Age of Empires
Civilization Chooser

I'm usually the Yamato civilization when I play
Age of Empires over the internet because they
seem to have everything I need.  However, I've
often wondered if there's another civilization
out of those twelve that would suit me, because
the Yamato don't have heavy catapults.  I'd also
like to try out war elephants sometime, but I
still like centurions.

Rather than try to play matchmaker with the
civilization attributes page of the AoE
manual addendum, I thought I'd write a program
that would help me find a civilization that has
everything I want -- without a hassle.

So was born the "Age of Empires Civilization
Chooser".  You can do two things with it:
First, you can see very quickly the attributes
of each civilization without having to look at
yellow dots in a hard-to-read grid.  Rather,
you now just select the Civilization and see
for yourself.

Second, you can try to match a civilization.
What you do is select the units you want your
civilization to have.  For example, you might
feel you need War Elephants, Heavy Catapults,
and Centurions.  After you'd select those three
check boxes, you'd press "Match" and it would
report to you that two Civilizations have those
three attributes:  The Sumerian and Hittite.
Those two would now appear red rather than brown
at the top of the window.

Thank you for your interest in this program.  All
you need to run it is CIV.EXE and CIV.TXT in its
own directory and the Visual Basic 5 DLL's.

I hope you enjoy this program, and feel free to
email me with suggestions, comments, or anything
else you feel I should know.

Michael
mvtg1@usa.net
http://members.xoom.com/mvtg1