(March 4th, 2014, 17:54)retep Wrote: Guys if you could have choose you leader/civ what would you have taken?
For pure competitive reasons:
Getting ORG/PRO of Inca would be a reason to celebrate. (e.g. FIN/PRO and AGG/PRO of Inca would be obviously great too)
If India wasn't banned it would also enable strong pairs, EXP + ORG/FIN/AGG of India would give UU synergy and 1 trait for expansion and 1 trait for economy, but as even nerfed fast workers can be considered as an early trait taking two traits for longer term economy could be nice: some kind of mix of ORG/FIN/AGG(/SPI) of India would be pretty strong.
Third level of awesomeness would be building a pair around some nice AGG synergy. AGG Zulu would be great even though AGG maintenance reduction (-25 %) has some anti-synergy with Ikhanda maintenance reduction (-20 %): 0.75*0.8 = 0.6 --> - 40 % maintenance reduction combined (and not -45 %).
There might be some awfully good synergistic pairings, but I haven't really thought about this, because both here and in PB13 the pick method has been based on random..
If we prioritize fun over pure competitiveness then I agree that AGG and SPI are probably top 2 traits (while being actually very good as well). We have really enjoyed playing Montezuma in PB13. That combo suffers a bit in some maps, because it starts pretty slow and AGG's maintenance bonus really shines only in the mid-game before one manages to build courthouses. Later in the game ORG & FIN economic bonuses are clearly stronger (State Property pretty much obsoletes the economic part of the trait). But yeah, AGG+SPI is both fun and good.