Does the AI declare war on you, and how?

[Socrates99]

I had an African country wanting open borders, trade, gave me gold, wanted to be my best friend. Only to declare a surprise war on me

Persia is notorious for that. I mean I get it, he gets his bonus from surprise war so it's how he's scripted but he often treats me like Gilgamesh does only to turn around and put the knife in my back.

 

[Yzman]

I hardly ever get declared on and since I don't play militaristic I always find that strange... I guess I play too diplomatically.

 

[Pietato]

I've had very few wars declared after the last few patches. It seems like they NEVER declare war against the other ai though.

What? They are ALWAYS at war with each other.

As for the poll, it does not make sense and lacks the right options.

 

[Archon_Wing]

As for the poll, it does not make sense and lacks the right options.

I mean what other options are there? I guess Defensive pacts, but that's not an active decision and I guess emergencies.

I tried to make it clear by changing the title to "does the AI declare war on you"?

But mostly I just wanted to figure out if the AI declares war on you, and if it does, does it use a CB?

 

[Pietato]

I mean what other options are there? I guess Defensive pacts, but that's not an active decision and I guess emergencies.

I tried to make it clear by changing the title to "does the AI declare war on you"?

But mostly I just wanted to figure out if the AI declares war on you, and if it does, does it use a CB?

Well, I would choose 'surprise wars and joint wars' but the option is not there.

 

[Archon_Wing]

Well, I would choose 'surprise wars and joint wars' but the option is not there.

Wow, joint AI wars. Forgot those existed.

I remember seeing them a lot in Vanilla and never beyond that.

 

[frutiemax]

I was ally to egypt, rome and suleiman but rome was winning, so when the alliance finished, I surprised declared war on him. Then one turn after, an emergency passed and all ais, even my allies declared war on me.

 

[Linklite]

I just went an entire game without fighting a single war. The strange thing is I never had an army, I only ever had my starting warrior. The AI had wars - I personally saw Spain and Inca fight it out and I saw Korea invade Sweden, taking a small town and destroying Stockholm's walls - but, despite really upsetting everyone bar the Incans to the point that I was being denounced constantly, they never declared war, even though I had only one warrior and only one city had ancient walls (which I built when Scotland had a charriot and a warrior suspiciously hanging around it's border), so only a mighty strength of 20 versus everyone else that had hundreds. I even shared a border with Korea, no idea why they attacked Sweden and not me.

 

[goatdeer]

In my games it's relatively simple. In the early to mid game, the AI is heavily settling nearby land. When they're out of room to settle, because of the lay-out of spawns or because I have put in some extra civs, they go to war with whoever has a weaker army and are close. City States are very prone to being victim of these wars.

When all available land is settled in the mid-late game, the AI does not care for this type of war any longer. They only go to war through alliances or joint wars. Only aggressive civs will aim for war, but they only do so when the opponent has a weak army and is not threatening (yet still they fail to conquer). But this rarely happens.

 

[adsman]

A few thoughts ...

Most times the AI declares war on me is via an emergency through the world forum. That can result in a big pile on from other AIs as well. You left this option out of your survey.

If I play militaristic civs then I find that the AI is much more likely to declare war on me, particularly early on.

If you want to get a lot of declared wars going, simply allow only the domination victory condition when setting up your game. Loads of bashy shooty fun.

 

[shaglio]

I hardly ever get war declared on me unless it's a joint war. I think it's because in Civ 6 (and Civ 5 as well), I've carried over my Civ 1-4 habit of putting a garrison unit in every city. Not just my border cities, mind you, but EVERY city. So I'm almost always at the top of the Military Strength list, which I believe is what usually deters other civilizations from attacks me.

 

[Mahi]

Keeping everyone happy seems to be even more easier now with the newest patch, therefore it's rare for me to be at war since I end up being allied to almost everyone on the map. AIs do declare wars on each other, however.

 

[aieeegrunt]

I like suzing city states (should probably be playing Hungary instead of Germany) so I end up declaring lots of protectorate wars

This of course makes me an international pariah.

If I have the gall to take an enemy city I usually end up the target of an emergency “because the world must resist my aggression”.

You know like how everyone saw the Allies as the real bad guys after WW2

So under those circumstances I do see a fair amount of wars

 

[racha]

I voted on the assumption that definition of "surprise war" includes "Oh, there's a large bunch of bad guys marching 50 tiles towards my city, why don't I move a bunch of ranged units a few tiles over to wait for them?".

 

[XVeris]

I chose Formal war, but it's usually a Surprise war, in the sense I wasn't expecting it, and that it's two AI declaring a Joint war on me (which the game considers a Formal war).

 

[jehtro777]

It's usually earlier in the game for me when the AI still thinks it has an advantage. Every once in awhile after the AI realizes I am running away with a win they will declare on me late but it is already over by then.

 

[agonistes]

I once went wandering with my first settler, looking for a better spot. I don't mind starting late - try to cap it by turn 20 at the latest.

Met Monty. It got ugly. Fast.