hip hip hooray! for AGGRESSIVE AI:

[dearmad]

Played my first game with aggressive AI- and i must say I like it much better. Even on Noble level.

Turned off the spaceship victory (for the first time EVER in a civ game for me) and that made the game more fun too.

The Romans went after the Russians and I stood by as I wasn't Russion.

The Romans slapped the Japanes and I stood by as I wasn't Japanese.

The Romans slapped me and I got cocky and thought - that little invasion was it? I moved from defensive into his lands and pillaged a bit then HORDES of ROMAN LEGIONS and KNIGHTS came over the hills and pushed us back and took two cities... I took them back and barely held on for dear life... then peace...

Then they tried again- this time I knew only to go defensive and send a small force behind his lines to pillage. That war worked out OK.

But then the CRAZY AZTECS (+16 relations) decided they'd had enough of their little corner of the world in the jungle and came at me with Infantry to my Riflemen- total defensive jungle warfare and then stalemate once I had Cavalry up and running. But then the Romans came BACK!



Peace with the damned aztec traitors... and:

This time the Romans mass invaded right off the bat- took a town on the border and held it forever until I miraculously out teched them to artillery and infantry and pushed them back.

They took a BIG city on a flanking front- RRRRG! Took that back. Realized that this was going to be a Dan Quayle game of just holding on for dear life until someone else won!

I managed a bad peace agreement but felt like Chamberlain: PEACE in our times! But HALF my country was pillaged to barren terrain... OMG... so sad, the carnage- no bananas (for breakfast), no silk (for the vast panty manufacturing plants), no Corn (for the movie theatres)...

Then I remembered the only way to win was by dominance, military or culture- it was going to be long and hard.... And the Aztecs just built BROADWAY! Here I am just getting infantry up and going.

I surrendered to the Romans. You can't deny greatness when it hits.

next time I will be prepared. I made some interesting tactical and strategic errors and was owned for them.

YAY!

[Datajack Franit]

I'm surprised that the Roman AI doesn't wipe off the entire world right at the beginning of the game, when it's praetorian against archer

[dearmad]

They tried (remeber they drop kicked the Russians early on).... but it was a Terra map so there was just a plain lot of land to cover. They had easily 2x the landmass of any other civ but mine- more cities than me by 2x but I had a lot of culture....

Couldn't win them over with poetry though.

Another intersting thing was they were a land-locked nation doing this- so their tech was beginning to suffer (low trade) and others were outpacing them, but the hordes... the HORDES just kept coming!! BWAAA!

[Addled Platypus]

here is agressive too


I had to laugh, until he never stopped coming