IronCrown
Black Foe of the World
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- Jun 21, 2007
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I bought Civ V right after release but didn't like it, now last week I tried it again with the expansion installed and finally got a little hooked up by it. In fact it would be great if it had an AI.
Anyway, in my second serious game, on King level, I went for diplomatic victory because that seems to be by far the easiest one and one AI (Gengis Khan) was totally dominant in size, tech and military. He had done a good job of killing everyone on his own continent, so I figured the AI is not so bad after all.
Then he declared on me and I thought I was toast, as his army was five times as big as mine. But I had recently built a few submarines which I deployed on both sides of my continent between his shores and mine.
And then I just sunk most of his army and his ships without losing anything. Submarines shoot from 3 tiles away and are invisible to what he had, so he never made a single counter-attack. Not one of my subs was even damaged. Every sub one-shot any of his embarked units and obsolete ships, two subs sunk any carriers or battleships. It was ridiculous. After 20 turns or so his army was about as small as mine and he hadn't landed a single unit on my shores, and I had not suffered any casualties even though his navy was by no means inferior in size or strength.
While funny, of course it felt like cheating. I guess the AI simply doesn't know how to play against subs so using them is basically an exploit. Really sad because submarines were always useless in Civ now they are finally useful, but way overpowered![Frown :( :(](/data/assets/smilies/frown.gif)
Anyway, in my second serious game, on King level, I went for diplomatic victory because that seems to be by far the easiest one and one AI (Gengis Khan) was totally dominant in size, tech and military. He had done a good job of killing everyone on his own continent, so I figured the AI is not so bad after all.
Then he declared on me and I thought I was toast, as his army was five times as big as mine. But I had recently built a few submarines which I deployed on both sides of my continent between his shores and mine.
And then I just sunk most of his army and his ships without losing anything. Submarines shoot from 3 tiles away and are invisible to what he had, so he never made a single counter-attack. Not one of my subs was even damaged. Every sub one-shot any of his embarked units and obsolete ships, two subs sunk any carriers or battleships. It was ridiculous. After 20 turns or so his army was about as small as mine and he hadn't landed a single unit on my shores, and I had not suffered any casualties even though his navy was by no means inferior in size or strength.
While funny, of course it felt like cheating. I guess the AI simply doesn't know how to play against subs so using them is basically an exploit. Really sad because submarines were always useless in Civ now they are finally useful, but way overpowered
![Frown :( :(](/data/assets/smilies/frown.gif)