ConanKND
Warlord
Yesterday I was playing a Noble Game as Izzy in a Terra map. (Noble's not a challenging level for me, but I played it because I sorely needed a victory, haven't won a Civ game for a long time).
I was doing well, and colonizing the Spanish Main a.k.a the Americas, when suddenly I was DOW'ed on by Gilgamesh, who was a master of 3 city Monty tucked away in another corner of the continent. Gilgamesh and I shared short border, and he had been picking on Lincoln recently, I paid him to make peace once, because I din't want a powerful Gilgamesh with a bloated empire, and passed an AP resolution (Controlling the AP is what all good Izzies should do) to stop the war and return all the cities Lincoln lost to him.
I was worried sick when I saw his stacks, it was 3 stacks, one with 5 units, one with 8 units, and another with about 40 UNITS. But most of them were knights, accompanied by a few mace-pike (2 or 3) and cats and trebs (5-6 total). SO, I rushed to rifling, and used the 2-3 turns he took to arrive at my city to upgrade about 10 units to rifles and cavs, and rushed some units from the border with J Caesar to defend it.
The first turn he arrived was use for pillaging some mature towns around the border, then 2 turns to bombard, while suiciding some knights to give CG3 rifles to me, and then when defences were 0% all hell broke lose.
About 36 units attacked, first cats then trebs, then the few maces and pikes, and the flood of 35 knights or something. I lost 2 units, he lost his whole stack. I attacked back and destroyed his whole force. The 50 units or something he lost made his power rating fall to my level, and I sued for peace, making him pay in cash and convert to my true faith of Christ. (temporarily)
So, a few questions from my story.
1. Why does the AI over emphasize mounted units? Gilly was one, and before that JC, who declared war on me once with HAs and was beaten back easily by a few pikes.) They're not worth the cost and can be easily countered. Why not spend less hammers on maces and maybe having more hope?
2. Why does the AI still suicide its units against hopeless defence? Those 50 units may have been easily used to destroy my economy by pillaging. Instead it wastes a huge amount of hammers and gains a lot of WW and gave a GG. (Do I wish I had the Great Wall). Doesn't the BetterAI prevent this?
3. If Gilly built 5-6 galleons and loaded with knights, he may have easily taken the whole Spanish Main, my American cities, which was really lightly defended and sprawled out across the continent. Why doesn't the AI emphasize the new continent in Terra? So far it's 1800s and the only other AI city in the New World is a French city, compared to my mad REX of 6-7 cities in all. The New World can be a decisive factor in Terra maps.
4. Under which conditions could the declare war on the infidel resolution be passed? Monty has no Christian cities, yet I can't pass a resolution to dogpile him. Is it because he's Gilgamesh's vassal, and he has Christian cities?
Thanks for reading my story, and Hope to see some replies.
I was doing well, and colonizing the Spanish Main a.k.a the Americas, when suddenly I was DOW'ed on by Gilgamesh, who was a master of 3 city Monty tucked away in another corner of the continent. Gilgamesh and I shared short border, and he had been picking on Lincoln recently, I paid him to make peace once, because I din't want a powerful Gilgamesh with a bloated empire, and passed an AP resolution (Controlling the AP is what all good Izzies should do) to stop the war and return all the cities Lincoln lost to him.
I was worried sick when I saw his stacks, it was 3 stacks, one with 5 units, one with 8 units, and another with about 40 UNITS. But most of them were knights, accompanied by a few mace-pike (2 or 3) and cats and trebs (5-6 total). SO, I rushed to rifling, and used the 2-3 turns he took to arrive at my city to upgrade about 10 units to rifles and cavs, and rushed some units from the border with J Caesar to defend it.
The first turn he arrived was use for pillaging some mature towns around the border, then 2 turns to bombard, while suiciding some knights to give CG3 rifles to me, and then when defences were 0% all hell broke lose.
About 36 units attacked, first cats then trebs, then the few maces and pikes, and the flood of 35 knights or something. I lost 2 units, he lost his whole stack. I attacked back and destroyed his whole force. The 50 units or something he lost made his power rating fall to my level, and I sued for peace, making him pay in cash and convert to my true faith of Christ. (temporarily)
So, a few questions from my story.
1. Why does the AI over emphasize mounted units? Gilly was one, and before that JC, who declared war on me once with HAs and was beaten back easily by a few pikes.) They're not worth the cost and can be easily countered. Why not spend less hammers on maces and maybe having more hope?
2. Why does the AI still suicide its units against hopeless defence? Those 50 units may have been easily used to destroy my economy by pillaging. Instead it wastes a huge amount of hammers and gains a lot of WW and gave a GG. (Do I wish I had the Great Wall). Doesn't the BetterAI prevent this?
3. If Gilly built 5-6 galleons and loaded with knights, he may have easily taken the whole Spanish Main, my American cities, which was really lightly defended and sprawled out across the continent. Why doesn't the AI emphasize the new continent in Terra? So far it's 1800s and the only other AI city in the New World is a French city, compared to my mad REX of 6-7 cities in all. The New World can be a decisive factor in Terra maps.
4. Under which conditions could the declare war on the infidel resolution be passed? Monty has no Christian cities, yet I can't pass a resolution to dogpile him. Is it because he's Gilgamesh's vassal, and he has Christian cities?
Thanks for reading my story, and Hope to see some replies.
