Getting other civs to fight each other

[oPunchDrunko]

Anybody know a good way for civs to fight each other and not declare war on me? I want something like a world war happening. Is there a mod out there that makes the AI more agressive towards each other than towards me?

 

[Morpheas]

If I have any AI that are friendly towards me, I will typically pay them to declare war on their neighbor.

This will give me an edge when i want to attack them. And the AI will continue to DoW each other because of the initial DoW you created.

 

[oPunchDrunko]

Sounds like a good idea. However, the problem is when the AI starts a war with another AI, usually they sign a peace treaty 5-10 turns after declaring war. So basically you just wasted your money.

 

[Morpheas]

Sounds like a good idea. However, the problem is when the AI starts a war with another AI, usually they sign a peace treaty 5-10 turns after declaring war. So basically you just wasted your money.

Yeah, but it creates bad blood between them. Quite often I will see them DoW each other multiple times later.

The pay off is not exactly instant, but it will def. disrupt any friendship.

I mainly do it to disrupt any potential friendships on my borders. I've had multiple games where the people I had go to war ended up DoW'ing each other about 5+ times.

It often takes attention off of me

 

[joncnunn]

Have the 2 AIs start next to each other on the same landmass and yourself on a different landmass no where near those two.

They'll then DOW each other early and often

For the world war, you have to wait for them to form conflicting DOF chains. Sometimes though one of the AI has better diplomatic skills than the other and it ends up being a dog pile against one of them.

 

[Depravo]

On higher difficulty levels bunging distant AIs to declare war on my stronger rivals is an absolute cornerstone of my strategy. Mainly because the AI is too dim to deal with multiple fronts and invariably disperses itself to be destroyed in detail.