1) Greek
2) French
3) Roman

1) Viking
2) Indian

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.

2. German
(Helmut Kohl)

3. Roman
(Tiberius

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

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.

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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.

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...

Favorite Tribes-
(In no particular order)

Aztec
Americans
Germans
French
Spanish

Thorns in my side-

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.

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?)

quote: 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:

coudn't agree with you more.. CivIII neeeds detailed/accurate earth map.

My favourite civs(favoured location)

quote: Originally posted by AI on 08-09-2000 11:17 AM 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...

Yes, nice names...the Ukrainian Football civ has such beauties as Kryvbas Kryvyj Rih, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Prykarpattya Ivano-Frankivsk, Vorskla Poltava, Chornomorets Odessa (where Oleksandr Holokolosov plays), Zirka Kirovohrad, Zakarpattya Uzhhorod, Systema-Boreks Borodyanka and Polyhraftekhnika Oleksandriya. Other football clubs that are nice as city names:
Total Network Solutions Llantsantffraid FC (Wales), Akranes from Iceland and Ekranas from Lithuania (or was it the other way around?), Dnyepr-Transmash Mogilyov from Belarus, Chernomorets Novorossiysk and Tom' Tomsk from Russia, Panathinaikos, Paniliakos Pirgos and Panionios from Greece, Dukla Banska Bystrica from Slovakia, Antibiotik from Bulgaria, Haka Valkeakoski (sp?) from Finland, Sloga Jugomagnat Skopje and of course Skopje Skopje from Macedonia, and lots of others I can't think of at the moment.

Try it, it's a completely new city-naming experience!!!

Chieftainissimo Oogkloot
Edit: it's a shame most of them are longer than 15 letters though. Abbreviate Creatively.

quote: Originally posted by Hasdrubal on 08-07-2000 03:58 PM 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.

COOL!!! I did that too!

I like generally the classic civs.

I usually play with:

1. Romans 75% of the time
2. Germans 17% of the time
3. Greeks 8% of the time

(yeah I know I'm bored cause I calculate percentages )

I don't like many Islands since I gereally dislike sea warfare because at king level and higher the computer usually rules the sea and always wins in conditions where I would lose.

quote: This generally solves the problems of a huge, hard to kill civilization on the American landmass which would never have developed in real life.

You mean DID not develop: let's say mesoamerican culture lasted from 600BC to 1500AD: that's 2000 years, that's the time Babylonia needed to evolve from the sumerian to persian period.
"Would have never developed" is an ignorant statement.

What about you all?