View Poll Results: Which civs have you NEVER played as?
Americans 41 6.87%
Aztecs 48 8.04%
Babylonians 25 4.19%
Chinese 33 5.53%
Egyptians 18 3.02%
English 50 8.38%
French 35 5.86%
Germans 24 4.02%
Greeks 19 3.18%
Indians 49 8.21%
Iroquois 51 8.54%
Japanese 38 6.37%
Persians 25 4.19%
Romans 14 2.35%
Russians 48 8.04%
Zulus 66 11.06%
I've played as all of them 13 2.18%
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Old October 25, 2002, 15:56   #61
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I've played all the Industrious civs once each + the Babs on Monarch level.

I've won all but one of those games since 1.21f. (The one I didn't win I started as China and found myself on an island by myself with no river tiles and half the island with no access to fresh water due to hills / mountains cuting it off, with the section that had access to fresh water mostly covered up by jungle. )

Now I'm picking Random civs on the Emperor level.

There's really no civ I wouldn't play, but there are certain horrid starting map positions where I'll now hit the restart button.

It is highly important to adapt tactics to what civ your playing.

The English are probably the closet thing to a civ that should be played as close to pure builder as possible.

The Zulu may be the closet thing to civ that should played as close to a pure warmongler as possible.
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Old October 25, 2002, 18:37   #62
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Never played as the Americans or Greeks.
I'll probably play as the Greeks some day though.
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Old October 28, 2002, 09:41   #63
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1) Civs I never ever started a game as:
English, Greek, Zulu, Indian, Japanese

2) Civs I played a few turns, then stopped
American, Aztec, Russian, Babylonian

3) Civs I played beyond Ancient Age:
Roman, Persian, Chinese

4) Civs I played until I ... lost
Geman

5) Civs I played until I won
Iroquois(once), French(2-3 times), Egyptian(My fav.)
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Old October 29, 2002, 21:04   #64
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As I take Random nearly every time, I've tried them all.
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Old October 29, 2002, 23:08   #65
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I've played all.

Tomorrow I will play some new ones
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Old October 30, 2002, 03:22   #66
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I haven't played with:
Americans
Chinese
English
Germans
Persians
Romans
Russians
Zulus

Why? I've had the game only for a short time. I haven't had the time.
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Old November 6, 2002, 00:44   #67
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i played as

Greeks - the most
Egyptians - Second most
French - only once
Japanese - a few times
Carthage - once or twice wanna play them more
Spanish - once
Celts - once or twice love them lots
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Old November 11, 2002, 14:21   #68
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I've never played as the French - they're pink!

I've changed their color to medium-blue in teh editor now, though, so I might well play them in my next game.

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Old November 11, 2002, 18:21   #69
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Let's see, I've tried them all out but I've never played an entire game as the English, Aztecs,Zulu,French,Iroquis,Germans
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Old November 13, 2002, 02:17   #70
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USA, India, France, English- crap UU imho. Aztecs crap UU + too early GA.
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Old November 29, 2002, 09:16   #71
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Hmmmh... let me see. I also have tried them all, but never play again as the Americans. Cause I don't like em very much and the UU is really bad (and comes to late for triggering GA).
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Old November 29, 2002, 09:40   #72
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The thing is there can be many reasons for not playing Certain Civs

1)Dont like the Civ. You racists!

2)Dont like the UU

3)Dont like their strengths

4)Dont like their starting positons on World Map

That pritty much it.
Well, you could use the map Editor and to change your UU, Strengths and Starting positiong, so there is no excuse, but then again, that is bending the rules a bit.

Zulu and Aztecs suck!
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