Koiranputki
Prince
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- May 9, 2012
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Top five counter measures to Alex:
5. Reduce the city state ratio from the default 2:1 ratio (which I found too crowded anyway) down to 1:1.
4. Use spies to protect key allies. The AI tends to use the bare minimum cash that would become an ally, and so even a raw recruit would have 85% chance of flipping it back if it were already present.
3. Accept an AIs war invitation against Alex; Alex can't bribe your city state allies when he's at war with them.
2. If playing Austria and Alex is in the game, I'd make marrying city states a higher priority than when he's not in it.
1. And the ultimate counter is to be playing Venice and using Great Merchants of Venice to take over his city states.
Good points ...and I particularly like the last one....as Venice....when I play as Venice...grabbing CSs from Alex, or Ram....those megapoint-influence CSs they seem to be able to get so early in the game... There is something decidedly "schadenfreude" about it ..
When I have Alex in a game I hope that he is close so I can nail him early.... I usually let him start the war, but if not I try not to wait too long to start it myself....
I've gone after him with just composite bows and spearmen....but than can be tough, depending on how easy he is to get at...I usually prefer to have crossbows and pikemen.....