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The Best Civilizations You Should Take In Rise of Kingdoms (With Greece)

Choosing your civilization in Rise of Kingdoms has quite some effect on your whole game experience as each civilization has an individual bonus that will help you, some do more, some do less.

After all there’s not a single answer and the civilization you should choose depends heavily on your play style and also if you’re in the early, mid or late stages in Rise of Kingdoms.

If you look at my list below I’m sure you’ll find some really helpful hints that will help you choose your civilization.

Update! Updated with the new Greece civilization settled in the game

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Changing Your Civilization? Yes, That’s Possible

By the time you’re reading this, you probably already have chosen your civilization, right?

Well, you can change your civilization after you’ve chosen it but it will cost you 10,000 Gems or a token for changing your civilization – so if you haven’t played that long (few hours or days), you might want to think about starting instead of wasting that amount of Gems for that.

It’s important to have the right civilization, but just think about how much you can get with 10,000 Gems or how long it takes to get that many Gems in Rise of Kingdoms.

You can do it in your profile by using the arrows next to your civilization.

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But now let’s get back to the original question, what is the best civilization to choose?

One thing to mention here, if you change your civilization everything will change (but not get reset!), only your starting commander will remain the same!

If you also want to check out which commanders are really good in Rise of Kingdoms, you might want to check out my guide here.

Rise of Kingdoms Civilizations – Which Is The Best?

I have tried to put them in a tier list to give you an indication how well (or bad) they are, so you will the great civilizations to choose, the okay civilizations and the civilizations that I think are not really useful.

TLDR; if you don’t want to read the full guide below, here’s the key takeaways:

Best Started Civilization choose either China (faster action points and building speed), Britain (great training speed increase and larger marches) or Spain (resource production speed and additional experience from neutral units). The way the game evolved recently I highly recommend China as your starting civilization

Best Economy Germany is a great pick mid-game with great units and other traits like training speed and action point recovery along with cavalry. For a farming mini account, Japan is also working great (march speed, scouting and gathering speed). Korea is also interesting for the faster research speed.

Best Open Field If you are interested in open field combat (and you should), the best civilization here is Ottoman (more march speed and skill damage), but also France is interesting (with faster healing).

Best Rally For rallying in Rise of Kingdoms you should take a closer look at either Egypt (for archer rally) or Arabia (for cavalry rally). Please mind, always have the current best marches in mind to see what troop type works best, I frequently update the meta marches here. Also the new Greece have a good rally bonus so they might become a contestant here.

The Civilizations To Choose

Before reading the table, please mind that the Starting Commander is only useful for starting as you can use any commander with any civilization later in the game! Never switch your civilization because of the starting commander, it won’t be affected by switching anyway.

Also, a ranked “S” Starting Commander means how useful a commander is at starting in Rise of Kingdoms, not how strong he is later in the game (refer to the commander tier list here to see what commanders are really strong).

Here’s an overview (sorted alphabetically) to give you main benefits. Below the table you will find a more detailed guide what civilizations I recommend:

