War is a mindset, it seems

[Addled Platypus]

Originally posted by Dactyl
Here's a trick I've noticed that the AI will sometimes play. Say that civ X is at war with civ Y. After a while civ X asks you to join the war against Y. You gladly join in and, on the very next turn X makes peace with Y and you are stuck fighting Y alone.

real nice

hopefully you ask for peace on the next turn as well

[Bhruic]

You can't (which is why the AI does this, not as a 'trick'). There's a waiting period before you can make peace after declaring war. The AI who's asking you to go to war would probably make peace immediately, if they could, but they are stuck waiting. So they ask you to go to war to help them, but then the waiting period is up, so they can make peace. You, then, have to deal with your own waiting period before you can get peace.

Bh

[Footie Mad]

Defensive wars are much easier to handle in my experience, you have the advantage of faster healing, faster movement, faster reinforcements and city defense bonus. The big mistake I made early on before starting to understand the AI was that I left my internal area relatively unguarded, the enemy will try to sneak in and pillage or get to weakly guarded cities. That's why you must leave some units scattered throughout the nation and ready to intervene.

I have never suceeded in offensive military campaigns against more than one worthy opponent at once, but to invade at one front and keep the enemy at bay on the other is more realistic.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Dis
since upgrade paths go all the way up, there is no real excuse to neglect building military units. Long as you have the gold to updgrade that is . And as far as I can tell, they don't lose their promotions with the upgrades (unlike civ3 where elites became veteran).

I believe when you upgrade you drop down to the last threshold you passed. For example a 16/17 EXP archer upgrades to a 10/17 longbowman.

[Skanky Burns]

Which makes upgrading totally not worth it. Just build a new unit for cheaper.

[OzzyKP]

Well you just have to time it. Wait till that archer wins one more battle, gets to 17, and upgrade it then.

[BgT]

I thought it 10 XP max. So 18/17 archer upgrades to 10/27 longbowman?