AI Survivor - Alternate Histories AI Ranking

[Thrasybulos]

Quick answers, since I have a train to catch...

As it turns out, Mansa is a MUCH better military leader than we realize.

Oh yes, I know. Always cracks me up when Sullla describes him as a "peaceful leader". Now, calling him a warmonger would be a stretch, but he can certainly lay down some whack!
Another misperceived leader like that is Asoka: he's not "Gandhi-light".

Quite surprised at Justinian, but I guess Ragnar is a much tougher opponent especially with a Fishing start.

No, Ragnar didn't amount to much in these games, that start was bad. He had a few good games where he indeed managed to beat Justinian, but most of the times the best he could hope was kill Viccy before being smashed by Shaka and/or Justinian.
Justinian's problem was that Shaka would simply snowball harder than him.

Curious how Shaka and Cyrus were able to win games in this ultra economic setup. Also curious if this altered your opinion on the championship map.

Shaka's win was by a coupla turns: when the first batch of aiplay turns ended, I saw that Hannibal had launched and Shaka was at something like 58% land area. I thought "damn, so close, but still no cigar". I was pleasantly surprised that he managed to get to the Domination threshold in the few turns remaining.
Cyrus's wins were enabled by Shaka, who slowed down HC and Hannibal enough for Cyrus to catch up.
My opinion on the map hasn't changed.
It's damn fine-looking, but too big, too rich, too "clever" (the AI has no strategic analysis capability, it doesn't know it should compete for the middle ; many gamees feature one or two AIs cut off from the middle after the expansion phase, and thus out of the game already).

 

[Keler]

Mansa is not doing well... If you call that performance well for an equal pw game (no dogpile) with that god tier capital room for 5 more cities than any other leader on the map.. He hardly performed better than Asoka.
Mansa is total dissapointment here.

 

[Genghis the Barbarian]

Mansa is not doing well... If you call that performance well for an equal pw game (no dogpile) with that god tier capital room for 5 more cities than any other leader on the map.. He hardly performed better than Asoka.
Mansa is total dissapointment here.

Ehh, Mansa is pretty diplomatically isolated in this setup, both Asoka and Charlie are likely to have differing religions. If one of them were to get large Mansa is not safe from either, and that seemed to have happened a lot in these replays