Wolfshanze
CFC Historian
I never thought I'd live to see the day the AI thought it was better to run-away then stay and die a useless death... but Ramses just developed a yellow-streak down his back and let his feet do the talking...
Here's the tale...
...so I'm crushing Ramses in a war... sucker ticked me off when he built MY WONDER (the Brandenburg Gate) just before I was going to complete mine... well, Ramses just so happened to be sitting on my continent and his capital (where he built the Brandenburg Gate) wasn't too far from a major stockpile of my troops... so I figured "I have no wars raging, Ramses is on my border, and he just built the wonder I was craving so badly (a big boost to Great General emergence).
So, in normal fashion, I proceed to bash him in, everywhere I go... I thought he only had a few cities on a peninsula, but then I realized he also had a few cities well north of my empire... so I had to send an expeditionary force up north...
It was this force that met with surprise... shortly after conquering his capital city back on the peninsula, Ramses made one of his northern cities his capital... my expedition force besieged the city (with a good tech advantage... my Rifles vs his Muskets), and I had already led a few assaults into the city (I was outnumbered, but I held the tech edge... so it was only a matter of time). He had some Galleass's in the city, and was reduced to a single Horse Archer... my cannons and rifles were ready to finish the job the next turn, when what happens?
He leaves his ships in-port, but has his last remaning horse unit book out of the city and run away...
I've never seen that!
The AI has a propensity to die to the last man on futile stands, but Ramses took to the hills rather then die... not sure if that was cowardice or strategy... but I found it very strange...
Oh well... he won't last much longer!
Here's the tale...
...so I'm crushing Ramses in a war... sucker ticked me off when he built MY WONDER (the Brandenburg Gate) just before I was going to complete mine... well, Ramses just so happened to be sitting on my continent and his capital (where he built the Brandenburg Gate) wasn't too far from a major stockpile of my troops... so I figured "I have no wars raging, Ramses is on my border, and he just built the wonder I was craving so badly (a big boost to Great General emergence).
So, in normal fashion, I proceed to bash him in, everywhere I go... I thought he only had a few cities on a peninsula, but then I realized he also had a few cities well north of my empire... so I had to send an expeditionary force up north...
It was this force that met with surprise... shortly after conquering his capital city back on the peninsula, Ramses made one of his northern cities his capital... my expedition force besieged the city (with a good tech advantage... my Rifles vs his Muskets), and I had already led a few assaults into the city (I was outnumbered, but I held the tech edge... so it was only a matter of time). He had some Galleass's in the city, and was reduced to a single Horse Archer... my cannons and rifles were ready to finish the job the next turn, when what happens?
He leaves his ships in-port, but has his last remaning horse unit book out of the city and run away...
I've never seen that!
The AI has a propensity to die to the last man on futile stands, but Ramses took to the hills rather then die... not sure if that was cowardice or strategy... but I found it very strange...
Oh well... he won't last much longer!