So, I see how Hippus AI always dominates the maps in my long games and I see all the "how to deal with hippus" threads, so I decided to get off my builder / turtle butt, leave the khazad and elohim behind & try em out.
ouch.
Understand I typically play on 'emperor' difficulty....
if I beeline horsemen and start raiding my neighbors for cash to keep my economy going to grow cities, they pop axemen or hunters and wipe out my raiders then come for my cities in big enough stacks that I can't whittle em down fast enough to let my warriors defend... or I end up with a stifled economy due to no SP/cottages (5/4 population happy cap is rough)
If I sidetrack a little to get fishing and education then coinage to get an economy jump started, they have archers or longbowman and axemen or champions, so I end up having to wait for knights and war chariots to make raiding worthwhile and then its a knuckle-down slug-fest, clearly not how the AI hippus works that I've seen and others complain about.
Thoughts on what I"m doing wrong?
ouch.
Understand I typically play on 'emperor' difficulty....
if I beeline horsemen and start raiding my neighbors for cash to keep my economy going to grow cities, they pop axemen or hunters and wipe out my raiders then come for my cities in big enough stacks that I can't whittle em down fast enough to let my warriors defend... or I end up with a stifled economy due to no SP/cottages (5/4 population happy cap is rough)
If I sidetrack a little to get fishing and education then coinage to get an economy jump started, they have archers or longbowman and axemen or champions, so I end up having to wait for knights and war chariots to make raiding worthwhile and then its a knuckle-down slug-fest, clearly not how the AI hippus works that I've seen and others complain about.
Thoughts on what I"m doing wrong?