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Stupid AI Tricks
Does anyone have any stories about something dumb/funny the AI did?
In my current game, I am the French and have a decent size empire. I have the Forbidden Palace and most of the Wonders so far. I wanted to take over a neighboring civ so I started building Knights (it was the beginning of the Middle Ages) like crazy. Just in case the war went bad, I also upgraded all my Spearmen to Knights.
I had almost all my units in place when the Aztecs (another neighbor) declared war on me. I couldn't believe it - the Aztecs had a warrior patrolling my territory watching me build up my forces and the most powerful unit they had was Spearmen. Next thing a I know about 5 Jaguar Warriors start attacking my border cities (thankfully I had Pikemen garrisoned there). So I get other neighboring civs to declare war on the Aztecs. I pull my Knights from one border and send them charging across my land to the Aztec border. My Knights repelled the attack and took about 4 Aztec cities. Two things saved the Aztecs 1) my Knights arrived 1 or 2 at a time so a concentrated effort could not be made and 2) I am new at waging war and had little experience with tactics.
Eventually the AI wanted peace so I extracted huge reparations. What's more not only did they lose 4 cities, but I also took over their only source of iron. If they would have waited a few more turns, I would have had Military Tradition and would have mowed over their entire civ with my Cavalry.
Lessons learned:
- The AI is dumb
- The Aztecs are aggressive
- Don't build your border cities adjacent to mountains when the mountains are on the other side of the border
Questions:
- I had Sun Tzu's War Academy and I think that when I captured a city and connected it to my civ via roads on the next turn I had a barracks. Does this seem right?
In my current game, I am the French and have a decent size empire. I have the Forbidden Palace and most of the Wonders so far. I wanted to take over a neighboring civ so I started building Knights (it was the beginning of the Middle Ages) like crazy. Just in case the war went bad, I also upgraded all my Spearmen to Knights.
I had almost all my units in place when the Aztecs (another neighbor) declared war on me. I couldn't believe it - the Aztecs had a warrior patrolling my territory watching me build up my forces and the most powerful unit they had was Spearmen. Next thing a I know about 5 Jaguar Warriors start attacking my border cities (thankfully I had Pikemen garrisoned there). So I get other neighboring civs to declare war on the Aztecs. I pull my Knights from one border and send them charging across my land to the Aztec border. My Knights repelled the attack and took about 4 Aztec cities. Two things saved the Aztecs 1) my Knights arrived 1 or 2 at a time so a concentrated effort could not be made and 2) I am new at waging war and had little experience with tactics.
Eventually the AI wanted peace so I extracted huge reparations. What's more not only did they lose 4 cities, but I also took over their only source of iron. If they would have waited a few more turns, I would have had Military Tradition and would have mowed over their entire civ with my Cavalry.
Lessons learned:
- The AI is dumb
- The Aztecs are aggressive
- Don't build your border cities adjacent to mountains when the mountains are on the other side of the border
Questions:
- I had Sun Tzu's War Academy and I think that when I captured a city and connected it to my civ via roads on the next turn I had a barracks. Does this seem right?
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