IrishDragon
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I played out a sickman of Europe Greek game until 2244. No access to my laptop for the last few weeks so this was on the early January git updates. The map looked like this at the end, with the Norse ready to collapse:
Some observations:
AI loves nukes. I thought they just had a preoccupation with nuking indie and native Africa, but they really just love using nukes. They regularly and repeatedly nuked random indie cities, destroying the planet in the process.
This part of North America stayed unsettled throughout the game.
Turn time was glacial in the 21st century, but sped up after that as one civ after another died off. The general theme was: major power nukes and conquers anything indie, overextends and collapses, new power nukes the new indies and goes on their own conquest spree, overextends and collapses.
Canada-US role reversal. Canada was full on imperialist, conducting successful invasions of southern Africa, Madagascar and Borneo. The US stayed at home, and ceded western America to Mexico and Canada until Canada collapsed. They then mopped up the Canadian indies (with nukes) and later conducted one of the most precise AI war operations I've seen against Mexico, thrusting rapidly into central America before turning back and taking the California region, totally destroying them in a couple fo turns(with the help of nukes).
AI Brazil was also quite adventerous and able to conduct successful naval invasions abroad - including sending the stack below to Ireland to take out the Celts. They took Belfast normally and held it for a couple of turns, then used nukes to complete the job and wipe the Celts off the map. They later also invaded and took Spain (from indies iirc, with nukes).
Japan stayed at home on their islands and didn't seem to have any interest in going abroad. China was also stable, being content to stay mostly within their historical borders. Taiwan remained unsettled by either China or Japan.
At one point, nearly half the world was belonged to the US or Canada, with them having 4 and 3 vassals each
France had been dominant on the leaderboard during normal play, however Germany caught them with a surprise war in the 1980s and nuked and took Paris. A 'remarkable act of kindness' stopped the war short but set the French on the path to collapse decades later. That allowed Bismark to realise Hitler's dreams of an empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals, albeit a century late and with the aid of nukes. That Germany could have taken over the planet if they didn't collapse, and their collapse set the ball rolling on a number of European powers attempting their own pan-European empire and collapsing.
In general, it felt like the AI wants to conquer but are too afraid of each other to declare war. Wars happened, but not as often as they could have.
Some observations:
AI loves nukes. I thought they just had a preoccupation with nuking indie and native Africa, but they really just love using nukes. They regularly and repeatedly nuked random indie cities, destroying the planet in the process.
This part of North America stayed unsettled throughout the game.
Spoiler :
Turn time was glacial in the 21st century, but sped up after that as one civ after another died off. The general theme was: major power nukes and conquers anything indie, overextends and collapses, new power nukes the new indies and goes on their own conquest spree, overextends and collapses.
Canada-US role reversal. Canada was full on imperialist, conducting successful invasions of southern Africa, Madagascar and Borneo. The US stayed at home, and ceded western America to Mexico and Canada until Canada collapsed. They then mopped up the Canadian indies (with nukes) and later conducted one of the most precise AI war operations I've seen against Mexico, thrusting rapidly into central America before turning back and taking the California region, totally destroying them in a couple fo turns(with the help of nukes).
AI Brazil was also quite adventerous and able to conduct successful naval invasions abroad - including sending the stack below to Ireland to take out the Celts. They took Belfast normally and held it for a couple of turns, then used nukes to complete the job and wipe the Celts off the map. They later also invaded and took Spain (from indies iirc, with nukes).
Japan stayed at home on their islands and didn't seem to have any interest in going abroad. China was also stable, being content to stay mostly within their historical borders. Taiwan remained unsettled by either China or Japan.
At one point, nearly half the world was belonged to the US or Canada, with them having 4 and 3 vassals each
France had been dominant on the leaderboard during normal play, however Germany caught them with a surprise war in the 1980s and nuked and took Paris. A 'remarkable act of kindness' stopped the war short but set the French on the path to collapse decades later. That allowed Bismark to realise Hitler's dreams of an empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals, albeit a century late and with the aid of nukes. That Germany could have taken over the planet if they didn't collapse, and their collapse set the ball rolling on a number of European powers attempting their own pan-European empire and collapsing.
In general, it felt like the AI wants to conquer but are too afraid of each other to declare war. Wars happened, but not as often as they could have.
Spoiler :
