Maybe I am wrong... but does it seem like most of the computer generated wars follow history? I have noticed that the Romans often attack the Egyptians, the Greeks attack the Persians, etc... has anyone else noticed this or am I nuts?
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Civ3Lover
Chieftain
I personally don't know. I'm playing Germany, and I started off slaying Greece. Egypt declared war against me after I RETALIATED with a nuke after BEING nuked. England, Russia, and Japan followed suit very quickly. Rome declared war on me the following turn. I destroyed Rome quickly, and England was prepared to sign a peace treaty after I bombed their roads and improvements. LOL
Egypt has a mere 4 cities left after having 15...
I'm the top dog now with two japanese territories, 10 Egyptian, and nine or ten Greek cities.
Oops.. should have been clearer... I notice this most often early in the game... so before nukes are around 
Anywho.... usually I play Egyptians and notice that every time I am on land with the Romans.. they attack me after a short while. I also realized.. after watching the hubby play... that even farther on during the game.. enemies in history are the ones that tend to fight each other.
Anyway, I would love others thoughts on this.. could they have really tried to make this (game) somewhat "historical" (of course in the broadest sense that could possibly be )?
Anywho.... usually I play Egyptians and notice that every time I am on land with the Romans.. they attack me after a short while. I also realized.. after watching the hubby play... that even farther on during the game.. enemies in history are the ones that tend to fight each other. Anyway, I would love others thoughts on this.. could they have really tried to make this (game) somewhat "historical" (of course in the broadest sense that could possibly be )?
Kinboat
Conan the Librarian
I've noticed similar thiings happening in my games... Maybe it has something to do with the 'culturally linked starting positions' Countries generally go to war with their closest neighbors... If they happen to start near their real world nemesis it looks like they carry a grudge in the game... I've had Persia and Greece fight an early war in almost every game I've played with both of them in it....
d3dash
Lord of the Dust Mites
I would agree with kinboat, The culturaly linked starting locations are prolly the cuase. I mean, if you think about it, if you start as Egypt, and rome is quite close, when Rome looks to expand they are not gonna look across the seas to Japan or America's teritory, they are going to look at who is the closest that they could steal some land from.
Major Guevara
OldMajor
umh........Youre point?
The AI civs are always looking for the most beatable opponent. It follows the game's internal logic. Romans are militarist. Egypt are more pacifist. Romans have a big army. As d3dash said, when Rome wants to expand, they will look for the weaker opponent. Probably Egypt. Or even you, if you do not have a big army.
Civ3Lover
Chieftain
My POINT, smart mouth...
Is that the game is NOT historic, and WON'T BE historic!
d3dash
Lord of the Dust Mites
Originally posted by Civ3Lover
My POINT, smart mouth...
Is that the game is NOT historic, and WON'T BE historic!
Hey Civ3Lover, take a chill pill. The game has historic atributes, if you don't belive me, then how do you explain that 2 civs that are really close together war more often then 2 civs on opposit sides of the map???
Kanadees
Chieftain
You can quickly mess up history by attacking against expected wars - I play the Zulu - who would be their traditional enemy?
d3dash
Lord of the Dust Mites
The guy next door??
d3dash
Lord of the Dust Mites
Originally posted by God
In my gigantic maps, w/250 islands, I always man my galleys and go off to war to the other side of the world with 8 archers.
I did that once, but when I arived and attacked my archers suffered a cruel fate to those damn Mech ifantry, altho my archers did kill 2 mech ifantrys!
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