What's You Favorite Civ?

[civluvr100]

Mines is Spain and England. Spain because it's very easy and there's lot's of resources when conquering the Incas and Aztecs. England because I like the challenge of having three cities in every continent while trying the have a strong economy.

 

[Panopticon]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=293243

 

[civluvr100]

Oh thanks i didn't know

 

[Civ Person]

i like the vikings. raids by sea and land are awesome. plus a couple of fully loaded galleys a triemes guarding them make it easy to wreak havok in the mediterrain

 

[The-Doc]

Rome. There is just so much to do. Its got equal parts expansion, culture building, wars of conquest, and laying the foundations for great cities. I love trying to build and Empire on the scale of Trajan's with the technology of the classical age. I've almost gotten it down now, Greece first, then Gaul, Spain, Asia Minor, Vassalize Egypt (If they get the Library they are your R&D department), Carthage, Pannonia and finally Brittania. If I didn't get Christianity I might take Jerusalem but otherwise the Middle East is best left alone IMO, someday I'll figure out a way to get that.

Usually though I end up with Rome, Mediolanum, Pompeii, Aquincum, Athens, Dyrrachium, Constantinoplis, Ephesus, Tarraco, Gades, Lugdunum, Lutetia Parisorium, Burdigala and Isca whatever (Exeter), Hippo Regius, Leptis Magna or Iol Ceasarea (I sack Carthage, historical and usually its too large to bother with subjugating) Finally as the Euro's pop out I build Messana and Caralis to boost the stability. After that with Europe built I like to change civs and watch the whole thing crumble, my best was when it survived all the way up till the Turks took Constantinole. This is the stuff history nerds shivers.

Second fave, would be England for much the same reasons, deft political maneuvering to keep the continent at each others throats but balanced while building your world wide empire, ruling the seas and using your small but effective army to hop around trouble spots.

In fact I often like to play Rome for 3000 BC, build Europe then start as the Brits and contend with the Europe I made.

 

[The Q-Meister]

Tough to choose. The Middle Eastern civs I think are fascinating, all have potential to create vast empires and nice UPs.

Russia I also like: can get huge without war and I like coming from behind and catching up with the more advanced European powers and then creating a Soviet state and watching all the city name changes.

Spain I like but there's something I find annoying about having to go into places like Quebec and Newfoundland to achieve the UHV. Yes I know it would be too easy if you just included South America but still

In terms of stability I think Portugal and Netherlands are very easy: Resettlement, colonies, done. Since that's what you're supposed to be doing anyway it makes life very easy. Portugal especially since really only 1 rival to worry about.

 

[sennomulo]

Germany if I want to play a militaristic game, France/Russia if I want to go pacifist. Though China is always fun too.

 

[brucedecatz]

Aztecs. I love giving the conqueror's a sound beating, and taking out musketman with jaguar warriors. The power of city raider catapults rules!

 

[Ekolite]

Spain. You can settle more or less anywhere, Iberia gives you a strong start with Madrid having a ton of resources. You can pre-settle your atarting location with cities as Rome, and give yourself some nice musketmen from the off (although that is slightly cheating). You spawn before France, so you can build Pamplona/ to eat into French territory without it then flipping when they spawn. You can easilly have a strong army to crush the portugese by the time they spawn, and then France will be too weak to figh back later on. It makes a fun game.

 

[Sam767]

Spain does have excellent resources.
On one hand, it's fun to use early civilizations to really change history; choose Greece and settle Troy, choose Babylonia and settle somewhere unusual. Carthage is really good for this as well; I've been Basques (not so great a choice, it transpires, since one's land get's absorbed relatively early), and dominated Rome as the Latin League, wherein I had all of Italy and Greece.

Playing "normal" games, I like to be England, Persia, or the Ottoman Empire.

 

[thadian]

civ's with options!

Babylon will always flip until it dies no matter what, so they have no choice. Greece will flip all but 3-4 cities, very few options. Aztec has almost no options unless you choose to sail west and settle the pacific.

I like civ's with options to make choices that won't auto-kill them. euro-civ's are all tightly packed in bound to flip-zones and resort to colonies. i prefer older civ's like Khmer, Japan and Vikings who can both survive to the modern era, and choose a large variety of options that may be similar or very different from history. options that won't cause you to lose the game automaticly. civ's who are placed in an area where their heartland won't auto-flip. (babylons, mayans)

I don't aim for any real victory conditions, i just play to change history. if i die, i can try as someone else and if i don't like them, i can change to a reborn civ. I like this. Being able to change and play different styles and diversify my games. i like Arabia settled pacific islands, Japanese conqueror's and Khmerian pacific islands. i like india pacific dominance. i like it when Ethiopia settles the spice islands. i like it when the Incans settle aussie and new zealand.

I like odd things to happen, wierd things that change how the game is played. I like starting as greece, getting their 5 cities up and running, vassalize rome, fight the arab's, persians, turks and vikings. then once i know only the worst AI could fail, i like to change to someone else and watch my former nation maintain it's glory and sometimes even go to war with it.

sometimes i want powerful aztecs, so i play the mayans and settle all their land up to texas, to assure them enough cities in the begining to make it. then i play as england and protect mexico! then i watch the aztecs vassalize america.

 

[W|M]

Spain. Colonisation + Conquistadores + Conquerors event (caravel as early as possible) = good.

 

[Cethegus]

Rome and Germany are probably my favorite civs. Both are very aggressive, expansionistic but rely on different strategies. Rome centers its empire around the Mediterranean, Germany on the other hand bases it around utilizing its given heartland to its best use and eventually unify all of Europe under one German rule. While the two empires have many things in common, they have to reach them in different ways. That's the charm of it, variety without letting go of my expansionistic ways.

I have to try England sometime and try to recreate the Victorian empire. Should be fun, although I dislike controlling a fractile empire.