Which conquest is your favorite?
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QuEtZaLbOwMeN
Chieftain
personally, i love the Age of Discovery, i always take up arms with the Aztecs and do my best to establish a Native America Empire and overtime, crush all opposition in the Western Hemisphere (especially North and Central America.)
Tiago Mefisto
Chieftain
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Middle ages
Long life the Holy Roman Empire!
Long life the Holy Roman Empire!
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
I dont have one, they are too hard for me.
Middle Ages! MA wins hands down (OK, I majored in medieval history at the university). It's so playable - and really quite historically accurate. It might use a dufferent starting point, though - like AD1000 (the borders would look like this) - to get rid of Burgundy stretching all the way to the North Sea. And Cordoba would have a foothold in Northern Africa (just don't give them galleys, let them start with a few curaghs).
Oh, and it might use religion-based gov'ts like AOD does. That way, Christian nations would be more inclined to ally with other Christian nations, Muslims with Muslims and so on.
And Vikings should have access deep into Russia, using rivers, the way they did historically (hey, they could sail row all the way to Constantinople!). So some of the rivers in the north should be rendered as narrow lakes with cities on canal tiles.
I could go on for ever but I have three relics to deliver to Jerusalem...
The worst Conquests are probably Mesopotamia (just build the wonders) and Shengoku, where there's really no difference which side you choose. Although I like the idea of upgrading King units and using them in battle.
Oh, and it might use religion-based gov'ts like AOD does. That way, Christian nations would be more inclined to ally with other Christian nations, Muslims with Muslims and so on.
And Vikings should have access deep into Russia, using rivers, the way they did historically (hey, they could sail row all the way to Constantinople!). So some of the rivers in the north should be rendered as narrow lakes with cities on canal tiles.
I could go on for ever but I have three relics to deliver to Jerusalem...
The worst Conquests are probably Mesopotamia (just build the wonders) and Shengoku, where there's really no difference which side you choose. Although I like the idea of upgrading King units and using them in battle.
Little Corporal
fromage
I like napoleonic europe, AOD, and ROR(But only as Egypt)
guare
Chieftain
pacifi is great, tho, its pretty easy to beat: just build lots of carriers and u wont notice much problems
The Shepherd
Chieftain
My favorite at the moment is fall of rome. I play the anglo-saxxons. (I think they are englishman?) You start with just the one city, but seven or so migrants, and I really like getting to have the Barbarian branch on my tech tree. I hate the franks though. There all smiley, polite, nice, friendly, sweet, sidle right up to your cities, calling you gracefl when you initiate diplomacy, though they don't trade tech with you, then while I'm busy dealling with some other problem, all of a sudden the message pops up "Franks have declared war on you." More annoying, is that you can't crush them first. I tried taking them out in the first couple of turns, but they're just strong enough to repel me.
thetrooper
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guare said:
???
And for every carrier you need 2 'fighters', 2 bombers and at least 3 escorts.
Piece of cake?
thetrooper said:???
And for every carrier you need 2 'fighters', 2 bombers and at least 3 escorts.
Piece of cake?
I never build any ships. There are enough bases already, and if not, just pump out a worker and put an airstrip down.
The Shepherd
Chieftain
My new favorite is tie between sword of the something or aother with the shogun, and mesoamerica. I like the music is the japan setting best of any other music, and in mesoamerica, I like the prety birds and Jade.
I
Impartial, & VR
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I don't just have one favourite, because I don't play the scenarios for the same reason. Also, after the first couple of games, I revise the scenario after just about every time I play, (to make it more fun or more historical, preferably both), so I may play a scenario more because it's harder to "fix", rather than because it's a favourite. But I have played to the end and enjoyed all Conquests except WWII, and here's how . . .
Some of the scenarios I play for a short game, as a kind of alternative to the start of an Epic game: Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, and Sengoku. Of those, Sengoku would be my favourite (I play it on the smaller map by Andrew_Jay, but with 8-9 civs to improve the game play). Mesoamerica is the one I've spent the most time on, though; I haven't changed the tech tree, but have modified unique units and increased the number of civs in the game to seven (four playable), while changing start locations. Mesopotamia I play as is, and I see it as a window into "vanilla" civ.
