I'm going to be the Zulus first, on Cheiftain, you?

FrostyBoy · August 18, 2001, 02:32

I just love the look of that impi!! I want that!!

and cheiftain, coz I want to get a feel of the game without too many distractions first =o)

TechWins · August 18, 2001, 03:27

Even though this is about the millionth thread on this topic I'm still going to state what I'm going to play.

Map: The Biggest Random Default Map
Level: Chieftain
My Civ: Americans
AI Civs: French, English, Chinese, Japanese, Germans, Russians, and either the Greeks or Romans
CSU On
All Victory Paths On
Barbarian Level: Second Hardest

That's about all the pre-game setup info I can think of.

JellyDonut · August 18, 2001, 03:35

Russians, chieftain, lightest barbs, world map, all victory paths.

Patriqvium · August 18, 2001, 05:10

I'm trying out the Greeks on Prince difficulty, with random opponents and world map.

Adagio · August 18, 2001, 06:42

I would proberly try out the Americans on the largest world map (The real world), with 1 set enemy, the Aztecs, and the rest should be random...And I would proberly start in chieftain mode, just to get the hang of it

And of cause with all the new "things" enabled, this means special civ abilities + unit

Nikolai · August 18, 2001, 07:28

I will start with the Chinese, Cheftain level, all victory conditions on, civ specifics on, biggest map, light barbarians and random opponents.

Solver · August 18, 2001, 07:31

I will play my first game as Aztecs, random enemies, biggest random map, and probably Prince. I can't wait for the game, I'll even try to figure something with the fuc*ing resolution.

Tventano · August 18, 2001, 08:04

I'll start with the Zulus, prince level, medium size random map, all other civs random, all special abilities on, all victory methods on.
Zulus, because a scout can be very useful in the beginning I presume, and exploring is something I already understand.

Chieftain I only played the first time with Civ1, really uninteresting, I ran out of the maximum number of cities and had trouble finding some small city of a restarted civ which was on an island I had visited earlier. The AI is totally passive at that level, so I do not think it will give any nice experience for seasoned gamers.

DrFell · August 18, 2001, 08:14

English, on King or Deity level, hardest barb settings, on largest real world map. The only time I ever played Chieftain was my first few games on Civ1, gradually moved up to Emperor then started Civ2 on King level and moved up to Deity. My first few games I'll play just for fun to work out all the controls etc. Then I'll start devising some devious multiplayers strats

General Ludd · August 18, 2001, 11:26

I'll play as either Greek or Chinese, deity level(assuming that the difference between difficulties isn't just the amount of cheating that goes on), on the world map with the rest of the settings more or less average.

Transcend · August 18, 2001, 13:55

I'll try either Americans, Chinese, or Germans at Prince level.

Odin · August 18, 2001, 15:11

Civ: Babylonians
Difficulty: Warlord ( In civ2 I play prince or king)
Barbarians: Roving Bands
Victory: Diplomacy or Alpha Centauri

I picked the babylonians because thier special attributes (science, religion) and thier bowman unit would if civ3 has ranged attack would be deadly with a horseman or knight

ToD.MB · August 18, 2001, 21:15

I'll be the British first, but will try and be a more reasonable version than our real-life countrymen - I'll try and establish relations of mutual benefit rather than expolitation.

Will it work? I don't know, but I hope it does.

The real British Empire was a tyranny in some places, I hope mine won't be . . .

MSB

monkspider · August 18, 2001, 22:33

I'll be the Aztecs out of love for their history, inspite of personally being a moderately peaceful/scientific guy and their attributes being the most war-like!

MapSmall and Random (Big maps lead to phalanxs taking millenia to reach enemy civs!)
level: Chieftain
My Civ: Aztecs
AI Civs: Random
CSU On
All Victory Paths On
Barbarian Level: Lightest
I can't wait to try out all the great civs though. Babylonians, Zulus, Chinese, Russians, Germans....

