Easiest Civ to play against

[Noctuary]

In your opinion what's the easiest civ to beat?

[apeculiarkat]

The Iroquois under Hiawatha.

[Makaveli]

Venice, AI usually expands like crazy and doesnt do that well when limited to founding 1 city

[JVteam]

Either Venice or Genghis Khan
AI doesn't do hit-and-run properly
EZ Shaka win

[tom]

India early game when they have limited resouces and production so they cannot handle an attack. You dont need to worry about attacks from there other citys.

[Crusty Anooz]

theadora of byzantium her ai expands her civ very slowly, by turn 200 she only had 3 cities

[Medusahead]

The ai changes their tactics up each time you play. Don't expect theadora to always have only 3 cities.

[O_o]

Byzantium is always easy to kill. Bazil is also easy early on. Iroquois is crazy on harder diffcullity(like 10-15 cities mid game crazy).

Zulu is also very easy in a many A.I civ game. Their cost to bribe to war is so cheap that you can cripple all wonder building civ around him and he also cripple himself in the process. Then you can denoce him after gunpowder and take cities off of him.

[The Rock God]

Mongols: AI can't use their units effectively. Plus they're almost always agressive, and waste time with wars.
Aztecs: Meet Monty. He declares war. You destroy his army. Repeatedly. He's still in the stone age when you're building your spaceship because all of his hammers went to Quechuas, and not a single library. He might not have founded a second city either.
Huns: Will show up with a battering ram, but no support. You'll hold them off with two scouts.
Polynesia: Unless the map just happens to favor them, they'll get nowhere.

[The Rock God]

Originally posted by The McChicken:

Other than the civs already listed,
Catherine the Great (Russia)
Haile Selassie (Ethiopia)
Askia (Songhai)
Boudicca (Celts)
Ashurbanipal (Assyrian)

I have notice these Civs to always flounder by mid game, and can usually be annihilated with a few composite archers and swordsman early game if you feel like it.

Looks like someone didn't get the memo from Archmage Traven.

[KW17]

Originally posted by Medusahead:

The ai changes their tactics up each time you play. Don't expect theadora to always have only 3 cities.

Only slightly. Unless you turn on 'random personalities' their tactics will only slightly vary. Obviously the map plays a factor.

[Brecor]

England or America. Half the time they're wiped out before I get a chance to meet them. When they're not, they're usually making up the rear on score.

[Nolvri]

Ethiopia...

[lukebaird84]

Originally posted by The McChicken:

Other than the civs already listed,
Catherine the Great (Russia)
Haile Selassie (Ethiopia)
Askia (Songhai)
Boudicca (Celts)
Ashurbanipal (Assyrian)

I have notice these Civs to always flounder by mid game, and can usually be annihilated with a few composite archers and swordsman early game if you feel like it.

Try fighting those Civs on deity.

Anyways, I agree with @The Rock God's comment. If the Aztecs start far away from other Civs enough, unfortunately they won't weaken themselves with war soon enough and can become a huge classical era menace, spamming you with endless jaguars. But if you can manage it then yes they'll do nothing but build units until they lose.

Polynesia I've found to be a meh Civ. If the map doesn't favor them specifically I wouldn't include them on either the "hard to beat" or the "easy to beat" list.


Kinda based on your list, the warmongering Civs are the easier ones to beat because they'll ignore building infrastructure and spam units until they fall behind a few eras, correct?

[Ricestood]

definitely Spain late game