Thread: CIV4 Leaders/Civs

Which ones do you prefer?

Huayna Capac of the Inca. For purely min/max reasons.

The starting unit for the Inca, the Quechua, is basically a warrior with a free combat 1 promotion and a +25% versus archery units. In the early stages of the game, where most of your enemies are archers or warriors, they stand strong. If you give them city attack promotions and then attach generals to them and upgrade them, you eventually have some badass city smashers for every generation. And when you eventually get them to 200+ XP and upgrade them to mechanized infantry... no city stands in your way.

Also, Huayna Capac is Industrious (cuts build time for wonders in half). This means I stand a beter chance of getting those wonders. Which is really crucial to getting ahead in the game. And Huayna Capac is financial; this means each tile produces at least two commerce produces one extra commerce. And when you have a lot of cities that commerce adds up and means the difference between buying improvements and having high science to tax ratio or being left in the dust.


So my choice is not about some vision or preference of culture, but sheerly about game performance and my playing style.

I used to really favor the English Elizabeth. Financial + special banks= $$$, and lots of it. The extra money allowed me to expand and build more cities sooner, but I quickly found myself poaching on enemy territory, without the means to defend myself, especially earlier on in the games. So now I'm beginning to like playing as China, I tend to play defensively, so protective works well, and expansive faster workers and buildings really help early in the game, allowing me to focus more on archers and the like to defend myself. Plus Cho ko Nu used to be my favorite unit in Age of Empires 2, and is rather awesome in this game too.

i've found myself playing a lot as Japan when i've played. Usually the first thing i go for is trying the different civs that people don't usually use when we play the matches.

Reason i like Japan is it helps with my weakness in the game which is usually attack and defense, i tend to focus more on building my civ up and high culture then armies so the bonues i get with Japan are pretty helpful to beefing up a bit.

England is great if you can get the Redcoats ASAP, I think in the last game i wiped out quite a few forces with one or two redcoats in a city. Of course i got them too late and didn't have the time to upgrade to hold back the attack but still they can be deadly

I prefer the aggressive trait and/or early troops, like the Genghis Khan and Keshik or Ragnar and the Beserkers. I like to play 2 continents and destroy everyone on mine. This usually backfires later in the game. No one usually likes me later on.

BL