That crazy Montezuma again!

[Stylesrj]

I was playing a game as Gandhi of the glorious Indian Empire (don't mess with the pacifist!) I decided to enable tech trading and as I was building my empire up, Monteuma demands my many gold reasources. Of course, I gave Monty the good 'ol finger and decided to build a few axemen to "deter" Monty from attacking. My friends the Hindu Romans (I was Hindu too) were close by to my nation and they were cautious to Monty.

Now there was a Barbarian city north of me and I saw Monty send a stack of chariots and who knows what else to that city. Needless to say he lost. However, he did have one surviving troop which went south.

Guess what the idiot Monty did next? That's right, he declared war on me. I had my Iron guarded by an Axeman so I rushed one and sent it south, thinking his troop will go after my gold. You wanna know what troop he sent? Look at the screenshot below

Omgnoes! I'm scared, he sent a Warrior at me! Oh teh noes!

So I kicked the Warrior's butt after he pillaged the mine (Note: the gold the Warrior was standing on in the screenshot was just gold i didn't get around to mining, it's not the mine he pillaged the next two turns later) and then built up a small force of axemen. To top it off, I rebuilt the pillaged mine in spite of his "economic damage". At this time, I could declare peace, but Monty the dumbass wanted ME to give them gold, so I refused
My Axemen lost to the Jaguars (I built swordsmen too!) and I declared peace later on when he didn't demand anything, just peace (he wanted peace actually). Shortly afterwards, the Romans declared peace. Ok, fine is fine.

Many turns later, I got Machinery and cranked out the Crossbowmen. I sent them at his cities and conquered most of them and made him Capitulate. I never got a Great General in my war, but later on in my short raid on the Chinese I got one, declared peace on the Chinese then attacked the Carthaginians and made them Capitulate.

My Empire currently is going to conquer Korea because after a long and one-sided struggle (I had Infantry, and he had Knights! I was playing on Chieftan) China had capitulated. I'm planning on raiding the Zulu and Korea at the same time which would leave Rome and America left to conquer. I'm not sure if Catherine is on the map though, I forgot who was left.

Anyway, so Montezuma was the most idiot of a strategist. He loses his stack to Barbarians and then has to attack me with a Warrior. I knew it was coming too! However, I thought he'd send a bigger stack as you wouldn't declare war on someone with only a single warrior to attack with

 

[Endzz]

Well it isn't second easiest level for nothing

 

[Stylesrj]

Yeah, but still, he lost his stack to attacking a barbarian city and declares war on me with a warrior. And throughout the war, that's all he sent probably because then Julius was attempting to wipe the floor, lost his Praets to Aztec Jaguars in cities and sent out a small army after that Barbarian city.

Yeah good ol' Monty is at it again

 

[darkkai64]

that was definetly not the smartest thing that he could have done

 

[Killroyan]

Could you please take a screenshot of your capital because it looks like you have enough food and 4 gold mines in your BFC, which is

 

[DigitalBoy]

Five gold mines and four of them are in your capital's fat cross. I envy you.

 

[Dan Quale]

I might try chieftan lol, im at emporer now but nowhere near going to immortal, it scares me. I havent tried chieftan since civ 2 but that screenshot looks just too nice. Maybe after some weekend party when im sloshed ill come hope and start a settler game, to see if i can outwith the genious ai.

 

[TheDuckLover]

What is that wall thing? Is that a line of forts? Or is that something off Warlords?

 

[Jerrymander]

It's the Great Wall wonder from Warlords.

 

[darkkai64]

that keeps out barbarians and makes great generals come faster

 

[Tulx]

Oh yeah.... Most of the times he is a real turkey, but you know, sometimes he can be really malicious virus....

 

[Diamondeye]

I know why he did it.
It's Montezuma! That AI is a warmongering moron - especially on lower difficulties. He ruined my second game I ever played though. Jag's are beasts when attacking archer-cities

 

[Stylesrj]

I dunno where the game is now, but still, I have my own cIV strategies. When it comes to building stuff around my city, it's always farms on Flood Plains, no matter what, even if Cottages are better. If I have an interest in the game still, I'll stick with Chieftain.

Montezuma is an idiot, he does not look at Before & After with his power. Like I said, it wasn't a smart move of him to send a Warrior to one of my cities, pillage a Mine and then get killed by an Axeman and then send no more forces.
However it was a smart defence he had, and a poor offense from me, but the Romans helped me out in the final run of Monty's vassalage.

 

[biggamer132]

You shouldn't have vassalized him. Instead, you should have burned every single one of his cities to the ground!

A little extreme, perhaps, but in a game where the Spanish sunk two of my galleons (loaded with workers) with their privateers and acted like they didn't do anything (it was right off their coast) I declared war, pillaged half the improvements in Spain, and razed their two biggest cities.

Needless to say, they didn't mess with me again.

 

[The Flame]

lol Monty was so stupid!

 

[rabidveggie]

If he starts near me he's the first person I'll swarm. When I first played he wiped me out a few times and I do not forgive such transgressions easily.

 

[The Flame]

If he starts near me he's the first person I'll swarm. When I first played he wiped me out a few times and I do not forgive such transgressions easily.

I learned too lol. Once, we started off as neighbors. I tried to ally him, since he was pretty strong. I thought things were going well, when out of the blue he attacks me. For no reason at all.

 

[dxglide]

i hate this fu***** ing montezuma ... he is the madman... when the moty was nearby me random civ, this bustard was the first who take me in the war before AD .... arggggggg !!!!!!!

 

[Videonut2000]

He is a complete idiot sometimes, one time I had a friendly relationship with Monte along with a military 3x larger than his and he still declared war on me.

 

[darkkai64]

you can also simply play as Montezuma