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Yesterday I stopped my current game (warlord level) at the beginning of the industrial age, because I absolutely dominated the world and it got boring.
I wanted a little more challenge, so I started at regent level.
And well, I got my challenge!
I played 12 civs on a large map. 9 of the civs were located on one huge continent and my roman empire was just in the center.
The game was quite good, until in the medieval age the babylonians, by far the mightiest civ in the game, declared war on me for no obvious reason. We had not even a common border, so they had to come through egyptian territory. They took one of my cities without bigger problems, but I was able to build a new defence line with my newly developed musketmen and stopped the invasion.
So far, so good!
The problem was, that in the following turns the babylonians allied with nearly every other civ in the world, all of which declared war on me. Only the Persians allied with me (and wanted all my money and a few other things for the deal).
So in the end it was me and the persians against the rest of the world!
Well, I survived due to my brave musketmen and managed to make peace with my opponents in the next 20 or 30 turns, but everyone of them took some tribute and my empire lay in ruins.
I felt like germany at the end of the 30-year-war.
O.K., I always wanted a game with a challenging AI, but at regent level it was a bit strange to have such an opposition. And till Civ 3 I played every TBS-game on the higher difficulty levels.
Anybody else experienced similar early world wars and what can I do to avoid the whole world fighting against me?
I wanted a little more challenge, so I started at regent level.
And well, I got my challenge!
I played 12 civs on a large map. 9 of the civs were located on one huge continent and my roman empire was just in the center.
The game was quite good, until in the medieval age the babylonians, by far the mightiest civ in the game, declared war on me for no obvious reason. We had not even a common border, so they had to come through egyptian territory. They took one of my cities without bigger problems, but I was able to build a new defence line with my newly developed musketmen and stopped the invasion.
So far, so good!
The problem was, that in the following turns the babylonians allied with nearly every other civ in the world, all of which declared war on me. Only the Persians allied with me (and wanted all my money and a few other things for the deal).
So in the end it was me and the persians against the rest of the world!
Well, I survived due to my brave musketmen and managed to make peace with my opponents in the next 20 or 30 turns, but everyone of them took some tribute and my empire lay in ruins.
I felt like germany at the end of the 30-year-war.
O.K., I always wanted a game with a challenging AI, but at regent level it was a bit strange to have such an opposition. And till Civ 3 I played every TBS-game on the higher difficulty levels.
Anybody else experienced similar early world wars and what can I do to avoid the whole world fighting against me?
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