Vahnstad
Emperor
I agree with Rome. The civ is also designed to be versatile and to be suited for beginners.
Great call, I think Japan really fits the bill for "flexibility". They are not the most amazingly good civ, but quite good at all the different aspects of the game. First of all, they get discounted encampments, holy sites AND theaters. That right there gives them a ton of good options in the early game. Germany and Rome, while great civs, generally follow a pretty strict early game path. For Germany, get a few cities up and then beeline CH/hansas. For Rome, its all about expansion.So I call Japan. Half price districts for war, faith and culture, which should set you off on one of three paths. Uniques for a bit of culture late game and early medieval war, plus bonuses on land and sea. To be fair, no real bonuses for production or science, which hinders space race somewhat... but i got socialised into planning out industrial zone overlap righ from the opening turns, which was how it went for release version.
Rome. You can do almost anything with many cities with good infrastructure, and Rome is good at building many cities with good infrastructure.
They have a strong unit for military and cheap movement through their own cities, a small headstart on culture in monuments, ease of trade through trading posts, housing and amenities through their UD, etc. Solid all around.
Australia is my choice for being the most versatile.
They can settle in places where others really wouldn't, on coast with no rivers and in the middle of the desert, while getting good adjacency bonuses for districts pushing them toward any kind of victory.
England, because I am biased.
I just want to acknowledge that every post had named a different civ as most versatile. You have to give the devs some credit for some really well designed civs.
I was about to say the same but you beat me to it. I did try to think of the one civ that I considered the most versatile but I think the range of responses answers that.
Maybe a better question would be "which is the LEAST versatile"? Perhaps one of the civs focused mainly on religion and certain terrain? Indonesia maybe?
How can we not be biased? Only with empirical evidence. How do you get that on something like versatility?Ok, but if you werent?![]()
Wow... France is one of the best civilisations for OCC deity, is great for peaceful play, is rather good at science and cultural victories... just does not have an early unique unit to make her an OP warlord. I guess that’s you view but like everyone’s biased.Why does France exist...?
Wow... France is one of the best civilisations for OCC deity, is great for peaceful play, is rather good at science and cultural victories... just does not have an early unique unit to make her an OP warlord. I guess that’s you view but like everyone’s biased.
Its not about one ability... I did say OCC, have you tried a deity OCC? its a different world.France's CUA is able to get science victory?