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  • A.I. and war: A great improvement.

    Unlike many people here, the a.i. succeed to send a army of 20+ unity with artillery, cavalier, mellee units and rifleman to attack one city!!! WOW!!!

    It was a sneaky attack directly going to my capital orchastred by Egypt(... strange habitually she's gentle with me)....

    My capital had some old units(I was in war with another country, so all my best units was already too far into battle). I had only one turn to prepare my defense, so with my railroad, I manage to move all my defenders from other city(city who was not near this stack of ennemy units) in my capitals. And by upgrading the 3-4 units old units in my capitals into rifleman.

    Finally the battle was between a stack of 20+ units(with 3-4 artillery) and city defended by around 10-12 good units. Many of them was Rifleman with the +20% of city defense. Oh yeah my capitals acheive the legendary score (+500 000) so I think it was a good option for the a.i. to capture this mega huge city.

    But finally... his attack was unsuccessful. He mange to save artillery and cavalry. And me I succeed to save around 4-5 heavy damaged units. But my tanks was moving in the direction of my capitals to finish the ennemy stacks.

    But what i've seen next was frightening. The city where it launched this sneaky attack was preparing a second assault with 10-15 units....... but I manage to win because we were at 2050, and he was not moving too fast to capture my capital.

    Yeah!! this is now the biggest invasion i've ever seen....

    see ya

    Edit:
    Noble difficulty!! Time to move to a higher difficulty!
    bleh

  • #2
    AI is always happy to attack ME.

    But it is utterly incompetant at attacking other AIs. And it has no strategic sense. One horse archer might be pillaging its empire and yet it won't let its massive garrison forces leave town.

    Its like they used that civil war general McClellan as the Ai base or something. . .
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    • #3
      I'm playing a game on monarch with 18 civs, large pangea, and i'm currently being pummeled by 2 civs. I managed peace with two others. My infantry are on the verge of breaking. Even though my civ is about 3 times the size of the nearest competitor, a succession of wars with multiple civs have killed me. I devoted too much time to infrastructure and not enough units. Lesson learned.

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      • #4
        In my very first game, the Inca launched a big invasion of my territory from half a continent away. It first took my weakly defended northern cities, and when faced with stronger defenses further south, set about systematically pillaging everything within reach. Quite well done.
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        • #5
          Indeed. In my first game I lost 4 cities to the AI. I didn't loose that many in Civ2 over some hundreds of games combined.

          It's a bit of a one trick pony, but it is quite a good trick...
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          • #6
            Anyone else ever noticed the AI hauling massive stacks out of its cities to sit and defend strategic resources? Can be a good thing but I've seen the AI take units out of a city that I'm approaching with 20 cavalry and 10 cannons to go sit on a nearby resource that I will end up taking anyway because the city only has a few defenders left.

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