Ten Games. Ten Leaders. Thirty civs. No repeats. How are you doing it?

[TheSpaceCowboy]

I'm guessing I'm not the only one who wants to try out as many civs and Leaders at least once before repeating myself.
I've even got a tentative roadmap for my first ten games so that I can experience as much of the game as possible.
Some of my stacks are based off historical associations; some are based on gameplay synergies; some are just the leftovers, fit together as best I could.
Civs in which I'm less interested are towards the bottom, knowing that I'm unlikely to get to them before the first DLC.
No plan survives contact with the enemy, and I'm sure this will change, especially if Carthage and Britain drop before I lay ten full games.
If you also have a roadmap planned, what's yours look like?
Here's my plan of attack:

1. Friedrich, Baroque
   
   • Rome -> Spain -> Prussia
   • (the "Imperial March" stack")
2. Lafayette
   
   • Greece -> Normans -> France
   • (the "Democracy, Rights, & Liberty" stack)
3. Ben Franklin
   
   • Mississippi -> Hawaii -> America
   • (the "Fifty States" stack)
4. Isabella
   
   • Maya -> Inca -> Mexico
   • (the "New Spain" stack)
5. Charlemagne
   
   • India -> Mongols -> Russia
   • (the "Riders of Rohan" unique cavalry stack)
6. Tecumseh
   
   • Egypt -> Shawnee -> Siam
   • navigable rivers and Independent Powers
7. Ibn Battuta
   
   • Persia -> Abbasid -> Mughal
   • (the "Islamic world" stack)
8. Himiko, Queen of Wa
   
   • Han -> Ming -> Meiji
   • (the "Far Eastern" stack)
9. Jose Rizal
   
   • Khmer -> Indonesia -> Qing
   • Indonesia, Indochina, and China
10. Hatshepsut
    
    • Aksum -> Songhai -> Buganda
    • (the "Africa" stack)

 

[Sprenk]

Man, I thought I was being obsessive for sorta pre-planning one! (Hatshepsut with Egypt, with the Abbasids to come and playing modern by ear). I can see why this sort of planning is appealing though--especially since we can't play yet.

 

[Unaha-Closp]

I'm just going to wing it until I have an understanding of the flow of the game, and then I'll start planning it out, I imagine. I am more interested in the Economic Victory than the others (so far, as I haven't played it), so that will be the first one I will try and plan out once I am comfortable with the game flow. Maybe down the road I'll think about theming Leaders to Civs to UU, etc, could be fun.

 

[Ebon-Hawke-]

I wasn't intending on pathing all these out before launch as my classes restart 3 days after early access, I'm still working, and will probably play on epic speed so won't play as many games in as I want...

But now that we do know the first 4 dlc civs I might just have to at least plan some post March playthroughs. I really like GB and Russia, but now I'm 100% going to save a Russia Catherine run until Greece into Bulgaria is in (assuming exploration). And a Rome Normandy GB run. Also really like Prussia so maybe save that for Bulgaria?

Which means I now need to avoid as many of those civs as I can until then. Thankfully I will probably only get a few games in by then. I think first game will be continents as maybe some Ibn battuta Aksum-Chola-Mughal followed by archipelago Khmer-Hawaii/Maja-Japan as Himiko. Id like to do Mississippi-Shawnee-America as Tecumseh but I've never cared for city states so maybe that will be my Benjamin run.

Id like to note I'm the in camp of loves civ switching but wants to keep my pathways as historical as possible with some exceptions (Songhai into America as Tubman is fine by me)

 

[Gen.Washington]

The only issue I have with doing this is I feel like each civ will play completely different with each leader, and I feel like if I combine the wrong civ and leader it’ll sour my taste and I won’t know what to blame Me being bad at the game? Bad civ? Bad leader? Or just a bad combo?