Rat partial report

[ThERat]

I am not coming up with a real proper report, but would like to hightlight waht happened in my game.

The initial phase saw me defending constantly, getting archers out. After knowing copper, I sneaked out a settler to claim it. With axes I was rather safe and could later claim the iron.

Once I had praets for a while, barbs showed up with maces. However, by then I was rather secure. It was a constant struggle to keep expansion and economy in balance. Slowly building economy and expand while fighting barbs.

Later on, Gandhi showed up and even gifted me the occasional tech. But, for my game there was a HUGE difference, I think. Gandhi actually took on China early on and became the super power completely taking over his own continent. China was eliminated soon. I had the chance to trade one or two techs with China, but that was it.
This left me in a situation where I had 3/4 of my continent in 1950AD. The rest of the land I could get was all Gandhi's.

The only way for me to beat him, would have been to wait for MA to beat his armoured infantry. However, this would have cut my luxuries and resulted in an endless war. With the WW model totally out of balance, it would have been horrible to continue,. Already in 1950AD the game became horribly sluggish and draggy, it was a pain to play rather than a joy.
Thus, I stopped with around 40% of the land.

I wish there would have been multiple enemies to go for war/peace to minimise WW.

[ThERat]

I went back to open the save and checked what happened

this was the situation around 16th century with Gandhi declaring on Qin


200 years later, Qin already lost half of his empire


100 years later, I used the opportunity to grab some land by declaring on Qin, and Gandhi jumped on the bandwagon


this was the result, in 1899AD China is gone


but with an army 10 times smaller and nobody else to fight, I simply didn't want to slog it out, 39.94% of the land

one example

[uberfish]

I completely sympathize with your decision to retire. I wouldn't have wanted to fight against an AI owning the entire other continent either, as it is my game crashed a lot in the late game and I don't want to know what it would be like with twice the AI units...

WW was not really a factor for me though, as the Police State/Rushmore/Jail combo eliminates it totally. It is rather annoying being forced into Police State to fight late game wars though because WW scales up so quickly.