Whats the coolest civilization in Civ 3?

[Inverse Icarus]

Doesn't everyone want to play the civ that represents their nationality? Now where are those damn vikings......

i NEVER play as the americans.

[Buck Birdseed]

I never played the vikings. Seing "Knut" rendered as "Canute" always made me whince.

Zulus have the coolest special unit.

[Footie Mad]

Originally posted by Snapcase
I never played the vikings. Seing "Knut" rendered as "Canute" always made me whince.

Zulus have the coolest special unit.

That's just one of the misspelled names from the nordic mytology, how about Odin, Thor, Loki...
By the way I really dont think that the vikings are worthy of a spot among the " golden" 16.

[Buck Birdseed]

I think the other names are the actual ones from the Icelandic dialect (though spelt Odín, Ðor, etc.) that is the main source of non-runestone knowledge of the old norse language.

[Shogun Gunner]

Where are the Japanese?????

Gotta have some good special units in this civ!

[Chronus]

"Doesn't everyone want to play the civ that represents their nationality?"

Sometimes . . . but it's really not that important to me.

Take the Americans out for all I care. I rarely pick them anyway. It's my own civ, not the American (or whoever) civ.

Some people take this nationalistic/pride/ego thing a bit too far, whining to death because their nationality isn't in the game. A few months ago, someone even mentioned that they wouldn't buy the game if their country wasn't in it. For crying out loud . . .

[TechWins]

The Americans rule all!

[Alex 14]

Russian Migs will blast the american tanks away easily

Russians, Romans and Egyptians are my favourites.

[Vrank Prins]

There's something to say for al off them, and I can't choose the Dutch, and we're doubledutch the best, so I'm not going to choose.

[ancient]

Originally posted by Wille
Doesn't everyone want to play the civ that represents their nationality? Now where are those damn vikings......

ive never played as the americans, i hate america.... i am an american.. i am also a communist.. i play Russians or Chinese..

[Provost Harrison]

I always liked to play Yorkshire in my games as a custom civ. Maybe I will again, but I couldn't imagine what custom units I could make. Whippet Legion or Flatcap Brigade? Who knows

[Gangerolf]

Originally posted by Wille


That's just one of the misspelled names from the nordic mytology, how about Odin, Thor, Loki...
By the way I really dont think that the vikings are worthy of a spot among the " golden" 16.

Maybe I'm pedantic, but Knut/Canute is NOT a name from Nordic mythology. Knut was king of Denmark and most of England (the Danelaw) 1016-1035. If you don't like the spelling of his name, there are many other kings to choose from (e.g. Harald Hardråde).
In my opinion, the Vikings are much more worthy of a spot among the golden 16 than the Zulus, Iroqouis and Germans.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Gangerolf
In my opinion, the Vikings are much more worthy of a spot among the golden 16 than the Zulus, Iroqouis and Germans.

Now you're getting unreasonable. The Vikings were significant in world history for something like four hundred years. I'll agree that as simple individual civilizations, the Vikings had more impact than the Zulus or Iroquois (but not the Germans; the Germanic tribes placed the northern limit on expansion by the Roman Empire and the Germanic nations of Austria and Prussia figured significantly in every major European conflict from the Middle Ages onward). First off, I see the Zulus and the Iroquois as representatives of their regions. North American civilization as a whole had more impact than the Vikings did individually. This is equally (if not more) true of central and southern Africa. Also, the Firaxis team is taking what I believe to be a balanced approach in which civs to include. Civilization is about replaying history, and just because Europe dominated modern history in this Universe doesn't mean that it was fated to be so. Europe is represented by approximately half the civilizations in the new game even without the Vikings (England, Spain, France, Rome, Greece, Germany and Russia are almost certainly in, and I include the U.S. as European), and I believe this is sufficient to represent the major importance of Europe as a region. Asia gets China, India, Persia or Babylon (not both) and almost certainly Japan. Africa gets Egypt and the Zulus. Central and South America get the Aztecs. North America gets the Iroquois. 8-4-2-1-1; sort of mathematical, isn't it?

[Gangerolf]

I guess it all depends on what you mean by "Germans". I don't agree that "Germans"="Germanic tribes". If this was true, both the English and the Vikings would be German, because they are Germanic peoples.

[KrazyHorse]

Somewhat...but the English are offshoots; there is a difference between a civilization which has some of its roots in Germany and a people which has inhabited Germany for millennia. There has always been a strong, independent (though not necessarily united) civilization in Central Europe, and we can label this power "Germany" for lack of a better word.