Never did get around to summoning a Bone Dragon, though (they're pretty good in an undead army, actually). As I said above, I also think if you put it in Empire Building mode (no settlements already on the map), you'll see it do a better job.Ī: I savescummed lightly to get a nice reward for Sage, for roleplaying purposes. Half-assing production queues and leaving treasure just rotting in the field and stuff.Ī: Not really.
Q: So you started phoning it in around turn 45, huh?Ī: Yeah, definitely. I wouldn’t be surprised if this same setup was much more of a challenge on Empire Building mode, especially since my Settler game is atrocious. (I could just not accept the surrender, of course, but I like having enemy leaders as pet heroes, and “mopup” isn’t exactly the fun part.)Īlso, I think the independent towns benefitted me more than the AI players: deciding which ones to rush, which ones to befriend, and which ones to exploit involves a bit of map intuition that may be a bit hard to program well. This time around, it was more like the AI would fold after one siege and one counter-siege. I think they were a bit too quick to surrender, or perhaps a bit too prone to throwing armies away - in a previous game I played, a lower-level AI actually did a better job turtling when you got close, making for some pretty satisfying “finisher” battles. They definitely all switched to prioritizing me as a target, though it took the last two a while to truly act on that. I think the remaining four did a good job. Really, I think a lot of this game was decided back around turn 25 or so, when I grabbed the great neutral spot and offed my first rival. I don’t know whether the Unifier beacons were a desperation move or a standard AI behavior, but it seems to have hurt them - they’re certainly a waste of money and time if you really should be cranking out superior units in order to stabilize your borders against an encroaching enemy. Around turn 55, though, they’re just plunging into the gutter: this is when I win decisive sieges against both of them.
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