Peacemongerer
Prince
Setup: I'm Byzantium and Pocatello tries to sneak-attack me with an army of like 10 pikemen (first time I've been sneak-attacked in BNW outside of Scramble for Africa, btw... a nice change). However, I went tradition, which gives me a huge frontier to deal with... he's got to cross two rivers and wide-open floodplains to get to me.
In short, he fails miserably when I get the war machine going and he's forced to retreat across rivers and miles of floodplains; crossbow bolts rain on his head as my cataphract clean-up his four trebuchets (which never even got to my cities) from the rear. As he realizes the war is lost and retreats, he's hemorrhaging money and his treasury is almost empty. His only resources of value are salt (which I already have, so he can't trade) and 6 horses. He is willing to offer me an even peace even while he's still on the offensive, but all I do is wait for my units to heal-up so my military looks bigger in the AI's eyes. At this point:
My forces: 3 crossbowmen, 4 pikemen, a cataphract, a general and a trebuchet.
His forces: at least one pikeman that I can see plus some units probably lurking near his capital.
He hands me 9 population Te-Moak without more than one unit setting foot into his territory. Normally, this would seem like a reasonable concession given my numbers, except the AI seems to ignore the fact he had the his UA, 2 rivers, Defender of the Faith and the Great Wall standing between me and his nearest city. I had absolutely no chance of taking his city if he'd started churning-out units, but he hands me a third of his empire and his only strategic resources left. This is the same algorithm where an AI in way worse shape down to his last city at 2 hp and no units won't even offer you the 5 gold in his treasury to sue for peace.
In short, he fails miserably when I get the war machine going and he's forced to retreat across rivers and miles of floodplains; crossbow bolts rain on his head as my cataphract clean-up his four trebuchets (which never even got to my cities) from the rear. As he realizes the war is lost and retreats, he's hemorrhaging money and his treasury is almost empty. His only resources of value are salt (which I already have, so he can't trade) and 6 horses. He is willing to offer me an even peace even while he's still on the offensive, but all I do is wait for my units to heal-up so my military looks bigger in the AI's eyes. At this point:
My forces: 3 crossbowmen, 4 pikemen, a cataphract, a general and a trebuchet.
His forces: at least one pikeman that I can see plus some units probably lurking near his capital.
He hands me 9 population Te-Moak without more than one unit setting foot into his territory. Normally, this would seem like a reasonable concession given my numbers, except the AI seems to ignore the fact he had the his UA, 2 rivers, Defender of the Faith and the Great Wall standing between me and his nearest city. I had absolutely no chance of taking his city if he'd started churning-out units, but he hands me a third of his empire and his only strategic resources left. This is the same algorithm where an AI in way worse shape down to his last city at 2 hp and no units won't even offer you the 5 gold in his treasury to sue for peace.
