Favorite Civilization and Why? - Page 13

[b]Spanish kick ass cause they can do anything![/b] Conquistadors shoot down all infantry, cannons, trebs, and rams level towns, and not to mention their navy is the best the game has to offer (along with the vikes) They can research all monk techs and get all the blacksmith upgrades without wasting gold. They trade better than other civilizations too. Just crank out an army of conquistadors, and rams packed with fully upgraded champions and your set to take down anything. Not to mention a few missionaries to keep up with you conquistadors and heal you up when your tired:D:D
Chinese are also good cause they get the cheap techs
Japs samurais are pretty frickin awesome too, they got a nice navy and stellar infantry. Trebs also get the bonus
Mayans and Aztecs do okay but nothing special without gunpowder and cavalry.
I don't use the Brits often but they're decent too
[i][b]Over all Spanish and Japanese are my faves:colored:

my favourites civilisation's would be britain's, persians, huns, spanish and the chinese.

Britains: they dont have good technology but those longbowman are very effective in groups such as 30 or so, with monks behind them

Persians: There good for taking down buildings and walls.
But are incredibly slow and can easily be taken down by halberdiers

Huns: Huns are good when mixed up with different sorts of cavalry especially Cavalry archers and hussars but can be taken down 1 by 1 in skirmishers

Chinese: The archers are very strong in a group and as an individual but are very short range, by the time u get to a skirmisher or longbowman there gone.

Koreans because you can build War Wagons, Fortified Walls, Bombard Towers and Turtle Ships. It's pretty awesome.

Second would be Persians, for the above reasons. I only find them useful in games where you have a teammate, though, so you can use trade carts to get gold, because War Elephants are extremely expensive, but they are really strong. Even if they are slow, and their weakness is hand cannoneers.

Third would be Aztecs, because you get to charge into enemy towns with lots and lots of monks and a trebuchet, because you just convert all the enemy units that attack the monks, and they attack their own town. It's pretty cool.

Byzantines!
Gunpowder + Elite Cataprachts + Logistica!

Chinese is prolly the best. A group of there archers can take down a castle.. Imagine what it will do to infantry. Or just anything.

The Spanish

They have absolutely everything with the exception of upgraded archers. ...and siege onager whose upgrade is too expensive and is not much more effective that the onager anyway. Otherwise conquistadors are unstoppable. Their cannon galleons are faster and more accurate; Supramacy tech is unexpectedly nice; the team bonus is among the best in the game. They are amazing

The war elephant has the same weakness like the Teuton knight - it is just too slow and cannot go into battle if the enemy has archers (such as conquistadors )