Sovietof17
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- Oct 26, 2005
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I've never seen the AI attack an indepedent state, even when it has archers and the AI has cavalry and cannons.
i've looked into soma's save, but can't find the reason of this. It isn related to any change of mine
Well, well, it seems that it was a TEMPORARY bug,
as now I have all the horses valid.
Rhye, can it be related to the fact that my horse in North Africa was "destroyed" in a war? If I remember well, the anomaly happened after that...
I had the same "bug" last night. For me I had control of the horse in Spain and in North Africa. I traded my extra horse to my Vassal. When I had the horse in NA pillaged then I could not build my Conquistadors. I eventually figured it out but for several turns I thought the horse in Spain was not working correctly. Did you trade the extra horse to someone? If so when you lose your second horse you are then trading your only horse resource away unless you go cancel the deal.
I would like to confirm that I have never seen the AI attack the Independents. For example, last night I saw Mongolia collapse China. And, because I was investigating this, I popped open the WB. The city of Hangzhou had become independent and had no defenders (the defenders had been assigned to the other Independent Faction, and hence sent out of the borders... which happens most/all of the time I've seen). Even though the city was defenseless and the Mongols would easily have taken it in 3 turns had the Chinese not collapsed, the city remained independent (until I set them to war manually in the WB. Then they razed it. Dumb AI).
Same thing happened when Rome collapsed: Mediolanum, Roma, and Paestum remained independent, exerting cultural dominance over all Italy and producing Great Leaders, from the Roman collapse after Germany spawned until around 1600, when I manually set Europe to war with them, at which point they promptly and effortlessly defeated the Independent Archers and Warriors.
So.. as to why, I don't know. But I have never seen the AI declare war on an Independent. And former defenders tend to be set to the other Indy faction than the city itself, following a collapse. Although that may be intentional.
Just wanted to confirm that I've noticed the same behaviour.