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aka 'How To Toss Ceasar's Salad' 
Here's the setup: small map, random # of continents, all default settings otherwise except we're playing for culture or 'All your base are belong to us!' - and no time limit. It's moi as Napoleon, Ceasar, Hatshepsut, Monty, and Isabi***a, er Isabella
So mostly things have been going along nicely, (except for Egypt beating me to my dyes spot. hmph.) and I get the usual bullying out of Ceasar and Monty, while trading a bit with Hatty - she really is great neighbor to have ^^ I finally managed to snag Islam (ignored the early religions, got beat by 2-3 turns to everything else 
) and converted promptly. Which of course made everyone hate me for being a heathen, but whatcha gonna do? *shrug* I figured someone would come after me eventually, but this is so crazy...
Now here's the fun : Rheims and Cumae have shared a border for quite sometime, and have been ping-ponging that cow square back and forth all along. If Caesar wasn't asking for a bribe he'd want those cows back
So now that I'm an Allah-worshipping heathen, it of course means war. 
So there I am, braced for an onslaught of Praetorians, hoping I won't get pillaged to death, and here he comes!
All 1 Horse Archer of it.
To pillage the afore-mentioned cow square. WTH??
I moved in my fast response pack of HA's, used a spear from the garrison to dispose of the offending archer, and poach an exposed worker. I send a couple other HA's across the border to pay back the pillage and wait for them to die by counterattack...but he just sits there. And sits there. So what do I do? I ended up pillaging everything, including roads all the way from Ravenna back to Rome. And he did absolutely nothing! He had longbows and spears in garrisons that he could have countered with, same as I did ... you can't tell me he was scared of poor little me?
Oh, he did kill one HA with another HA but that was it. Ooo, I'm scared...NOT!
So final tally :
Caesar - One square pillaged, one pop point lost in Rheims from starvation, two HA lost
Maki - a dozen + squares pillaged, a couple hundred gold, a worker gained, one HA lost, and Ceasar's salad officially tossed for many turns while his economy goes "kabloom!"
What was the AI -thinking-? What algorithm decided 'Hey let's go cheese off France so they can pillage us to the ground!' ? My only guess is that he attacked because A) I was an Allah-praising heathen B)I'd told him where to stuff his requests since day one C)my level of soldiers was low (4th of 5 on the demo screen). Seriously, what script was running that made this an acceptable strategy to the AI? Note that this didn't even disrupt anything I was working on, just gave me something more entertaining to do than building for a few turns
A cow! A cow! His kingdom cut off at the knees over a cow!
Here's the setup: small map, random # of continents, all default settings otherwise except we're playing for culture or 'All your base are belong to us!' - and no time limit. It's moi as Napoleon, Ceasar, Hatshepsut, Monty, and Isabi***a, er Isabella
So mostly things have been going along nicely, (except for Egypt beating me to my dyes spot. hmph.) and I get the usual bullying out of Ceasar and Monty, while trading a bit with Hatty - she really is great neighbor to have ^^ I finally managed to snag Islam (ignored the early religions, got beat by 2-3 turns to everything else ) and converted promptly. Which of course made everyone hate me for being a heathen, but whatcha gonna do? *shrug* I figured someone would come after me eventually, but this is so crazy...Now here's the fun : Rheims and Cumae have shared a border for quite sometime, and have been ping-ponging that cow square back and forth all along. If Caesar wasn't asking for a bribe he'd want those cows back
So now that I'm an Allah-worshipping heathen, it of course means war. 
So there I am, braced for an onslaught of Praetorians, hoping I won't get pillaged to death, and here he comes!
All 1 Horse Archer of it.
To pillage the afore-mentioned cow square. WTH??
I moved in my fast response pack of HA's, used a spear from the garrison to dispose of the offending archer, and poach an exposed worker. I send a couple other HA's across the border to pay back the pillage and wait for them to die by counterattack...but he just sits there. And sits there. So what do I do? I ended up pillaging everything, including roads all the way from Ravenna back to Rome. And he did absolutely nothing! He had longbows and spears in garrisons that he could have countered with, same as I did ... you can't tell me he was scared of poor little me?
Oh, he did kill one HA with another HA but that was it. Ooo, I'm scared...NOT!
So final tally :
Caesar - One square pillaged, one pop point lost in Rheims from starvation, two HA lost
Maki - a dozen + squares pillaged, a couple hundred gold, a worker gained, one HA lost, and Ceasar's salad officially tossed for many turns while his economy goes "kabloom!"
What was the AI -thinking-? What algorithm decided 'Hey let's go cheese off France so they can pillage us to the ground!' ? My only guess is that he attacked because A) I was an Allah-praising heathen B)I'd told him where to stuff his requests since day one C)my level of soldiers was low (4th of 5 on the demo screen). Seriously, what script was running that made this an acceptable strategy to the AI? Note that this didn't even disrupt anything I was working on, just gave me something more entertaining to do than building for a few turns
A cow! A cow! His kingdom cut off at the knees over a cow!
And I mean more than just the garrison, we're talking nearly 20 units in his two biggest cities, and 10+ in a few others. While I was off trashing Ceasar (yes he declared war -again-. it was about bling 
this time though.), Monty had plenty of time/opportunity to come run me over from behind, while I was still upgrading to post-gunpowder units, and alll my offense on the other side of the world, literally. He had attacked me once before I fought Rome, but never again until I joined Hatty in war on him.
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