I hate Zara Yaqob

[capnvonbaron]

wow, necro'd again.

I had to share this one though... I get a start as Rosy with a rediculously awesome seaside start, but at the tip of my continent with only jungle to the north. Just across from Washington is a large island... inhabited by Zara. I originally planned on having a super-awesome merchant capital and take Zara's island from him, but I quit the game in fury after about 200 turns when:
- Two forests in my capital's BFC burned
- Zara, on an island by himself, built the Great Wall
- Zara was responsible for riots that destroyed three improvements and three buildings that I had struggled to whip/build in New York, the city I settled in a primo spot on his island
- A single barb spearman from a Philistine uprising that had occured a thousand years earlier strolled in, attacked a hill city I had only a warrior fortified in, won, and burned the city

I know thats more the fault of random events, but Zara made it so much worse.

 

[PreLynMax]

I always play as Zara; his traits are wonderful with a builder like me. Noobs always say how bad his traits are (because they are warmongers), and yet I always tend to come up ahead with a tech lead and a slight power lead with him. I think they should stick with such mongers like (cough cough) Stalin.

What pisses me off about Zara is the AI Yaqob. He is always ahead of me in tech, culture and diplomacy (all my strengths, is probably why Zara is the only charater that I can beat Prince on), REXes like a demon, and if I'm not him (or Washington, whom I'm playing as now). In fact, it's hard to get him to join wars at pleased.

 

[bestbrian]

I didn't look at the dates on this, but then I saw Wolfshanzes' avvy, and that gave me a start. "He's back?", no, just a big necro.

Oromos are contemporaneous with Knights, which have first strike immunity; kinda takes the gloss off Drill Muskets.

 

[Ondskan]

Necroing out of rage.

I hate him . When facing him .

 

[bestbrian]

Wow, this one's back again?

See you all in 5 years.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

I hate the trash AI that expand to 5 cities and leave 15 for Zara more than I hate Zara himself. Zara's scripted to play in a way that more closely resembles trying. That's a good thing. What I dislike is when other AI are scripted to throw the game, giving either the AI or even me a ridiculous advantage.

I don't like winning that way, and I don't like the inbound anti super-AI cheesing that the bonuses require on high difficulties in order to win if it's the AI that is lucky enough to find themselves next to "herp i like culture build missionaries not cities" CrappyCles.

 

[Izuul]

I just find Zara incredibly boring for some reason. I don't enjoy playing as Zara and i don't really like him as an AI in my games either.

 

[Silv Something]

I'm currently playing a game where Zara voluntarily became my vassal. This was after I had made peace with him, ending a war where I took half his cities.

I hate Louis. He always gets big and mean and out-techs me. Plus he's ugly.

 

[noto2]

Funny, Zara was never high on my list of playable leaders until a few months ago. I have since realized just how amazing he is, he's one of the few leaders I can play and have a good chance of winning on high difficulty levels, where I normally get clobbered.
The reason is, I think, mostly his traits. CRE is the ultimate early game trait that allows you to keep up with the AI in the early expansion phase, and ORG is the ultimate late game trait that gives you an enormous economic advantage right to the end of the game. The UB and UU are just icing on the cake, really.

 

[Barney's_Soul]

I find that if I let Zara or Mansa hang around unharassed for too long, they will out-tech me, especially Mansa.

Destroy Shaka on sight.

This! Even worse, Mansa accelerates everyone's tech rates as he'll trade with anything that breathes.

Shaka's okay though, just don't be his neighber

Zara..........at least it's easy to sick him on others.

Then he vassels them

Every time

How?!?