Which conquest is your favorite?

[Mr Black]

Napoleonic!

Heavily modified, but then I'm modified all of the original ones. Napoleonic still rules!!!

 

[Balam]

Ouch. Looks like the Mesoamerican civs are taking a beating in the polls out there. Ah well, I voted Mesoamerica. How can you not like all the sacrifices, different wonders, cool music? I guess I'd fall into the Type 2 category--Age of Discovery is great too if you play the Maya or Inca (very tough, got a one-city cultural victory (Regent) at Chichen Itza with the Spaniards having taken EVERYTHING). Sengoku rocks no matter who you play, but for some reason I hated the Napoleon one. As for the Middle Ages, once again, great to play the underdog (I was the Cordobans, took over most of Europe and Africa)!

 

[Grohan]

Originally posted by Balam
Ouch. Looks like the Mesoamerican civs are taking a beating in the polls out there. Ah well, I voted Mesoamerica. How can you not like all the sacrifices, different wonders, cool music? I guess I'd fall into the Type 2 category--Age of Discovery is great too if you play the Maya or Inca (very tough, got a one-city cultural victory (Regent) at Chichen Itza with the Spaniards having taken EVERYTHING). Sengoku rocks no matter who you play, but for some reason I hated the Napoleon one. As for the Middle Ages, once again, great to play the underdog (I was the Cordobans, took over most of Europe and Africa)!

It's real shame that Mesoamerica is so underrated, though Middle ages is still my favourite.

 

[holy king]

i like the middle ages best, there're just so much options
( many different civs, starting a crusade or just conquering your neighbours, taking away the shrines from the christian civs and so on)

rise of rome is ok but i dont like it to be locked into that war with the cartaginians and persia is overpowered

ww2 is great, even playing the us ( athough you dont have much to do playing as them)

napoleon is great too, mainly because of all those diplomatic options, you really have to win this by diplomacy ( or you will find all the other nations being at war with you)

tried fall of rome once, and had big problems with all those legionaries being fortiefied in the cities, but it seems interesting too

havent tried the others so far

 

[Fanatica]

none ... I prefer my own.

 

[Sultan Bhargash]

Rise of Rome I've played as all the civs available, it's probably my favorite but they are all good - except I feel that Napoleon is broken.

 

[Tavenier]

Rise of Rome I've played as all the civs available, it's probably my favorite but they are all good - except I feel that Napoleon is broken.

Broken? Why?
So you refer to the exploit in the first turn?
You can easily exploit the AoD-conquest too, but if you play normally, without building your palace in the new world, it is quite a fun scenario. It is still easy, but hey, other conquests are too (mesoamerica/mesopotamia).
I won the Nap scenario with Prussia and made myself proud.

 

[Sultan Bhargash]

The locked alliance/locked war conquests have that first turn problem where you can get AI to give you all their money and techs just to join your alliance - in Rise of Rome, there isn't too much of an impact in doing this. In Napoleon, it was the easiest conquest I'd ever played because as England, I found that I could very quickly invade and take Paris. Playing it as a PBEM, I was alarmed when the French player had gotten most people on his side and I was driven out of Italy quickly, but again not hard to rebound.

 

[LLXerxes]

I voted Mesoamerica, but I meant to say Middle Ages.

Mesopatamia. Quick wonder victory as the Mycenaes. Conquered Egypt. Boring.
Rise of Rome was OK. I haven't finished yet. I was playing as Persia. OK
Fall Of Rome was OK. I haven't finished yet. Boring, played as the Anglo Saxons. I conquered the Franks so far.
The Middle Ages was the best. It was so good, I couldn't explain it in a post. Played with the Byzintines.
Mesoamerica was good. I won as the Mayans. It was Fun.
Age of Discovery was pretty good. I won as Portugal. I liked it.
Sengoku was really good. Oda Nabunga. Very good. Loved it
I haven't played the other 2 yet. I will play as Russia and US.

 

[citizen001]

i think sengoku is the best in my opinion, closely followed by WW2 in the pacific. They both have a cool selection of units.

