I can somewhat understand Banane, although i'd have settled it so it has the Bananas in the first ring, but South Wedge is hilarious and won't contribute anything at all unless you go to war and crush the AIs culture. If it at least had some forest or some food, you could chop/whip more culture building to hopefully get your 3rd borderpop before Saladin gets his 4th... but now it's getting silly. Gift that city to Stalin, maybe you're lucky and it'll create some hatred between Sal/Stal... at least this should make Sal a land target for Stalin, remember that Sal already has that city in the north.
Somehow missed that the Rice is wet, that makes the city at least decent, although it's still a stretch for your econ and needs IW, which usually means "don't get" for me (unless i have IW already or can trade for it soon ofc
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Regarding the personalities, i'd guess that Stalin is some kind of Justinian: IMP style expanding, and he obviously loves you for your shared religion (only zealots etc. get +6 from reli). That said, Shaka should be his target, you can't be too sure but usually AIs that have built up so much religious loving for the human don't go to war against him. Have only witnessed that once, and it was because i boxed the AI really badly in that game, which isn't the case here. Just observe the cities north/west to Banana, which most likely will be the target if you're getting unlucky.
Oh yeah, almost forgot, when Shaka still has no metals he's almost certainly the war target, i'm 99,9% sure. The AI takes this into account when considering going to war from what i've expected.
I'm still convinced that a early attack date with Catas and a compact empire would've been better, the land you expanded to (Wedge/Banana) isn't even worth the settler at the moment and will take forever to pay off if it ever will, plus will take incredible amounts of workerturns, create bordertension ... the list goes on. No, really, don't like it. You could've gone to war easily against Sal while the other two hate each other, and his land is nice. Too bad, this is pretty much off the table now.
Somehow missed that the Rice is wet, that makes the city at least decent, although it's still a stretch for your econ and needs IW, which usually means "don't get" for me (unless i have IW already or can trade for it soon ofc
). Regarding the personalities, i'd guess that Stalin is some kind of Justinian: IMP style expanding, and he obviously loves you for your shared religion (only zealots etc. get +6 from reli). That said, Shaka should be his target, you can't be too sure but usually AIs that have built up so much religious loving for the human don't go to war against him. Have only witnessed that once, and it was because i boxed the AI really badly in that game, which isn't the case here. Just observe the cities north/west to Banana, which most likely will be the target if you're getting unlucky.
Oh yeah, almost forgot, when Shaka still has no metals he's almost certainly the war target, i'm 99,9% sure. The AI takes this into account when considering going to war from what i've expected.
I'm still convinced that a early attack date with Catas and a compact empire would've been better, the land you expanded to (Wedge/Banana) isn't even worth the settler at the moment and will take forever to pay off if it ever will, plus will take incredible amounts of workerturns, create bordertension ... the list goes on. No, really, don't like it. You could've gone to war easily against Sal while the other two hate each other, and his land is nice. Too bad, this is pretty much off the table now.
There are leaders where the civic fits the historical character a little bit better (although, from most of the ancient/medieval/renaissance leaders we actually don't know too much and might be mislead by some historians that interpreted something wrong...), but overall ...
