Was putzing around on Deity trying to build up my micro and confidence to try it for real when Genghis crushed my dreams.
Quick question(s):
when you beg from an AI and he still targets you, waiting out the treaty, is there any way to prevent DoW?
Begging again usually isn't feasible unless caught RIGHT in the middle of a
massive build up, and if he is dead set on targeting YOU, no bribing him away -- as soon as he takes the treaty he will continue to plot and be unavailable. In this particular case everybody else was already in war too, so the obvious "bribe somebody on him" is not an option
It was a normal plot BTW. not for refusal of demand (which I know is almost impossible to stop)
A follow up would be:
how I can tell an AI still targets ME specifically?
i could not be sure Genghis was going to attack me because
-he had no land border
-he did land border others
-his worst enemy was a land target in another religion
-he accepted my beg. As far as i knew, if an AI wants to hit YOU they either refuse this or give up the plot after accepting.
-he arrived at my border some 5 turns before the treaty was up and meandered in my territory for 4 turns before DoWing and teleporting to Brennus' border with me. I thought he was going through to hit Joao or Louis on the other side of me.
If I at least knew he was gonna hit me I would have whipped to survive (actually had metal for once early enough to do so) since I had iron and his stack was like 95% swords with no siege. As it was I didn't even know WHERE he was except on the same Continent (Pangaea or Terra, everybody was here). And since he started to plot earlier than anybody else (turn 85 or earlier) then accepted my bribe when the entire world except him dogpiled Tokugawa, I assumed he wasn't targeting me but one of the other AIs he didn't like, somebody at war, etc.
If he took the beg but continues to plot without a DoW, I understand that to mean he hasn't picked a target yet (is just randomly mongering), or isn't able to cross my border in time if I was targeted. But he did show up...it's confusing. If he was just randomly mongering i thought he had a time limit to pick a target or give up plans.
t105 is not a super early DoW by any means but i'm trying to understand why the only thing my treaty did is slow him down by like 3 turns and I couldn't figure out who he was gonna hit. Only his BFF Brennus was immune.
Am i just supposed to physically keep tabs on his unit movements? There wasn't much I could do except expend more effort scouting everybody or panic build units because *gasp* one of the warmongers is targeting...someone. Once mass war broke out on t87 I was kinda unconcerned when i realized i could swap hindu to Please him and beg, so I went back to cottaging.
Please help me make some sense of it.