Just played my first game on warlord level, after having successfully mastered chieftain level. (I usually played prince, sometimes king on Civ II). I was comfortably in second place in land area, population, etc., but thanks to city improvements and not spending a whole lot of time on military units, I was about to win the space race in 4 turns or so.
Then, unexpectedly, every other civ declares war on me, even though there was peace for at least 500 years. This, despite the fact that I had three nukes. I used them after war was declared on me, and the AI still didn't want to receive my envoy. I eventually won launched the space ship, after 3 or 4 of my huge (>20) cities were overrun (despite having 2-3 mechanized infantry within each of those cities).
Not particularly realistic; I don't know of any leader who'd have his country nuked just to avoid another country launching a space-ship, but I guess it's challenging. For one thing, it was annoying, as it extended the end of the game from maybe 5 minutes to more than an hour just waiting for all the tanks and cavalry to move into my cities. On harder levels, I guess the AI is even more ruthless.
Then, unexpectedly, every other civ declares war on me, even though there was peace for at least 500 years. This, despite the fact that I had three nukes. I used them after war was declared on me, and the AI still didn't want to receive my envoy. I eventually won launched the space ship, after 3 or 4 of my huge (>20) cities were overrun (despite having 2-3 mechanized infantry within each of those cities).
Not particularly realistic; I don't know of any leader who'd have his country nuked just to avoid another country launching a space-ship, but I guess it's challenging. For one thing, it was annoying, as it extended the end of the game from maybe 5 minutes to more than an hour just waiting for all the tanks and cavalry to move into my cities. On harder levels, I guess the AI is even more ruthless.
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