The Most Playable Civ Has To Be...

[SlowwHand]

Germans? German special unit too far out there, IMO.
Aztec. And their Jaguar Warrior? Well, maybe.
It does upgrade; but counting on a Golden Age would seem to be optimistic.
Rome and Persia have their good points.

[dunk]

Originally posted by notyoueither
Rome. Legions. Kill the nearest b*stard who has iron. Problem solved.

Don't you need iron to build the legion?

[khyron]

I have to give credit to Egypt, Rel/Ind is indeed powerful. But I have this weird penchant for the Babylonians' Rel/Sci combination. I guess it's the low build cost for temples/libraries/other improvements that help with culture.

[Venger]

If you are able to secure Iron, Rome is unstoppable. There is no more balanced early unit in the game than the legion. Cheap, effective on offense, outstanding on defense, as soon as I get Iron Working, kiss your ass goodbye.

Some may like the Immortal, but I have the math to back me up - 100 Legions vs. 100 Immortals will favor the Legions every time.

Besides, why NOT take the second most dominant power to ever occupy the earth? Only thing I miss - the great Roman anthem from Civ1. Caesar III also has outstanding music to listen to when playing (it kicks the HIGH HOLY HELL out of the Civ3 music).

Go to www.caesar3.com and download the .mp3s. The overture is incredible.

Venger

[jshelr]

Can't believe no one likes the Iriquois. Apart from being hard to spell, what's not to like? Religious. And they have a 3-attack horseman available very early in the game. Great for taking over your continent.

When using the Borg building strategy, which takes forever before you focus on building units, I like China. The rider just murders neighboring civs, although it comes later and demands more resources.

[Fresno]

Persians.

BTW, shouldn't there be a poll here?

[godinex]

Egypt off course

[OPD]

You gotta love the Babylonians. Rel is a must and sci is essential for keeping ahead enough in tech to sell them.

Culture comes cheaply and the bowman means you don't have to send spearmen out with your archers and defending captured cities is easy.

Early GA and slow workers are bad points but overall IMO they're the best all rounders.

[khyron]

Originally posted by OPD
You gotta love the Babylonians.

(Snip)

Early GA and slow workers are bad points but overall IMO they're the best all rounders.

The workers I'll give you. The Early GA...yeah, but. You uses the variant of Catt's WC with the Bowmen, and go carefully when building your GWs--you can prolong the GA for quite a while if you don't jump straight at the Oracle/Great Library combo--and you're...well, golden.

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by khyron


The workers I'll give you. The Early GA...yeah, but. You uses the variant of Catt's WC with the Bowmen, and go carefully when building your GWs--you can prolong the GA for quite a while if you don't jump straight at the Oracle/Great Library combo--and you're...well, golden.

I wish there was a way to disable "Passive" GAs, they are quite annoying.

[Thrawn05]

Originally posted by Verto
Remind me to never play with you in PtW ya moocher!

Don't worry, I don't plan playing MP.

[khyron]

Thrawn--Oh, I dunno, it has its place. (I presume by passive you mean a GA by UU victory.) If you're trying really hard to expand fast either by settlers or by plucking the fruits of your neighbors' labors and you just don't feel like dealing with the wonders for some reason, or the AI beats you out of that last wonder you need to GA by two or three turns--no, I'm not bitter about this kind of thing at all --it's always nice to have somthing to fall back on.

[OPD]

Originally posted by khyron

The Early GA...yeah, but. You uses the variant of Catt's WC with the Bowmen, and go carefully when building your GWs--you can prolong the GA for quite a while if you don't jump straight at the Oracle/Great Library combo--and you're...well, golden.

Yeah but as I said in my post I rate the bowman highly and like to use it alot. I've noticed that alot of people dislike the bowman and see it as a weak UU. But I suppose it's just the way that I play that makes it useful. If you build a few cities and start pumping out hordes of bowmen you can reliably take the nearest civs to you. Theres not much a civ can do against a stack of bowmen intill they get Iron by which time you can have alot of land and sit back and build the cheap libraries and temples.

[khyron]

Originally posted by OPD


If you build a few cities and start pumping out hordes of bowmen you can reliably take the nearest civs to you.

What? A builder like me, who likes pushing the borders early with his cheapie temples, go stompin' with a horde of bowmen like a common bandit?

I take your point, and there's validity there in the numbers you describe. I think it's something in my psyche, swords rather than bows. I tried training with the bow when I was young, got fustrated, and graduated to a katana a few years ago. Mmmmm....samurai..... Anyway, my other reason for holding off on the bowmen is the whole GA thing. The only time where my streak of procrastination is useful.

[SlowwHand]

What about Civ's that allow an extra shields in city square? One of my weaknesses is lost production on Wonders others get to first.