Interesting that Dido would DOW you while under DoF. Thus far games on Emperor have not had one such incident - they always denounce to break friendship and then to DOW.
Don't focus on America - it sounds like he is tech leader the second, concentrate on Babylon for its wonder Great Wall city. Get a gatling or two to garrison and take out melee units trying to take Paris and Orleans, don't put them out front. Also, is Bismarck interested in warring with him?
Yeah i've had two backstabs in this game
Early on, America wants to be friends. (This while i'm being gang-banged by Babylon + Carthage.)
I was surprised, but thought, great, at least i don't have to worry about him for a while.
Nope, not long later, he denounces me?!
And then attacks.
And then Carthage. Wow Dido is annoying i must say. As noted in the patch, her deceptive level is off the charts so basically when she says let's be friends, etc, she really means i'm going to screw you over so hard...
Also OMG her ability to cross mountains is annoying on Pangea.
In this map i have a ton of mountains around me, separating parts of my area from others.
I kept forgetting she could cross them, so i kept losing workers that she'd jack, or weak units she's race over and pick off.
As for currently, i'm definitely in big trouble.
I cannot produce enough units to ever get peace from America and he's built Manhatten and has Uranium.
He's also got a WAY bigger military since my three cities take forever to build units and i've lost most everything i've made.
I stupidly thought i could push America back earlier on to liberate Mombosa, but there's no chance as his Battleships and Great War Bombers killed off half my guys before i could retreat (so many hills it's very slow going).
Now i've backed up but my spy tells me Babylon is preparing another attack, and i have so few units spread so thin.
I'm pretty sure this is going to be an extremely ugly loss where i get nuked and overwhelmed to my end well before i can even try for science win.
I paid Boudicca to attack America. I can only pray he focuses on her, but it's not looking that way thus far.
She, Germany, and America are the three main runaways, with Siam having an insanely tall cap (43 pop!) and also doing well.
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