Sitting Bull the Masochist

[CharlieM]

I'm playing a game on Warlord, as Washington. Been leading in points and power most of the game. Around 1950, Sitting Bull (my neighbor to the east) declares war. I counter attack and start taking his cities.

Four or five city-captures and/or razings later, I try to talk to him. I am tired of fighting and want to rest! But he won't talk to me. I take another city or two, and finally, he is willing to barter for peace. He gave me 400 gold for it.

When the war started, he was about 100 points behind me. When it was over, he was about 800 points behind.

Any thing I could have done to get this war over faster? I had him crushed and ruined, and just wanted to move on to peaceful building.

 

[Refar]

Well you could have wiped him out sooner

 

[CharlieM]

Well you could have wiped him out sooner

Ha!

It was sad/funny/ironic. I was destroying the American Indian with America! And Sitting Bull just kept saying, "Please, sir, can I have some more?"

 

[Refar]

The AI dumbness in respect to this is just overwelming.... Sometimes i get the feeling they are purposedly designed to make you as as possible.

 

[AfterShafter]

I think that guy is programmed to war at times when other civs aren't meant to - probably because his archery units are so great. He can be so tough to take out with his umpteen upgraded longbowmen if you don't have a tech advantage, or even if you do, a war with him can be a tremendous resource drain.

Firsthand experience here... Longbowmen on a hill = Ramses cries himself to sleep.

 

[CharlieM]

Ahh... makes more sense. Bull thought he had something.

But I guess he was too busy to notice my tanks and Navy Seals marching on his main cities from all sides.

He had bombers and fighters, but no SAM and no Tanks.