Your Best Civilisation (Game Played)

[WolfyAU82]

For me Civ5 is my first time with the Civilization games and I have had a good craic at it with ten or so games, and that's got me thinking what my best civilisation is so far.

So I put this question to you... What has been your best civilisation so far?

For me it would have to be America as "The Bogan Empire" with a Diplomatic Victory and a score of 1984 on Civ5 Settler Difficulty.

 

[Keejus]

Definitely one of my first games with Persia on Prince and an oval map. By turn 499 (I could've won earlier, but decided to go for a time victory), I had:

-A score of three thousand and something
-Completed 5/6ths of the spaceship and had the last part in my capital
-One turn left to complete the Utopia project
-One turn before the UN vote while allied with every city state
-Every capital except washington, which was surrounded by Mechanized Infantry and GDRs
-About 200 turns of Golden Age left

 

[insaneweasel]

Babylon is my fav civ. Early academy=immortal cakewalk.

 

[Valbuena]

Definitely one of my first games with Persia on Prince and an oval map. By turn 499 (I could've won earlier, but decided to go for a time victory), I had:

-A score of three thousand and something
-Completed 5/6ths of the spaceship and had the last part in my capital
-One turn left to complete the Utopia project
-One turn before the UN vote while allied with every city state
-Every capital except washington, which was surrounded by Mechanized Infantry and GDRs
-About 200 turns of Golden Age left

omg! wow

 

[MajKira]

Catherine of Russia with Kossaks

 

[Zenstrive]

Arabia with Camel Archers and Longswordmans could mow down anyone on a continent while still able to maintain happiness.

 

[pspboy7]

As much as I hate to admit it, England on continents with lots of naval battles and embarking units for conquests was fun for me. Second best game on my Hall of Fame. I also had a marathon Ottomans game that was fun, I think it was a UN victory.

 

[Nightshades]

I had a score of 14 000 as China (Prince, conquest game) according to the Hall of Fame. This was on Marathon, second to largest map size.

But I get the feeling that something is "wrong" about that. Could it be bugged? All my other game scores are more normal. Aztec conquest game, 3000 score, etc.

 

[Cheeseisgood]

Despite not winning, my long domination game with Wu of China. The game ended in a time Victory to Babylon, we both had a medium sized island to ourselves, and were fighting on a huge pangeaic continent which had housed 8 or 9 civs. We both slaughtered our way to meet in the middle, and I was busy pushing his borders back slowly when time expired. Was a hell of a fun game though.

Technical best would probably be the first game I played, a diplomatic victory as Rome, after crushing the majority of the opposition.

 

[ShahJahanII]

England was the 2nd civ I played as, after the Songhai.
I played on Chieftain, and quickly got a domination victory.
Now, I can easily beat a King level game and maybe Emperor if I try.

 

[pspboy7]

As much as I hate to admit it, England on continents with lots of naval battles and embarking units for conquests was fun for me. Second best game on my Hall of Fame. I also had a marathon Ottomans game that was fun, I think it was a UN victory.

Ok, actually my last game I played was my best by far. Forth highest score of around mid 5000's (can't remember actual score, sorry hehe) and I played Inca and achieved conquest. I could have gone for UN, Space, or Utopia Project, but felt better beating the Ottomans capital down with nukes. I have to say that game was alot of fun! That, plus I got 6 achievements unlocked on a single game.

 

[SemperFi2382]

I would have to say so far one of my best Civ games was as Rome with a Domination Victory.

I had to fight through Darius, Genghis, Monty, Washington, Gandhi (who build every defensive wonder in the game in his capital). The final push on Washington nearly cost me the game because his tech lead flattened most of my allied CS during the war, and shattered 2/3 of my army. Constant air raids were a large part of my losses and I simply did not have the tech to counter effectively.

All in all, it was a serious fight to the end and I have to credit my Roman Legions and Ballistas for doing the grunt work and giving me a good advantage in the early eras. I think the way the game went in the end was one of the best challenges I have seen when going for a Domination Victory.

 

[jbsoccer]

I played Germany and ended up controlling the whole world with a score of 7100. But I started in the Industrial era, I'm not sure if that befuddles your score or not. I ended up with a great start location, rushed the french, the babylonians, the egyptians, the ottomans, the songhai, the iroqouis, and finally finishing off my long time ally for destruction, persia.

 

[svett89]

The one and only RAMKHAMHAENG of Siaaaaaaaaaam (imagine "Siam" in a ninja voice).

Terra map, I controlled 24 City States, had the whole new world settled with excluseviley my cities and controlled half of the original continent. This was on immortal, which is usually a 50/50 win ratio for me. Emperor is fine, but Immortal can sometimes be annoying when starting next to a pain in the ass civ.

Anyway, Siam kicks major behind.

 

[TImithius]

My best game was as Rome, I controlled diplomacy with an iron fist. I played on continents and I quickly got rid of a close neighbor, Persia. Greece and Mongolia were two great military powers and I tricked both of them into hating each other with pacts of secrecy (which I miss). So while I delt with China, my weak neighbor to the West Mongolia and Greece destroyed each others army. So with my army in china I marched north and took the rest of Mongolia and with my army in Rome I snuck up on the greeks and took out their major cities. In the end I had a score of 5785

 

[Valbuena]

over 5000 as Arabia in about 50 turns... started in the future era.

 

[qemist]

The latest game. So after a short break from CiV say about a year or two, I see tales of massive game changing patches. So I role a couple games up.

Egypt, standard speed, small map. Prince diff. ...
Long story short Aztec + Indian fell.
it was Modern armor vs medieval era units for the most part.

Nice win. Prince is easy and small also makes it easier. In fact varying anything (apart from difficulty+) from the standard setup probably makes it easier because the AI would be optimized for the standard setup. On 2nd thoughts bigger maps may be harder in general because the AI has more opportunity to build a monster civ before you can come to grips with them. Pangaea, std, Emp might give you a more challenging game.

 

[headcase]

Definitely one of my first games with Persia on Prince and an oval map.

Awesome!

What was Washington's opinion of you?

 

[Ludikraut]

My best game will be ... my next game.

Seriously though, after putting the game down for nine months (too buggy), I decided to give it another shot about a month ago. I always play on huge continents, low sea level, default (12) civs, 28 CS. Won my first two games (King, then Emperor). Got beat down on my first try at Immortal, at which point I decided to get more serious and researched games stats a bit. Almost won my last (third) try at Immortal. Even in defeat I doubled virtually all my Civ stats from previous games, so I think I'm definitely on the right track.

l8r)

 

[marblearch0]

Just won my first game on Emperor last night and it definitely qualifies as one of the strangest games I've played so far.

Decided to give Polynesia a go and fired up a standard speed game on Terra map. Started out on a pretty isolated part of the continent with decent resources and luxuries but very limited possibilities to expand.

After getting a scout up and running I produced a settler and headed out west over the ocean together with my Maori to find the new world. 15 turns later I founded Samoa by a sweet river mouth with both iron, marble and gold nearby. I used my scout on the old continent to discover all the other civs and CS for RA:s and selling luxuries and then focusing completely on my new continent.

The isolated placement of my capital in the old world kept me out of most of the wars that raged over there for most of the game. In my new found home on the other side of the ocean however things were calm and prosperous. I found a few more sweet spots to settle and founded 3-4 more cities. The first visitors didn't show up until well into the 1600's but no other civ made any serious attempts to settle there. I won an easy cultural victory by 1880 while all the other civs were pretty much decimated by all the wars that ravaged their continent.

It might sound dull and slow but it was actually really entertaining.