Suicidal AI behavior

[morchuflex]

Hello.

Did you notice how suicidal the AI sometimes gets? They will routinely declare war on you when you have the power to reduce them to dust in three turns.
The funniest example happened to me last week. Enjoy.
After a long war on two fronts with Babylon and the Aztecs, I had contained the Babs, and destroyed all visible Aztec cities (they were surviving somewhere but I couldn't see where; the powergraph showed they were near extinction). I stayed at war with Babylon and signed peace with the Aztecs.
But after many centuries, the Babylonians probably bribed them again into war against me. Next turn, an Aztec galley showed up near my southern coast... I attacked it with a frigate, it sank... and the foreign advisor came to me, congratulating me for destoying the Aztec empire.

 

[Darix]

I agree. AI is still dumb in this version. They are making a lot of super awful strategic moves. When I am playing huge pandagaea map, I see my neighbor civ declare war on another civ that is located on the very other side of the map. The next thing you see is he will marching all his mobile force toward the other side of map (and across my turf too). All I do is waiting for those to move out and then attack his cities and beat him up.

Another dumb thing that AI do is even when they have one last city, they will not try to gain any ground by focus in taking weaker neighbor cities. They will still declare war on those super powers.

The AI is very bad toward mid and late games.

 

[The Fjonis]

Darix; it's so cool when an AI marches through your land like that. Round up his offensive unts so they can't go anywhere, build up two offensive armies (one for crushing his army, one for invading his territory) - and, with a bit of skill and luck, you can crush him swiftly.

Kinda stupid though.

 

[colontos]

it seems like the AIs get resentful if you are the huge superpower and will attack even if totally unprepared. on one game, by the modern era i was 3 times more powerful than the 2nd place civ, with a huge army, huge land, huge pop, huge everything good...the other civs, one by one, declared war on me for no reason (even though they were gracious or polite) and were destroyed in 2-5 turns. i have no idea why, but it's pretty funny.

 

[Prince David]

I'm fairly certain that the only remaining fragment of Aztek civilization was actually a settler on that galley. Poor thing was probably sailing around for all that time, a little boatload of Aztek refugees, just looking for a little sliver of land to call their own. And you blew them up. An entire empire reduced to a boatload of families and a spearman. Very sad.

Silliness aside, a civ can continue to exist in smallest form as a settler. Stuck on a galley (and the AI notoriously afraid of suicide runs), it had probably been poking around the coastline of your continent that entire time looking for a little bit of unclaimed territory on which to settle. So in this case it was not neccesarily stupidity, or a suicide attack on a much larger foe, but simply looking for a place to start over.

 

[morchuflex]

I'm fairly certain that the only remaining fragment of Aztek civilization was actually a settler on that galley.

Most likely. That's what I thought when I realized I had killed them just by sinking one ship.

 

[Prince David]

Hah, which leads the the d'oh: If you'd let them land, THEN attack, you would have bagged a couple of workers.

 

[morchuflex]

Hah, which leads the the d'oh: If you'd let them land, THEN attack, you would have bagged a couple of workers.

Oops! Silly me!