Which AI CIV is really the strongest ?

[Vile Dog]

I mean AI CIV, not the CIV you are playing.

Based on your own experience, observations, even just not playing yourself but watching them.

The notorious Alexander ? Gandhi ? The Zulu ? Ethiopia ?

In my games Ramzes looks dangerous if left alone. Poland too sometimes. Civs that always seem to fail, Japan, Russia, quite a lot. Japan just does not play aggressively enough, I love playing Japan though. Russia also plays quite passively.

The AI is just strategically poor. I have seen them war each other and they declare peace at the worst moment. Like the Zulus literally destroyed their oppononet, they so strong and they suddenly declare peace. Just few turns away from eliminating the enemy.

[Abcsam]

Gandhi and the Zulu seem to always be up there the mongols to. The game i am in right now russia is steam rolling everyone to be fair i never see russia doing that good though

[Vile Dog]

Civ 5 is probably the most difficult game to code. With so many variables.

[zxcvbob]

Alexander is a real beast on the right maps. The AI plays Hiawatha really well, even tho' for a human the Iroquois are kind of weak. Rome, Persia, Carthage... actually most of them do well if the stars align right.

Except Babylon. The Babylon AI is terrible (I don't know why)

[Hellsteeth30]

Catherine has given me a damn good run, as has Bismarck.

[76561198799323534]

Based on my experience from my 8 full games:

Good human civs. that usually performs well in the hands of the ai:
Greece (no need to expain why I guess)
Zulus (very threatering in the first half part of the game but looses momentum in the industrial era).

Mediocre/weak human civs. that performs surprisingly well in the hands of the ai:
Russia, Rome, Iroquois (they never "forget to expand their borders")

Strong human civs. that performs terrible in the hands of the ai:
Babylon (hey, where are your arcademies Nebby?)
Mayas (hey, what are you doing with all your extra great people?)
Poland (hey, what are you doing with all your extra social policies?)

Weak human civ. that performs equally bad in the hands of the ai:
Indonesia (hey, where are your unique lux. resources from the cities you should have settled on other continents/islands?).

[just.nuke.em]

Anyone that starts with 3+ salt tiles. Except maybe Gandhi, he doesn't expand enough.

[billgordon10]

worst is Mongolia. I can't think of any that do good consistently.

[nobodys home]

Lot of it depends on geography and resource starts, Iroquois always do well in my games, Celts always suck.

[Matthew]

Persia, Iroquois, and Korea usually do well in keeping up with growth and tech compared to the human player.

Huns and Zulu can be good wildcards. Though results can vary. Some games they pose as major threats, other games their warmongering can keep everyone (but you) in the stone age so you end up launching spaceships while everyone else is struggling to learn how to make firearms.

[dcain3456]

Persia always seems to do well as the AI.
Spain always seems to do poorly as the AI.

[Ashley]

Alexander usually does well by the time you get to one settler he's probably got 3 cities up and a whole army I usually just quit if he's nearby. Shaka does well usually too he's another city/ army spammer.

[KoalaDAustralie]

I have never seen the AI playing Portugal and failing.
Every time she gets a lots of cities, tons of golds and a lot of luxury resources. So evertime I see her in a game I gotta destroy her before she becomes annoying.

I think that the bests civ played by IA are the most warmonger and aggressive. Like Alexander always does war in early and if he succeds, he becomes a real monster. When I see Rome and they get iron they always crush all others AI nearby. Same with Carthage.

The rest of the AI that requires to be played smartly like Korea IA usually sucks because the game doesn't make them doing what they're supposed to do. Like Holland that doesn't want to trade his last luxury ressource for an other of mine when he would still get a lot of happiness ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[mysterydonut_]

I'd say usually Venice can be quite strong. Along with the Zulus and China. Sometimes they aren't though its just who I've seen the most commonly powerful.

[civ]

venice are actually terrible unless you leave them alone, they are a late game annoyance with all of their city state stealing, just like austria, both are strong late game but weak early. In my opinion iroquois or zulu's 2 reasons, at higher difficulties they can spread / war early and they literally spread like a plague with cities in every crevice, if they border you, guaranteed war, they don't give a ♥♥♥ about happiness so they are allowed to spam cities and because of this can pump out ridiculously large militaries that you can't afford to match, as the computer doesn't suffer happiness penalties allowing them to sit with like 13 cities for an entire game means their late game armies and science is very dangerous on immortal difficulty they will eclipse you in science even with triple of more your cities and crush you unless you take them out very early.

[Vile Dog]

I always believed that AI CIVs also suffer from unhappiness. That is not fair then.