Wholly moly!Alexander pulls off an intercontinental sneak attack!

[Heerlo]

So I've been playing Civ5(vanilla), and I've been in a war with Arabia, who is the only other civ on my relatively small continent.While I'm in a tough out-teched war with Arabia, with most of my forces fighting them, I'm suddenly faced with this.

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Well, my thoughts, 'He's on another continent.Will he even do anything?'Seriously, that continent was really far away, too.But after I get out of the diplo screen, sure enough....

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He came all that way just to attack me.Talk about being shocked.Well maybe the AI has been able to do this for awhile, and maybe I've just never been in a position to see this happen.But it sure was a shock.And on vanilla, for pity's sake!

 

[Gucumatz]

Not much of an invasion though

 

[Love CiV]

Not much of an invasion though

Looks like a horrible nuisance.

 

[Heerlo]

Yeah, he hasn't really done that much damage.Still, I was suprised to see him actually attack me from way over there.

 

[Socratatus]

When an AI declares war on you he usually has a fleet halfway to your city which means he was preparing ahead of time. Smart really, because sometimes I`ve declared war and not even thought how I`m going to attack yet!

 

[Dentalfury]

When an AI declares war on you he usually has a fleet halfway to your city which means he was preparing ahead of time. Smart really, because sometimes I`ve declared war and not even thought how I`m going to attack yet!

I've seen this too. More in GnK than in Vanilla. But usually its chance if I spot that attack force before it gets to me. Spies help a little but i've had so many false alarms that it's hard to rely on it to re position my troops.

My game i'm playing now, as Spain, Carthage out of no where dropped about 15 units right on top of one of my frontier towns and overwhelmed it(Mt. Sinai noooooo!) I took it back eventually and made them pay for it (They were wiped out about 30-40 turns later) with the help of a strong neighbor who also hated them.

 

[Socratatus]

I've seen this too. More in GnK than in Vanilla. But usually its chance if I spot that attack force before it gets to me. Spies help a little but i've had so many false alarms that it's hard to rely on it to re position my troops.

My game i'm playing now, as Spain, Carthage out of no where dropped about 15 units right on top of one of my frontier towns and overwhelmed it(Mt. Sinai noooooo!) I took it back eventually and made them pay for it (They were wiped out about 30-40 turns later) with the help of a strong neighbor who also hated them.

I`ve also had situations where I`ve watched the AI actually building up around my borders, while acting like best friends, preparing to attack. Sometimes they do, sometimes they`re just passing through. But when I see it i always gather my troops together. Sometimes they`ll make a trade agreement or friendship with you one or two turns before they attack so that you`ll think nothing`s happening then attack.

It can be tough defending against an attack when it comes out of the blue and you never saw them building up. They are much more effective in the modern era than ancient, I notice.

I do like the fact though, that even while you`re talking as Friends to a leader he could have a fleet almost at your doorstep. I like the thinking ahead thing they do.

 

[Heerlo]

I had a research agreement with Mr.Alex, and he declared anyway.

But Arabia has dow'd me twice in this game, and their attacks weren't very hard to see coming.

 

[manu-fan]

aww, this is a shame. I was hoping it was going to be a G&K Alexander taking out a coastal city in one turn.

Cheers.

 

[Heerlo]

aww, this is a shame. I was hoping it was going to be a G&K Alexander taking out a coastal city in one turn.

Cheers.

Sorry, didn't mean to get your hopes up.

 

[terveurn]

I look at as an opportunity - the AI wants to play games, do a back step to the last save (or autosave) and have a small fleet waiting - catch them on the water and kill them (a lot easier to kill them on the water then once they have a beachhead....)

 

[Heerlo]

I look at as an opportunity - the AI wants to play games, do a back step to the last save (or autosave) and have a small fleet waiting - catch them on the water and kill them (a lot easier to kill them on the water then once they have a beachhead....)

I don't really have a fleet, only one caravel, and it's off exploring.I don't think the Greeks are causing that much problem anyway, though.

 

[smallfish]

I look at as an opportunity - the AI wants to play games, do a back step to the last save (or autosave) and have a small fleet waiting - catch them on the water and kill them (a lot easier to kill them on the water then once they have a beachhead....)

It's not even that big and much of a threat and its already super rare for an AI naval invasion to pull off big time in Vanilla and you want to savescum it?

 

[drac313]

Holy FARMS!

 

[whyidie]

Alexander doesn't lack boldness. I've actually come to enjoy having in my games.

 

[Heerlo]

Holy FARMS!

I like farms.

 

[Sherlock]

I've never seen a 'from one continent to another' invasion. Lot's of DOW's with nothing to back them up.

But you gotta love playing as the Spanish. They have a guy on a HORSE who can found a CITY. How awesome is that?

 

[smallfish]

I've never seen a 'from one continent to another' invasion. Lot's of DOW's with nothing to back them up.

The most successful ones, even in GnK, are the ones where an Industrial/Modern runaway rips into a backwards Renaissance fellow who hadn't had a clue on how to be diplomatic

And I've seen them happen... twice, in Vanilla. Really big invasions btw

 

[Heerlo]

I don't think zee Greek invasion is going to cause that much problem, but it was just kinda suprising to see that.

It's them there Arabians that I gotta worry about.

 

[manu-fan]

Hey KP, just so you know: It's Holy Moly

Cheers.