
Depending on your play style:
Builder - Greece
Agressive - Japan
Collonizer - England
It is up to you, I find a read of the strategy guides before I start fun, but some people may say it spoils the game.
Builder - Greece
Agressive - Japan
Collonizer - England
It is up to you, I find a read of the strategy guides before I start fun, but some people may say it spoils the game.
Panopticon
Utilitarian
One particularly easy civ in my own opinion, which hasn't been mentioned yet, is the Dutch. It's a One City Challenge for the first half of the game, and you can still end up with a great empire, not to mention advanced technology.
I agree it is one of the easiest civs, but he reason I did not mention it is because IMO you need to understand about stability to play it well, as well as knowing where all the spices are. Great fun civ though, and I would not discourage anyone from playing it first. Just make sure you keep an eye on stability, and bear in mind Hollands historical empire.
wr4th
Warlord
I would try to start with egypt or babylon on viceroy. Those are pretty much guaranteed uhv wins and they are pretty quick games to get the flavor of rfc games.
Panopticon
Utilitarian
Strangely, I found England to be one of the harder UHVs to win at first, because I couldn't focus on settler production. This needs to start early if you want to win the UHV.
Metal Alloy Man
Back in Black
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Egypt, fast easy UHV.
I found as long as you use the whip plenty you can easily produce enough settlers. Not connecting the iron until you have a few warriors per city (for happines) helps a lot.
The other thing is you only need 4 cities to use all the bonus tiles in the british iles, so I suggest sending 1 settler (with 2 units and 1 worker IMO) off in your boats. Where it goes is up to you, but I would suggest southern africa, where is can get gems, gold, copper, sugar, cows and clams (?). This is possibly an advanced strategy though. [EDIT]You tend to need to gift France 5 gold to get open borders. You can usually get past spain without open borders.
The other thing is you only need 4 cities to use all the bonus tiles in the british iles, so I suggest sending 1 settler (with 2 units and 1 worker IMO) off in your boats. Where it goes is up to you, but I would suggest southern africa, where is can get gems, gold, copper, sugar, cows and clams (?). This is possibly an advanced strategy though. [EDIT]You tend to need to gift France 5 gold to get open borders. You can usually get past spain without open borders.
Panopticon
Utilitarian
Building on the sugar tile in South Africa will allow you to colonise the African sites eventually. If you get it going quickly, it can act as a settler factory for other places too.
blizzrd
Micromanager
I much prefer the Gold in South Africa as a production site for a settler factory.