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  • ArabiaBest Baibars Build
    actually this civilization has really strong buffs, but I put it here because only rally leaders and people starting rallies frequently will really benefit from the additional damage dealt to barbarians and the damage buff all allied troops will get.Attention: End-Game Ranking below only applies to rally leaderStart Commander: BSpecial Unit: BEarly: C+Mid: C+End: SBest Baibars BuildBest Commanders
  • BritainBest Boudica Build
    they are good as well and the additional garrison capacity will hurt attackers a lot and the faster troop training is also helpful. However, it always depends on how active and good your alliance is. I'd only recommend them if you're later in the game and training a lot of the T4/T5 units that take long where the faster training buff will come into play and you want to specialize in archery.Start Commander: ASpecial Unit: B+Early: CMid: BEnd: ABest Boudica BuildBest Commanders
  • ByzantiumBest Belisarius Build
    the main benefits here are the 5% additional health for cavalry troops and the 15% additional hospital capacity. This is really powerful because many are using cavalry units quite heavily and the extra 5% will help not letting them die because they are really expensive to train, especially later in the game. The additional hospital capacity will also help you to lose as few as possible of them so if you use cavalry units often (or plan to), this civilization is really great when you're later in the gameStart Commander: BSpecial Unit: BEarly: BMid: BEnd: BBest Belisarius BuildBest Commanders
  • ChinaBest Sun Tzu Build
    that's the best pick as starting civilization with the additional action points that help you get a lot extra resources from neutral stuff as well and the extra building speeds helps early in the game a lot until you come at the point where you start training T4 units, that#s the point where other civilizations are better.Start Commander: SSpecial Unit: BEarly: SMid: B+End: C+Best Sun Tzu BuildBest Commanders
  • EgyptBest Imhotep Build
    sorry to say, but the new civilization is not going to rock that much, especially not early in the game... The building & research increase is cool for beginner players but China offers more plus the action point recovery. Also, Imhotep is an outstanding starting commander, China offers with Sun Tzu one that you can also use through the full game. Later you have the rally bonus but I think the other civilizations offer more so don't switch now!Start Commander: SSpecial Unit: BEarly: AMid: B+End: ABest Imhotep BuildBest Commanders
  • FranceBest Joan of Arc Build
    for sure a civilization that you can use in the end game. when you will see 20% additional healing speed and extra health for your troops as an advantage and it helps a lot to not have to wait for hospital capacity.Start Commander: SSpecial Unit: B+Early: BMid: AEnd: B+Best Joan of Arc BuildBest Commanders
  • GermanyBest Hermann Build
    more action point recovery, faster troop training speed and the additional damage for cavalry units is really helpful. Also their special unit is pretty nice but I wouldn't recommend running Germany as the first civilization as Chine or Japan are more useful there.Start Commander: SSpecial Unit: A+Early: B+Mid: AEnd: ABest Hermann BuildBest Commanders
  • GreeceBest Pericles Build
    really not a great civilization to start out and more geared towards end-game rallying, making it not too interesting for many players.Attention: End-Game Ranking below only applies to rally leaderStart Commander: A+Special Unit: AEarly: CMid: C+End: A+Best Pericles BuildBest Commanders
  • JapanBest Kusunoki Build
    For me, that's a great civilization when you're starting the game. The 30% speed for scouts will really help you when you have most of the map uncovered (and believe me, the map is bigger than you could imagine). Also 3% troop attack buff and 5% resource gathering buff will be extremely useful to you in the earlier stages of the game.Start Commander: B+Special Unit: BEarly: A+Mid: BEnd: C+Best Kusunoki BuildBest Commanders
  • KoreaBest Eulji Build
    this is a good civilizations in the later stages of the game where you will really appreciate the hospital capacity that can save you a ton of expenses for training new troops and the research speed buff is also a great help later when the researches take very long times. The archer defense buff, in fact, isn't that useful after all.Start Commander: BSpecial Unit: BEarly: BMid: AEnd: B+Best Eulji BuildBest Commanders
  • OttomanBest Osman Build
    if you specialize in archers later in the game, Ottoman Empire is something to consider. The additional skill damage applies to pretty much all archery commanders as they deal direct damage and the additional archer health is a great stat in the battle, paired with additional march speed a very nice pick mid-to-late game in Rise of Kingdoms!Start Commander: BSpecial Unit: BEarly: BMid: AEnd: ABest Osman BuildBest Commanders
  • RomeBest Scipio (Epic) Build
    with a really nice special unit and the extra march speed for everything the Romans are a civilizations many people pick for mid-game and don't regret it. I wouldn't start with Rome as the first civilization but at the point where you get T4 units a nice choice, along with France or Vikings.Start Commander: BSpecial Unit: A+Early: BMid: AEnd: ABest Scipio (Epic) BuildBest Commanders
  • SpainBest Pelagius Build
    is not a civilization that really works well anywhere and get outclassed by other civilizations. The extra exp from barbarians is nice early but the cavalry defense and resource production not that well as other civilization's traits. Their special unit isn't outstanding neither and the experience doesn't play much of a role in mid/late game.Start Commander: BSpecial Unit: BEarly: B+Mid: BEnd: C+Best Pelagius BuildBest Commanders
  • VikingBest Bjorn Build
    the Vikings have one of the best special units with extra health and defense and are really strong overall. The 5% additional infantry attack and especially the counterattack damage are really nice. 10% extra troop load capacity is also nice to have. Nothing to start with, but a civilization you want to consider mid-game when you start training T4 units.Start Commander: B+Special Unit: A+Early: BMid: AEnd: ABest Bjorn BuildBest Commanders

Starting Civilization

If you’re starting you will use mixed armies a lot so specialized units aren’t that important. Your main focus is getting a good start and also boost researching and building as much as you can.

For that reason I recommend using China as starting civilization with their additional action points, building speed and with Sun Tzu you will get a great starting commander as well.

Mid-Game Civilization

When you have your T4 units unlocked and start specialization, there are multiple options for you:

  • Rome, France or Vikings for Infantry
  • Britain or Ottoman for Archery
  • Germany for Cavarly

Switching your civilization here makes sense and although 10k Gems is a lot, it will help you in the long run and you have saved a lot of time if you picked the right starting civilization.


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