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Old October 5, 2001, 13:47   #1
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Old October 5, 2001, 16:26   #2
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As you might understand, the Celts
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The Russians and the Germans are the two civs I play the most.
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Old October 5, 2001, 19:31   #4
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Indians all the way!

In order:

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In civ 3, civ choice will be much more relevant.
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Old October 6, 2001, 05:57   #5
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Actually I could also add the Russians and the
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I tend to play the light blues when going for AC (order of preference: Persians, Chinese, Americans, with the Persians sometimes customized as the Turks), and the whites when going for world conquest (order of preference: Celts, Romans, Russians). In OCC I tend to customize the Babylonians to be a minor ancient Anatolian civ like the Lydians or the Phrygians.
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Old October 6, 2001, 11:52   #8
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i generally take green (customized zulus) unless its an MP game with rah, in which case i select romans or sioux as rah always nabs the green before i can
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My favourite are the Romans, Egyptians and Zulus.
I don't like Chinese, Celts and Indians (don't know why though)
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I usually customize and play the Maya or Inca. With the defaults, I like the yellow and light blue civs. I never play dark blue cuz it's too hard to see my cities on the little map...
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Old October 9, 2001, 07:06   #15
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Russia, Germany, Celts, Egyptians, Persians.

Hmm, most of the 'big name' ones I guess, but the ones I mentioned are me favs.
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The Vikings are fun to play (and their starting techs offer a wide and unpredictable mix of science) ... but will somebody please tell me if there is/was a city called The Udal and is/was it on this planet?

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I usually play as the Aztecs. I like the visibility of the yellow. If I play other colors, I generally will choose Americans in light blue, French in dark blue, English in orange, and Sioux in purple. For some reason, white and green don't appeal to me.
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The Vikings are fun to play (and their starting techs offer a wide and unpredictable mix of science) ... but will somebody please tell me if there is/was a city called The Udal and is/was it on this planet?

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You made me curious, SG so I went looking. Not only was there The Udal, it was in the British Isles! From a page on British archaeology:
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The Udal

A Bone comb of the Viking age

How should we study a landscape? We need to begin with total familiarity with every available source. We then need to find the opportunity for a major excavation with maximum depth, and then strip it painstakingly layer by layer - Research with a Capital R - not mere rescue. An outstanding example of this has been Iain Crawford’s work in North Uist, and particularly at the Udal.

Iain Crawford read first history and then archaeology at Cambridge in the 1950s. When he was appointed to the School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh, he resolved to study the Western Isles. He started by reading Celtic, assessing the documents and place-names, and using this background to carry out field survey for settlement survivals.

The recorded history of North Uist begins in 1469 when James II of Scotland gave a charter to the MacDonalds of Sleat granting them possession of North Uist, from which the Udal can be identified.

The Udal was abandoned following the sandblows of the 1690s, but when the sand was removed, the village abandoned in 1690’s that was revealed. A coin of Charles II, a turner or twopence issued in 1663-8 marks the end of the habitation.

The Udal was a more important village than most, for it was a tacksman’s township, the township where the tacksman lived. The tacksman was the squire of the social structure in the Western Isles in the Middle Ages: he was the person who collected the rents, typically controlling around 10 townships and himself paying an often nominal rent to the chief, the ultimate owner.
Unsurprisingly, though, most of the hits I got while searching for this were to Civ pages -- though, apparently, "The Udal" is also the name of a pub in Thessaloniki!
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Thank you Rufus

Certainly the Viking influence on British history was considerable. The town where I live is thought to have originated from a Viking settlement.

The Udal sounds so small that the Vikings must have been ICSing at the time! Another ICS speck on the map is Ribblehead, high up in the Pennines. Today it is better known for its spectacular railroad viaduct built by the Midland Railway Company in the 1870s.

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Because I am from Sweden, I always play as the Swedes. I always play as the blue nation, because I don't want to fight against the Vikings. They are Swedes too... almost.
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