About the only AI that always seems the same are the highly expansionistic and warmongering ones. Zulu, Iroquois, and Greece always seem to do the same thing. shaka is so darn predictable I've started to enjoy seeing him in my games as I know I can buddy up and bribe him to harass everyone I don't like for just a pittance. I've sent the guy to war for 1 gpt and 17 gold before in like the industrial, he is insatiable.
I love Shaka in my games as he always create such fascinating chaos in the entire world
In one game the entire world was divided on two continents. My Brazil was on the smaller one, with Poland, Portugal, Morocco and Aztecs, and despite small landmass size there were almost no wars before ideologies when there was huge Poland - me + Portugal war. So this continent was very densely populated and developed.
On the other contnent there was Shaka
Oh and Shoshone, Maya, Venice. Well, since ancient era towards atomic era Zulu were exterminating, raping, pillaging, conquering, betraying, embargoed, hated, condemned, under siege and finally crushed but not before they managed:
- enter Shoshone beautiful ancient empire, consisting of three beautiful cities, and raze two of them
- ...do similar thing with Shoshone few centuries later
- conquer all nearby city states
- massacre cultural Maya civilization, including 100% razing and extermination of Chichen Itza, the greatest city of the world and home of many world wonders
- conquering Venice
- attempting naval invasion on the first continent
- since renaissance era nations from the overcrowded continent started sending settlers to Zulu continent, countless colonies were razed and slaughtered by Zulu during the entire history
- finally Zulu were completely annihilated by giant expeditionary force of combined army of my Brazil, Portuguese fleet, Moroccan sudden desant and Shoshone tanks
I love having in my games Shaka and Montezuma because they are hilariously insane, August/Hiawatha/Catherine/Bismarck/Casimir/Darius for similar reason - ability to build cool empires. Oda Nobunaga is also pretty cool in my games as he is completely unpredictable psychopath - I had games when he was my most loyal awesome ally, games when he was my greatest enemy, games when he conquered half of the world, games when he was world's punchbag, games when he was my best buddy until the great betrayal... And games when he was my greatest enemy until sudden declaration of friendship. And in all these cases he has exactly the same face:
>_<
Jesus Christ, I am really afraid of this AI personality.
By the way, when Nobunaga is angry he often says 'Ooooh... Suchka!" when entering diplomacy, which makes him even more ridiculous for me as in Polish language "Suchka" sounds almost exactly as "b*tch"
For some reason, Songhai/Celts/Maya/Spain/Denmark/Polynesia never manage to achieve absolutely anything in my games. Surprisingly, in my games Dido and Alexander always fail while they seem to be regarded as one of the most dangerous leaders.
On the other hand, Washington and Hiawatha... These guys are sometimes powerful but always extremely annoying. And while Washington is enormous hipocryte, Hiawatha is certified psychopath. He suffers on paralyzed face muscles so no matter whether you have just killed his mother or saved his daughter he looks like:
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