The Best AoE2 Civ (For You)

By Spirit of the Law

1. A question about your play style to start things off: Which random map(s) do you prefer to play most often? (You may pick more than one)

2. Which rushing strategies do you want your civ to thrive at? (choosing 2-3 favourites will give the best quiz results)

0% 0 Dark Age Rush with Militia (Drush)	0% 0 Feudal Rush with Archers
0% 0 Feudal Rush with Scouts	0% 0 Feudal Galley Rush
0% 0 Castle Rush with Knights	0% 0 Castle Rush with Cavalry Archers
0% 0 I often wait until imperial age without attacking.

3. Would you prefer an eco bonus that increases gather rate or a discount on buildings/techs/units?

Increased gather rate (eg. faster food collection)

Discount on buildings/units (eg. -25% cost)

No preference, but I demand a good eco bonus of some sort

No preference, and I'd be ok without an eco bonus if there was a good tech tree

4. Which age would you say you do most of your fighting in?

Feudal Age

Castle Age

Early Imperial Age

Late Imperial Age

5. Tech Tree Questions now: How important to you is the spear/pike line?

0% 0 I don't care about it at all and rarely use them	0% 0 Pikes are important, but I'm ok if there's no halberdiers	0% 0 Halberdiers are a must, but it's ok if they aren't fully upgraded
0% 0 Very strong halberdiers are a must (all blacksmith techs and/or a civ bonus for infantry)

6. How important is the skirmisher line to you?

0% 0 I don't care about it at all and rarely use them	0% 0 Elite Skirmisher is important to me, but it doesn't have to be fully upgraded (eg. no bracer)
0% 0 Fully-Upgraded elite skirmishers are a must

7. How important is the archer line to you?

0% 0 I don't care about archers and rarely use them	0% 0 Crossbows in castle age are important, but I don't care about arbalests
0% 0 I want to have arbalests available

8. How important is the champion to you?

0% 0 I rarely use the swordsman line, so it's ok if I don't get champions	0% 0 I want my civ to have access to champions
0% 0 I want great champions (fully upgraded or with a civ bonus to help them)

9. How important is the knight line to you?

0% 0 I'm ok not using knights	0% 0 I like using knights in castle age, but I can live without the paladin upgrade in the late game	0% 0 I like to use paladins, so I want my civ to have them
0% 0 I love paladins, and I want them fully-upgraded. A civ bonus for them would be great too!

10. Time to take a stand. How do you feel about eagle warriors?

I'm open to the idea of using them instead of cavalry (If you know you prefer Meso-American civs, pick this answer and skip to question 14)

I much prefer to have cavalry

11. How important is the scout line to you?

0% 0 I'm ok with just scouts, or using eagle warriors	0% 0 I'd like to have the Light Cavalry upgrade, but I'm willing to sacrifice having Hussars
0% 0 It's important to me that I have Hussars

12. How important is the bloodlines tech to you (+20 cavalry HP)?

I can live without it

It's important to me that I have it

13. How important are camels to you?

0% 0 I prefer a civilization that DOESN'T have them	0% 0 I like having them available
0% 0 I use them quite a bit, and would prefer a civilization that gets camel bonuses

14. Is water dominance important to you at any stage of game?

I don't really care about having a good navy

I want a strong galley rush, but I don't care about my late game navy

I want a strong post-imperial navy, but I don't galley rush

I want both a strong galley rush AND strong post-imperial navy

15. How important are the gunpowder units to you?

0% 0 I can live without hand canoneer and bombard cannon	0% 0 I want hand canoneer, but I don't care about bombard cannon	0% 0 I want bombard cannon, but I don't care about the hand canoneer
0% 0 I need both units in my late-game army

16. Do you like to have the fortified walls tech?

No. I can do without it

Yes. I want the option to make fortified walls

17. How do you feel about the monastery?

0% 0 I never use monks, except maybe to get relics	0% 0 I would prefer lots of the monk techs
0% 0 I love using monks, and would prefer a civ bonus and almost all the techs available

18. How do you feel about towers?

0% 0 I never use anything beyond the watch tower	0% 0 Keeps are important to me, but bombard tower isn't	0% 0 I like to use both keeps and bombard towers
0% 0 I like to use both keeps and bombard towers,and a civ bonus toward towers would be great!

19. How do you feel about the onager line? (AOC/HD version where they DON'T cut trees)

0% 0 Mongonel is all I ever need	0% 0 I would like at least up to the onager, but I don't care about siege engineers (+1 range to onagers)	0% 0 It's important I have the onager AND siege engineers
0% 0 It's important to me that the civilization I play has Siege Onager

20. How do you feel about the ram line?

The basic Battering Ram is all I ever need

It's important I have the Capped Ram, but I don't care about the Siege Ram

It's very important to me that the civilization I play has Siege Ram

21. How do you feel about the scorpion line?

I rarely use it. The basic scorpion is all I ever need

I like the option of having heavy scorpion for some games

I want to have the best heavy scorpions on the field, including a civ bonus/unique tech for them

22. How do you feel about the blacksmith?

I rarely get blacksmith techs.

The Feudal/Castle age techs are important, but I don't care about all the imperial age ones. Unit matchups are more important

I'd prefer a civ that's missing 2 blacksmith techs at most

I want ALL the blacksmith techs, and would prefer a civ that gets them at a reduced cost

23. How do you feel about building HP techs?

0% 0 I don't want architecture (+10% building HP/ +3 buildings armour) or hoardings (+1000 castle HP). They're a waste of tech tree space	0% 0 I don't care either way. I may get them in the late game if I can, but I wouldn't miss them if I didn't have them
0% 0 Building HP is important, and I prefer to have those techs available

24. How do you feel about the stone and gold shaft mining techs?

0% 0 I don't like to get either tech	0% 0 I like stone shaft mining (+15% stone collection rate), but I don't care about gold shaft mining	0% 0 I like gold shaft mining (+15% gold collection rate), but I don't care about stone shaft mining
0% 0 I would prefer a civ that had both

25. (Last question) How important are the final wood and food upgrades to you?

0% 0 I don't really care if I get access to them	0% 0 I'd like access to at least one of them in a long game
0% 0 I would greatly prefer having access to both in a long time

0% 0 Arabia	0% 0 Black Forest	0% 0 Nomad	0% 0 Water maps (eg. Islands, Archipelago)
0% 0 Full random, scenarios, or no preference