Favorite Civilization in Age of Empires 3?

[hobosmurf]

Does anyone play age of empires 3 and if so which is your favorite civilization, and why?

Imo the best overall are probably the Russians while my favorite are the Dutch

[SilverKnight]

Russia and Spanish. Although I'm more into AOE II classic

[Ice]

1 Ottoman
+ abus, jans, sipahi, rush
-bad eco
2 Dutch
+ bank, halbs, ruyters, pop limit
- slow in early ages
3 French
+villager, gendarme, skir, very good eco
-pop limit, expensive res/unit

[hobosmurf]

1 Ottoman
+ abus, jans, sipahi, rush
-bad eco
2 Dutch
+ bank, halbs, ruyters, pop limit
- slow in early ages
3 French
+villager, gendarme, skir, very good eco
-pop limit, expensive res/unit

Dutch aren't that slow though, once you build a few banks using resource shipments, which doesn't take very long, it gets pretty easy