[Anonymous Player]

Do you remember sotl’s overpowered civilization videos? Well, here are even more with some rules to follow:

1. Choose a maximum of 5 bonuses and don’t repeat them constantly.
2. Only pick one Unique Unit unless the theme calls for another.
3. Select only available things in standard games.

OP Generalist Civ:

The tech tree is Portuguese with the following bonuses:

– Units cost 20% less gold (Portuguese)
– Military trained 11% faster (Aztecs)
– Technologies cost less 10%, 15% 20% (Chinese)
– Buildings cost 15% less wood (Malians)
– Buildings cost 15% less stone (Incas)

The Unique Unit is Ratha (Bengalis).

The UT1 is Kshatriyas: Military units cost 25% less food (Gurjaras).

The UT2 is Forced Levy: Militia line cost no gold but have increased food cost (Malay).

The team bonus is that science research 25% faster (Portuguese).

The theme of this civilization is to rush or go for anything and to be able to switch cheaply between different units, buildings, and technologies.

OP Defensive Civ:

The tech tree is the Chinese with the following bonuses:

– Buildings have extra HP 10%, 20%, 30% 40% (Byzantines)
– Villagers heal (Poles)
– Counter-units are cheaper (Byzantines)
– Advance 66% faster (Malay)
– Castles cost 25% less (Franks)

The Unique Unit is Longbowmen (Britons).

The UT1 is Stronghold: Towers and castles fire 25% faster (Celts).

The UT2 is Crenellations: Castles have +3 range, and garrisoned infantry fire arrows (Teutons).

The team bonus is Palisade walls have +33% HP.

This civilization can build high-health walls that are difficult to destroy, and villagers heal, making it hard to raid them. As they expand, they can produce a mass of longbows and cheap halberdiers, while covering the map with long-range castles that shoot faster and have more health.

OP Arena Civ:

The tech tree is Bohemians (all monk techs and gunpowder options).

– Foragers produce wood (Portuguese)
– Chemistry and hand cannon available in Castle Age (Bohemians)
– Stone miners produce gold (Poles)
– Monks gain 5 HP per monk tech (Aztecs)
– Aging up costs 15% less (Italians)

The Unique Unit is Conquistador (Spanish).

The UT1 is Wagenburg Tactics: Gunpowder units move 15% faster (Bohemians).

The UT2 is Artillery: +2 range on bombard towers, cannons, and cannon galleons (Turks).

The team bonus is Siege Workshops work 20% faster (Celts).

This civilization offers three options: castle dropping, fast imp, or smush, all of which are stronger due to extra food early on from the Portuguese bonus and bonuses for each respective strat. If things go south, they have artillery that can outlast the opponent.

[viiksitimali]

Poles:

Polish tech tree

Folwark farms

Gold from stone

vills heal

some other insignificant bonus

UU: Obuch

CA UT: Knights cost less gold

imp UT: Hussars step on me uwu

[NeedMoreRumbos]

OP Mamelukes:

Civ bonuses:

-20% gold cost from Portuguese
Castles cost -25% stone from Franks
Mounted units +20% HP from Franks
Folwarks replace mills from Poles
Gain gold from mining stone from Poles

Castle age UT:

Camel units +20HP from Saracens

Imperial Age UT:

Farimba from Malians

Unique Unit:

Mameluke

Civ bonus:
Camel & elephant units train 25% faster from Gurjaras.

[JeanneHemard]

>Tech Tree: cumans, jk it’s Byzantines

I’d consider giving them another tech tree. Bear in mind that Byzantines building hp bonus replaces Masonry and Architecture. You could make a civ with both these techs and the Byzantine HP bonus on top of that, which would result in unkillable buildings.

>UT1: Kamandaran, archerline gold cost replaced with extra wood cost (Persians)

Why kamandaran? If you’re siege monk pushing I’d go for inquisition or somethingsiege related. I think kamandaran is very expensive as well

[KombatDisko]

What I would do would be take the Palmyrans from aoe1, for their bonus that vils cost more, but work way more efficiently, combined with britons shepherd bonus, chinese farm bonus, magyars BS bonus, Aztec production bonus, magyar tech tree, and cheap scout bonus

Total 5 civ bonus’
1 team bonus, great tech tree for open maps,
UU keshik bc cheap
UT recurve bow and chivalry.

[JeanneHemard]

Perberfrangundioles:

Tech tree: Persians

– Folwark
– Eco techs 1 age earlier
– cavalry 20%cheaper on castle age/30%cheaper in imp.
– cavalry techs half off
– 20% bonus hp

Honorable mention for reduced bonus damage

Team bonus: 20 % faster stables

UT 1: Schlachta privileges
UT2: Farimba to mow down halbs faster or hauberk for pierce armor. Lechtic cavalry is also possible

UU: was feeling a little lost here. cataphract?

[total_score2]

Firstly, I don’t think the UT and UUs matter, I’m gonna kill you in feudal age.

+150 starting food

+3 vills but -200 food (Chinese bonus)

Khmer not needing buildings

Dravidians +200 wood on hitting feudal

Mongols hunt bonus.

TB: Britons one of archery ranges working faster

Basically just Tati rush with this civ.

[JeanneHemard]

Pincushiopians

Tech tree: Ethiopians

– archerline 20%cheaper in castle 30%cheaper in imp
– foot archers +1 range and attack in castle age /+2 in imp.
– archery ranges and stables -75 wood
– archers fire 18% faster
– archer line +3 bonus damage against buildings

Honorable mentions: more HP, free thumb ring and to free archer armor upgrades

Team bonus: archery range 20% faster

UT 1: kamandaran
UT2: ??? Paper money? Torsion engines?

UU: hussite wagon?

[January_6_2021]

I’d replace the “military buildings work 11% faster” on the generalist civ with Spanish “villagers build 30% faster”. It enables and plays into a wider range of strategies than the Aztec bonus IMO.

I think it still gives a similar edge in getting a slight lead in numbers over your opponent early feudal or early castle (your stable/archery range/siege workshop/monastery comes up before theirs does, so your first units come out before theirs), and generally as the game goes on you should find it easier to have more production buildings with the Malian discount + faster build speed, maintaining the ability to outmass military against a generic opponent.

You also get a decisive edge defending from (or being an aggressor with) tower rushes and castle drops (something you can already do more cheaply with double building discounts), giving you even more options to play with.

It even improves your booming. With building wood and stone discount, you should be decent at spamming TCs in early castle age, and having them up faster means less villager time wasted building plus the first villagers from additional TCs ends up coming out faster. Also for booming, you can get walls down earlier and with much less villagers time invested.

[JeanneHemard]

May the farm be with you (food sling civ):

Tech tree: Burgundians (or any other civ with all eco techs idk)

– all techs available 1 age earlier and -40% food
– free wheelbarrow and hand cart
– Folwark
– farm upgrades have double the impact (Sicilian bonus)
– farmers work 10% faster

Team bonus: Chinese (farms +45 food)

UT1: Burgundian vineyards
UT2: Bengali UT (vill 10% less pop space)

UU: who cares?

So wheelbarrow when the game starts, hand cart upon hitting feudal, when you immediately research heavy plow before your first farm is created and you want to get a market asap to sling. From castle age on, after crop rotation comes in, your newly placed farms immediately drop off 120+ food. You can research banking on the way up to castle.

[Ummm_idk123]

For your defensive civ I’d argue your second UT should be the Teutons crenellations for that extra range to castles. Imagine an 8k hit point castle with 13 range that also fires quickly. Throw in that French cheap castle bonus and your spamming OP castles across the map.

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