Stupidest AI moves

[SandMonkey]

I dunno if this counts, but i was looking through some German cities (through Cheat), and I noticed they had a city about to build SETI Program. And in every other city? One turn away from building a research lab The next turn I checked, and sure enough, they had the SETI Program, and ONE CITY benefiting from it This was in an empire of about 20 cities.

[Chainsaw]

quote: Originally posted by CYBERAmazon on 07-08-2000 02:05 AM Hooha, et al.: That said, has anyone ever seen the AI actually carry out an amphibious assault with marines attacking directly from a transport or galleon? I haven't. CYBERAmazon

Yes, not often, but sometimes. As far as I can recall, it was the Russians once. It wasn´t part of a well-planned, big, coordinated assault, though .

[Ken Hinds]

Occasionally I get the transport load of marines do an anphibious assault, but usually it is one or two transports of tanks and just trashes everything.

Ken

[Gatekeeper]

Chainsaw:

Thanks for the confirmation. I sort of suspected it was a rare event in the first place — much like the AI using aircraft carriers (has that *ever* happened?) — but your observations cement my own.

CYBERAmazon

[SCG]

here's one related to leo's workshop

I used darwin's to discover conscription and tactics. so now instead of vet musketeers defending my cities and vet dragoons clearing out the radius of attackers, I now have the AI choosing the vet cavalry to defend my cities, leaving me green riflemen to try and clear our the city radii!

[SCG]

quote: Originally posted by jpk on 07-21-2000 12:55 PM I am currently playing a game where I traded Philosophy for AI technologies. The first AI civilization (Spanish) to get Literacy got it while I was researching Metallurgy. Immediately three Spanish cities started to build the Great Library. Amidst great fanfare it was finished several turns after I discovered Electricity. Even better than a 300 shield settler.

I've got a game where the AI building the Great Library _chose_ to research electricity they beat me there too :P not one discovery from it. (It might have helped that the GL was the only wonder available at the time)

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April Cantor: Sire, in order to expand further we must first gain favor of the King

SCG: darn, I've never really got the hang of that tribute thing, guess it will be a long time until i make prince

*goes off and starts gifting gold and techs*

[jpk]

I am currently playing a game where I traded Philosophy for AI technologies. The first AI civilization (Spanish) to get Literacy got it while I was researching Metallurgy. Immediately three Spanish cities started to build the Great Library. Amidst great fanfare it was finished several turns after I discovered Electricity.

Even better than a 300 shield settler.

[Laertes]

quote: Originally posted by Smash on 07-18-2000 11:54 PM Marines are 1 of several units I have never seen the ai use.Granted I don't let the ai get advanced enough. Having experimented with them myself I say for sure they ignore coastal forts.Since ships ignore city walls I think they do also but I'm not sure.When I did use them it was against muskets so that doesn't tell me a heckuva lot. A transport of marines with a military ship is deadly for coastal barraging.That way your escort doesn't lose any strength.Also pretty good at capturing those fortresses the ai loves to build.

I have seen the AI use marines quite often, against other AI civs more than myself. I think Marines do ignore city walls. I have just taken 4 large, walled Zulu coastal cities, by chucking a load of Marines at them, taking the city, and then loading the boat up and moving down the coast. I have defeated vet alpine troops quite easily with the Marines, so I think the walls are ignored. Coastal fortresses do protect against marines, I think.

I have a new dumbest move (apart from the obvious deployment of cannon stacks etc in the field without any defensive units) - AI Civs that don't expand!!

Playing at deity, my current group of opponents have totally failed to expand at all. Five of them, and me, were all on one large continent. By 1850, the Zulus had reached about 15 cities, everybody else around 10. They had failed to find several large juicy continents not far from their shores, and had even let the barbarians keep a city going up to size 8 that they caputred in about 3000BC. The Greeks were stuck on a separate large island with about 17 cities, but even with Lighthouse they had made no progress.

They're not even making a game of it! They have not built a wonder since Copernicus, apart from starting suffrage two turns before i finished it. I have stopped building city defences, except for resistance to barbarians.

I have only got a couple of wins under my belt at this level, and this, he says, adding famous last words, will be by far the easiest.