Yes I know, not exactly an original theme...
Started a new game last night, and quickly discovered that Alex was my nearest neighbour, with Gandhi to the North and Askia to the North-West. As you can imagine I made sure my military was something like. Meanwhile Alex had 3 additional cities by T44 (playing Epic speed) then went off to fight Askia. Then he had a pop at me, his units got minced, and he paid me for peace. I built Great Wall and got upgrades to Longbows, Alex finished off Askia; meanwhile Gandhi is pumping out wonders and of course Alex is now his immediate neighbour. They denounce each other.
Some time later Alex has regained no1 military, I'm a very close no2 miltary, I have three strong cities and of course great wall, and Gandhi is still building wonders not military and not getting along with Alex...so take a wild guess who Alex DOWs? Me of course, with predictably the same result; but as I have just researched Navigation I doubt I'll be accepting any peace terms.
If instead of wastefully going for me he'd have captured Dehli, he would be much stronger and richer - surely the AI code could analyse that that was the smarter play? As it is, once I've built a navy I'll help myself to most of his cities (well at least the ones worth keeping) and probably then attack India myself.
Started a new game last night, and quickly discovered that Alex was my nearest neighbour, with Gandhi to the North and Askia to the North-West. As you can imagine I made sure my military was something like. Meanwhile Alex had 3 additional cities by T44 (playing Epic speed) then went off to fight Askia. Then he had a pop at me, his units got minced, and he paid me for peace. I built Great Wall and got upgrades to Longbows, Alex finished off Askia; meanwhile Gandhi is pumping out wonders and of course Alex is now his immediate neighbour. They denounce each other.
Some time later Alex has regained no1 military, I'm a very close no2 miltary, I have three strong cities and of course great wall, and Gandhi is still building wonders not military and not getting along with Alex...so take a wild guess who Alex DOWs? Me of course, with predictably the same result; but as I have just researched Navigation I doubt I'll be accepting any peace terms.
If instead of wastefully going for me he'd have captured Dehli, he would be much stronger and richer - surely the AI code could analyse that that was the smarter play? As it is, once I've built a navy I'll help myself to most of his cities (well at least the ones worth keeping) and probably then attack India myself.