parachute4u
Warlord
Everybody hates me (Hannibal) in my current game, because I attacked the Mali in the stone ages. (Their capital had 1 fish, 2 clam and 1 crab food-resources + gold + some bonus I can't remember now, so it was kind of necessary to attack before they start to build the spaceship in 1500AD)
(edit: here is Timbuktu
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The problem of my war with Mali was too many cease fires. Mali was friend with everyone and I had to sign cease fire often, in order to destroy them quickly.
The only one opening borders with me after the Mali wars were over, was little Julius, who developed into one of the 3 super powers on the continent. (india, russia and rome) I managed to get some techs earlier than russia, rome and the rest of the world (except india) and managed to start 2 wars between russia and india. India had some land population and tech advantage that got smaller after a while.
I kept checking if it was possible to buy Julius into a war with ANYone for quite some time. He disliked quite a few powers, but he was not interested in starting any wars, because he "had too much on his hands right now".
Julius did not fight a SINGLE war until grenadiers and cavalry. I checked the power graph to see how strong russia and india were. Guess who was stongest? -- Rome! Rome's military power was frightening, absolutely.
I checked if it was possible to make Julius use his military might on someone. Not possible. "We have too much on our hands right now." WTH
??
"His army might be useful at some point", I was thinking, so I gifted some corn to Julius, sold my only marble for 12Gpt to him and hoped for the best....
Some turns later 4 frigates, 2 galleons and some more frigates and galleons arrived at my northern coast. They were loaded with trebs and cavalry and the only cities around, belonged to me....
I upgraded my military, gathered my forces at the northern coast and bribed the ottomans who shared a land border with Julius into a war with military super-power Julius.
Dedicated Julius didn't give a damn about the corn, the marble or the ottomans. He declared all the same and landed his troops. I managed to destroy his invasion force within a couple of turns (losing most of my "kill the mali"-army) and managed to kill his marauding frigates as well. Bribing the ottmans probably saved me from being destroyed, because I had to whip navy like crazy (most of my cities really relied on sea-tiles). The ottomans eventually capitulated and I signed peace with Julius for a tribute of 300 gold.
(edit: this is the power graph of the game)
Is little Julius like this every game? -- Building up a huge army with the paricular purpose of attacking the HUMAN player, not his neighbors? ( When Russia was fighting India, I expected him to join the war, because he didn't share religion with Gandhi and he did not like him either)
Or is it because I am playing Carthago? I really did not understand, why it was absolutely impossible to make him attack ANYone for many many turns. He seemed to be preparing for a war with me from the start....
Has anyone made similar experiences? About rivalry between certain leaders and nations? - Is it in the game or am I making this up?
(edit: here is Timbuktu
: )
The problem of my war with Mali was too many cease fires. Mali was friend with everyone and I had to sign cease fire often, in order to destroy them quickly.
The only one opening borders with me after the Mali wars were over, was little Julius, who developed into one of the 3 super powers on the continent. (india, russia and rome) I managed to get some techs earlier than russia, rome and the rest of the world (except india) and managed to start 2 wars between russia and india. India had some land population and tech advantage that got smaller after a while.
I kept checking if it was possible to buy Julius into a war with ANYone for quite some time. He disliked quite a few powers, but he was not interested in starting any wars, because he "had too much on his hands right now".
Julius did not fight a SINGLE war until grenadiers and cavalry. I checked the power graph to see how strong russia and india were. Guess who was stongest? -- Rome! Rome's military power was frightening, absolutely.
I checked if it was possible to make Julius use his military might on someone. Not possible. "We have too much on our hands right now." WTH
?? "His army might be useful at some point", I was thinking, so I gifted some corn to Julius, sold my only marble for 12Gpt to him and hoped for the best....
Some turns later 4 frigates, 2 galleons and some more frigates and galleons arrived at my northern coast. They were loaded with trebs and cavalry and the only cities around, belonged to me....
I upgraded my military, gathered my forces at the northern coast and bribed the ottomans who shared a land border with Julius into a war with military super-power Julius.
Dedicated Julius didn't give a damn about the corn, the marble or the ottomans. He declared all the same and landed his troops. I managed to destroy his invasion force within a couple of turns (losing most of my "kill the mali"-army) and managed to kill his marauding frigates as well. Bribing the ottmans probably saved me from being destroyed, because I had to whip navy like crazy (most of my cities really relied on sea-tiles). The ottomans eventually capitulated and I signed peace with Julius for a tribute of 300 gold.
(edit: this is the power graph of the game)
Is little Julius like this every game? -- Building up a huge army with the paricular purpose of attacking the HUMAN player, not his neighbors? ( When Russia was fighting India, I expected him to join the war, because he didn't share religion with Gandhi and he did not like him either)
Or is it because I am playing Carthago? I really did not understand, why it was absolutely impossible to make him attack ANYone for many many turns. He seemed to be preparing for a war with me from the start....
Has anyone made similar experiences? About rivalry between certain leaders and nations? - Is it in the game or am I making this up?
), so I should be able to win the wars with Caesar. His fleet is nearly gone after the first war. And he will have a hard time to kill my foothold city with machine guns and infantry inside.
