Final

[Purest Warrior]

It really depends on your own favoured civ, doesn't it?
If you like to play one of the American civs, for example, and you play with culturally linked starting locations, then you probably won't meet any of these for the first long while.

[The_Hawk]

The Greeks are a big annoyance to me. Their Hoplites are tough to overtake before Knights come into play, unless you're playing with a Civ that has a UU with an attack value of 4.

The Persians have given me the biggest Civ scare of my life. They came after me by surprise in one game. I allied with them to wipe out the rich and plentiful Babs. While I was still in the build and fortify phase, they surprise attacked me with a stack of Immortals, spearman and pikeman 100+ deep! I survived the onslaught (Using my own quickly assembled stack of quicker/retreating Knights), then wiped them off the planet in revenge. Yet that was a real scare. They were allies up to that point.

However, the worst for me has to be the Zulus. Their so aggressive. They seem to gobble up key city locations in the early game. I don't know how many times i've raced a settler and warrior/spearman to a key city spot and they beat me there by a turn. Anyway that's my vote. I say the Greeks if I stick to the list. Zulus if I don't.

[Selanne]

Russinas. I usually play on my real world map as India China or Rome. Russians are always there. They never leave you alone and they attack you even when you're biger than them. Cossacks are a late game UU. I hate playing against a late game UU. (germans are usually a non-factor in real world games with 16 civs).

[Fresno]

Why didn't you add more options?

[Panag]

hi ,

, there should be a poll with all of them , ...

have a nice day

[GhengisFarb™]

Well............
the revote has the most support.

[Palaiologos]

I'd say Egyptians.I always start near them and they always emerge as a superpower.