Settings as below. No huts
During my war against Roosy, JC started plotting. I though he probably wanted to dogpile Roosy, as he was annoyed towards Roosy. Much to my surprise, JC's target turned out to be Hanni
![Eek! :eek: :eek:](/images/smilies/eek.gif)
(the First Punic War broke out ?
![Hmm :hmm: :hmm:](/images/smilies/hm.gif)
). He bribed Mehmed on the same turn. Then Hanni bribed Roosy against JC
The diplomacy screen became chaotic
Next turn JC bribed Justy against Roosy
![Downcast face with sweat :sweat: 😓](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f613.png)
(and yes, Chadibal got the free GArtist from Music in 225AD).
Hanni lost a city to Mehmed; I gave CoL and Metal casting to bribe Mehmed off.
Hannibal is usually a strong AI, so I thought the duel between Hanni and JC would become a stalemate. I was shocked when Hanni lost his capital to JC
![Dubious :dubious: :dubious:](/images/smilies/dubious.gif)
. Had to give Philo to JC to avoid Hanni's capitulation
![Sad :sad: :sad:](/data/assets/smilies/cwm36.gif)
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When I was only 5 or 6 turns from Cuirs, Mehmed and JC DoW Hanni again (the Second Punic War?
![Hmm :hmm: :hmm:](/images/smilies/hm.gif)
). Reloaded once here: I tried to bribe JC & Mehmed off, but they both asked Nationalism and Paper. I found their requests too expensive so I didn't give the techs to them. As a result, Hanni quickly capitulated to JC, who became a super monster of 10+ cities with a vassal
![Wall Bash :wallbash: :wallbash:](/images/smilies/wallbash.gif)
. So I reloaded from the turn of Mehmed and JC's DoW, gave them Nationalism and paper for their peace with Hannibal.
![](https://i.ibb.co/Wv9Xwck/1070ad-dow.jpg)
BTW, 1 city Roosy capitulated to Justy in 1060AD.
Attacked with Cuirs. Hannibal was already weakened by the long war with Romans and Ottomans. He capitulated only 3 turns after my attack. Gave 100
![Gold :gold: :gold:](/images/smilies/civ4/gold.gif)
to Hanni for his conversion to Hinduism, mostly to improve the relationship with Justy. Justy was pleased towards me but cautious towards Jewish Hanni; Hanni becoming Hindu would keep Justy at pleased.
After Hanni's capitulation, I needed to choose a target among Mehmed and JC. JC's army was less large than Mehmed's. Mehmed had 10+ cites; the demography screen showed he had the highest soldier count. There was his giant stack from his previous wars against Hanni.
![](https://i.ibb.co/BGQfSDZ/mehmed-stack.jpg)
Despite of his large land and massive army, Mehmed was the only available target, because - looking at JC's research: he would get riflemen in 6 turns
![nono :nono: :nono:](/images/smilies/nono.gif)
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Begged 1
![Gold :gold: :gold:](/images/smilies/civ4/gold.gif)
from JC before I attacked Mehmed. I whipped like crazy while Mehmed spammed units like crazy
![AR475 :ar15: :ar15:](/images/smilies/AR15firing.gif)
. War weariness and whipping anger were soaring. Defying AP resolution of "stopping the war against Mehmed" only made things worse. Angry faces throughout my empire
![Mad :mad: :mad:](/data/assets/smilies/mad.gif)
:
![](https://i.ibb.co/107FMD8/angry-city.jpg)
^that city had no whipping anger because it was my HE city. But with so many angry citizens, maybe it was time to whip them away
![Face with symbols on mouth :face_with_symbols_over_mouth: 🤬](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f92c.png)
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Lucky discovery of silver improved a little the happiness issue:
During my war against Mehmed, JC got Rifleman in 1350AD - it was the earliest AI rifling that I had seen on emperor
All these AIs except Roosevelt had high "military" flavour
![Trouble :trouble: :trouble:](/images/smilies/trouble.gif)
. They were the reverse of Willem or Pacal: instead of researching Physics before rifling, they all rushed towards Replaceable parts - rifling and ignored astronomy
![Wall Bash :wallbash: :wallbash:](/images/smilies/wallbash.gif)
. Meanwhile I didn't even have banking or printing press
After a tough fight and heavy loss, Portugal managed to vassal Mehmed before my peace treaty with JC expired
![Whew :whew: :whew:](/images/smilies/whew.gif)
. An angry face showed up: it seemed the last AI already made contact with Mehmed prior to his capitulation
![Face with monocle :face_with_monocle: 🧐](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f9d0.png)
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Many cities were heavily whipped. AIs sent spies to sabotage some of my farms or workshops. Several workers were sniped by random knights or chariots during the war
![Embarrassment :o :o](/images/smilies/redface.gif)
. I need to take a break here, thinking about the economy recovery and how to build an army of rifles + cannons for the next war against JC.