Your greatest nemesis?

[connor]

I don't know what it is with this guy, but Ghandi is a real @$@%@%. He is the most backstabbing one of the bunch! There been several of my last games where I am powerful, advanced, bigger, and on polite terms, just did a trade and the little bugger suddenly attacks. He's on the other side of the world, but marches stacks across it to attack one city. Was this some sort of ironic humor on the part of Firaxis?

 

[Windwalker]

Originally posted by connor
I don't know what it is with this guy, but Ghandi is a real @$@%@%. He is the most backstabbing one of the bunch! There been several of my last games where I am powerful, advanced, bigger, and on polite terms, just did a trade and the little bugger suddenly attacks. He's on the other side of the world, but marches stacks across it to attack one city. Was this some sort of ironic humor on the part of Firaxis?

Hmm, I think every AI is capable of backstabbing (even sweet Joan d'Arc!). I don't think India does it as much as Germany or Zululand, though I don't really have much empirical testing to back that up...

- Windwalker

 

[GourmetArtist]

My two neighbors are Japan and India and they haven't attacked me once. I think your neighbors tend to be nicer if you give them free passage through your country with or without the actual treaty. Stop kicking them out, cause that tends to stress relations.

 

[kundor]

In my games, the Indians are the most jerklike...flooding my land, settling in my culture cracks, refusing to withdraw if I ask them, and declaring war because of that. The French have been the most likely to sneak-attack me. I hate Gandhi most, though, because...well, who can hate Joanie?

 

[tek2b]

I would have to say the worst is my wife, wondering why in the heck I torture myself playing late at night, knowing tomorrow is yet another workday. She just doesn't understand the game..

 

[docceh]

THE BASTARD BISMARK!!!

could it be that the militaristic Civs are the pains in the arse?

But Bismark, Shaka and Catherine really piss me off no end with their backstabbing scheming!!

My worst nemisis is Elizabeth of the English. I always try to wipe them out first, and not just coz im a patriotic scotsman but because shes a cheecky ***** ! lol

 

[docceh]

Originally posted by GourmetArtist
My two neighbors are Japan and India and they haven't attacked me once. I think your neighbors tend to be nicer if you give them free passage through your country with or without the actual treaty. Stop kicking them out, cause that tends to stress relations.

IMHO, that is not the way lol If those schemin barstewards want thru my territory, they can pay thru the nose for a RoP, otherwise feck off lol

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

right on, docceh!

As for the peaceful Ghandi - I wouldn`t trust him to stay dead in his tomb after I killed him without nailing him to the coffin.... He is so incredibly aggressive......

Bismarck, too, but he`s more a "get out of town before dawn" guy, doesn`t sneak up, even to the point that he doesn`t give me gold per turn because he`ll come for me the next turn. Ghandi?? I watched him change allegience twice in one turn in my last game. He was my ally, I got attacked, he declared war as he should, then allied with them and declared war on me! :slay:

 

[Vampir226]

I gotta admit I hate the Germans. They attacked me the last few games even though I let them walk through my land. This game, Germany decided to take on Japan, England, Persia and Egypt. Good call. No matter, I'm cherry-picking their capital and maybe 1 or 2 other cities.
Tough sh**, Bismarck. :die!:

 

[EdmundSpenser]

Originally posted by docceh


IMHO, that is not the way lol If those schemin barstewards want thru my territory, they can pay thru the nose for a RoP, otherwise feck off lol

ur a funny bastad

civ on

ed

 

[Furry Spatula]

Well its simple i hate em all, mua ha ha ha.

Actually i do find the french the easiest to get along with, they usualy keep their word but are in the mid range of power so they can't threaten me.

Babylon, Germany, Zululand, Iroquois, and the Azetcs are usualy the first against the wall.

England, America in the second wave

then the Russkies, Persians, and French stay with me till the end, Im usualy the egyptians, unless the po me realy badly.

If i missed someone they go in the second wave of me kicking some ass.

 

[Brodieman]

Alexander the Fiend is my arch-nemesis, if i even think that he is going to pull ashifty, low and behold he does, this happened for about 7 straight games and really pissed me off. The tipper though was waging war against the huge Aztec empire with the greeks allied (and contributing) and then as my forces were depleted as we crushed the Aztecs he allie dwith Bismarck and Elizabeth and wiped out two thirds of my empire in 4 turns (20 cities), he didn't capture them he razed them to the ground.

Vengeance has since boiled in my blood.

 

[Jimcat]

Originally posted by docceh
THE BASTARD BISMARK!!!

could it be that the militaristic Civs are the pains in the arse?

But Bismark, Shaka and Catherine really piss me off no end with their backstabbing scheming!!

Yeah, I think that militaristic civs are more likely to be aggressive in general.

But dig dis: in this week's game, I've been playing the Babylonians, and my immediate neighbors were Bismarck and Shaka. Yikes? Well, actually it didn't turn out that badly. I awed Shaka early with my shiny Colossus and funny talking papers, and have been selling him techs since the dawn of time. We're now in the late Industrial/early Modern era, and Shaka knows which side his bread is buttered on. If it weren't for me, he'd have been overhwelmed by the technically superior Germans and French long ago. In all of history, he hasn't attacked or even threatened me, even when I culturally absorbed some of his cities.

Bismarck, now, has been a little tougher to deal with. I'm just barely ahead of him in science, and every now and then he decides to harass a weaker civ. He got a bunch of really productive city sites, and beat me to several medieval Wonders. Also, Germany has the only surplus of Incense in the world, which I need to complete my luxury roster. So I've set myself a threefold challenge. First, stay at peace with Germany. Second, don't let him wipe out any other civs (I couldn't save the Egyptians -- Cleopatra declared war on me for some reason, and the French, Germans, Russians, Zulus, and Indians all ganged up on her. Egypt went from a first-tier power to the ash-heap of history in just a century or so). Third, don't let Germny get ahead in tech or culture.

It hasn't been easy, but I've managed to stay out of any alliances that might drag me into war, and maintain a rich, peaceful empire that maintains its income by selling technology. I was lucky enough to discover some surplus resources, and sold rubber to Catherine at rock-bottom prices just so she could beef up her defenses (Germany and France would probably have dismantled her country otherwise). And when everyone ganged up on the Indians (who have a small island country just off our main continent), I sold them Motorized Transportation. Sure enough, within a couple of turns I see everyone making peace with India.

I even did something that may make some strategists cringe, and sold Motorized Transportation to the Germans. Of course I had already built up a respectable defense force and tank army by this time. I'm not sure where the panzers are going to roll, but I think Bismarck is aware that the Babylonian empire is not a smart target.

What I'm hoping for right now is a war between Germany and France. They're the two largest powers on the continent -- France controls more land area, but Germany has more population. But even if they don't fight, I may just go for the UN and try to win a diplomatic victory. It's the early 20th century and I haven't fought a war since Egypt's self-immolation in the 1700's. All of my former enemies are either dead or long since converted to firends and trading partners. My rival for the UN seat is likely to be Joan, and she's made too many enemies over the years.

Oh well, time will tell as it always does.

 

[Jimcat]

As far as the "who is your nemesis" question: Persia, always Persia. I hate that smug @#$% Xerxes with his libraries and his Immortals. If I make it to Replaceable Parts and he's still a power, I like to take him down a peg with hordes of Cavalry, Infantry, and Artillery, rampaging over his fields, pummeling his cities, and screaming, "NOT SO IMMORTAL NOW, ARE YOU???"

Ahem. Sorry. I do try not to get swept up in warmongering in my games, but Xerxes can goad me into it. Even the Zulus don't tick me off as much as Persia.