What Civ suits which type of victory?

[chappie2k8]

Hey guys, im just wondering which is a civs best type of victory (In other words, which would they win easiest).

Any info on it would be helpful, because im trying to win a different victory on each difficulty, at the moment I'm stuck with Domination on Warlord.

P.s I don't want to be French beacause I was them on Cheiftan. :D

[Judge AUS]

Greeks are great for tech victory
Germans are good for domination victory

[chappie2k8]

Thanks for that. I never knew Greeks were good for tech, they always crossed my mind as a cultured civ.

Germans I always knew about though, but thanks again.

[Judge AUS]

Yeah, diplomacy, 1/2 price library, +1 food for sea squares.

I should also add Chinese are good for tech victory too

[MorteEterna]

Greeks are for "tech domination". As Judge said they are very good because at the beginning they have:

+50% research (no declaration war)

(industrial era): 1/2 library

justice palace (20 instead of 8) = more prod./res./food

And i prefer arabians then German. I have always won using Arabians vs Germans; think about that:

warrior army = 6-3
warrior army german: 4,5-4,5

but you need only to attack barbarians (i always do that) to have veterans warriors, so you will have:

warrior army = 9-4,5
warrior army german = 4,5-4,5

So you could always win

For example this morning using arabians vs germans i attacked zulu and i got his capital, so i had got a lot of archers (not armies) and i staied on my cities to defence while i was going to research more. I had 5 cities when i started to build tanks while he had only archers or legions, so i won in only some turns.

[joeymaree]

For econ I'd prefer Spanish

the early navigation leads to a lot more goody huts/ relics

[chappie2k8]

cheers guys. Im gonna try that tonite with results 2moro :D

[chappie2k8]

Just did the Domination victory with Zulu.

Moving on too King

Doing tech, with Chinese

[stmarcus]

Rome: culture
Egypt: Mixed bag. Free wonder is good for culture. I'm not sure what to make of the other bonusses. Not a big fan of those.
Greece: tech
Spain: economic
Germany: domination
Russia: Mixed bag. Strong focus on playing defensively (loyalty + cheap riflemen)
China: Tech
USA: Economic / Domination. Basicly outproduce your oponents.
Japan: Mixed bag. Ceremonial burial for culture, samurai for domination, loyalty bonus for playing defensively.
France: Mixed bag. Cathedral for culture. Uber-cannons + fast riflemen for domination.
Arabia: Economic / domination (fundamentalism + stronger knights)
Aztecs: Economic / domination (the heal bonus is awesome)
Zulu: Economic. Or domination if you plan on warrior rushing.
Mongolia: Domination
England: Mixed bag. Domination if you plan on using ships a lot, free monarchy for culture, longbows for playing a defensive game early on.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Sigmakan]

Moved to In-Game Discussion

[Dire Wombat]

I don't have the full game yet, but I think it's safe to say that the Aztecs will also be great for playing an early defensive game (auto-heal = no wearing down defending Aztec armies with multiple attacks).

It also needs to be said that Rome is the civ of choice for any "mega-city" strategies, which are basically unstoppable against low-level AI and new players, and which may be similarly powerful against even stronger AIs/players if done perfectly (not enough people have had the full game for long enough to be sure one way or the other yet).

[Schuesseled]

Thanks for that. I never knew Greeks were good for tech, they always crossed my mind as a cultured civ.

Germans I always knew about though, but thanks again.


well any civ can do any victory, but when i was greek today i found it real easy to get a cultural victory, wasn't far off the others but that was what i came to first.