![]() ![]() I've been ramping up modern armor production and will try another invasion to dent his lead. I've since discovered some more aluminum on a remote island owned by the Russians which I quickly conquered with no trouble. He then also routed my Navy by moving his gun support back north in two directions so I lost half the navy as well. He did this with Modern Armor units that I wasn't able to produce yet due to tech slowdown and lack of aluminum. About ten turns later, he made peace with Russia and moved his experienced veteran troops back north and retook both cities as well as laying waste to my expeditionary force. They were mostly cavalry units and my artillery supported mechanized troops made quick work of them as well as razing cities left and right then annexing two cities with resources I desperately needed.īefore the patch, at his point Suleman would have offered half the continent to me in peace. So when he went to war with the other major power on his continent and was steam rolling the Russians to his south, I landed an expeditionary force supported by naval firepower in his north coast which made quick work of his lightly defended resource rich northern cities. I'm barely getting oil from a allied maritime city. Somehow I ended up with the shittiest oil free, aluminum free continent so I've been forced to invade across the ocean for two reasons one of which was to slow down Suleman as he was 500 points ahead of me and to get me some aluminum. I had a couple of early setbacks on my continent mostly due to the aggressive Brits which slowed me down in the tech race but eventually captured all of my continent as well. In one post patch game I'm playing as the French, I'm being far outclassed by one of the AIs (Suleman) in terms of growth and score because he had a bigger starter continent and did more conquering. The thing that he was most upset about was my friendship with Egypt, so maybe I'll reload again and see if backing out of that alliance a bit helps (although they share a long border with me so I don't want them attacking either).įrustrating when you are enjoying the conquest of the new world to have some warmongering idiot pick a fight from way across Asia. My "friends" seemed to be pleased with Pericles so they wouldn't help out. ![]() I was trying a peaceful expansion to the New World (successfully too) until this.I tried reloading an earlier game to see if I could rewrite history I gave him a tech, which got him to Cautious.I bribed him a moderate sum just for grins.but the SOD showed up out the blue as before. A bunch of macemen, horse archers and about 8 catapults. I had Pericles, from way across a huge Terra map, send an enormous SOD through several other kingdoms and show up on my doorstep. I'm finding that even on Warlords difficulty the AI just gets it into its head that it's coming after you. I didn't play an ICS strategy, but I certainly could have.Ĭiv4 rant (I'll piggyback on this one rather than start a new thread for this non-important observation) Trading post spam is still the way to go. They didn't change any of the other fundamental balance issues that I could see. Not sure if harder difficulty levels accelerate the Runaway Civ effect though. I anticipate we'll still see the same warmongering AIs break away from the pack and conquer the bulk of non-player-controlled map. Napoleon didn't really start plowing through everyone until maybe the industrial era? But it was still broken. At least that was my perception from what I've read of other playthroughs around the web. I'm not sure if that was in the patch notes, but that was neat to see in there.ģ) Playing on King today (my first King game), I didn't encounter a "Runaway Civ" until relatively late in the game. I entered a couple wars and the AI held their forces back and waited for me to come to them.Ģ) Radar reveals the world map is part of the base game now. The AI is also much better about not throwing its whole army at you and dying horribly on your fortified defenses, letting you go rampage an army-less AI afterwards. It'll still roll over and let you plow through every other city, but I felt like I had a little bit of a challenge taking an AI capital early on in a game today. ![]() 1) AI is a bit better at defending Capitals.
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