Favorite Tribe to play as...

Simple poll: What's your favorite tribe to play as in Civ. Don't take it as your favorite position on the Earth map, but just the tribe you play as most.

1) Greek
2) French
3) Roman

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[Empress]

I always play as Goddess Empress and my favorite civs are as follows:

1) Viking
2) Indian

(purple is my favorite colour, but I like looking at the dark blue)

[Comrade Dan]

well, if it was on real maps, I would be either the English on the Europe map, or the Zulu's on the large world map, keeping their original locations.

Sometimes I play whatever tribe I feel like. One game has me playing as Chancellor Daniel von Anderson of the Germans.

[Hasdrubal]

Take a wild guess...

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[Gord McLeod]

I never play on the map of Earth. Too dull. I usually play the Celts, sometimes the Vikings.

In SMAC, I play as the University or the Consciousness, or on occassion the Gaians.

you may guess in my case as well.
if not playing aztecs I play my own created civs, the Mayas, Austrians or Chileans.

Hey welcome wernazuma...new blood...er...faces are nice around here ::evil grin::

I also play as the Indians a lot...probably for the color purple...

Ok what are your favorite Earth starting points?

Mine are English and Chinese.

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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

[Tiberius]

1. American
(Bill Clinton or sometimes Monica Lewinsky )

2. German
(Helmut Kohl)

3. Roman
(Tiberius

I like to play on random maps, with lot of islands.

Oh yeah, the most fiercefull enemies:
1. Viking
2. Russian
3. Chinese or Celts or Babylonians or Indians or English or ... never mind. I always beat them anyway

[This message has been edited by Tiberius (edited August 07, 2000).]

[MidKnight Lament]

For some reason I often tend to use the Irish or the Welsh. Not really sure why to be honest...

- MKL

[phunny pharmer]

Romans...Ceaser...just much simpler if you hold down the return key!

[Hasdrubal]

Apart from favourite civ's, I also have some favourite civ-groupings that I like.
I love playing with seven classic civs (Carthage, Rome, Greece, Egypt, etc.), or seven European ones (France, England, Russia, etc.). Or a modern, global one (USA, Japan, China, India, Germany, etc.) I'll even change the rules.txt to get a nice combination.

My favourite starting position on earth: If I want an easy one, I'll choose a civ from the America's - usually you'll have the whole two continents to your self. Maybe shared with one other civ. For an action-packed game, I'll play a centrally located civ like Babylon or Persia. The opponents will come from three sides.

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[Urban Ranger]

I miss the ability of creating your own tribe in Civ 2. In Civ I played either the tribe Buffalos with the capital city named Horns or the tribe Kongs with me being King

In Civ 2 I usually play the Chinese or Russians.

[Dr.Oogkloot]

I try to play each game as a different civ, but my favourites (the ones I play as the most often) are:
1.Romans
2.Ukrainians
3.Incas
I like to play as some of the "smaller" civs such as Finnish, Belgians, Byelorussians, Norwegians, etc. My latest game was as Vlad Dracul of the Transsylvanians.

Worst Enemies:
1.Carthaginians
2.Celts
3.French

Dr.Oogkloot

[Dr.Oogkloot]

dp
[This message has been edited by Dr.Oogkloot (edited August 10, 2000).]

worst enemies: Zulus and Russians. Those civs always seem to backstab me!

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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

[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

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.

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

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...

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.

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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