Favorite Unrestricted Leader Combination?

[Ghetsis]

I like playing Elizabeth leader of the Americans for pure economic playthroughs, For space race victorys I often play as Capac/Elizabeth of XXX etc....

The point of this thread is to see i guess, what your favorite combination is in unrestricted leaders.

[Cataclisto]

I like playing with pacal II, hes Expansive + financial, (towns get bigger faster, more tech with the gold he gets) and the india civilization with their fast workers as they get a speed bonus from expansive too. It makes for a very solid and healthy start with fast growth and tile infastructure buildup.

I always try and get all of the relegions too (especially if you can pull it off in one town), this stunts the AI's growth if you never meet them and if you can pull off all relegions in one town just imagine the gold youll get, can carry a full civ and allow you to rush units every single turn from every town... This strategy works best if your teaming with someone, otherwise your getting rolled over on tech if you focus on relegions.

[Purplefairy22]

I once had a Game as Pacal II of the Carthaginian Empire on a Water heavy map with lots of Civs

My god, The bank i was earning was gross.

• Financial
  • +1 gold on plots with +2
• Expansive
  • +2 health per city
  • 25% Faster production of worker
  • double production speed of Granary, Harbor (unique building)
• Unique building - Cothon
  • +1 trade route per city.
• Starting Techs
  • Fishing.
  • Mining.

I made sure i got the Great Lighthouse +2 trade routes.
Currancy +1 trade routes
Engineering - Castles +1 trade routes.

The only downside was the amount of boats i had to have, but for along time Privateers were the top tech and with me blockading all my rivals ports all the AI stagnated.

Pacal II of the Portugese Empire would be a potent combination on that knda map too. The unique building of sea tiles gaining +1 hammer. Delicious!

[Scathe]

my favorite leader is willem van orange. I would guess that his creative trait is one of the lower ranking ones by experts who rank leader trait powers, but I find that having to build an obelisk or get caste system fast for an early artist in all my cities is an annoyance I don't want to deal with, and in your second city, building an obelisk may be too slow to pop the cities borders in time to use copper in the cities second ring to have axemen in time to stop barbarians.

my favorite civilization to pair him with is babylon, although sumeria is a close second. I favor these two because they have the same starting techs, starting techs which allow me to research pottery immediately. I favor babylon because the garden building is good and pairs well with willem's creative trait. I favor sumeria because their vulture unit is good for rushing through archers.

I also favor these two combos because I like feeling like I'm playing with well balanced advantages rather than overpowered or underpowered ones. I haven't seen any civilization/leader combo rankings lists, but I would guess that hannibal of the inca would be one of the most powerful combos. this is a combo I've seen played to victories on immortal and I think deity as well, even on huge maps where their rush advantage is less effective.