Askia stole my uranium!

[Kahless26]

Disclaimer: Forgive mi harsh english.. i really really need more practice.

Ok, so this was awesome.

I don't usually comment on this forums, but i'm myself an avid reader, and latelly i noticed there is nothing more than complains against ciV AI.

I'd admit that te AI have some problems (ok, some mayor problems), but ciV is an immensely huge game, and patches are coming.

But i want to add my little experience to show you there is still some hope for the AI in the game.

I was playing as Caesar Augustus and have a clear dominance over my continent, the only other mayor power was the Songhai. When i reached the later stages of the game i found myself with only one reserve of uranium, in the far north limits of my empire, near endless plains of ice, and solitude, and death.

So, this little ***ker Askia settled a City in the middle of the ice, next to my borders. Then started to bring tanks across the northern oceans... my first assumption: he was setting a foothold for war.. stupid Askia, he was no match for my armies and was showing me all his war movements.

But what followed was 100% awesome AI strategy, Askia bringed a Great Artist to my borders... culture bombed my Uranium and.. Walla!.. the little mother***r leave me uraniumless...

Seeing and AI movilizing a Settler, taking a sterile land (only ice, remember), bringing tanks to prevent possible retaliation and culture-bombing my uranium restored my faith in Civilization V computer opponents.

 

[Callonia]

Yup, AI loves to culture bomb the city states they can't kill to snatch their luxuries and resources.

 

[flyingbunnys]

Yep I had washington do something simular last game I played. except he was going for whales and oil.

 

[stormerne]

It's a simple tactic, one they even mention in the manual. In fact they also say that "another artist can flip the terrain back at a later point – there’s no limit to the frequency or number of times that a tile can flip during a game." So go ahead... flip it back.

 

[Superluminal]

Try a 1:1 or 2:1 trade for Uranium and give it back to him in the form of a nuke.

 

[SuperJay]

Try a 1:1 or 2:1 trade for Uranium and give it back to him in the form of a nuke.

Hahaha, that's brilliant.

"Yeah, I got yer uranium. Right.... here." *FWOOSH*

 

[Kahless26]

yeah.. i think the nuke approach would be good .

it wasn't the fact that the IA used a culture-bomb that amazed me. it was it's capacity to find a weakness in my borders, movilize an ENTIRE FORCE (seriously, it was a settler + workers + a half dozen of tanks) and then making the culture-bomb.

It was very clever, the uranium was quite deep into my terrotory, the place where askia settled was a window of 6 empty tiles between mi northern border and the ocean and not even near Askia's borders.

 

[Yngvi]

Unfortunately, not all AI culture bombs are brilliant. I had Napoleon culture bomb me out of a single tundra trading post hex. (I let him have it...for the time being.)

 

[Flyingdwarfzz]

Egypt stole my whales.
Across the ocean.

I havent even discovered the Egyptians yet, and they were alreadt stealing my stuff.

 

[Cordycep]

Siam snuck a settler past my borders into a desert part of the map where Japan used to be. I had no idea why they wanted to have a city on the other side of the world until I researched biology and discovered what their little plan was...My oil...

 

[xsinx]

I witnessed a pretty good one too last night. I had a couple of city states within my territory and one of them was bordering 2 other civs that had been trying to conquer it for a long while (in fact, they did twice, and I got it back from them and liberated it).

Since they were all so keen on getting it, I installed 1 unit on every tile around the city, preventing any attack (I wasn't at war with either of them). This worked well for a while, but Catherine had a couple of units pretty close, on land that was hers.

So anyway, at some point she brings a great artist and I saw her coming... I had no open borders with her and she took two of the tiles I was protecting so she could get units to the CS (the tiles were worthless, the only reason she got them was to get me out of there).

Fortunately enough, I asked for open borders the round before she slammed it and managed to keep protecting the CS, but I thought it was a brilliant move on her part.