Which civs have you NEVER played as?

[Gangerolf]

Which civs have you NEVER played as? And why? Perhaps you've tried them all?

[Gangerolf]

I've never been the Zulus, Americans or the French.
Guess I don't like the Americans' F16 UU, and the French are pink. The Zulus' traits aren't the best...

I've been playing all random maps lately though, but I nearly always end up as the English

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I've never had any desire to play as the Indians.

[yellfromhell]

Never played as the Persians, Indians, Iroquais, Zulus and Chinese.
Persians: Xerxes leaderhead looks too much like a humoristically good guy.
Indians: Ghandi was a pacifist ¿how am I supposed to destroy my neighbourhood?
Iroquais: the leaderhead also smiles too much. He looks like if he is inviting me to some kind of party with playboy playmates or something (maybe its only my wish).
Zulus: I remember how they punished their enemies (a wood in the aaaggghhhh!!!!) and I prefare not to imagine it repeatedly.
Chinese: I want to rise and eat many civs, not play with a civ and eat many rice (excuse me for this stupid joke, but I had to do it)
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Yellfromhell

[Lord Merciless]

I never played the English, Greeks, Indians, Russians, Iroquois, and Zulus. The one half game I played as Germans sucked big times.

To be honest, most European civs sucked, partly due to the broken Commercial trait.

I think I should start with Iroquois really soon. It's a good civ and I'd like to carry out some Mounted Warrior rushes.


yellfromhell, I think you missed out some great buttkicking games without playing Persians, Iroquois, and Chinese. These are three civs with excellent traits and UUs.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I don't think disliking a civ's leaderhead is a good excuse to not play them. After all its the one leaderhead you don't have to negotiate with!

I've never played as the Persians or Babylonians mostly because I just don't like the 'flavor' of those civs. Kind of a stupid reason, I know, but what can I say?

[yellfromhell]

"aggghhhh!!!...Its enough!!!!! please!!!!"
(that was Yellfromhell asking for euthanasia)
I was only joking about the leaderheads... it seems my bad english makes my jokes sound serious (because they are still stupid in spanish) or my bad english comprehension makes me interpret everything serious. I simply never played those civs. Tommorrow I`ll begin with one, o.k?
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Yellfromhell

[Anodyne]

Americans, Iroquis and Zulus...

[Gangerolf]

seems like people are steering away from expansionist civs... i don't blame them

[Adagio]

I haven't played all civs, since I alsways (ok...mostly) choose a random Civ...But there's one Civ, the random Civ chooses often, and I don't even want to think about playing that civ (So I therefore have to restart a couple of times, when starting a new game): English

Btw, it's not a gameplay reason...

[JohnM2433]

Hm, two people say that the "random" option chooses England often. Maybe it's a bug?

And I don't see what wrong with Expansionist civs. Expansionism lets you discover techs and other civs quickly at the beginning of the game, particularly if you start on a large land mass.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by JohnM2433
Hm, two people say that the "random" option chooses England often. Maybe it's a bug?

In most of my games, England also starts nearby my starting place, and I play seldom as European Civs...And England is ALWAYS in a game (Unless I choose exactly which Civs I want to play against...Which I do seldom)...

[JohnM2433]

A FireAxis programmer (I forget exactly who it was; if anyone rembers the chat that this was in, please tell me) said Elizabeth was designed to be "crafty" (i.e, she will stab you in the back). Not to leap to any conclusions or anything, but I wonder if someone may have designed the "random" option to select England more often, so they could show off the job they did with Elizabeth.

Just a thought.

[Andemagne]

I have never played other that Greeks.

[Anodyne]

Not even "Finns" in that suck-session game?

As for Expansionist civs> At least in Civ2 my tactic mainly concentrated on getting a LOT of those goody boxes early.