It has been a while but a long tme ago we rated them by tiers which are a general guideline because it depends so much on playstyle, map settings and difficulty level. No offence if you an only beat the AI on demigod using agricultural civs you suck. My first deity victory was in 2003 using the Romans and that was a month or 2 after I got the game.



The Iroqous are probably the best civ as a general rule but if you want a fair ranking of the civs the closest suggestion I can make is pick you map size but have everything else as random. Even Agricultural trait isn't that great when you have no water nearby. If you pick a map that favours your civ and reload until you get an ideal/good start then yeah.......





Seafaring and Commercial civs can also research surprisingly quickly as they get a massive advantage towards racing for philosophy.

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