How often does one see the status "Afraid" Next to a Civ?

[Gucumatz]

I was palying a game as Alexander that I got in random and had grabbed a settler from liberty and was panning on hoplite rushing my neighbor, hiawatha with good land compared to mine (and who was building the Great library).

Anyways I moved my troops near his city and he came up with a message asking for mercy (no war or anything declared yet) and his status was "Afraid".

I admit I have seen this before, but its been quite a while (perhaps because I play multiplayer much more).

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So I was wondering how common is this for you all? I think this is only the second or third time I have seen the status afraid. Normally civs hate my guts/guarded or are friends for me.

 

[bonafide11]

I've only seen it a few times before, and when I do it seems pretty random. I always have a strong military when I see it based on the demographics, but it still seems unusual considering how often I have a strong military. One of my recent games, I won a domination victory with China on Immortal, and Persia was one of the most other powerful civs in the game, and still was "Afraid" of me for much of the game. None of the other much weaker civs were though so it didn't seem to make sense. Eventually Persia went from "Afraid" to "Friendly" and then declared war on me, which I promptly defeated them in and took their capital, so I don't really understand the meaning behind it to be honest.

 

[black213]

I've seen Montezuma, Darius, Ramkhamhaeng and Ramesses as afraid many times. Not a big surprise since they all have a high afraid major civ approach, Montezuma's being the highest as 7.

You're likely to get someone be afraid of you if you have a colossal military compared to the AI leader's in question. Empire size might be a factor too, since I mostly see tall empires be afraid of me.

 

[Optional]

...I don't really understand the meaning behind it to be honest.

Same here. Some civs have a bigger tendency to be afraid than others. I saw it first with Sejong, who is more easily afraid than others.
But according to my military advisor Sejong had the biggest military at that point, which made his afraid status unlogical, because the tooltip says something like 'they fear our might'.
All I know is that you don't want to see this status with a civ, you can't trade with them easily, it probably works out the same way as 'guarded'.

 

[blackcatatonic]

For some reason, about 9 times out of 10 when I see it, it's Pachacuti who's Afraid of me...

 

[apocalypse105]

They are afraid for 10 turns after that its guarded a number of turns later

Backstab is just a ugly word....

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

They are afraid for 10 turns after that its guarded a number of turns later

Backstab is just a ugly word....

I was hyaving a Duel as Askia vss. Monty and he was afraid for way more than just 10 turns... mostly because I kickced his ass, and later won..

 

[joncnunn]

Fairly rarely. Generally by someone who military is in last or second to last place.

The thing is I have no interest in conquering the civ that's afraid. And my military is average to slightly below average overall as its designed for defense against the true military powers.

 

[black213]

All I know is that you don't want to see this status with a civ, you can't trade with them easily, it probably works out the same way as 'guarded'.

One good side is that they accept to your demands more easily if they are afraid.

 

[Hammer Rabbi]

ive never seen it later than the medieval era. ive also only seen it from 2 civs, Hiawatha and Montezuma.

 

[Tabarnak]

It's a rare occurence. But i 've seen this more often at lower levels than higher ones(1 time at deity). And more often before the ren. era.

If you demand things you may get something. Like gold or ressources for nothing in return(work best at lower levels too).