Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
It may be more of a reflection of the ability of the players of civ3 if they cannot play at the hardest level. On my third game I was playing it at the hardest level (mind you having played civ series including alpha I did have a bit of an advantage).

I do have to admit RTW is too easy.
In my first few games I was still figuring out what was going on, I think the complexity of civ is hugely underestimated by a lot of people (and magazines) since they are familiar with the previous games.

In MTW you have a learning curve for both the battles and the strategic part, but neither is (imho) as complex as the strategic part of civ. Maybe I think this because I haven't played as much civ as MTW yet.