What is your favorite type of country to play in Grand Strategy games?
>The religious faction
What is your favorite type of country to play in Grand Strategy games? >The religious faction
What is your favorite type of country to play in Grand Strategy games?
>The religious faction
The Naval faction.
Until I find out that navies are an afterthought and all that matters is either the science faction or the faction with too many military buffs.
Try English in Civ 3 Conquests. The addon added seafaring trait that always makes you start on the shore & gives ships +1 movement, plus English unique man-of-war got ability with certain % to create new MoW after destroying enemy ships.
I think in civ 3 navy is more important because unlike 4 where it can essentially only lower city defenses, it can actually destroy coastal improvements and bombard units like artillery.
>Try English in Civ 3 Conquests
They are terrible, no idea why would you tell anyone to try them. Out of 31 civs in the game, they can't even make it to upper quartile. Hell, I would argue they would struggle to get in the top 15 to begin with.
Also, unless you get really fricking good map for Anglo (which almost never happens due to the way how the random seed operates), good luck making use of their bonuses in a way that stacks.
>Set map to continents or better yet archipelago.
>Set maps to setting that frick up English bonus or better yet, that makes the map unproductive for everyone equally
If only you could pick any of the better cultures instead...
But my faction of choice from SMAC are Gaians. Or Domai, if SMAX is included
Except as the original anon pointed out, the RNG doesn't create proper maps for the English bonus to be worth it. Things like from
are not only rare, but when you look closely, you can see there were genuinely better spots for each of those cities and they were placed in otherwise lackluster spots solely to get the full extent of culture bonus, rather than being simply well-placed (on top of having too-sparsely placed city, because apparently some Civ 5 homosexual was playing it).
The most striking example is the abysmal placement of Nottingham and the city right below it. In chase after sea tiles, they've wasted BOTH whales and a cow, but hey, extra 4 commerce in total from Seafaring Commerce combo! Who needs twice as much from just settling your cities properly, when you can min-max your cultural bonus, right?
Scientific or cultural for me but I also like religious.
>it can actually destroy coastal improvements and bombard units like artillery
Navy also does that in Civ IV
ALRIGHT, the undead-faction-because-you-never-bothered-with-the-meta
>"Now would you unhook this thing already! Just because I'm a Zerg player doesn't mean I deserve this shabby treatment!"
>BEEP
High value / low pop units.
I'm a dirty protoss carrier swarm and proud of it. Carry me the first 10 min and I'll carry the back 5
Infrastructure faction. Anything which gets a bonus to production abilities. Such as Russia/Inca in Civ
If once doesn't exist, naval faction so I can build ports
This. I just really love building improvements and shit.
>Alright boys let's move our asses! Quota says we're laying a thousand new miles of road this singular facefrickin turn!
>Where are my engineers?! I want walls on those walls and I want a shiny new piece of artillery on top of that this god damn time yesterday!
>Who'se got the ETA on that shipment of megabread?! I didn't kit those monkeys out with rolling hills of cereal crop utopia a week before the settlers even fricking got there so I could see anything less than one whole ass new pop a turn!
>And for frick's sake someone get me another cup of coffee!
i like the trader faction usually, it runs in my blood
The bland faction, so I can first play the game straight, with no gimmicks or big changes to the gameplay and first see how things work.
Then I usually just stick to that, because in 9 out of 10 cases, the bland faction is also the only one that can gain maximum flexibility, rather than being tailor-made for specific circumstances, map and gameplay style.
frick off Lal
I usually go tech heavy. Ride out the initial assaults by hunkering down, then when I have an overwhelming technological advantage, wipe out the primitives. Basically how Europeans conquered the world with inferior numbers.
The militarist rushdown faction
Whatever's the best aggressive rush faction. Turtlegays and techgays can suck my taint, ready or not here I come.
The diplomacy faction or the one with good production stats.
Democratic country. One that that self-dissolves and takes away your control of the game after a couple centuries of letting foreigners take over.
The edgy faction.
>wide play style
>industrial powerhouse
>tons of mass-produced weapons
>heavy physical damage and armour, no gimmicks
>they use hastily converted industrial machinery
>they’re a bunch of farmers using a huge arsenal to fight a big empire
>literally just the Soviet Union
>I like religion in civ 5 because unlike every resource it doesn’t scale to number of cities, so you can spam cities in a faith-based strategy , then reform the religion toward any victory condition. But otherwise the spiritual faction is kind of meh.
my own
I like managing ethnic or political clusterfricks, like Austria or Turkey, or the HRE. Single color culture painting is for dweebs.
yep
The haughty faction. Don't care if it's Elves, religious fanatics, nazi e-girls, or advanced aliens.
Hive minds. If that's not a thing then a highly authoritarian society that worships its leader as a God.
A dwarf or necromancy faction.
If not, then either a human nation that is racist against aliens/other fantasy races, or a money focused faction that's all about profit.
The industrious faction, not really high tech but has a massive potential economy. I like the slow build up of overwhelming stuff produced. Scratches the kind of realism roleplay aspect as in history typically having more stuff = win in the end most of the time.
The one in the corner of the map.
Either
>the jack-of-all-trades faction that has no strengths and no weaknesses but the best rounded base unit
or
>the faction that takes time to get rolling but becomes unstoppable lategame.