

Because of how cheap and powerful the walls are, Babylon is extremely easy to defend with a small investment. Babylon also has the Walls of Babylon, which provide +6 defense and a +100 hp bonus. Even better, Bowman are the same price as Archers. In terms of defense, Babylon has the Bowman, which is resistant to melee and does more damage than the typical archer. Additionally, the science bonuses will help players choose the wonders they want as well as the technology path they prefer. The Tundra is probably the worst location to begin a civ. These attributes mean that Babylon begins the civilization with essentially double the science of all the other civs. The starting bias for the civ is avoiding the Tundra, which is a great bias to have.


The second is that Great Scientists are earned 50 percent faster in the civilization. The first is a free Great Scientist when the civilization discovers writing, which will occur quite early in the civ. Another common quality shared by all of the top civilizations is either a bonus to food or a bonus to science. Most of the top-tier civilizations (civs) in Civ V are science civilizations.
