Sturmgewher88mm
Kaiser
Has anyone seen fleet-on-fleet action? I usually only see the AI build a few scout ships and not much more, while I'll build a 7-ship fleet and clear the seas unopposed.
Naval combat is much improved in G&K and BNW, but the AI still struggles.
Ok some things first, I have seen one massive naval battle after several years of Playing Civ 5, just one. Armada vs Armada type, Everything else was small. It occurred in Gods n Kings. Difficulty is King.
Then there's two things that made this particular playthrough different from other usual civ 5 games, is that it's modded. Just a little bit really nothing fancy.
(its funny watching how BNW broke this save, I have extreme unhappy but is currently in golden age because I was in one but then I stopped playing this map cuz BNW came out and I wanted to play BNW.)
1) An custom map script to make awe inspiring worlds compared to boring looking worlds that firaxis is fond of. Heck, I once accidentally got a randomly generated Tera online map complete with a slash across the whole world with landmasses affected by it. Awe inspiring maps make me play to the end because I want to see the world instead of already knowing everything.
2) I changed one simple thing in Gods n Kings, 0 unhappiness per population point to make human empires competitive against AI empires that running off their happiness cheats. And then I wanted to be fair and not a cheater so i gave that boost to the AI too.
Two of things I modified equals to empire sized wars. How you say? Let me indulge you..
I was running with 400+ Happiness while Hiawatha the eternal runaway was running at 700-900 happiness I forgot exact amount. Its been months since i played this map.
I was enjoying semi-perpetual golden ages while Hiawatha was in almost permanent golden ages.
Hiawatha did so many things that I didn't think the AI in civ 5 was capable of.. it felt like it was civ 4 for a moment there.
First, Hiawatha concerted an dogpile against me twice I suspect, he was publicly involved in the second dogpile, teh first dogpile ended in failure after combined navy fleets of Mongolia, England, Netherlands, and Korea couldn't beat me in submission. This was the only time I ever had a citadel be useful and act like an coastal fortress firing on renaissance era ships with my renaissance era ships xD Fun it was. was like something 30 frigates/privateers/caravels and a single coastal fortress manned by longswordmen vs 50+ combined Line of the ships, caravels , frigates, privateers.
We quarreled for control of the island with citadel in it which was protecting the chokepoint into the heartland of my empire which was where my capital is plus five other core metropolises.
Then later into the modern era, hiawatha stepped up and began to enjoy a victorious war against netherlands, I kid you not, Hiawatha pulled off an successful oversea invasion, he actually send enough units to do the job even with Nuclear missles being lobbed everywhere. i think he backstabbed netherlands because he determined that netherland is useless because netherlands kept on failing to kill me on Hiawatha's request every single time. So he was like, okay time to remove the useless ally so that he'll be able to assault me directly.
I was watching yellow land becoming grey. And then nuclear fallout began to form, and I rushed over my German lake armadas and combined them into a single massive armada of 100 ships and shoved them into where Hiawatha was landing onto the Netherlands part of the continent with me.
I launched dessys, battleships, aircraft carriers expecting a ezmode victory.
I did manage to take hiawatha by surprise. Killed all the ships supporting the land invasions, i suspect they were remnants because they was damaged but still alive. I also brought a bunch of land units, this enraged Hiawatha, because he went nuts.
Immediately after sending his invasion fleet to davy jone's locker. Hiawatha whipped out his real armada.
First wave! ...
Second wave! ... omg
Third!
Four!
fifth!
sixth!
seventh!
eighth!
Arrgghh ninth!
Tenth!
eleventh QQ moar me.
12th!
13th!
14th!
15th! Frak this horsehockye.
At this point, every single dessys I had brought has been sunk by combined Hiawatha's subs, dessys, battleships, missle cruisers, and stealth bombers from his mainland. And worse, hiawatha actually prioritized sinking my Privateer Dessys, i only have one left because I actually hid it deep far away and safe from hiawatha ships.
I was watching my grey blob shrink to hiawatha's blob. I think hiawatha sent well in excess about 200-300 ships. I didn't count.
Soon after all dessys was sunk and freshly arrived dessys was getting dinged up by constant reinforcements and I actually lost a highly promoted Battleship at this point It had triple naval effect, logistics, range and repair, and some moar promos and even started on land unit bombing promo.
But at same time, hiawatha finally ran out of steam too and offered ceasefire. I checked to make sure, there was random stragglers instead of a solid grey blob like usual.
I took it to take advantage of it to replenish my once formerly huge armada. Don't wanna risk my highly promoted to angry iroquois stealth bombers just waiting for me to move into range to be bombed. I ran out of steam too, Pointless to invade without antiair protection after I saw how much stealth bombers I saw bombing me.
And here, this is all that's left of my armada +reinforcements that set out to do battle with iroquois. I have reinforcements enroute but dude, this is the first time that I set out to do an successful naval invasion only to be blunted in civ5. xD
Spoiler :
Here ends the only successful Navy fleet I have ever seen from the AI. And that only required a simple change in the abominable mechanic introduced in civ 5 series. The horrible happiness system. Apparently it hurts the AI too very badly like humans.
You're welcome sturm, I can show you a screenshot of citadel where the renaissance naval battle took place if you want to.
Ok some things first, I have seen one massive naval battle after several years of Playing Civ 5, just one. Armada vs Armada type, Everything else was small. It occurred in Gods n Kings. Difficulty is King.......