:

jdd2007 · September 19, 2001, 15:49

i have no idea. i just want the game before i think about that

jdd2007 · September 19, 2001, 15:50

THAT LAST POST JUST MADE ME A CHIEFTAN

September 19, 2001, 18:57

MAP: WORLD MAP, LARGES
LEVEL: CHIEFTAIN
CIV: AMERICANS
AI CIVS: ZULU, ENGLISH, CHINESE, EGYPT, INDIA, RUSSIAN, and NOT SURE
EVERY THING ON
ALL VICTORY PATHS ON
BARBARIAN LEVEL: HARDEST
HEY TECH; A VERY GOOD FORMAT

Brad · September 19, 2001, 20:02

Greeks on Prince level with largest map and medium barbarians

Skanky Burns · September 20, 2001, 02:04

Germany on warlord level, maximum barbarians, max AIs - random, all options on and all victory paths, no restarting of civs.

krzysiek · September 20, 2001, 04:36

Japanese.
First play is a warm up: chieftain level, weakest barbarians, small map, all victory paths.

Buck Birdseed · September 20, 2001, 07:13

Map: Large (not huge) random map
Difficulty level: Prince or King
Barbarians: Restless Tribes
All victory conditions and Civ-specifics on.

My Civ: Egyptians
Other Civs: Zulus, Babs, Russians, Aztecs, Random, Random, Random.

Rasbelin · September 20, 2001, 10:09

Probably one of those completly new civs or perhaps the Russians.
But if the Celts would be in the game, then anything else would
be out of question.

Earthling7 · September 20, 2001, 12:41

Map: Large Earth
Difficulty: Chieftain to get the feel
Barbarians: Restless Tribes
Victories: All on
Me: Germans - Nicely challenging to be crammed in Europe on a world map

Other Civs: Random

JellyDonut · September 20, 2001, 21:00

I think (and hope) that the transition to Civ3 will not be one where you can just start at Emperor or Deity without expecting to have your ass creamed into a fine mush. I am going to start on Chieftain and climb the ladder.

Newly updated specs on my first game, given the new info (like you care anyway

):

Map: Largest world map
My Civ: Russians
Leader Name: Dzhelij Donat'

Other Civs: 7 random civs
Barbs: Villages Only
Victory Paths: All
CSAs: On
Random Starting Locations: No
Random Distribution of Resources: No (if this option is included)
National Motto: "Moj adres' ne dom i ne ulica, moj adres' Soveckij Sojuz!"

Stromprophet · September 20, 2001, 23:07

I'm going with France, Prince, Hardest Barbs, World Map(I heard the maps are much larger, and can be also designed very large), victory path, Bloodlust elimination.

aaglo · September 21, 2001, 03:30

I want to start with Iroquois (because almost everybody seems to hate them in these forums). And like Ribannah says -

Love Hiawatha

- or something like that...
Difficulty: Chieftain, the rest is still undecided...

Ubik · September 21, 2001, 05:26

Greeks (yeah, big surprise

)
Largest map possible, earth
8 civs (American, Aztec, Iroqui

English Zulu Indian Chinese - hey, I don't want a too hard one in my first attempt, right?)
All victory conditions on
all specials on
Prince or King level (to find out how hard it will be this time - Civ2 was a real challenge only in Deity, when the AI-cheat-the-heck-outta-you occured)

Steve Clark · September 21, 2001, 12:07

King level (at any lower levels, you probably wouldn't see some of the things you need to learn)
Large world map (for familiarity and comparison)
Random civs/placements (otherwise it would be too predictable)
Just bloodlust/spaceship at first (other victory conditions will require new strategies and learning curve)

NO civ attributes, NO unique units, NO golden ages or other stuff like that. I just want to play a Civ2 with all of the new major gameplay elements (diplomacy, trade, resources, culture, etc.). That would be enough to handle and learn without having it become complicated with AI civ foolishness.

Jer8m8 · September 21, 2001, 17:55

Anyone think of doing a random civ?

Christantine The Great · September 21, 2001, 21:02

Civ: Greeks
Difficulty: Chieftan (Don't want to be bothered with war until the second game at least.
Barb level: Highest (if there's going to be barbs, there's going to be BARBS!

)
No. of Civs: All 8.
Map: After I look at all of them through the map editor and move the Greek starting place to Constantinople I'll pick.