I started up a game as Harald Bluetooth last night, thinking I'd give him a test run and go for my first domination win in ages. Turned out that was a pretty good idea, since the fractal map put me on a continent with Alexander, Suleiman, Temujin, and... Hiawatha. So I set myself to the Berserker beeline, trained up my forces, and got into position by the Iroquios, who were right next to me and had some damn great land.
That turn, Genghis Khan declared on me from the entire continent away. The bastard. So I brought my berserks back, fully intending just to squash his force and extort peace so I could turn around and grab Hiawatha's near and very enticing land. By the time my bear-skins had gotten halfway across the continent without encountering and Mongolian hordes, he asked me for peace, but demanded gold, GPT, and my last 2 iron (these details, I think, are important). I didn't want to give up my iron, but he wouldn't settle without it, and I wanted to get onto Hiawatha before he could expand further and train an army. So, I took out some loans, bought a catapult, and set my smallest city to built another berserker just so that I wouldn't have any surplus iron when I negotiated with him later that turn.
Having made these preparations and depleted myself of iron to trade, I asked Genghis to name his price for peace. He said… nothing. He just gave me an [edit]peace treaty[/edit]. Nifty. I turned my army around and headed back towards the Iroquois.
I hit end turn, and then suddenly, Genghis declared war on me again. Not even a full turn since we signed the peace treaty. On top of that, for some reason he gave me the "the odds are clearly against me, but I have to try to do something!" routine. Clearly, this goes against game rules, since he shouldn't be able to declare for 7(?) turns after the peace treaty. On top of that, his rationale seemed very odd, especially since his first DoW was to the tune of "I know it's not polite to prey on the week, but whatever. I'm Genghis Khan."
Has anyone else seen a bug like this? I'd never seen it before, nor heard of it, so I'm guessing it's something patch-related. Or maybe it's just that nobody feels like they have to respect peace treaties made with guys who hardly wear clothes.
That turn, Genghis Khan declared on me from the entire continent away. The bastard. So I brought my berserks back, fully intending just to squash his force and extort peace so I could turn around and grab Hiawatha's near and very enticing land. By the time my bear-skins had gotten halfway across the continent without encountering and Mongolian hordes, he asked me for peace, but demanded gold, GPT, and my last 2 iron (these details, I think, are important). I didn't want to give up my iron, but he wouldn't settle without it, and I wanted to get onto Hiawatha before he could expand further and train an army. So, I took out some loans, bought a catapult, and set my smallest city to built another berserker just so that I wouldn't have any surplus iron when I negotiated with him later that turn.
Having made these preparations and depleted myself of iron to trade, I asked Genghis to name his price for peace. He said… nothing. He just gave me an [edit]peace treaty[/edit]. Nifty. I turned my army around and headed back towards the Iroquois.
I hit end turn, and then suddenly, Genghis declared war on me again. Not even a full turn since we signed the peace treaty. On top of that, for some reason he gave me the "the odds are clearly against me, but I have to try to do something!" routine. Clearly, this goes against game rules, since he shouldn't be able to declare for 7(?) turns after the peace treaty. On top of that, his rationale seemed very odd, especially since his first DoW was to the tune of "I know it's not polite to prey on the week, but whatever. I'm Genghis Khan."
Has anyone else seen a bug like this? I'd never seen it before, nor heard of it, so I'm guessing it's something patch-related. Or maybe it's just that nobody feels like they have to respect peace treaties made with guys who hardly wear clothes.
Perhaps he suspected what I'd done and was waiting for me to free up the iron, but again, I think that's reading into it too much. (Also, I'm pretty sure I forgot to switch my small city off berserker production that turn, so I don't think I had any iron available when he declared on me. Could be wrong though. It was a silly couple of turns.)
