Related to this, I had an odd game with Shaka. Prince, Pangea, Small map. I spawned next to Attila. I was like "Yay now I can have decent early fighting with him". I started to prepare my defense quickly as Attila always likes to attack quick and early. I built few archers and spearmen, beelined to Impis.
After I got my spearmen promoted and was prepared for war I started to realize that there's something very wrong. Attila was still neutral on me, there was no his troops next to my or anyone else's border. So I started provocating him little bit and demanded some money from him. He didn't give it but neither denounced me. I keep on poking him and required him not to settle cities next to me as he was just built brand new city next to my borders. Still no reaction! At this point I was out of insults (if there was an option to tell him that I slept with his wife I'd have used it) so I had no choice to denounce him myself. He denounced me back but still there was no further movements from him. So I took one of his cities with Impies and catapults and moved on to his capital. Just to find out that he had 2 warriors defending it So I took his capital and signed a peace. I don't know what's wrong but Attila didn't act like he used to be...
After I got my spearmen promoted and was prepared for war I started to realize that there's something very wrong. Attila was still neutral on me, there was no his troops next to my or anyone else's border. So I started provocating him little bit and demanded some money from him. He didn't give it but neither denounced me. I keep on poking him and required him not to settle cities next to me as he was just built brand new city next to my borders. Still no reaction! At this point I was out of insults (if there was an option to tell him that I slept with his wife I'd have used it) so I had no choice to denounce him myself. He denounced me back but still there was no further movements from him. So I took one of his cities with Impies and catapults and moved on to his capital. Just to find out that he had 2 warriors defending it So I took his capital and signed a peace. I don't know what's wrong but Attila didn't act like he used to be...