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There are some civs I hate being close to because they're aggressive and as a builder, they often ruin my utopian empire....then there are some that are just plain laughable in their attacks it seems.
This weekend as the ottomans I shared a continent with Napoleon, Isabella, Peter and that cute egyptian chick. I think someone else was there, but they were so ineffectual I forgot about them. Napoleon decided to attack me and my closest city to his border wasn't defended well, only an axeman and an archer in it. But he sent a trickle of units at a time, which made it easy for me to get some horse archers to the front and pick them off a few at a time. Heck, after I eliminated his feeble attack force I used my ammassed troops to tak 2 of his cities! This guy was a great conqueror? If he had actually sent a decent stack of troops he probably would have took my city, or at least beaten my forces down enough so I couldn't counterattack. Dummy.
Isabella though has the psycho thing going for her. I think even the other AI civs are afraid of her. Her empire was huge and I only held off her anger by converting to hinduism when she demanded it. But I knew she'd go bat**** crazy sooner or later. I think the only thing that helped me when she did was that she decided to attack me in the modern era. By that time I had a large army and concentrated on defense instead of attacking. So yeah, Izzy is kind of scary. I don't think theres any way to keep her happy in an entire game.
In my current game though I know an attack is coming. I've just reached the modern age as the english and I have a large empire, a tech lead and a huge army. The arabs to the north of me keep asking to be my vassal but thats a no go. They're everyone's whipping boy right now and I don't need the aggravation. Shaka is to my west but he's been pleased with me the whole game and I really haven't heard a peep from him. He wiped out the indians, but they weren't much of a threat. I took four of their cities in an earlier war (which I started, admittedly....I needed their resources.) which only left them with two. Peter is close in tech to me, but his empire isn't very big. He's annoyed, but I don't worry too much about him. He's got a decent force, but unless he surprises me I don't think he can match me in numbers. That leaves the ones I'm concerned with. all to my south....Hannibal, Alexander and Brennus. Brennus and I are "friendly" and pretty even in tech. I just wonder if he'll turn on me. Hannibal has attacked me in the past, but he has to go through Alex's territory to reach me. (I founded Christianity and spread it around, so with line of sight to certain rival civ's cities, I could see his stack coming). I think hannibal may try again as the endgame looms. I've beefed up the units in my border cities with Alex to guard against Hannibal and the greeks. I think that Hannibal (if he was smart) might get alex to team up against me.
I wish I knew how the AI thought a little better. I know I could take any ONE of them on. I know that if I were going to fight any of them I'd bribe everyone else into the war so they couldn't call on any allies. (civs on the other continent don't concern me...they're all WAY behind in tech and I don't see any of them providing a decent invasion force). But I know someone will declare war.....I'm too close to a spaceship victory for the AI to let me pull it off this easily.
I should be happy that Monty wasn't around.
This weekend as the ottomans I shared a continent with Napoleon, Isabella, Peter and that cute egyptian chick. I think someone else was there, but they were so ineffectual I forgot about them. Napoleon decided to attack me and my closest city to his border wasn't defended well, only an axeman and an archer in it. But he sent a trickle of units at a time, which made it easy for me to get some horse archers to the front and pick them off a few at a time. Heck, after I eliminated his feeble attack force I used my ammassed troops to tak 2 of his cities! This guy was a great conqueror? If he had actually sent a decent stack of troops he probably would have took my city, or at least beaten my forces down enough so I couldn't counterattack. Dummy.
Isabella though has the psycho thing going for her. I think even the other AI civs are afraid of her. Her empire was huge and I only held off her anger by converting to hinduism when she demanded it. But I knew she'd go bat**** crazy sooner or later. I think the only thing that helped me when she did was that she decided to attack me in the modern era. By that time I had a large army and concentrated on defense instead of attacking. So yeah, Izzy is kind of scary. I don't think theres any way to keep her happy in an entire game.
In my current game though I know an attack is coming. I've just reached the modern age as the english and I have a large empire, a tech lead and a huge army. The arabs to the north of me keep asking to be my vassal but thats a no go. They're everyone's whipping boy right now and I don't need the aggravation. Shaka is to my west but he's been pleased with me the whole game and I really haven't heard a peep from him. He wiped out the indians, but they weren't much of a threat. I took four of their cities in an earlier war (which I started, admittedly....I needed their resources.) which only left them with two. Peter is close in tech to me, but his empire isn't very big. He's annoyed, but I don't worry too much about him. He's got a decent force, but unless he surprises me I don't think he can match me in numbers. That leaves the ones I'm concerned with. all to my south....Hannibal, Alexander and Brennus. Brennus and I are "friendly" and pretty even in tech. I just wonder if he'll turn on me. Hannibal has attacked me in the past, but he has to go through Alex's territory to reach me. (I founded Christianity and spread it around, so with line of sight to certain rival civ's cities, I could see his stack coming). I think hannibal may try again as the endgame looms. I've beefed up the units in my border cities with Alex to guard against Hannibal and the greeks. I think that Hannibal (if he was smart) might get alex to team up against me.
I wish I knew how the AI thought a little better. I know I could take any ONE of them on. I know that if I were going to fight any of them I'd bribe everyone else into the war so they couldn't call on any allies. (civs on the other continent don't concern me...they're all WAY behind in tech and I don't see any of them providing a decent invasion force). But I know someone will declare war.....I'm too close to a spaceship victory for the AI to let me pull it off this easily.
I should be happy that Monty wasn't around.
yep, true.
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