Corpse Run 437: Friendship is tragic
Apparently Suleiman and I haven’t improved our relationship since the last time we butted heads.
Military subtlety in Civilization is rare nonexistant. Every game it seems that neighboring Civs must first pile tons of military units on my borders before declaring war. In their favor, it allows the attacking Civ to enter my territory immediately after declaring war, but it also allows me to set up a solid defense…
…so unless either one of us is significantly more advanced/has more units/can produce faster, the attack will be a waste of both our time.
Piling up those attack units beforehand basically guarantees that the attack will be repelled.
Then again, I do exactly the same thing when I’m on the attack, so I guess I’m just as silly.
In other news, we are now officially past the half-way point at camp, there’s only a few weeks left! That said, they are the super hectic, jam-packed-full-of-work weeks… things are coming down to the wire!
There’s also another JFK trip for me this Wednesday which hopefully will run smoothly. Once that’s out of the way, I’ll have driven the van over 2,000 miles for the summer, which at just past the halfway point is pretty nuts.
Drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive.
I do a lot of driving up here.
Just in case it wasn’t clear.
Suleiman is just a complete asshole everytime I play. My favourite moment was when he declared war on me resulting in him losing all but two of his cities, made peace, then denounced me to the other civs for being a warmongerer. Safe to say since then my immediate reaction to meeting him is to wipe him out as soon as possible
An alternative to militarizing when they militarize is to pay them to go kill someone else. If they have the excess troops (the ones standing on your border), they’ll invade anyone on the map for pennies. Their best ally for 2000 years? “Eh, I didn’t like him that much anyway. Give me some citrus and it’s a deal.”
If you’re a really horrible person, wait five turns, and then invade them. Then you quit giving them citrus, and they’re off fighting elsewhere, suddenly in a two front war.
Friendship is Magic
This reminds me of my recent game of Endless Space. One of my neighbours attacked me, so I started to built up a military. My other neighbour then decided that my military was becoming too large, so he also declared war on me. This let to a vicious circle where every race declared war on me.