Was it something I said?

[CVDon]

Playing Inca, 12 Civs, Huge map, Balanced, Noble

Japan dropped two cities directly on my northern border to block my expansion, and claim a huge chunk of land for themselves. That's an aggressive act, so naturally I attacked and took them both.

Five or six turns later Spain attacks. Two turns after that Mali attacks. I wrecked Mali's army and bribed Greece into attacking Mali so after a few turns they made peace and left. I took a nice city from Spain and wrecked their field army, so they made peace. Even Japan made peace.

I started rebuilding my devastated areas and building up my four new cities (3 from Japan, 1 from Spain). Before I could get very far Russia declared war. I defeated them after losing and retaking one of my cities.

Then the Aztec declared war,
Then Arabia declared war,
Then Japan declared war,
Then Greece declared war,
Then Germany declared war,

My only neighbors were France, America, Spain and Japan. The rest had to build armies and walk across the world to attack me. I was not weak in military forces and defeated the first three invasions easily, even taking some cities. I managed to wreck the initial forces of "The Grand Union" that finally over-ran me.

Civ4 may not be a wargame, but I have never managed to do well without an overwhelmingly strong military.

 

[xonixs]

everyone wants to have a piece of the cake. And the cake is you!!
Make sure it isnt...

 

[nin9abadga]

hehe that sucks.

i had a similar thing on one of the lower difficulty levels, i was attacked by spain but i managed to fight them off and made peace then only 2 turns later the ghengis kahn and hyuna kupac (sp) started on me. i fought them off but it blew my chances of winning.

so then i turned on world builder and nuked them all hehe

nin9abadga

 

[Gedge123]

I try to avoid war until later on in the game when I have a bigger army so I can attack other countries, because I find it easier when I attack countries.

 

[Wodan]

I think if you declare war especially early, the AIs are more on a "war footing" than if you don't. Also, there might be something wierd going on where they are all friendly with each other (because it's the start of the game), and so you got at "You declared war on my friend" with everybody.

Wodan

 

[Meffy]

The line "Was it something I said?" reminds me of 1970s TV adverts for a certain personal grooming product. Apropos of this, a suggestion how altered game play might have resulted in a far less warlike game. ;-)

"Huayna, please accept this gift from the stylish, trendy people of Arabia."

*phew*

(I'll bet some of the AI leaders I've played against could use some deodorant from time to time. Not to mention the ones I've played as.)

 

[Glinka]

It could have been a perceived weakness on the part of your military that led your opponents to gang up on you. Or possibly someone was buying them off--perhaps both. What were your relations like with those suddenly warlike AIs before they decided to lower the hammer on your head? Surely not Pleased or Friendly?

 

[Polopapolo]

Did you have the "always war" option enabled?

There is a bug/glitch in the game where sometimes (after a crash I think) the settings are reset. Happened to me with the "no city razing" option in the custom games menu. I never check this option but I reloaded a game after a crash and could no longer raze conquered cities... quite annoying.

 

[CVDon]

I did not have "always war" selected. Relations were in the +3 to -3 range. Bismarck was actually please with me before he took a chunk out of my backside.

Thank you Meffy, for your kind gift. It was most delicious and the teeth of Huayna Capac have never before had such luster.

 

[Meffy]

It was most delicious and the teeth of Huayna Capac have never before had such luster.

*bow* Pleased to- eh? =@.o= Erm, that is, yes! Just so. Hem. :-}