What is your least favorite BNW civilization

[King William I]

This is for the discussion for the least favorite civ. Tell your reasoning, and please don't let this devolve into history, ranting, or offensive remarks.

My least favorite is Assyria, the gameplay seems "Babylon + Huns = New Civ" and it probably means that Sumer will not be added.

 

[EricTheGreat12]

Venice might be a beautiful city, but an idea of 2 boring UUs and a pathetic UA makes me think of never playing this civ as long as I live

 

[JSMCAG]

The least favorite? The Zulus - bland, uninteresting warmonger civilization, only in because of tradition. Their UA is overlaps heavily with Germany, and everything else is just... meh. This could have been a DLC civilization, as they use none of the new mechanics, and they could have left their spot open for someone more interesting.

 

[Eagle Pursuit]

please don't let this devolve into history, ranting, or offensive remarks.
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I don't see any circumstances where that won't happen.

However, at least it can serve as an outlet for the things that would be better left unsaid.

 

[SirPainsalot]

Assyria seems rather dull compared to the other civs. And it has a unique ability that should already be available for every civ once they ransack a capital.
I was pretty satisfied overall with the selection though.

 

[ehecatzin]

Zulu, as they keep coming back just for tradition sake, without giving chance to other sub saharian civs.

(the leader screen is cool tho)

 

[SnowKomodo]

I think Venice is a very exciting civ and I can't wait to try them out a few times.

Having said that, I know the type of civ player I am, and I just didn't enjoy Austria after the dust settled. I could be wrong, but the same is likely to be the case for Venice - when the dust settles.

MadDjinn is doing his first LP on them, so I'll be seeing how that goes

But really, I like all of the civs. Intead of saying "least favorite" is Venice, I would say they are my "9th favorite"

 

[EricTheGreat12]

The least favorite? The Zulus - bland, uninteresting warmonger civilization, only in because of tradition. Their UA is overlaps heavily with Germany, and everything else is just... meh. This could have been a DLC civilization, as they use none of the new mechanics, and they could have left their spot open for someone more interesting.

I agree with you. After reading about the Zulus I was very interested by them, but after reading their info in BNW, they seem boring and bland ( even if the Impi looks pretty swag )

 

[DeutschDachs]

Venice... Didn't add much map coverage and its ua can be replicated almost perfectly by Austria if it just has its capital. Only real distinguishing feature is double trade routes.

I like the rest of them aside from Indonesia's stuff. Like the civ, but its uniques have no synergy

 

[Matthew.]

Toss-up between Brazil and Indonesia for me. Brazil seems very bland and the BNW-specific traits are not particularly exciting. Basically increased tourism and that is it. On a positive note, the new culture game may surprise me and Brazil could turn out to be fun.

Indonesia because it seems like it will be one of those Civs that sound more interesting on paper than actually playing in the game, like Polynesia. I have a feeling once I get a chance to play them, they are going to be rather underwhelming.

 

[Rajjah]

I'm voting the Zulu because they seem to be included just to be the big bad boogey man enemy warmonger AI civ that has come to rape your churches and burn your women......sadly There is a line starting with Montezuma that is quite long filled with such civs.

I'm expecting there will be some who vote for Indonesia because of thier unfocused ability but I think they are at least interesting. Others might vote for Poland because they were 1st and aren't too flashy but I think they are underestimated.

What I'm sure will happen is that all the people who can't get over the fact that Venice is in will vote for them and then rationalize a reason later.

 

[DeutschDachs]

Surprised by the hate for morocco, their ability to take advantage of deserts made them seem like one of the most fun civs to me

 

[SnowKomodo]

Haha Poland with 0 votes thus far. I guess they're too generic to incite any emotion

 

[JSMCAG]

Haha Poland with 0 votes thus far. I guess they're too generic to incite any emotion

*cough*lookatIndonesia*cough*

I kid, I kid! I'd say it's much too early to come up with any conclusion yet!

EDIT: Dangit! Who voted for Indonesia? You ruined my joke!

 

[johnny139]

Tough... I'd like to see one less European Civ, but Portugal deserves it most (despite being the least interesting), Venice is the most interesting (despite deserving it least), and I really like Poland's UA.

 

[Fabiano79]

I voted in Poland. Not because of their inclusion, just dont see nothing special on getting policies every era. Uninspired.

 

[otaman1]

Tough to say but I don't have a least favourite civ. I like all the civs even if it's crap

 

[wigwam]

Portugal: ultra-bland UA, cheesy UI, boring UU.

 

[I_qua_I]

Venice

I'm concerned about how it will effect the rest of the game. It can't expand which means free space for whichever civ happens to be lucky enough to wind up its neighbor. This might translate into earlier/easier runaways. (On the other hand, if the space isn't taken advantage of then it just makes the map look ugly. I'm already annoyed at the amount of blank space on the map in the later stages of the game.)

 

[Loaf Warden]

Without having played any of them, it's hard to say, but based on what we know, I have to go with Poland. The UA would have seemed a lot more impressive when filling out policy trees was actually a path to victory, and a UU whose primary ability seems to be "push enemy units to safety" doesn't seem that great to me, either. When I think about the new civs, I'm like "Indonesia will be interesting because of this and this, I can't wait to try the Shoshone because of this, Assyria will be fun to see . . ." and then I'm like, "Oh yeah, and Poland is here too." Meh.