Ok some things first, I have seen one massive naval battle after several years of Playing Civ 5, just one. Armada vs Armada type, Everything else was small. It occurred in Gods n Kings. Difficulty is King.
Then there's two things that made this particular playthrough different from other usual civ 5 games, is that it's modded. Just a little bit really nothing fancy.
(its funny watching how BNW broke this save, I have extreme unhappy but is currently in golden age because I was in one but then I stopped playing this map cuz BNW came out and I wanted to play BNW.)
1) An custom map script to make awe inspiring worlds compared to boring looking worlds that firaxis is fond of. Heck, I once accidentally got a randomly generated Tera online map complete with a slash across the whole world with landmasses affected by it. Awe inspiring maps make me play to the end because I want to see the world instead of already knowing everything.
2) I changed one simple thing in Gods n Kings, 0 unhappiness per population point to make human empires competitive against AI empires that running off their happiness cheats. And then I wanted to be fair and not a cheater so i gave that boost to the AI too.
Two of things I modified equals to empire sized wars. How you say? Let me indulge you..
I was running with 400+ Happiness while Hiawatha the eternal runaway was running at 700-900 happiness I forgot exact amount. Its been months since i played this map.
I was enjoying semi-perpetual golden ages while Hiawatha was in almost permanent golden ages.
Hiawatha did so many things that I didn't think the AI in civ 5 was capable of.. it felt like it was civ 4 for a moment there.
First, Hiawatha concerted an dogpile against me twice I suspect, he was publicly involved in the second dogpile, teh first dogpile ended in failure after combined navy fleets of Mongolia, England, Netherlands, and Korea couldn't beat me in submission. This was the only time I ever had a citadel be useful and act like an coastal fortress firing on renaissance era ships with my renaissance era ships xD Fun it was. was like something 30 frigates/privateers/caravels and a single coastal fortress manned by longswordmen vs 50+ combined Line of the ships, caravels , frigates, privateers.
We quarreled for control of the island with citadel in it which was protecting the chokepoint into the heartland of my empire which was where my capital is plus five other core metropolises.
Then later into the modern era, hiawatha stepped up and began to enjoy a victorious war against netherlands, I kid you not, Hiawatha pulled off an successful oversea invasion, he actually send enough units to do the job even with Nuclear missles being lobbed everywhere. i think he backstabbed netherlands because he determined that netherland is useless because netherlands kept on failing to kill me on Hiawatha's request every single time. So he was like, okay time to remove the useless ally so that he'll be able to assault me directly.
I was watching yellow land becoming grey. And then nuclear fallout began to form, and I rushed over my German lake armadas and combined them into a single massive armada of 100 ships and shoved them into where Hiawatha was landing onto the Netherlands part of the continent with me.
I launched dessys, battleships, aircraft carriers expecting a ezmode victory.
I did manage to take hiawatha by surprise. Killed all the ships supporting the land invasions, i suspect they were remnants because they was damaged but still alive. I also brought a bunch of land units, this enraged Hiawatha, because he went nuts.
Immediately after sending his invasion fleet to davy jone's locker. Hiawatha whipped out his real armada.
First wave! ...
Second wave! ... omg
Third!
Four!
fifth!
sixth!
seventh!
eighth!
Arrgghh ninth!
Tenth!
eleventh QQ moar me.
12th!
13th!
14th!
15th! Frak this horsehockye.
At this point, every single dessys I had brought has been sunk by combined Hiawatha's subs, dessys, battleships, missle cruisers, and stealth bombers from his mainland. And worse, hiawatha actually prioritized sinking my Privateer Dessys, i only have one left because I actually hid it deep far away and safe from hiawatha ships.
I was watching my grey blob shrink to hiawatha's blob. I think hiawatha sent well in excess about 200-300 ships. I didn't count.
Soon after all dessys was sunk and freshly arrived dessys was getting dinged up by constant reinforcements and I actually lost a highly promoted Battleship at this point It had triple naval effect, logistics, range and repair, and some moar promos and even started on land unit bombing promo.
But at same time, hiawatha finally ran out of steam too and offered ceasefire. I checked to make sure, there was random stragglers instead of a solid grey blob like usual.
I took it to take advantage of it to replenish my once formerly huge armada. Don't wanna risk my highly promoted to angry iroquois stealth bombers just waiting for me to move into range to be bombed. I ran out of steam too, Pointless to invade without antiair protection after I saw how much stealth bombers I saw bombing me.
And here, this is all that's left of my armada +reinforcements that set out to do battle with iroquois. I have reinforcements enroute but dude, this is the first time that I set out to do an successful naval invasion only to be blunted in civ5. xD
Spoiler :
Here ends the only successful Navy fleet I have ever seen from the AI. And that only required a simple change in the abominable mechanic introduced in civ 5 series. The horrible happiness system. Apparently it hurts the AI too very badly like humans.
Wow, were there altered settings for this game besides the happiness?
Never seen an AI build hundreds of ships.
That'd be awesome!
I'm not too sure if you're lucky or SoL there.
Did you exchange some nukes as well? I noticed some fallout near your cities...and I don't think I've ever fought an AI with nukes yet. I usually try to take them down before they can get to that point, and make sure they don't have uranium by endgame.
Poor Byzantium and America they must be flipping scared with all those big empires around poor little guys .