I play BTS Monarch level and on more than a few occasions I had a chance to come up against washington. The thing that I noticed about him is that he rexes like no other AI. In my last game he had 11 cities on his land mass and two on the one I shared (temporarily) with Wang. The thing is that was before Washington even had CoL.
I had my espionage invested all in him so I could see his reaserch. And CoL came alot later. That means he was paying up for 11 cities on main land mass + 2 colony cities. The things is he was also at war with mehmed so he had lots of units AND he was keeping tech parity. I mean how is that even possible? The maintenace fees alone for 13 cities with no court houses should have slowed him to a crawl. But not only it didn't do that, he also was able to afford teching and significant military. I should probably mention that two were in tundra, with no significant food sources and the two on my land mass were in deserty area with not that many land tiles anyway, so they couldn't have been profitable.
Its not the first game that I had him in and I already know that starting next to him means trouble, the guy will grab land untill there is nothing left to grab, unless you block him off. Thing is other AIs will try to do the same, but you can generally see that bigger AI will have slower tech rate or lower military or both, so there is balance, you sacrifice your ability to tech and/or you military when you are grabbing land that early in the game, even other AIs do that, but Washington....I just don't know.
I had my espionage invested all in him so I could see his reaserch. And CoL came alot later. That means he was paying up for 11 cities on main land mass + 2 colony cities. The things is he was also at war with mehmed so he had lots of units AND he was keeping tech parity. I mean how is that even possible? The maintenace fees alone for 13 cities with no court houses should have slowed him to a crawl. But not only it didn't do that, he also was able to afford teching and significant military. I should probably mention that two were in tundra, with no significant food sources and the two on my land mass were in deserty area with not that many land tiles anyway, so they couldn't have been profitable.
Its not the first game that I had him in and I already know that starting next to him means trouble, the guy will grab land untill there is nothing left to grab, unless you block him off. Thing is other AIs will try to do the same, but you can generally see that bigger AI will have slower tech rate or lower military or both, so there is balance, you sacrifice your ability to tech and/or you military when you are grabbing land that early in the game, even other AIs do that, but Washington....I just don't know.
