Framesticker
Prince
I'm really, really frustrated now, so I'll just use this to vent out and then go about winning again.
So after pretty much securing Emperor, I moved to the difficulty I've understood most top-level players can win on regularly - Immortal. I went for a Shuffle map (just because it's so random and unpredictable. I got a (seemingly) Archipelago Snaky Continents map as Hammurabi and made my way through the ancient age (GLH, getting Kublai, my only neighbour, to Friendly with religion and fair trade, and other tactics I've learned to become essential on the high levels. After meeting a very hard selection of neighbours to peacefully play with (oversized but backwards Shaka who ate Sury's cookies, MASSIVE, unopposed in GNP Churchill and his friend at that Gilgamesh, and wonderspamming culturewhoring Gandhi) I decided to launch a rushbuy Marine/Fighter war to take down Kublai, then propel the land advantage to either go to Space or take the massive English beast down. After doing just about anything to keep the AI backwards and hateful against each other while teching peacefully myself, I launched a MASSIVE stack against Kublai on 1840. Churchill was already at a fake war with him (probably the only war in the game I didn't cause myself) and except for some icy-tundra cities at the edge of my homeland I didn't bother to settle, he didn't do any real damage.
So I took 6 of Kublai's 12 cities. And he wouldn't capitulate yet to me. But what does he do as I prepare to take anothe city?
HE CAPITULATES TO BLOODY CHURCHILL.
Now, normally I wouldn't be afraid to declare on him, but to actually raise such a force I just shut my slider down after Industralism, and he'd had Mechanized Infantry and espionage told he was teching for Modern Armor. I decided to still redeclare on Kublai, possibly salvage the game - I did mange to finish Kublai off, but after a stack of 30 Mechanized Infantry/Modern Artillery landed on my homeland I just called it quits.
God, I'm pissed.
Thanks for listening.
So after pretty much securing Emperor, I moved to the difficulty I've understood most top-level players can win on regularly - Immortal. I went for a Shuffle map (just because it's so random and unpredictable. I got a (seemingly) Archipelago Snaky Continents map as Hammurabi and made my way through the ancient age (GLH, getting Kublai, my only neighbour, to Friendly with religion and fair trade, and other tactics I've learned to become essential on the high levels. After meeting a very hard selection of neighbours to peacefully play with (oversized but backwards Shaka who ate Sury's cookies, MASSIVE, unopposed in GNP Churchill and his friend at that Gilgamesh, and wonderspamming culturewhoring Gandhi) I decided to launch a rushbuy Marine/Fighter war to take down Kublai, then propel the land advantage to either go to Space or take the massive English beast down. After doing just about anything to keep the AI backwards and hateful against each other while teching peacefully myself, I launched a MASSIVE stack against Kublai on 1840. Churchill was already at a fake war with him (probably the only war in the game I didn't cause myself) and except for some icy-tundra cities at the edge of my homeland I didn't bother to settle, he didn't do any real damage.
So I took 6 of Kublai's 12 cities. And he wouldn't capitulate yet to me. But what does he do as I prepare to take anothe city?
HE CAPITULATES TO BLOODY CHURCHILL.
Now, normally I wouldn't be afraid to declare on him, but to actually raise such a force I just shut my slider down after Industralism, and he'd had Mechanized Infantry and espionage told he was teching for Modern Armor. I decided to still redeclare on Kublai, possibly salvage the game - I did mange to finish Kublai off, but after a stack of 30 Mechanized Infantry/Modern Artillery landed on my homeland I just called it quits.
God, I'm pissed.
Thanks for listening.