Your favorite civilization

[kochman]

I don't.

 

[HistoryFan]

no votes for Arabia? Huh...
My favs.

1. Carthage- I love Carthaginian history, so I like to play as them. Plus Cothons are fun
2. Mongolia- Great wall + ger + barracks + imperialistic = Great generals galore and a very good Keshik rush!
3. Arabia- I LOVE the Madrassa! My favorite UB! It's so easy to be a dominant religion nation with Arabia! Spiritual allows you to convert with no anarchy, and I've never been beaten to Hinduism [I play on Monarch usually]. Once I founded FIVE religions, and with Arabia's UB it's like great prophets are being born left and right!

 

[Lyoncet]

I do love the Madrassa as well, but Saladin being the only Arab leader (really Firaxis?) hurts them quite a bit since his traits aren't that great. Protective is hands down worst for almost all situations, and Spiritual is only mediocre after the nerf. Plus Camel Archers aren't really impressive, since you should have Horse and Iron by Guilds anyways.

Still, like you said, I do like playing Arabia for the easy religious powerhouse aspect. Past Noble/Monarch, though, you usually need to have a starting city with at least one 2 commerce tile to found a religion, which is tough if you don't start with fishing.

Oh and +2 relations with Lyoncet for giving Carthage #1.

 

[jUmpSt0p]

wow, it's great to see that so many people are putting down different things!

you would think that a few civs would float to the top (seems Romans have a bit), but overall it really looks like there's a lot of variety in what people like and how they can win the game.

for me, I haven't tried most of the civs yet.. only won a full game so far with Elizabeth of England, and I can see how that can always be a powerful civ.

my current game as Rome is just wicked awesome. Praetorians are truly amazing!! I can really see myself getting addicted to them...

 

[HanzooznaH]

Germany....cuz well Deutschland ftw! And i agree, OTTO von FREAKING BISMARCK

 

[Lemon Merchant]

My favorite is whatever Civ I happen to be playing as. When my citizens show their appreciation and tell me what a goddess I am, I just get the warm fuzzies all over.

Even better than warm cocoa and marshmallows.

 

[champ82]

Hmmm…it’s between Zulu, America, Carthage, HRE, Celts, Babylon, Rome, Egypt, France, England, Persia, Holland, Arabia, Ottomans, Byzantines, India, Khmer and Japan…I might be forgetting some.

 

[Mr Irrelevant]

i generally just click on random and let the game pick a civ for me.

However I have had my fav games with Japan, Korea, Native American, Ethiopia, Rome, England, and the Inca.

If I pick myself a nation it's either England or Japan, I like to play the Earth map and both of these let me build up before wiping out Europe or Asia!

 

[champ82]

OK the reason I didn’t really answer this question is
Sometimes I love a fantastic UB (Zulu, HRE.)
Sometimes I love a fantastic UU (Rome, Japan.)
Sometimes I want to play a leader with a crap UU and UB but with great traits (Brenus.)
Sometimes I don’t mind playing a civ that’s my actual nationality with a late, quirky but not entirely useless UU and UB but with a leader who has great traits (Lincoln.)
Sometimes I like leaders with a non-factor UU and decent but not game changing UB with ho hum traits because you aren’t forced to leverage them in any particular way too much (Babylon.)
Sometimes I like leaders with really simple traits who are easily one of the clearest examples of ultimate evil (Stalin.)
Sometimes I like playing leaders who have cool traits (Gilgamesh, Pericles, Sitting Bull.)
Sometimes I want to build big cities and pray I get ivory so I can send troops with giant crossbows on top of elephants to other civs death (Khmer.)
Sometimes…you get the idea.
I can’t be contained to one civ, man!
Some are kind of bland though – Maya comes to mind.

 

[killmeplease]

i like how mayan ships look in varietas delectat

 

[HistoryFan]

I do love the Madrassa as well, but Saladin being the only Arab leader (really Firaxis?) hurts them quite a bit since his traits aren't that great. Protective is hands down worst for almost all situations, and Spiritual is only mediocre after the nerf. Plus Camel Archers aren't really impressive, since you should have Horse and Iron by Guilds anyways.

Still, like you said, I do like playing Arabia for the easy religious powerhouse aspect. Past Noble/Monarch, though, you usually need to have a starting city with at least one 2 commerce tile to found a religion, which is tough if you don't start with fishing.

Oh and +2 relations with Lyoncet for giving Carthage #1.

hahaha
Yeah you're right. On the harder difficulties it's very difficult to found a religion, and defensive is just a waste of a trait, and Camel archers... Well... Too short of a window.

 

[Saintsfan31]

I really enjoy playing as America. America's UU is nice for late game comebacks which i ussually need. Their UB is good for a city's health. I play as Washington for his traits which are perfect for my playing style. Also i like Persia.

 

[ilikepies]

America is fun, but I like the Netherlands. Willem is really fun to play.

 

[LastLegionare]

jUmpSt0p:my current game as Rome is just wicked awesome. Praetorians are truly amazing!!

"Welcome to the dark side! We have cookies!"

Yes, although Rome has ought to be the absolute most cliche empire in the series, everytime I try another leader, I just have to go back to Rome. +2 Strength Swordsmen? Uber markets? What CAN'T you like!

 

[jUmpSt0p]

"Welcome to the dark side! We have cookies!"

Yes, although Rome has ought to be the absolute most cliche empire in the series, everytime I try another leader, I just have to go back to Rome. +2 Strength Swordsmen? Uber markets? What CAN'T you like!

I think I said it in another post, who needs good traits when you have a UU that can dominate for 2000 years! more really...

I beelined to IW in my game, and my Praetorians owned my area of the map from the 2000s BC to like the 1300s!!! just crazy! 3000 years!

 

[Absolute Zero]

^ Then there's the letdown when you have no iron, or when there are no neighbors nearby to attack (the other civs are too far away)...I play on Huge maps so that's often the case.

 

[jUmpSt0p]

^ Then there's the letdown when you have no iron, or when there are no neighbors nearby to attack (the other civs are too far away)...I play on Huge maps so that's often the case.

yeah that could be a problem. I play Large.. and an isolated start I could work with, but if I had neigbours and no Iron, I would just restart. =\

 

[Callonia]

My Preference is Bismarck of Germany.

I like being patient although sometimes I conquer a civ during Medieval Era, its highly dependent.

But I like to just chill most of times until when I get panzers and then I go all blitzkrieg for a most common reason I have, that city is producing too much culture and is starving my citizens in the city next to it.

 

[McThomas]

My Preference is Bismarck of Germany.

I like being patient although sometimes I conquer a civ during Medieval Era, its highly dependent.

But I like to just chill most of times until when I get panzers and then I go all blitzkrieg for a most common reason I have, that city is producing too much culture and is starving my citizens in the city next to it.

inho i think the panzer is weak, due to the AI's lack of tanks...

 

[kochman]

^ Then there's the letdown when you have no iron, or when there are no neighbors nearby to attack (the other civs are too far away)...I play on Huge maps so that's often the case.

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I agree w/ the iron comment... but the part about no nearby neighbors doesn't make sense (I also prefer playing on huge maps) because the length of time that Praets are relative...
If you haven't expanded up against your enemies borders after 2000 years or so... you have issues. Also, you could simply add more AIs, with 18 even a huge map fills up fast!