Civ 5 Anonymous -

[Zap Rowsdower]

I've recently picked up my Civilization V game again (with the Gods&Kings/Brave New World expansions) and I can't stop playing. Are there any other Civilization fans here? If so, what's your favorite strategies and civs?

Personally, I play as America, and go for domination in the late game. The B-17s are nigh unbeatable when it comes to attacking cities. And the +1 sight American units get stacks nicely with artillery fire.

 

[exball]

American supremacy!

I also play Zulu or Rome sometimes.

 

[Surtur]

I play now and then, guess witch nation I always play?

 

[Guardian G.I.]

I've recently picked up my Civilization V game again (with the Gods&Kings/Brave New World expansions) and I can't stop playing. Are there any other Civilization fans here? If so, what's your favorite strategies and civs?

Personally, I play as America, and go for domination in the late game. The B-17s are nigh unbeatable when it comes to attacking cities. And the +1 sight American units get stacks nicely with artillery fire.

I haven't played it much, but I mostly play as Russia in Civilization V because of the very useful resource bonus.

 

[José Mourinho]

Did get it for free, (won it in a certain event) but didn't play it at all. And downloaded some Steam Workshop items of my interest. Might play it later.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

I'm addicted to playing as either the Huns or the Shoshone. The former, because I can take over half a continent in the first 30 turns with a single battering ram. The latter, because I can choose which benefit ruins give me.

I'm not sure if I'll ever play as a civ that isn't tailored toward warmongering, since that's the only way I ever play.

 

[Zap Rowsdower]

I'm addicted to playing as either the Huns or the Shoshone. The former, because I can take over half a continent in the first 30 turns with a single battering ram. The latter, because I can choose which benefit ruins give me.

I'm not sure if I'll ever play as a civ that isn't tailored toward warmongering, since that's the only way I ever play.

As a fellow warmonger, I'm dubious about the Huns, because they lose their unique unit advantage so early in the game.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

^That's why I just take over my entire starting continent as quick as I can. Then I spend the next 500 turns slowly overcoming the inevitable economic depression from such hyper-expansion. I'm usually set by the time the other powers develop astronomy.

 

[Venusaur]

I got Civ 5 but really didn't play it as much as I wanted... (Things to do). When I did play I always played as the Russians. If you got Steam hit me up, I'd be nice to play a Civ 5 session!

 

[TL 611]

Civ 5 is one of those games that takes like a week of my life (of playing it 5+ hours a day) then I just forget about it. I don't have a specific person I play - used to pretty much only play as japan and Russia because they're OP.

Fucking hated the addition of religion though, it's a cumbersome addition that I never want to bother with. Saying that I did achieve a religious victory once but that was out of severe boredom more than anything else. However the brave new world expansion is excellent, recommended to anyone with civ 5.

 

[exball]

Civ 5 is one of those games that takes like a week of my life (of playing it 5+ hours a day) then I just forget about it. I don't have a specific person I play - used to pretty much only play as japan and Russia because they're OP.

Fucking hated the addition of religion though, it's a cumbersome addition that I never want to bother with. Saying that I did achieve a religious victory once but that was out of severe boredom more than anything else. However the brave new world expansion is excellent, recommended to anyone with civ 5.

You can win without ever founding a pantheon. You really don't need to do anything with religion.

 

[TL 611]

^ aye. I usually do. But then it becomes that bullshit of people sending random prophets and shit to convert your cities and there's nothing you can do to stop it. I dont know why I find that so rude but I do - thats what often starts my wars.

 

[WireSponge]

Civ 5 is that one game that I can't get tired of no matter how much I play it. Even if I stop, I pick it up again after a few months. I try to play as a lot of civs, but the ones I like the most are Polynesia, Inca, Morocco, and Songhai. I also really like Arabia, the Celts, the Huns, and Indonesia.

Also, I would like to extend the thread to Civ 5 in general instead of which civs we like to play the most. The game has a lot of room for good discussion as a whole, so I would like to talk about stuff like wonders and the AI especially.

 

[Bugaboo]

I like civ 5 a lot but I'm not very good yet because I spent my whole childhood figuring out civ 2

 

[Enclave Supremacy]

^ aye. I usually do. But then it becomes that bullshit of people sending random prophets and shit to convert your cities and there's nothing you can do to stop it. I dont know why I find that so rude but I do - thats what often starts my wars.

