What civ haven't you played yet and why?

[Brundlefly]

I had never played Hittites until my most recent game. I decided I wanted a challenge so I played them. Of course I didnt have any horses, so I couldn't build their UU - the 3man chariot. Eventually I pulled a page out of the AI strategy book and sent a settler thru enemy territory to settle on a horse resourse so I could build the UU and get a golden age going...

Anyway, I still have not played Korea, Inca, or India. They dont seem to offer much of an advantage..... Maybe I should play them for a challenge ...

[Rogerdude]

Not played the French because, well, they're PINK !

Jusk kidding. I never played at least more than half of the current 31 nations, and from Conquests I played only the Mayans.

[Arrian]

My list:

Hittites
Portugal
Spain (this goes back to PTW, I think. I don't recall ever playing Spain)
Korea (same as Spain)
Vikings (same thing again. Theseus is gonna yell at me)
English w/new traits
Carthage w/new traits
Aztecs w/new traits

I think that's it. I definitely need to try out the English on a high-water map.

-Arrian

[TheArsenal]

In Vanilla and PtW played most civs but I didn’t really spread the wealth, I primarily played as China, Arabia, Persia, Japan and Ottomans.

Never played the Americans in any version – just a bad UU trait combination for me.

Never finished a game with Russia or Mongols – can’t stand looking at their leader head every time I open the diplo screen (no, really, that’s the reason).


For "new" C3C civs I haven’t gotten around to playing: Hittites, Portugal, English or Carthage.

So far, the Netherlands look like my C3C “go to” civ.

[vmxa1]

Well since the have reinstalled so many times the HoF is always empty or nearly so, so I have no idea which ones Ihave missed.

I am sure many of the original ones have not been played in C3C.

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by TheArsenal

Never played the Americans in any version – just a bad UU trait combination for me.

For "new" C3C civs I haven’t gotten around to playing: Hittites, Portugal, English or Carthage.

So far, the Netherlands look like my C3C “go to” civ.

When you play Americans, you don't even think about the UU. You think about the Exp/Ind combination. This is less powerful in C3C than in Vanilla or PTW, however it is still quite powerful on a huge world -or- if you are playing w/ less than max # civs on any size world.

Dutch are great. The Seafaring trait is awesome. So make sure you try Carthage, but be prepared for an early GA.

I dont play many religious civs. Which do you think is the best one?

[asleepathewheel]

Hittities. I think they're the only ones I haven't played as.


[shocking admission] I love the Koreans and the H'wacha [/shocking admission]

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel

[shocking admission] I love the Koreans and the H'wacha [/shocking admission]

How much of a difference does having Hwacha make to your military strategy?

[asleepathewheel]

Huge. I shift from mainly a fast mover army to a slowmover grind it out march.

With a ton of Hwacha's you can have nearly a zero loss war, depending of course on how the front is situated. In my best campaign with the Koreans, I was attacking a civ that was mainly horizontal about 3 cities deep, so I was just rolling from one city to the next with my stack of 20 Hwacha. And nearly every city I captured had cats, which I upgraded to increase my army. You need a handful of real units, though, for protection and garrisoning and a few fastmovers to clean up the mess.

[Alex]

the civs i haven't played yet? most of them. really! i always find myself staring at the civ selection screen and choosing always the same civs - greece, rome, egypt, and iroquois (don't ask me why). but i've been trying to diversify this, i recently played with carthage, aztecs and persians.

[Plotinus]

There are many I haven't played. The one I'm least likely to play is the Americans, partly because they seem so insipid (boring traits, boring UU) and partly because I simply can't bring myself to be them! In fact, all the American civs bore me. I'm also bored by the Germans, the Russians, the Greeks (although I always played as them in Civ1), the Romans, and the Zulu - and there's no way I could be the Zulu anyway, after all they've done to me in game after game.

I can't help returning to the Babylonians, the Chinese, the Carthaginians (not tried them since Conquests though), and the Egyptians, all mainly for cool factor (the same applies to the French - what's wrong with pink anyway?!), although the Egyptians and Chinese seem to be intrinsically very strong. I used to be in the habit of renaming the Babylonians as the Sumerians, so naturally they're in, and I'm simply in love with the Byzantines now - cool factor *and* great traits/UU. Can't get better than that.

[Shogun Gunner]

I'm down on the central/south american civs.

Haven't played Incas or Aztecs. I have, however, played Maya because of the jav tosser.

Haven't tried Sumeria yet...

[tj1974]

new to apolyton...

...but not to gaming! Hi everyone...



Right, back on topic...

I only ever had Vanilla until about 4 weeks ago, although I've played a lot of C3C now...

The only Civs I _have_ played are

French
Persians
English
Eygptians
Chinese
Germans
Aztecs

and more lately

Mayans (for the workers+agri!)
Portugese (in age of disco)

Am I missing out? Answers on a postcard etc...

[asleepathewheel]

Welcome to Poly

you have a lot of civs left to choose from, that's for sure.



try as a seafaring civ in the epic game. Dutch are particularly powerful to use, IMHO.

[tj1974]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
Welcome to Poly

you have a lot of civs left to choose from, that's for sure.



try as a seafaring civ in the epic game. Dutch are particularly powerful to use, IMHO.

Thanks

Will do...