Civ AI Survivor: Season Five

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We've seen countless examples over the years of AIs just getting totally stuck and shutting down for no reason. They'll stop expanding on 3 cities, park a monster-mega-doomstack in the artice ice during a critical war, or have like 3 settlers in their capital during the landgrab phase, etc.

Playoff game 2 thoughts:

Maybe Julius Caesar stopped expanding because his economy could not support more cities? The AI will try to avoid completely bankrupting themselves, and he was not producing much commerce during the land grab phase.

Also, if Sullla still has the auto saves and is willing to check them, it would be very interesting to know what happened when Willem's capital was captured by Sury. With no Khmer catapults to reduce the defenses, what happened? Not enough defenders for some reason? Really bad dice rolls on the defense? Just a huge attack stack from Sury? The chances of that attack being successful were low enough Sullla was not watching it, so it is a mystery just what happened.