donovant22
Chieftain
I also found talking to other civs was much funnier. Especially the barbarians.
I lost two battles in a row with Legion armies against single greek hoplites...I had an advantage of 15 vs 7.5...
So far it feels like playing a TBS game at RTS speeds. It's a lot better than Civ4 quick mode since the rules and maps are specially designed with this speed in mind.
I'm going to continue to practice up on the demo some since it seem obvious to me multiplayer will be tough and fast. As someone noted place a city at your enemies border then build a road and have huge armies in the enemies borders within one turn.