Gandhi. Emperor. Aiming for Bollywood CV. Started real close to Songhay, Germans and Koreans further down south. It was two games - the first the Songhay were going for aggro city spam followed by massive sneak attack and they took my cap.
So I decided that this time I was going to be really super aggressive on him instead, because AIs think Gandhi is too easy pickings AND THAT NEEEDS TO BE CHANGED - like, the same moment when my Scarcher discovered Songhay scout and it got the third ruin, I killed it. There, free gold deal after I got another warrior up and running. Then I discovered Germany... with a worker working some salt mine unprotected. I took that opportunity to enslave me some Jermans... and some turns later we had a non-gold peace (but free worker).
That was alright, I still had the Songhay to play with, and since the death of their scout, they had absolutely no outside contact with anyone else till Korean scouts came knocking. So this time... they went Tradition, like me. But just like last time, they settled a city real close to my cap. Or tried to... one of my warriors promptly took that unescorted settler, restarting war with Songhay.
Some turns later, another gold peace deal. I love Askia.
Then I told him to not settle close to me anymore... but he just told me to "brush up my diplomacy"
and settled this city in my face
like a slap to my face
AIs love to pick on Gandhi because of his tall-based UA, and they "know" that too much expansion will cripple his growth so he'd be all peaceful and trying to stay small to spam wonders
But they don't know smallfish at all, it seems
Again, free gold... now with new lux too and a burnt out spam city
And this time, I was all serious business on him. I deprived him of the chance for early contact with everyone else on continent until their scouts came by... so I had a free war or two, so to speak. All that was around... 5 workers and some hundreds of gold with 1 or 2 gpts involved. When they say Legendary Start in settings, they really meant it.
Then some turns during the peace.. Songhay decided expanding meant gobbling up that cultural CS. A big no-no in my books... well actually, his weakness was my opportunity
So the moment Peace Treaty ended, I did what a lot AIs love to do when they have a bigger army and are super aggro
Then I got denounced by Songhay's overseas friend (pic taken before final DOW) because I killed off Askia (good riddance plus I got Stonehenge for Hinduism)
But a better example would be this other fellow, the other witness to the Death of Songhay They Really Deserved It:
He never liked me AT ALL after I took Gao. Lux deals went from 240 to 209 and further down to 172 (refused to stop spying), and Polynesia was always super hostile towards me.
Such that when Sejong actually came to warn me of Bismarck's scheme for world domination, it turns out that he actually brought a friend along
Long story short: massacring civs is a big no-no unless you don't get caught or you just want to be That Warmonger. Try and leave them to one really crappy city.
