Civ 5 - What's your favorite civ ?

I like the US for the minutemen and half off tile purchases

Greece is my baby. Once you get through the patronage tree and get forbidden palace, gg

I need to get better at my micro-managing my cities. I need to go watch some high level players do it

Eventually I'm going to have to make the jump to 6 so I can play with jmurdah

Edit: I usually get the science boost on the patronage tree then go commerce or rationalism depending on my money/science output

I like Germany. You can play them in multiple different ways and as a result often like to do a bait and switch and actually go for a science victory with them instead of domination. Their cultural advantages allowing them to hold a standing army for cheaper and to pick up free units from barbarians (which can be heavily boosted with a point in the Honor tree, getting culture for kills, locating new encampments as they form even if off map, and getting a combat bonus against barbarians all with just one social policy spent.) with allows you to build a military for defense while your city production spends the early game focused on growth.

Their special unit is also dominant and comes in the late game when everyone else figures out what you are up to. And starting to run away with it.

Especially if you skilled up your mounted units early, a handful can emerge in the modern era as a deterrence with a pushy neighbor just with their presence near a border. They are almost as profound a deterrent as being the only nuclear power.

Another civ I like to play is the Netherlands, but you are 100% betting on being able to be survive being weak until extremely late in the game (specifically economics) and getting some good land with either marsh or flood plains. As land is so critical, you have to ride a line early on not triggering the AI for founding so many cities as fast as you can support the happines for.

Full Patronage and at least partial Commerce tree with late game Netherlands gets stupid powerful.

Poland kicks arse

Venice. I just chill, get good stacks, and build as many wonders as possible and develop my city.

Civ 6 is 100x better than 5, fwiw

I like England in civ 5, those longbowman are op

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Civ 6 is 100x better than 5, fwiw

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Ehhh with the expansions I'd probably agree but I like 5 better overall

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I love rich civs, it's fun to buy allies and even more fun to find a poor civ and bribe them into attacking my rivals.

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Such a great strategy if you're doing a combo of AI/Human game. Become friendly with AI civ, give them some resources to go to war on another human, and then you blindside said human with your army

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Is CIV 5 BETTER THAN Age of empires 2 Definitive Edition?

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Two different types of game if you ask. If you want that quick fix aoe 2 is the way to go. If you want that deep dive and put hours or days in one game go civ