Others of the scenarios make for a much longer, strategic-level military game: Rise of Rome, Middle Ages, and Napoleon. Middle Ages I've tried from each of the main cultural perspectives, and have enjoyed the existing version enough that I've only altered a few details. (I enjoy how difficult it is to set up a Crusader Kingdom, just like in real life!). Napoleon I've fixed a bit of history and military history and played with diplomatic options to try to produce something more like what actually happened. And Rise of Rome has taken much of my time and attention, though my current version probably represents too many small states to be elegant at all.
Then there are Fall of Rome and Age of Discovery, each of which present a different version of construction and destruction. My next Fall of Rome game will be the first since I made some map changes, which I hope will bring the scenario to a place where I can suspend disbelief more easily. With Age of Discovery I would have given up if it hadn't been for capman's revised version with more amerindian civs, and I've changed it further so that the native civilizations develop more the way they seem to have done historically (I can't control those wacky Europeans, though!). Both of these are different enough from everything else that I couldn't rank them, though I'm hopeful that my next try with Fall of Rome will be one of my most satisfying games yet . . .
(And as you might have guessed, I don't play the epic game, only Scenarios.)
Some of the scenarios I play for a short game, as a kind of alternative to the start of an Epic game: Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, and Sengoku. Of those, Sengoku would be my favourite (I play it on the smaller map by Andrew_Jay, but with 8-9 civs to improve the game play). Mesoamerica is the one I've spent the most time on, though; I haven't changed the tech tree, but have modified unique units and increased the number of civs in the game to seven (four playable), while changing start locations. Mesopotamia I play as is, and I see it as a window into "vanilla" civ.
Others of the scenarios make for a much longer, strategic-level military game: Rise of Rome, Middle Ages, and Napoleon. Middle Ages I've tried from each of the main cultural perspectives, and have enjoyed the existing version enough that I've only altered a few details. (I enjoy how difficult it is to set up a Crusader Kingdom, just like in real life!). Napoleon I've fixed a bit of history and military history and played with diplomatic options to try to produce something more like what actually happened. And Rise of Rome has taken much of my time and attention, though my current version probably represents too many small states to be elegant at all.
Then there are Fall of Rome and Age of Discovery, each of which present a different version of construction and destruction. My next Fall of Rome game will be the first since I made some map changes, which I hope will bring the scenario to a place where I can suspend disbelief more easily. With Age of Discovery I would have given up if it hadn't been for capman's revised version with more amerindian civs, and I've changed it further so that the native civilizations develop more the way they seem to have done historically (I can't control those wacky Europeans, though!). Both of these are different enough from everything else that I couldn't rank them, though I'm hopeful that my next try with Fall of Rome will be one of my most satisfying games yet . . .
(And as you might have guessed, I don't play the epic game, only Scenarios.)
Tomoyo
Fate
My ranking:
Napoleonic (Best)
Sengoku
Rise of Rome
Middle Ages
Mesopotamia
Meso-America
WWII in the Pacific
Fall of Rome
Age of Discovery (Worst)
I'm good at expanding and building an empire because it do it way too much. However, I'm really bad at war, especially modern war. I prefer to play something that I'm not so experienced in, and my badness makes it more fun. WWII isn't that fun because I lose track of what's where and what's what. Even though Sengoku starts from scratch and makes me expand and build, things are very crowded in the middle of the map, leading to lots of wars with a huge variety of units, something I never get to do. Napoleonic and Rise of Rome are also good because I love the "retain culture on capture" option.
Napoleonic (Best)
Sengoku
Rise of Rome
Middle Ages
Mesopotamia
Meso-America
WWII in the Pacific
Fall of Rome
Age of Discovery (Worst)
I'm good at expanding and building an empire because it do it way too much. However, I'm really bad at war, especially modern war. I prefer to play something that I'm not so experienced in, and my badness makes it more fun. WWII isn't that fun because I lose track of what's where and what's what. Even though Sengoku starts from scratch and makes me expand and build, things are very crowded in the middle of the map, leading to lots of wars with a huge variety of units, something I never get to do. Napoleonic and Rise of Rome are also good because I love the "retain culture on capture" option.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Middles Ages FTW!! I always play as France, rebuild the Holy Roman Empire, and go pwn Jerusalem with a hundred fifty units that land on the coast.
gunkulator
Emperor
Hopefully you remember to bring along a relic or two... 
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