Pretty happy with this game so far. Very unpredictable and certainly not easy!
Highlights off the top of my head:
*Kangxi I was in constant fear that he'd declare on me (Frequently 0.5 ~ 0.7 on the power graph!) and was leader in everything imaginable until De Gualle and Zara just tore him apart. City after city fell until he was gone
*Zara's been leader for ages now, 5 ~ 7 techs ahead of me for long periods of time and then he
declares war on me
We spent the next 1,200 years or so at war
I managed to take and raze a city, after many long years of struggle
(I now thoroughly hate Drill IV gunpowder units. Especially when there's like 30+ of them.)
*Many civs have a permanent alliance set up with soemone else
*Several civs have gone from World Power to Meaningless and back again (Egypt in her tundra island has been a power several times somehow!)
*Pacal was first into the Modern Era from what I could see, may other civs are a bit ahead of me and the Dutch!
*Asoka declared on me at one point, and took one of my border cities. I retailiated by taking and razing two of his cities and retaking my city before making peace. Later he declared on me during my Thousand Year war with Zara, so I was fighting a two-front war. After losing countless units in my territory to no meaningful effect, I slowly pushed up to and took two of his cities, then took a weakly defended (only six units!) city and razed it, and am eying one last city to free up the cultural pressure on the other two conquests before making peace. Asoka was crippled the last time I pushed him back, but then he bounced back to being slightly stronger than me. Now he's looking crippled again, wonder if he's going to bounce back again?
*Kangxi returned to the game, though he's just an afterthought with his one city.
*De Guale had hated me for ages, yet never once declared war on me. Amusingly enough, after he made an Alliance with off-continent Boudica, he shortly went up to Pleased (Though we both shared a war with Zara so there was that too.)
Moving deeper into the Modern Era, and the game's nowhere near over yet. Much fun!
One thing that kept me afloat during the Zara War was the fact I had Oil Products (from the Shale Plants) and he didn't. So I could field bomber aircraft
(Lot of use they did, I'd barely do any collateral damage even with half a dozen of them, and they'd all heal up the next turn. He had so many AA guns running around too...) and tanks while he had to make do with Marines and Modern Infantry. De Gualle took control over the contested oil resource I manually placed, so he's pushing out tanks now as well. Zara's still got more units than he does, and more production, but without tanks or bombers...
Finally... There's this event still referring to
Environmentalism. Shouldn't that be
Green now?
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