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Smokey tha nuke man
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da dawg house
Oct 2000
time: 05:12
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most of the time, i play as the americans, cause i am american, or i'll play as the romans, cause i think they are the most friggin awesome real world civillization in history.
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suas333
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Brooklyn, NY, U.S
Feb 2000
time: 05:12
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My personnal favorite are the Egyptians. The bright yellow makes cities nice to see on the mini map.
Otherwise my usual order of preference goes:
1) egyptian
2) French
3) Roman
4) American
BTW cpoulos, nice to see a few more New Yorkers playing civ lately.
[This message has been edited by suas333 (edited January 16, 2001).]
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Julius Brenzaida
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Currently cleaning the 9000 rooms of Sticky Mouse's Palace
Aug 2000
time: 05:12
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Since the following game, I very often play the purple. It was an OCC one, Prince level, where I was a bit fooling around on a gigamap as the Mongols. My AI friends were quite far away and a lot of sailing was required for my trade. By the middle of the 20th century, the seas were as secure as a Chicago street in the 1930’s which explained why I had a real task-force to go along with my Transports full of freight. So long an introduction to tell you that I had 2 battleships and an aircraft carrier with bombers and fighters and helicopters not too far away from the French capital when it launched a spaceship just before me ! Damn ! and it was a fast one ! The only solution was to seize the capital, but that is not allowed with OCC rule. And that’s where destiny helped me ! There were a few barbarians near Paris. I threw everything against the city and it fell down and the Barbarians walked in and the ship went back to earth and mine took off, and I won the race. It remains one of my most stunning civ2 stunt. What has the purple to do with that ? Well, I had been the French and the French had been me, the Mongol would have played before the Barbarians and it would not have worked, as in the game, where the Barbarians played before the French. Forever grateful for that miraculous save, I like to choose the purple ones.
Besides : I like the purple color and when I play the extended original in ToT, I like to play the extraterrestrials and invade earth like in all those lo sci-fi books. So purple, purple and purple !
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Oh Man, when will you understand that your greatness lies in your failure - Goethe
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Rufus T. Firefly
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is one way of saying it, though I prefer "mensch"
Sep 2000
time: 07:12
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quote:
Originally posted by cpoulos on 01-16-2001 10:31 PM
Losts of different civs, but i notice that except for the americans and french most like the older civs. Does anyone like to play as the english? or the germans? Hoe about the chinese? I always like to see them around.
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I play as the English, for the reasons I stated above. But -- prepares for onslaught of rotton tomatoes and overripe melons -- it's always bugged me that the Germans were in the game. I mean, they never really had much of an empire, did they? They were the big losers in the scramble for Africa (heck, Belgium had more territory), and that was at their height! I suppose you could say the same thing for the Celts, the Aztec,and the Sioux. Whereas the Dutch, the Ottoman Turks, and the Phoenecians (sp?) all deserve to be in there. I'd love to see the Hittite Empire get its due, too. I guess I'll just have to learn to alter the rules.txt file.
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Dig trenches, with our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made. Here, run out and get some trenches.
-- Rufus T. Firefly, the original rush-builder
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Basileus of the Romans
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United States
Jan 2001
time: 05:12
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I play a variety of civs.
The Byzantines of course  (customized Greeks) because I am a bit of a Byzantine historian, so I take a certian amount of pride in building the Eastern Roman Empire 
The Germans, becuase I am part German. I'm glad the Germans are in the game. Great Powers aren't all about sheer size, you know! Germany, at one time or another, has brought us great musicians like J.S. Bach and Beethoven, great thinkers like Immanuel Kant, Albert Einstein, and Martin Heideigger, military theorists like Karl von Clausewitz, Heinz Guderian, and Moltke the Elder. Not to forget great leaders and statesmen like Frederick the Great, Otto von Bismarck, and Frederick Barbarossa! I'd be happy to discuss German history in another thread, though, as this one is dedicated to the civs that we play
I also play as the Romans for the various reasons the others do. Although, I like customizing the rules so that I play in a Roman world- I play as either the Romans or Byzantines on the Europe map, with the AIs being either the other half of the Roman Empire (whichever one I am not playing), the Germans, Egyptians, Persians, etc.
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JimH
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Over there!
Nov 1999
time: 05:12
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I seem to only win with the Carthigians. Maybe orange is my lucky color....
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KaiserIsak
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of Isakistan Empire
Oct 2000
time: 05:12
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The romans is my favorite, 1) because they start, 2) because of the nice color, 3) because of their cities and 4) because i admire their historical great empire.
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jcarkey
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St. Louis
Aug 2000
time: 23:12
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I used to play as Mongols but now I play as ROmans for no particular reason.
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Save the whales, collect the whole set!!
If Al Gore invented the Internet, then I invented the spell check- Dan Quayle
If someone doesn't agree with you, you haven't explained yourself well enough-Luther Ely Smith
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Smokey tha nuke man
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da dawg house
Oct 2000
time: 05:12
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am i the only one that has trouble telling the yellow and orange unit sheilds apart. i've started a billion wars cause i thought i was attacking one civ when i though i was attacking the yellow when i am actually attacking the orange (and it always seems that they yellows are my enemies).
so i avoid playing as either yellow or orange to make sure i can tell who my units are.
[This message has been edited by Smokey tha nuke man (edited January 19, 2001).]
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jcarkey
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St. Louis
Aug 2000
time: 23:12
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No smokey, I don't fall in to your predicament.
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If someone doesn't agree with you, you haven't explained yourself well enough-Luther Ely Smith
She turned me into a newt...well I got better- Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
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Anodyne
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Being perverse is bad.
Jan 2001
time: 07:12
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Hmm. It sounds quite strange reading how you talk about the colors of civs
I think it was boring to always know what civs were in the same game, so I started randomizing the colors at the start of each game (I just use dice and edit the rules.txt according to my die rolls... haven't figured out a more advanced system), making it more exciting. Nowadays, it's much more fun, like having the Greeks, English and Carthaginians, and Romans, Russians and Celts all in the same game! I'd suggest you to try it, too. If you don't like it, change the colors back.
Oh, yes, about the favourite civs:
I like playing Chinese, they've just always been so fascinating, especially for their scientific and philosophical progress in the ancient era. Some other of my favourites are the Persians or Arabs (I like the tales of 1000 and 1 nights ), Babylonians (fascinating, yes...), and Carthaginians(as I admire the Phoenicians and these are the closest I can get to them).
Anyway, I still do enjoy playing any civ in the game.
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16-01-2001 13:55
. Have you noticed that some of those rude diplomats carry swords and guns to your throne room? Tsk, tsk.
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