Armor (Veteran)
Warlord
Played my first game as Greece on Chieftan level just to get a feel for the game. Was cruising toward an easy diplomatic win when the AI seemed like it was trying to hand me a conquest victory on purpose just to foil my plans.
I had conquered a neighbor early and quickly lapped the AI in tech and production. I spent a bunch of cash to get every single city state in the world (12) allied with me, even the ones that wanted to kill each other. Despite my dominance, I tried to be friendly with my overseas neighbors and even had a defense pact with one off and on (Persia). I figured I was cruising toward and easy diplomatic win. I was so far ahead in tech (modern to renaissance) that no one would mess with me.
Then all heck broke loose. Persia attacked a nearby city state allied with me (Almaty), and would not make peace even when asked, despite us still having a defense pact in effect. I quickly donated a bunch advanced military units to Almaty, hoping they'd get there before the large Persian force took the city.
They made it just in the nick of time, but the tide quickly turned into a bloodbath of epic proportions. Almaty, armed with a handful of modern units, quickly destroyed the entire Persian army and razed half the cities of the 2nd most powerful AI in the game. The only thing that saved Persia was that their empire was split into two parts, with Japan in the middle acting as a buffer.
But Japan, smelling weakness, decided to dogpile Persia and declared war. However, it wasn't the most thought-out plan. Thanks to a defense pact that was still in effect, myself and every city state in the world declared war on Japan. Almaty had just finished destroying every Persian city on its side of the continent and had all of its modern units near Japan's borders. Within several turns, Japan was completely destroyed.
At this point, only a few other AI's were left, so a diplomatic win would have seemed hollow. The rest of the world fell to a hail of nuclear missiles and swarms of death robots.
I had conquered a neighbor early and quickly lapped the AI in tech and production. I spent a bunch of cash to get every single city state in the world (12) allied with me, even the ones that wanted to kill each other. Despite my dominance, I tried to be friendly with my overseas neighbors and even had a defense pact with one off and on (Persia). I figured I was cruising toward and easy diplomatic win. I was so far ahead in tech (modern to renaissance) that no one would mess with me.
Then all heck broke loose. Persia attacked a nearby city state allied with me (Almaty), and would not make peace even when asked, despite us still having a defense pact in effect. I quickly donated a bunch advanced military units to Almaty, hoping they'd get there before the large Persian force took the city.
They made it just in the nick of time, but the tide quickly turned into a bloodbath of epic proportions. Almaty, armed with a handful of modern units, quickly destroyed the entire Persian army and razed half the cities of the 2nd most powerful AI in the game. The only thing that saved Persia was that their empire was split into two parts, with Japan in the middle acting as a buffer.
But Japan, smelling weakness, decided to dogpile Persia and declared war. However, it wasn't the most thought-out plan. Thanks to a defense pact that was still in effect, myself and every city state in the world declared war on Japan. Almaty had just finished destroying every Persian city on its side of the continent and had all of its modern units near Japan's borders. Within several turns, Japan was completely destroyed.
At this point, only a few other AI's were left, so a diplomatic win would have seemed hollow. The rest of the world fell to a hail of nuclear missiles and swarms of death robots.
Agree
