The Flame
^^ bad diplomat ^^
Hi everyone!
Right now I am playing Julius Ceasar in 18-civ world map, marathon speed, noble difficulty (CivIV Vanilla). This is an interesting game - my focus is on diplomacy this time, as I am hoping to win a diplomatic victory.
I have good relations with my European buddies right now (Louis, Frederick, Elizabeth (after converting to the world religion - Judaism), Alexander and Catherine). Africa incl. Saladin hate me. Mansa Musa is annoyed, Egypt is furious, and Saldin is also furious. Early in the game I invaded Egypt as I had no room for expansion (the down-side of starting in Europe). After taking 3 of their cities and sending them to the bottom of the points-chart (or whatever you call that chart with the Civs and their points), I controlled the Jewish holy city and had the most points (I use the points as a neat little reference to see how much I suck at any given time ).
Since Europe was Buddhist, I built tons of Jewish missionaries and sent them throughout Europe. Louis, Alexander and Frederick converted, but Isabella staid stubborn (Buddhist). Catherine and Elizabeth were already Jewish.
Since I am bent on world - conquest (in the most peaceful manner), I want to destroy Saladin. Sadly, I can't do that directly since I already have -4 on "you attacked our friend" for Frederick (Frederick and Saladin are apparently good buddies). I need him as a supporter for my future diplomatic victory, so I don't want to upset him anymore. I did invade Saldin once, but wasn't strong enough to capture more than 2 cities. I have already convinced alot of Civs to stop trading with him, have made tons of arrogant demands, and have done everything in my power to upset him. Yet, he won't attack. His military power is under mine, but still pretty close. The only thing that has a "+" for him is that we share a common religion.
Anyways, I have invaded Alexander, since no one really likes him that much and he has some nice land that I could use. It's not worth keeping him any longer.
After reading this, I have a few questions that I hope you'll be able to answer:
1. Is there any way to convert Isabella to my religion? If not, I'll just have to invade her, but that may cause some foreign difficulties (most of Asia is pleased that I have converted to Judaism, especially India. have to check to see how they stand with Isabella).
2. Why won't Saladin attack me? I can't get any other civs to attack him, since they're all too weak. Does it have anything to do witht he religion thing?
3. Any further suggestions on getting better relations with my neighbors? America has been discovered by Frederick, but I have not met them yet. I was only able to trade maps recently. Hopefully I can get some land from them (America, Aztecs, Incans) before too many people build relations with them.
Thanks for reading this!
Right now I am playing Julius Ceasar in 18-civ world map, marathon speed, noble difficulty (CivIV Vanilla). This is an interesting game - my focus is on diplomacy this time, as I am hoping to win a diplomatic victory.
I have good relations with my European buddies right now (Louis, Frederick, Elizabeth (after converting to the world religion - Judaism), Alexander and Catherine). Africa incl. Saladin hate me. Mansa Musa is annoyed, Egypt is furious, and Saldin is also furious. Early in the game I invaded Egypt as I had no room for expansion (the down-side of starting in Europe). After taking 3 of their cities and sending them to the bottom of the points-chart (or whatever you call that chart with the Civs and their points), I controlled the Jewish holy city and had the most points (I use the points as a neat little reference to see how much I suck at any given time ).
Since Europe was Buddhist, I built tons of Jewish missionaries and sent them throughout Europe. Louis, Alexander and Frederick converted, but Isabella staid stubborn (Buddhist). Catherine and Elizabeth were already Jewish.
Since I am bent on world - conquest (in the most peaceful manner), I want to destroy Saladin. Sadly, I can't do that directly since I already have -4 on "you attacked our friend" for Frederick (Frederick and Saladin are apparently good buddies). I need him as a supporter for my future diplomatic victory, so I don't want to upset him anymore. I did invade Saldin once, but wasn't strong enough to capture more than 2 cities. I have already convinced alot of Civs to stop trading with him, have made tons of arrogant demands, and have done everything in my power to upset him. Yet, he won't attack. His military power is under mine, but still pretty close. The only thing that has a "+" for him is that we share a common religion.
Anyways, I have invaded Alexander, since no one really likes him that much and he has some nice land that I could use. It's not worth keeping him any longer.
After reading this, I have a few questions that I hope you'll be able to answer:
1. Is there any way to convert Isabella to my religion? If not, I'll just have to invade her, but that may cause some foreign difficulties (most of Asia is pleased that I have converted to Judaism, especially India. have to check to see how they stand with Isabella).
2. Why won't Saladin attack me? I can't get any other civs to attack him, since they're all too weak. Does it have anything to do witht he religion thing?
3. Any further suggestions on getting better relations with my neighbors? America has been discovered by Frederick, but I have not met them yet. I was only able to trade maps recently. Hopefully I can get some land from them (America, Aztecs, Incans) before too many people build relations with them.
Thanks for reading this!