Korea or Babylon?

[My Buddy Eric]

And if possible a strategy for them. Thanks.

[zxcvbob]

I'd like to think Babylon is better with the free academy so early in the game and the extra scientists, but after playing them both I think it's Korea because the science from specialists and great person tile improvements. I can run away with the game even on emperor level with Korea. With Babylon I often can't.

The bowman is a nice unique unit. Turtle ships are strong but generally not useful because they can't enter deep water (so research Navigation next and explore with privateers.) And that weird trebuchet replacement? I usually tech from physics to chemistry so quickly there's no time to build any.

[kbmodigity]

Depends on what difficulty level your talking about IMHO

[GalloglassCA]

Korea is a defensive civ, so no idea why someone said they were aggressive.
That aside, Babylon is the more reliable civ. Early game advantages are better overall than late game advantages.

[Budjettivaje]

Babylon gets the fastest science start out of any civ and it carries on throughout the game with Great Scientist generation bonus but Korea should be able to surpass it in science by getting what's essentially double Secularism.

I feel like Babylon is slightly easier to use since the bonus starts to roll so early and they don't have a bonus-less period at the beginning of the game like Korea does.

For UUs, Babylon gets basically Comp Bows at Archery while Korea gets anti-unit Artillery at Physics. Both are essential to defending their respective civs at the time they're starting to take off with science.

Overall, I'd say Babylon but by a really, really close margin.

[Matthew]

Babylon is easier to use, yes.

Korea technically has more potential.

Babylon gets 50% faster GS generation, but the way GS points work, it doesn't add that many overall. Arguably a strong religious Civ will get just as many extra GS's due to the extra faith production.

Babylon's main power is the early academy, which also translates into faster universities (most important science tech in the game).

Where as Korea gets bonus science on every specialist and can reach ridiculous levels of science. The difference is they won't reach universities as quickly as Babylon, so their ridiculous science rate needs to first catch up to the lead Babylon would have before surpassing it. So they should be able to pass Babylon in tech.

Overall I'd say both are more or less equal in practice. Unique unit comparison is meh, because TBH all of them aren't overly useful. Babylon's archers get teched out of very early on, and Korea's UU's are rather limited both with lacking caravel and the set-up on their "crossbow".

[ForevaNoob Wonemorturn]

Korea doesn't even have a caravel...

[Be Blue ! 👌]

Doesn't matter they're both broken. Nobody even wants them in multiplayer games unless they're just really really bad at the game and need the EXTREME handicap

[Foolish Bastion]

Originally posted by Be Blue !:

Doesn't matter they're both broken. Nobody even wants them in multiplayer games unless they're just really really bad at the game and need the EXTREME handicap

That's what I was thinking.

[kbmodigity]

All I know is I beat the game on diety without cheesing it with babylon