I don't play with cheat codes....

I play with Swiss Armored Pikemen and Gothic Knights.

Roman Empire.

Mongol

The key is constant expansion, and I thought the fleet was destroyed before it got to the main land.

Empire Earth is a better game

I'm pretty certain Raktus is right.

But Total War > EE

never played Total War but I read the back of the package and I still think EE is best..

Azteca.

I'll admit EE is good, the fact that you can zoom down to see your troops up close, and there is nothing quite like going into the Industral Age, and building Napoleon, and about one hundred fifty Grenadiers, then sending the whole army against the enemy, and watching them destroy buildings at such a rapid pace. Or going into WW2, and building then sending 25 B-29s out and watch the screen turn absolutley white as they drop their nukes on the enemy. Or even going into the Space age, and launching nuke missiles across space to strike the enemy base in the other galaxy, lol.

I think:

EE > Shogun TW

EE < Medieval TW

Kraken if you reference a video game in another serious politcal topic again you're banned on the spot.

No one can really compare to their success for their time period or their advancement.

You do realise that the Roman Empire has been hallmarked by historians as the perfect example of how peace typically results in technological stagnation? And do you also realise that most of the technology for which they are famous is actually taken from others, as opposed to them inventing it?

I didn't think so.

Or, reading your later posts you did know that, but simply ignored it for the sakes of stating something.



Also Kraken, the Invasion of Japan never occured BECAUSE of that battle. They lost too much too quickly for them to recover enough to continue the attack.

*snaps Kraken in the head with a bat*

Don't be insulting the Civs. Classic games that paved the way for the stuff you're praising as great now.

Meanwhile, in the greater scheme of things the greatest empires in the sense of the legacy that was left behind most definitely has to be the spainish/portugese.

They weren't @#%$ for a long time, and yet have had the greatest impact on their colonies out of all the colonisers.

Although of the choices:

Greatest Conquerer: Mongols (Alexander falls a long second in that sense)
Longest Rule: Roman Emperors (even long including the Republic)
Longest that shouldn't have lasted: Ottomans
Greatest World Impact: British Empire
Greatest Underdog: British Empire

IMO at least.

I wasn't the first one to do this, if you read above, and I don't see how this is a political topic. This is asking people's opinions on the greatest empire of all time.