Favorite Tribe to play as...

[Tiberius]

Wow, Dr.Oogkloot, you played with my people! I'm Transylvanian! And how did you know about Vlad Dracul (alias Drakula, for those who like horror movies)?

I play also sometimes with small nations (hungarians, romanians) and sometimes even with imaginary civs.

[Prometeus]

I like to play with Romans, Greeks or Celts...

[Napoleon I]

Am I the only guy here who likes to play with the English or the French?

I also play with Carthagians sometimes. I like to use random maps with lots of islands.

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Napoleon I

[wernazuma]

OrangeSfwr: Thanks for your nice welcoming words.
You're absolutely right: Zulus and Russians suck.
I don't know if I imported this hate from Civ1, but I think so.

My favorite location to play on earth are either the americas or india, a faible I have from Civ1.
When I was alreadyso good, that nothing else made fun, I played the Indians and watched how long I could resist behind the Himalaya, not moving out a single unit.

Another thing that actually doesn't belong here, but I saw that many others like me created their own custom civs. Has anyone compiled them? I have about 40 of them from the Mayas to Romanians, from Chileans to the Etruscs.

Tiberius: Wasn't the historical Dracula Vlad Tepes, an aristocrat who liked to impale turkish emissaries?

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Wernazuma

Comrade of the aztec peoples republic

[Shadowstrike]

Civ I: Zulus and nothing else. Ah... the good old days when you could still conquer the world with Catapults......

Civ II: Any Civ that used the "Classical" city style. By Civ 2 my playing style had shifted to a "wait till I get Armor and they're still using elephants" stretegy. Therefore, wars were exercises in simplicity. I'd bet that a monkey could win them with the way they were set up (do not try this at home, lest you wish to obtain Civ-playing monkey who can beat Diety Raging Hordes no problem)

Now I can't go beck to the military stretegy... drat.

[OrangeSfwr]

quote: Originally posted by Napoleon I on 08-08-2000 11:10 AM Am I the only guy here who likes to play with the English or the French? I also play with Carthagians sometimes. I like to use random maps with lots of islands.

quote: 2) French

quote: Ok what are your favorite Earth starting points? Mine are English and Chinese

Just to clairfy

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~~~I am who I am, who I am - well who am I?~~~
- "When man first discovered that milk comes from a cow, what did he THINK he was doing?"
- "Women's breasts are like toys: They're meant for kids, but usually it's the fathers who wind up playin' with them."
- "Practice makes perfect, but if nobody's perfect...why practice?"
~~~Oh well oh well so here we stand, but we stand for nothing~~~
- Apolyton Picture Contest IV

[Dr.Oogkloot]

quote: Originally posted by Tiberius on 08-08-2000 08:37 AM Wow, Dr.Oogkloot, you played with my people! I'm Transylvanian! And how did you know about Vlad Dracul (alias Drakula, for those who like horror movies)?

Read about him somewhere (don't remember where). IIRC Vlad Dracul=Vlad Tepes=Vlad the Impaler=Dracula, right?

quote: I play also sometimes with small nations (hungarians, romanians) and sometimes even with imaginary civs.

The silliest civ I've played as is probably the Ukrainian National Soccer Team (as Valeri Lobanovskyj). For city names I used names of clubs plus Koncha Zaspa (Dynamo Kyiv training camp).

Emperor Oogkloot the Somewhat Acceptable, One-Man Civilization

[Tiberius]

wernazuma, Dr.Oogkloot

OT: Vlad Dracul, Vlad Tepes and Vlad the Impaler are the same person. Drakula is only a legend, based on the real person, who was the prince Vlad Dracul. (BTW, in romanian, dracul means "the evil" and tepes means "the impaler").

Check out the whole story here:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/7545/Dracula.html

or here

http://members.aol.com/johnfranc/drac05.htm

quote: Vlad became quite known for his brutal punishment techniques; he often ordered people to be skinned, boiled, decapitated, blinded, strangled, hanged, burned, roasted, hacked, nailed, buried alive, stabbed, etc. He also liked to cut off noses, ears, sexual organs and limbs. But his favorite method was impalement on stakes, hence the surname "Tepes" which means "The Impaler" in the Romanian language.

The rest is legend.


[This message has been edited by Tiberius (edited August 09, 2000).]

[Adm.Naismith]

Back to the "Favorite tribe" I must admit in CIV I find every tribe to be more or less equal, if played on a random map (SMAC factions are more different, you know).

That said, I usually let me drive not by tribe name but by the leader of my choice at the moment.
Because I feel I'm the leader as in RPG, I'm "mood" driven, you see .

Leaders I remember to have used:

Einstein with German
Leonardo da Vinci with Roman
Jeanne d'Arc with French
Bell or Franklin with American
Geronimo with native americans

I'm so egocentric...

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Admiral Naismith AKA mcostant

[AI]

Sometimes I have played as Yorkshire as a nation. Town names like 'Heckmondwike' and 'Cleckheaton' look so silly they have to be used in this tribe...

[OrangeSfwr]

seems like there's a general consensus that the Russians and Zulus suck!

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~~~I am who I am, who I am - well who am I?~~~
- "When man first discovered that milk comes from a cow, what did he THINK he was doing?"
- "Women's breasts are like toys: They're meant for kids, but usually it's the fathers who wind up playin' with them."
- "Practice makes perfect, but if nobody's perfect...why practice?"
~~~Oh well oh well so here we stand, but we stand for nothing~~~
- Apolyton Picture Contest IV

[Shadowstrike]

Why you... When you're being overrun by the Zulu, you'll learn... that playing as the Zulu prohibits them from using their agressive behaviour on you!

[Bkeela]

For me, the historical and geographical accuracy of my game play is very important. I simply wouldn't enjoy playing on a random map. That is one of the reasons why I loathed Call to Power: it didn't come with an Earth map. And when the Earth map finally became available, it didn't place your chosen race in it's proper geographical location - a conundrum which seemed utterly stupid to me.
Thus with Civ, my favourite tribes are always the ones who have the greatest potential to colonise and expand to other portions of the globe. So if I played China, colonising the America's was out of the question, but if I played Spain, or France for example, then the possibility of American colonies became viable and realistic to my imagination.

But over all, England was my favourite tribe, for not only could I fully colonise North America, and not only could I have colonies in Africa and Asia, but also I could colonise Australia.

Bkeela.

[OrangeSfwr]

Bkeela - I hear ya. When I play on the Earth map, I often reconstruct the empire as it historically was the way you said you do with the English. Usually I play on a map that is a zoomed image of the world...that doesn't make sense...like the Mediterannian, or the South Pacific (maps I make). And then I try to reconstruct the country or empire.

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~~~I am who I am, who I am - well who am I?~~~
- "When man first discovered that milk comes from a cow, what did he THINK he was doing?"
- "Women's breasts are like toys: They're meant for kids, but usually it's the fathers who wind up playin' with them."
- "Practice makes perfect, but if nobody's perfect...why practice?"
~~~Oh well oh well so here we stand, but we stand for nothing~~~
- Apolyton Picture Contest IV

[Lonestar]

Like to play as the:

1.Texans(Americans) with Washington-on-the-Brazos as my Capitol.

2.Germans (as Matthew II)

3.The Byzantines(Greeks) as Justinian.

I always made sure I played on the world map with the following replicas as my enemies...

1. Aztecs ( Bloody Mexicans)

2. Russians (bloody commies and their vodka)

3. Persians (destroy the crusaders states, eh?)


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"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you"