Gucumatz
JS, secretly Rod Serling
- Joined
- Dec 11, 2011
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I don't play many singleplayer games compared to multiplayer, but I have played one and started another. Both times I have spawned next to Shaka [Immortal at the moment] and my god Monty looks like a pansy compared to him.
If I bribe him to attack another civ, his city spamming Impi promoted units just zerg kill everything. In civ 4 he would always take most of Africa on a TSL map and he would try and rush you, but he was never great [Same in Civ 3]... until Civ 5.
Impis with 3 movement everywhere are painful, particularly in rough terrain like Jungles on the Indonesia fractal map I am playing [Which Shaka is trying to ruin for me after I got an epic lake for my UBs, 3 Heroism upgraded longswords from my UU and a 3 move/extra attack longsword]
I think Shaka may be one of the most powerful AI civs in game thanks to his insane UB, UU, and AI ability to spam like crazy. Shaka in previous games was more like Monty. But now... he has become death, destroyer of perfect starts.
If I bribe him to attack another civ, his city spamming Impi promoted units just zerg kill everything. In civ 4 he would always take most of Africa on a TSL map and he would try and rush you, but he was never great [Same in Civ 3]... until Civ 5.
Impis with 3 movement everywhere are painful, particularly in rough terrain like Jungles on the Indonesia fractal map I am playing [Which Shaka is trying to ruin for me after I got an epic lake for my UBs, 3 Heroism upgraded longswords from my UU and a 3 move/extra attack longsword]
I think Shaka may be one of the most powerful AI civs in game thanks to his insane UB, UU, and AI ability to spam like crazy. Shaka in previous games was more like Monty. But now... he has become death, destroyer of perfect starts.