Also i wouldn't mind if they made a three kingdoms conquest.

 

[LLXerxes]

Also i wouldn't mind if they made a three kingdoms conquest.

Yeah! Just one thing. The conquests are made to relive history. Each one is a "renactment" of a certain history in time.

 

[a4phantom]

One thing i had to try as soon as i got the expansion was the conquest. Of the all the conquests, which is your favorite, and why? What civ you take?

I like Rise of Rome as Rome and Sengoku (But if you army your yambushi monks with your fully upgraded Shogun, they all lose all-terrain as roads! ). RoR is just fun, and I like the 4 moves on road, from now on my large and huge planets will have that. I am afraid to try the WWII one, I'm afraid I won't leave my room for days.

My least favorite is middle ages...i just really hate the idea, the units, and the civs(arabs in spain...what the) and the obligation to conquer jerusalem to deliver the treasure.
How about you?

Umm, dude, the Arabs ruled Spain about as long and for the most part much better than the Spaniards. It's been in the news lately,because al-Qaeda wants it back . . .

 

[Tavenier]

Umm, dude, the Arabs ruled Spain about as long and for the most part much better than the Spaniards. It's been in the news lately,because al-Qaeda wants it back . . .

Indeed. The Arabs conquered most of Spain in 711. The Reconquista of the Iberian peninsula was in the same year in which Columbus got in the New World, 1492. So the Arabs were in Spain (and Portugal) for over 7 centuries, but the later part of those they only ruled a small part of Spain, known as Granada.
I don't think you can say the Arabs ruled it better. That's like comparing apples with pears! (it this a saying in English? it is in Dutch...)

 

[Mr Black]

In English it's, "comparing apples and oranges."

 

[LLXerxes]

I can't believe Meso potamia is beating Meso america! Pathcetic!

 

[philipmv]

I've played the demo of C3C and my favorite Conquest is the Age of Discovery. Ever since Civ I, I've always enjoyed playing as the English on Earth and sailing over to the "New World" in the 1400's and conquering the Americans and Aztecs. Now it's even more fun because there's a whole scenario devoted to it!

 

[a4phantom]

Age of Discovery is fun so far. It's especially nice to get that sweet Wonder in Lisbon on your third turn and drive Portugal from the continent. I'm going to focus on conquistando a France, England and the Netherlands rather than bother with the cliche New World.

I played through the Napoleonic Wars and hated it. Units take forever to build and even longer to march anywhere (God bless whoever came up with the quick roads in Rise of Rome). Also the narrowness of the Channel lets you conquer England without defeating the British navy, your troop transports can leave their safe harbors, cross the Channel and land their troops outside London during one turn. Men o'War then pulverize those transports, but too late to save poor England.

 

[Portuguese]

AoD
With Napoleon in the 2nd place

 

[Dell19]

Napoleonic is my favourite, it creates an interesting MP game.

 

[Jason Fliegel]

Indeed. The Arabs conquered most of Spain in 711. The Reconquista of the Iberian peninsula was in the same year in which Columbus got in the New World, 1492. So the Arabs were in Spain (and Portugal) for over 7 centuries, but the later part of those they only ruled a small part of Spain, known as Granada.
I don't think you can say the Arabs ruled it better. That's like comparing apples with pears! (it this a saying in English? it is in Dutch...)

The Arabs did indeed conquer Spain in 711, but the Reconquista began in 718 when Pelayo drove back the Moors at Alcama. As you note, the Reconquista continued for over 700 years until finally, in 1492, the Moors were completely driven from the Iberian Penninsula.

See here for a map of how the front shifted over the course of 1037-1270.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/maps/1270spain.jpg

Over the past few weeks, I've been thinking that the Reconquista would make a killer Conquest. I'd include Castille, Aragon, Leon, Portugal, France, and the Arabs playable civs, and give a separate tech tree to the Arabs. The problem is, I've never even opened the editor and don't know the first thing about creating scenarios! I may give it a try anyway, but by the time I'm finished, I'm sure we'll all be playing Civ4.