Wow, I can't believe what just happened. Emperor, standard speed and map size.
I played as The Celts and rushed GLib/NC and quickly built 14 cities with Liberty and tons of faith. I even captured America's capital with a few pictish warriors.
I had pagodas in every city, picked a few happiness beliefs on top of that and my cities slowly finished all the essential buildings. Overall, things were going extremely well and I was the score leader.
However, on turn 170 (around 1100 AD) Bismarck surprisingly attacked me over the sea (!!) with gatling guns, privateers and riflemen.
Needless to say I wasn't prepared for that. I had 8 pictish warriors upgraded to pikemen, 2 trebuchets and 2 crossbowmen which usually isn't bad at all. I was fighting in the south against Arabia and their annoying camel archers though.
I quickly lost two cities.
I checked the demographics and I saw that he was 14 (!!!!!) techs ahead of the average civ. I was 2nd best with 9 techs behind him. (seriously, wtf )
I mean, look at my beakers per turn. Not bad at all. Faith is even better.
His land in strategic view. As you can see, it's nothing special.
I have never ever seen anything like this before.
Then I had a final idea.
Religious overview! He was the founder of Christianity. Interesting!
His beliefs. Do you notice one little detail? Yes, Interfaith Dialogue .
Could he possibly bombed himself to riflemen by spamming missionaries? It's the only explanation I have ...
By the way, Arabia played quite well, too. He only had three cities and was completely surrounded by my land. I thought he wasn't a threat and focussed on building infrastructure. Then he attacked me with 10 camel archers, a few catapults and swordsmen. That was a tough fight. Germany made me ragequit then haha.
Anyone tried Interfaith Dialogue after the newest patch?
I played as The Celts and rushed GLib/NC and quickly built 14 cities with Liberty and tons of faith. I even captured America's capital with a few pictish warriors.
I had pagodas in every city, picked a few happiness beliefs on top of that and my cities slowly finished all the essential buildings. Overall, things were going extremely well and I was the score leader.
However, on turn 170 (around 1100 AD) Bismarck surprisingly attacked me over the sea (!!) with gatling guns, privateers and riflemen.
Needless to say I wasn't prepared for that. I had 8 pictish warriors upgraded to pikemen, 2 trebuchets and 2 crossbowmen which usually isn't bad at all. I was fighting in the south against Arabia and their annoying camel archers though.
I quickly lost two cities.
I checked the demographics and I saw that he was 14 (!!!!!) techs ahead of the average civ. I was 2nd best with 9 techs behind him. (seriously, wtf )
I mean, look at my beakers per turn. Not bad at all. Faith is even better.
Spoiler :
His land in strategic view. As you can see, it's nothing special.
Spoiler :
I have never ever seen anything like this before.
Then I had a final idea.
Religious overview! He was the founder of Christianity. Interesting!
Spoiler :
His beliefs. Do you notice one little detail? Yes, Interfaith Dialogue .
Spoiler :
Could he possibly bombed himself to riflemen by spamming missionaries? It's the only explanation I have ...
By the way, Arabia played quite well, too. He only had three cities and was completely surrounded by my land. I thought he wasn't a threat and focussed on building infrastructure. Then he attacked me with 10 camel archers, a few catapults and swordsmen. That was a tough fight. Germany made me ragequit then haha.
Anyone tried Interfaith Dialogue after the newest patch?