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Zulus. They're not the best civ but if you can use them to get a good enough start, you should be able to win easily. Two early traits and an early decent UU with a potential early GA sometimes work together. You can be too weighted for an early advantage but if you can manage not to waste it then you're fine.
In this game, I've managed to avoid the early GA. Taking an enemy capital with just two archers helped.
OTOH no-one should underestimate the Arabs. The Americans are definately in the top 4 civs possibly in the top 1.
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Kneel before Grog!
Jul 2001
time: 00:28
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Currently playing Germany. I finished a game as Babylon and decided to stick with the Scientific trait, since it's been so long since I've used it*. Plus, I've never gotten to use Panzers. And hey, I'm supposedly this big warmonger, but I've never really played Germany (with the ignoble exception of any early minitourney on Emperor in which I was soundly trounced).
They aren't going to become one of my favorites, but I'm doing well. Early warfare (archers) netted me tons of slaves (5 settler teams whacked, 1 worker stolen, 2 more taken for peace) and 2 GLs (Pyramids, Great Library) and later (late ancient/early medieval) warfare netted me 4 more (Palace move, Army, Leos, Heroic Epic). Though I'm in a dominant position, making contact with the other continent has shown me that I do have actual competition over there (Egypt is pretty badass), which is good, since I actually want to use my Panzers. First, however, I have to wipe out Joany with my Cavalry (shouldn't be an issue, since she has pikes to try to stop them with) before she can make contact and tell the other civs what a jerk I've been. 
-Arrian
* - It is still my opinion that Scientific isn't all that powerful, but it's really nice if you already have a lead... it extends that lead. I'm still using 1.14, btw.
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Austin, TX, US
Apr 1999
time: 23:28
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I have made it a point to play each civ until I win at least once. So far I've met that goal, with one exception. I'm currently playing the Vikings, and it finally looks like I will achieve a victory. To get to this point I had to abandon many, many games, when I was getting ground into the dust. 
Maybe it's my playstyle, maybe it's the beserk UU, or maybe it's just the luck of the draw in terms of starting positions. At any rate, for me, the Vikings are the toughest civ to play.
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Arrian
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Kneel before Grog!
Jul 2001
time: 00:28
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I still have never played as England, Russia, Zululand, Korea, Spain, Vikings, and the Arabs*
*I did have an abortive Arab game that was killed due to my comp crashing, and there was my (again, abortive) start go AU202.
Now that I'm on my way to a solid German win (UP, actually), I may actually go and play some of the civs I don't like, such as the English, just to do it. I did that with the Mongols, and things went pretty well (though I still don't like that trait combo, or the UU, to be honest).
-Arrian
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St. Paul, MN
Jan 2000
time: 05:28
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quote:
Originally posted by Arrian
I don't build temples quite as aggressively as I used to, by the way. You made me stop and think about just automatically building them right away. Now, I think to myself "ok Rob, do you really need that temple now, or maybe a couple of extra warriors, then a settler, and THEN a temple?" The result has been that I still build the temples, and still build 'em early, but not quite as early as I once did.
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Same here. Except that I will first rush a temple in a city if it's a border city. I want as much culture as possible to encourage an AI city to flip.
Right now, I'm finishing an Emperor game and the random civ selection gave me the Japanese on a small land mass Pangea. It's been a while since I played the Japanese, and Samurai are now overrunning the world. The Zulu were stupid enough to declare war early on (the AI saw it had more troops and attacked, too bad much of my smaller army were Swordsmen!). The Persians are the only ones left and the end is near since a horse raid pillaged their only link to Saltpeter. Arrian the Warmonger would be proud of the destruction the Japanese have caused....
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Sheik
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Using Egypt. Egypt is such a powerful civ in the trait department even if the UU isn't anything to shout about. Though I also like the Chinese.
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I'm playing as China now. I've yet to use a Rider in battle (weird I know). I'm also trying to see how far you can go with pure Archer offensives. The answer is: pretty far.
As you can see from the screenshot below, I took care of France and am advancing on the Persians, all with Archers. I'll see if I can deal with the Celts (to the North) with Archers too. My starting spot was not that great, but it's amazing what two quick Archers and a Settler bop can do for you. If I get a Great Leader to rush the FP in Chengdu, this game will be "over" long before Riders. Sigh.
Dominae
 Attachment: china.jpg
This has been downloaded 87 time(s).
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Nakar Gabab
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of Pedantic Nitpicking
May 2001
time: 00:28
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Quite to the contrary, I would like to see *any* civ with a modern-age UU. But I guess that wouldn't make much sense unless you were Russia, and Russia already has a UU... ah well.
Not to shoot down another Ind/Exp of course. But were there any? The Khmer perhaps? Seems more Ind/Com to me, but who knows.
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Dominae
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The Incans could be Industrious/Expansionist.
Dominae
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