Which Civ (again!)

[redstar1]

As most of you probably know we had a game of RPS with the Roleplay team to decide who gets Carthage (our initial first choice). The RP team won but they are as yet undecided if they are going to take Carthage. Since we have new members I think its fair to Poll again on a few civs that would suit us well. Any other suggestions are welcome.

[Spiffor]

I think we should post our second choice as well as the first choice : it's still possible we want Carthage (it won by a fair margin the first time), and should the roleplayers want it too, we'd have to stick with our second choice.

Mine are :
1) Carthage
2) Persia

[Nimitz]

Mine are :
1) Carthage
2) Greece

[ZargonX]

I'm going with

1: Carthage
2: Persia

[Colonel Kraken]

Since Carthage is out of the picture and I'm sick of playing the Egyptians (although arguably the 2 best traits to have), I'd like to suggest the Ottomans. What?! Well, they are Industrious which is a builders dream trait and they've got the Sipahi unique unit. That unit is Kick-*** when it comes out.

I think it would be a really cool civ to play (been using it for sp).

[Jack_www]

problem with that is someone already pick ottomans i believe, but we can still get Carthage, but we have to make a deal with the roleplayers.

[Colonel Kraken]

Oh, I see. Well, I'm definitely all for Carthage. What kind of deal do we need to make?

[Jack_www]

go to the thread "message from role players," that is were we are disscussing the deal they want to make with us.

[Odin]

1) Greece (hoplites for rush defense)

2) Carthage (N. Inf. and traits)

3) U.S. (for expansionist and industrial traits)

[Tiberius]

This is my first post in Legoland's forums, so:
Hi everybody!

Was this decided already or not? I voted anyway: Egypt.

[Nimitz]

I beleive so I think we're getting carthage, we made a very agreeable deal with the RP team for it.

[Spiffor]

Hi Tiberius !!!
Glad to see you with us !

[Tiberius]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Hi Tiberius !!!
Glad to see you with us !

Thanks

Question: why is Chartage so popular? I mean, I don't have PtW and thus didn't play with them, but wasn't commercial a weaker trait? Scientific or Religious seems better to me.

If it was already decided, OK, I'm just curious about the motivation.

Edited: Is the Numidian Mercenary the reason?

[Jack_www]

Numidian Mercenary is one of the major reasons why we pick Carthage.

Also I have played Carthage, and they are a really good civ to be for a builder.

[Spiffor]

Commercial is an excellent trait since 1.29 (and probably the best trait in the late game), because it now really reduces corruption. Granted, it won't be extremely useful at the beginning of the game, because our empire won't be huge (however, if we create a dense net of cities, it might be useful), but it will decidely halp as soon as we expand our empire.

Industrious rocks

The numidian Merc is really the reason : the pther teams will think of us as pushovers, and we need a good early defense. We have Numidian Merc from the beginning or almost, it's better than the pikeman without requiring Iron. Basically, the merc gives us a way to survive without Iron until the age of gunpowder.