Alright, this time I really really need to be able to scorch the earth.
AI literally just sent a doomstack of 130 units (I counted in world builder), so I have no choice but to depopulate a border city (or 2 or 10) and fall back, and destroy the damn roads so the enemy can't use them...
I thought my power score was looking good, turns out I just have a massive navy lol
And then the friendly native neighbour whom I purposefully didn't settle into, yet got settled by other colonials, just randomly backstabs me because of course that makes sense and is totally not unimmersive, yet no native ever does anything vs AI colonials. Civ difficulty scaling gotta be the worst I've ever seen lol.