When I see people doing that shit I usually just open up the In-game Editor and delete them, yeah it's cheating but fuck those guys. By rights I'd have had them barred or assassinated as an afront to Sol Invictus anyway.

Rome is an awesome faction to play as, I usually try to maximise production when I play Civ 5 so Rome's bonus helps a lot when I'm founding my colonies. Or playing a realistic Europe map as England where the Longbows just dominate over the English Channel and can't be attacked back.

Also fuck Shaka and his Impi.

 

[RJ MacReady]

I have a loaner copy of the Civ 5 base game through Steam, and I plan to grab it plus the expansions as soon as there's a sale.

I've been trying to learn it recently. I'm aiming to win at least one single player game with every civ on Prince. So far I've done so (barely) with Rome, Japan and Arabia. I also won with England as part of the tutorial game.

I can't wrap my head around warmongering yet. Most of the time I've ended up consuming most of the map when I fight back against invading civs and then using my science or gold output to win a Science or Diplomatic victory. Not efficient by any means, and I find I suck at fighting wars/conquering until at least the Industrial Era; unless I have Artillery I find I get whittled down too fast attacking cities.

My problem might be that I instinctively play tall and defensive. The one time I tried to play wide as China I imploded. Not sure how the AI manages to sustain like 15 - 20 cities in the Medieval Era and still have more happiness/gold/science.

I've also had a problem on Prince with one loner civ making a game unwinnable because they're starting a Science Victory before I've reached Industrial and they're too far away to disrupt with war + no other civ cares to stop them. That also happened in that China game I played.

 

[Cuck Norris]

I usually play as the Iroquois and win on culture. You'll cowards don't even generate tourism.

 

[QI 541]

As a fellow warmonger, I'm dubious about the Huns, because they lose their unique unit advantage so early in the game.

It requires some luck, but it's possible to wipe out every other civ on a standard pangaea map on deity before horse archers become obsolete.

 

[TheAmazingAxolotl]

I'm a turtler. That's pretty much how I play any strategy game - just sit back and let my resources build up before I do much of anything. A typical game of Civ 5 involves me putting my only war units on explore while I build wonders and workers. Gold grows, sometimes I get lucky and a settler or a worker or some extra gold comes out of explored ruins, and usually when culture builds up enough I'll take the Liberty path so I get more workers. Using this strategy, and basically by monopolising all the precious resources in my neck of the woods, I'm an economic superpower by the Renaissance Era; there was one game where I was playing as Russia, and I had virtually all the gold and wine veins on the map, and Boudicca kept bugging me about all of it.

Warfare is something I tend to avoid. Because of my turtling and resource hogging, everyone is bound to be against me in the game, so I usually only fight a war when I'm dragged into one by an ally or when they declare war on me. I was playing as England once, in a 4-Civ game, and my only ally was Denmark while Egypt and Siam played the part of the Axis; Denmark was the thirsty one, always getting into wars with Egypt, and Harald was like, "BRUH COME JOIN THE WAR", and I never did until I found out that Denmark - the only Civ in the game that bothered to trade with me - had been reduced to one city, Aarhus, which was the closest to my border. Long story short, I went on a rescue crusade, reduced Siam to only one city while I took their capital and razed the rest, and I think how the war with Egypt ended was I had to use three atom bombs - the first on Memphis, the next on Cairo, and the third on Crocodilopolis, and Ramses decided he needed to cede Memphis and Crocodilopolis to me so he could recover. A wise move, even though Denmark started wrecking his shit shortly after the war was over.

When expanding, I typically stay along the shore if possible. Easier city connections that way. Digging roads outside my borders is a pain in the ass, especially when the workers or legionaries have to stop when another unit is blocking their path. In one case, I was playing as Rome and a route between my capital city and a city I planted in a banana-rich area of the inland jungle, and Indonesia was being a dick about roads and borders. I had my eye on a part of the map that was rich in pearls and had bountiful fishing tiles, and the best place to put a city for this was right on the gulf. Gajah Mada, who had been pissed about my expansion, took this spot and in doing so pissed me off so much that I started a war and reduced Indonesia to that one gulf city; the catch was that this gulf city would be their only city, so I planted so many citadels that I had complete control of the gulf, Indonesia had only a fraction of a hex to their one city, and my borders prevented theirs from expanding and also prevented Indonesia from spawning any units. I was able to build my road, though, so that war was totally necessary.

 

[RJ MacReady]

I was able to build my road, though, so that war was totally necessary.

Civilization V: A game about reasonable people fighting reasonable conflicts.