kamikazees
Warlord
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- Jul 5, 2012
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I think I experienced the most brilliant AI tactics so far.
I was playing on a "Shuffle" map (completely random, Emperor level). I was China and the map was a weird islands / small continents map.
I sort of meandered my way through the game. Around T125, I decided I should start trying to win. Rome, Celts and Polynesia were all going cultural. I had 3 cities, no navy and only my capitol had good growth. Everyone liked me, though, so I decided to RA my way to a science VC.
The trouble was that there was only 6 aluminum accessible on the map, all in city state territory: two city states (Hanoi and Brussels) had 3 each.
No one had allied Hanoi, so I got them allied. Rome was the ally of Brussels, but I undid that. I had Brussels allied for like 30 turns no problem. I built spaceship factories in 2 cities (using almost 1/2 the aluminum). Hubble built in the capitol.
The trouble came right as I started popping spaceship parts. After the first 2 parts, Rome coup'd Hanoi. He had not done that all game. I had to stop building 2 parts. Then the Celts suddenly coup'd Brussels! I had to stop the spaceship completely. I got Hanoi and Brussels back, but Rome and the Celts kept coup'ing/swiping Brussels (they had tons of money).
Maybe the AIs just wanted to suddenly ally a cultural CS because of their chosen VC, but they sure fought hard. In fact, it got to the point that I did something I've never done before: I captured a city state. That was my one and only DoW in the game.
Everyone hated me, but I finished the parts like 4 turns after capturing Brussels. So has an AI ever actively tried to prevent you from winning?
I was playing on a "Shuffle" map (completely random, Emperor level). I was China and the map was a weird islands / small continents map.
I sort of meandered my way through the game. Around T125, I decided I should start trying to win. Rome, Celts and Polynesia were all going cultural. I had 3 cities, no navy and only my capitol had good growth. Everyone liked me, though, so I decided to RA my way to a science VC.
The trouble was that there was only 6 aluminum accessible on the map, all in city state territory: two city states (Hanoi and Brussels) had 3 each.
No one had allied Hanoi, so I got them allied. Rome was the ally of Brussels, but I undid that. I had Brussels allied for like 30 turns no problem. I built spaceship factories in 2 cities (using almost 1/2 the aluminum). Hubble built in the capitol.
The trouble came right as I started popping spaceship parts. After the first 2 parts, Rome coup'd Hanoi. He had not done that all game. I had to stop building 2 parts. Then the Celts suddenly coup'd Brussels! I had to stop the spaceship completely. I got Hanoi and Brussels back, but Rome and the Celts kept coup'ing/swiping Brussels (they had tons of money).
Maybe the AIs just wanted to suddenly ally a cultural CS because of their chosen VC, but they sure fought hard. In fact, it got to the point that I did something I've never done before: I captured a city state. That was my one and only DoW in the game.
Everyone hated me, but I finished the parts like 4 turns after capturing Brussels. So has an AI ever actively tried to prevent you from winning?
and gives 2 aluminum. If using that, I would have needed (a) 1 in all 3 cities, or (b) 1 in a city and still 1 city state ally with aluminum. Brussels was my neighbor so I went with option (c): 1 city state ally and one puppeted city state.
Global war ! Very diplomatic...
