Your Go-To Civs (Civ 6)

Macedonia or Russia.

With Macedonia I’m able to build the most powerful early game unit and begin warring without penalty. The Basilikoi Paides keeps me competitive in science while I annex whatever specialty (science, culture, gold) my nearest neighbor decides I should become proficient at.

For Russia, I am able to found a religion AND build up a horde of great people to corner the market on culture once I build (or acquire) some theatre squares in the mid/late.

These two strategies are what might call “comfort strategies,” as when I use them I rarely become frustrated with the game. I prefer to wait a bit or I might choose Nubia or the Aztecs. You know, come to think of it, +20 amenity enhanced late game tank armies on a big map are really fun.

For vanilla it was far and away Saladin. Rush Theology ASAP and just sit there for the rest of the game.
 
I wouldn't say I have a "go-to" civ, but Persia is the civ I've played the most.
 
Aztecs. Their abilities synergize so well. I enjoy a brutal early game and conquest in the ancient and classical eras is easily forgotten by the AI so you can kick start your game with cities and builders stolen from the AI and then decide in the medieval whether you want to pursue another VC or continue the bloodshed. They fit my style and feel like the easy button to me.
 
Probably Spain for its complex bonuses and the mix of war and religion. The same goes for Poland, although it is more culture-religion and less war oriented.

Also like England, even nerfed is fun for me to go to other continents and spam cities everywhere. Too bad that sometimes is too late/far when I discover them.

When I play MP with my friends I like to roleplay as Norway, invading them and pillaging their tiles by sea in the early game.
 
I don't have a "go-to". If I had to choose a "favorite" civ based on their bonuses, I'd probably go with Japan - I love high adjacencies and cheap districts, and that's their focus. But they don't have an early bonus, and I don't use all their bonuses, so it's not as good as it could be.

Otherwise, I'd probably vote for either Russia or Rome. Russia as the tundra bonuses + Lavra is just fun to play a crazy faith game, or Rome because all their bonuses are just fun and useful, with both a strong early unit as well as other very useful bonuses. Sumeria is fun too to go War-Cart spamming.
 
Rome and Scotland are my current favorites. Germany is the only civ that I refuse to play even though I think they are great because they are just so OP it makes the game so easy.
 
I take a very, very long time to complete Civ 6 games - usually weeks, sometimes even months - so once I've won as a Civ, I'm not usually in a hurry to play them again for quite some time. In fact I don't think there's a Civ in the game I've played through a full game with more than once...

If I had to pick a Civ to play again, my top candidates would be Rome, Scotland and the Netherlands.
 
Rome and Scotland are my current favorites. Germany is the only civ that I refuse to play even though I think they are great because they are just so OP it makes the game so easy.
I played Germany as my second civ, back before they were debuffed, and I accidentally won a culture victory while trying to win a science victory. :p
 
Russia all the way. I love being able to turn tundra into liveable space, the extra territory when I found my cities, ease of getting a religion, the huge amounts of faith I can generate, and Cossacks. They're always good for easy and reliable religion wins of course, but I also like to leverage all the faith towards other victory types as well. Instant buying several Cossack Corps is so much fun. I know the civ the most in-depth than any other, so I always feel the most confident and secure when I play them.
 
Cree, Cree, Cree, and finally Cree. I mean, this synergy of housing from mekewaps, extra food and territory from internal trade routes is so fun to play tall. And trying to warfare with okhicitaws level 3 is challenging too.

Australia’s outback stations are cool, too. I also like to try culture victories with Persia with 2 conditions: no conquest, no theatre square.
 
Chandragupta felt pretty OP to me. His territorial war CB is insanely good and makes any war a complete breeze, which is complete BS considering how weak the AI is even without such bonus.

I loved my game with Pondmaker as well, went for a tall strategy with 6 cities and playing diplomatically. Won a Sv at turn 220 with only one proxy war due to having 3/4 alliances throughout the entire game. Was quite fun beside the last 40/50 turns spamming science projects and next turning. And those trade routes, mmmmm yummy.
 
I like civs that can settle in bad terrain and still have a solid city so Russia, Australia, The Netherlands, and Indonesia I tend to play a lot.

I also like Japan because of the fantastic music and samurai
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It can take 4-6 weeks for me to finish a game (if I finish it) and I normally go with random leaders, so I have a small sample size to choose from.

I like to role play. So far the most empathy, and most fun, I've had has been as Lautaru/Mapuche and John Curtin/Australia. If I had to choose a go-to right now, it would be one of those two.

When I was playing Civ 5, I would usually play the Aztecs just to remove one of the more egregious warmongers from the game.
 
When I was playing Civ 5, I would usually play the Aztecs just to remove one of the more egregious warmongers from the game.
How did playing as the Aztec prevent Attila, Alexander, and Shaka from spawning? :mischief:
 
How did playing as the Aztec prevent Attila, Alexander, and Shaka from spawning? :mischief:

Haha -- it didn't. It just leveled the playing field a little bit by removing one of the troublemakers. I don't feel the need to do that in Civ 6.
 
France. I love building mid game wonders and surrounding them with Chateau's for insane culture yeilds. The guard imperiale is a good unit, and if you use the Steel and Thunder or Moar units mod you also get the Gendarme knight.
 
I'm not sure whether it's designer intention at Firaxis or sheer coincidence, but the most often reported, stated, and reviewed "strongest and easy-mode civ's" are almost always ones that haven't HISTORICALLLY lasted the Test of Time, as those civ's (Aztecs, Zulus, Nubians, and Macedonians, are very good examples here), while many civ's considered "weak" or just "mediocre" (such as the Americans, Russians, English, French, Germans, Japanese, and Chinese) are all world powers in the RW today and have been for around the last century or so, at least. I find that - curious...
 
HISTORICALLLY lasted the Test of Time, as those civ's (Aztecs, Zulus, Nubians, and Macedonians, are very good examples here)
The Aztec lasted a couple hundred years. The Zulu Kingdom lasted ten. The Macedonian Empire (as opposed to the kingdom) barely made it a single decade and died with its founder. :huh: Conversely...

civ's considered "weak" or just "mediocre" (such as the Americans, Russians, English, French, Germans, Japanese, and Chinese) are all world powers
Russia, England, France, Germany, and Japan all date back well over a thousand years (as civilizations, ignoring changes in government). Japan can probably be dated to about 1,600 years ago; the Anglo-Saxon and Frankish invasions were about 1,500 years ago; Kievan Rus' and the Holy Roman Empire were established 1,200 years ago. China has been around for more like 3,000.


Most of the civs you listed as "lasting the test of time" were brilliant but short-lived, while the "modern world powers" you mentioned all have ancient histories except America, which is an unusual case that, in the long run, will probably fit better on a list with the Aztec rather than China and France.
 
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