Cases of AI stupidity!

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If you have any cases of unintentional (or intentional) AI stupidity, feel free to share them in this thread.

Here is my favorite one from a recent game.

Firstly, I am at war with the Americans.

A SOD from the Americans is traipsing thru the lands of a 1 city empire (The Ottomans) and the SOD is about to reach one of my cities. I neglected to wipe them out the first time because of war weariness issues.

I can't reinforce the city that the SOD is heading for in time so guess what I do? I sign a military alliance with this technologically backwards Ottomans for a tech and they declare war on the Americans who have a stack of doom right next to their single city! Instead of continuing to head towards my city the SOD decide to smack the Ottomans.

Needless to say the Ottomans are wiped out in-between turns after I hit the Enter button. :hammer: :D :devil:

Stupid AI just signed its own death warrant. :lol:

This buys me enough time to reinforce that city with some freshly trained troops. Who says that leaving an AI with one city instead of wiping them out cant be useful? :D
 
Nice move. My most memorable instance was back when I signed rights of passage. I have triple the strength of Hammy. He uses his one warrior wandering through my land to take an undefended minor city of mine. Didn't do anything else to get ready for the war - he just saw a city he could take and took it. No hope in **** of holding the city or surviving the war. I had no plans to attack him because he didn't have any resources I wanted.
 
You will have a long thread, if you manage to record half the bad moves. You can always find them making a settler not going to be size three for a long time. Oh wait, half the humans do that.
 
I remember giving the "leave or declare war" ultimatum to Lincoln on seeing American units coming in. He declared, and promptly disbanded all of the invading force.
 
I was at war with the Romans but signed a peace treaty. Than they decide to march they`re troops across my turf. That made me :trouble:.
 
That in and of itself isn't stupid - you signed a Peace Treaty, so obviously neither you nor they wanted to keep fighting. Was there a resource on the other side of your territory? Open land? Were they at war with someone on the other side of you?

Now, if you've been at war with them for a while, thrashed them completely and left them with a few miserable cities, and they send a stack at what is unmistakably your territory, and you give them a Boot Order which they refuse, that would probably count as stupidity.
 
Another one. Mao came barging in, demanding something or other, iron or some such I think. I had most of a continent, he had three cities on an island of mostly tundra and was an age behind in tech. I told him where to put it. He had the gall to declare war. It was a rather short war.
 
Desertsnow said:
Another one. Mao came barging in, demanding something or other, iron or some such I think. I had most of a continent, he had three cities on an island of mostly tundra and was an age behind in tech. I told him where to put it. He had the gall to declare war. It was a rather short war.
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I haven't seen that one yet unless I had an undefended city. I thought the AI looked at the relative power before trying some trick like that. When I have that happen, I always get "If it wasn't for the diplomatic situation here, we would be destroying you, utterly!" I know that in CIV, that happens, especially with Monty.
 
I had an OCC Germany declare war recently. It was an unusual situation in that there were already 512 cities on the map and Bismarck had had a settler/archer pair fortified on the coast for a long time. I guess the settler was disbanded during the upkeep phase so the archer then killed one of my nearby workers.
I had never been at war with the Germans and I had planned to let him survive so he could vote for me in the UN, but after that I just captured Berlin and wiped them out.
 
Ataxerxes said:
I haven't seen that one yet unless I had an undefended city. I thought the AI looked at the relative power before trying some trick like that. When I have that happen, I always get "If it wasn't for the diplomatic situation here, we would be destroying you, utterly!" I know that in CIV, that happens, especially with Monty.
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I don't recall having any undefended cities, and at any rate the mainland had a full road network and a rail system underway. I was, however, about to deploy settlers to settle the rest of his island. Maybe there was something there that he wanted. It was a monumentally stupid move all the same.
 
In the Modern Age 2 scenario, I accidentally left two of my Howitzers undefended in Brazil (I was Venezuela, at war with Brazil.). The AI left my two Howitzers be despite the fact that:

1: I was at war with them.
2: Howitzers can't defend.
3: They directly outside of Brasilia.
 
Zulu are down to 1 city, popuation 2, no resources, with Impi defending against cav army. They contact me offering peace treaty if I throw in 2 workers!
 
Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. Shaka's audacity knows no bounds.
 
When I established an embassy with Japan I noticed an example of extreme AI stupidity in their capital. I bet you can guess what it is... :D
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