Our factional choices

[Impaler[WrG]]

I'm not particularly picky, I usualy play a Builder game but dont mind going agressive. I'm also fond of Financial paired with Cottages.

In all honestnest the Civ/leader choices in Civ4 are much closer to each other (in terms of strategy and strengths) then were the Factions of SMAC.

[Kataphraktoi]

Can you change leader names as well?

Stalin of the Russians

Mao Zedong of the chinese sounds good too

[GeoModder]

The english have a very strong Renaissance unit, just at the time that a well developped civ has the muscle to maintain a prolonged war.

It seems Financial is the most demanded trait here. How about picking Elisabeth with her Fin/Phil combo?

[Kataphraktoi]

tertiary (am I saying 'third' here? ).

Yes

How about this for civ preferences in any order: english, russians(catrina if low difficulty,peter if very high diff), romans

But we should define rather the style we want to play, not which 'traits' we like - trait itself is nothing, only in combination with the second trait and the starting techs it creates a factor.

The styles I know:
- cottage/financial style
- heavy specialist/great people approach (requires philospphical for best effects)
- heavy religion approach
- momentum/popboom approach as described b Senethro

yes we need to determine what route we are taking to pick civ. thats why i like russia, the techs and traits...

[Lacero]

If we're trying to win by building the space ship the cottage/financial style would be our best bet.

[PJayTycy]

Originally posted by Kataphraktoi
How about this for civ preferences in any order: english, russians, romans

The romans are special. They have:

• A very early (but weak) UU
• expansive, creative traits (+2 health, +2 culture each city)

The Romans are ideal if we play on a high difficulty and/or a small map, because then the +2 health makes a big difference and we have an eary UU.

However, on default settings (noble, standard size map), I would replace the romans with the chinese in your preferences.

[Chaunk]

Originally posted by Kataphraktoi
How about this for civ preferences in any order: english, russians, romans

English (I take it you mean Betty, not Vicky) are lovely, would be my first choice too. Russian (Cathy) is a good second

I'm not sure about the romans though. I think I agree with PJ and say go for the Chinese (Either, although the current preference is for Mao, which is fine). The chinese UU is practically a seige engine by itself with the collateral damage it has. It does need iron though.

Edit: Spelling.

[GeoModder]

Erm... don't crossbows need iron?

[Chaunk]

Thats what I said yes.

[PJayTycy]

lol @ chaunk's edit :-)

[GeoModder]

Lucky me for the edit timestamp.

[Chaunk]

Hmm? I've only edited that post once, for spelling about 45 min ago... Seems odd you'd think otherwise.

[GeoModder]

No boardroom tricks here, please.

[binTravkin]

So, the most favourite ones seem to be:

english
russians
chinese
romans

right?

I will lookup the strategy threads once again and see what could be achieved with those.

Please do bear in mind that we're the Alpha Centaurians and we have a certain victory condition in mind (but not necessarily others out of mind)..

[GeoModder]

English all the way (with 'beth )