How do you think the AI will handle the new civs?

[blackcatatonic]

blackcatatonic

Good post, though I can imagine Assyria to go either way. My experience is that the AI usually go after the weakest AI player first, so I actually think that the Assyrian AI might have limited use for its UA. Though of course... since he's so militaristic he might fare well in AI hands, but Im not convinced he'll get much use of the UA.

I've got no idea what personality the Shaka AI will have, but though I get your point that he might be strong because of his reduced unit maintenance like Germany I think there might be a difference... Germany often expands a lot which combined with his UA makes the AI strong. And Bismarck, in my experience, doesnt attack city states unless there's no land to settle. If Zulu are more like Mongolia in that they will expand very slow, often attacking city states early I think they'll be weak. I've never seen a successful Mongolia actually. Everybody hates him before he's strong enough.

Both good points. I do think Ashurbanipal's performance will be more or less dictated by that of his neighbours. We can be pretty confident that he will tackle the bottom half of the tree, perhaps going for Writing early for his UB. If he targets a militarily weak neighbour who has been teching through towards Theology or Civil Service, he might be quids in. But as I say, it depends.

Genghis' AI is one of the great tragedies of CiV - he has the most amazing UU in the game and can't use it properly! I don't think Shaka will target City-States specifically in the way that Genghis does, however, since the latter's UA actually relies on that. So I do think they will behave more like Germany, perhaps not getting quite as scary quite as early on owing to not being able to recruit barbs.