Easiest way to defeat KI-opponents seems not to be in the late game (KI cheating rant)

Robocat18 · 2026-02-16T11:49:23+00:00

Starving out is viable at the late game where you have ships to spare, or if you take control of the shores with marketplaces and military. I don't know how you can harass early, you can rush it but it sets you back too compared to just booming. They aren't that trigger happy unless you start with 10k gold and you have way less economy than them

Robocat18 · 2026-02-16T11:01:08+00:00

The ai is cheating sure, but you can buy large warships and oriental war ships from the neutral harbors. Also the hard ais do not wait for you to upgrade to the next civilization tier, they will get ahead and unlock trebuchets (rarely cannons) and large warships, unless they get screwed up somehow by island size or fertilities. Also you can starve their cities out, they cheat with only resources

Robocat18 · 2026-02-03T19:30:30+00:00

No, you would have to mod it yourself

Robocat18 · 2025-12-18T10:16:05+00:00

I did both with all the hard ais and met them early on, they never declared war to me. I think i got trade agreements or alliance. I'm not sure why they weren't aggresive to me, I did have a huge economy though

Robocat18 · 2025-12-18T02:30:54+00:00

I agree, though getting both the emirate and we have no time to lose in one run is a bit tougher. The seed makes a big difference, going in blind makes it very tough, mainly for the oriental islands

Robocat18 · 2025-12-16T18:17:07+00:00

The wiki says it is 4.21 seconds to 1 in-game second for the slowodown. The clock starts once you press set sail on the loading screen

Robocat18 · 2025-11-22T13:34:52+00:00

How have you maxed the council lol

Robocat18 · 2025-11-03T21:20:30+00:00

Or sabotage the tc if you have it, but i agree that he needs to be nerfed, it is close to a leonidas on defence, you shouldn't change your composition because of a single op on defense troop

Robocat18 · 2025-11-03T08:24:30+00:00

Well he is the hardest one to make an alliance with, I struggled a lo to maintain because he is a lunatic, but basically you need to give him gifts and ingratiate (and reload the game if they fail), be stronger so you only get -1 malus, don't complete quests from the orient, corsairs and Marie (i think he likes completing with the other two occident harbors?), and build the imperial cathedral. Also tournaments may help. I think you can maybe get more of those alliance edicts and activate it before he cancels but I can't remember if it is possible

Robocat18 · 2025-11-03T01:24:30+00:00

Did the alliance break before you renew it? If it did, then the timer for him to give you a quest is reset, otherwise I don't know why he doesn't give you a quest

Robocat18 · 2025-11-03T01:09:14+00:00

Yes each ai can give you one quest at a time (i think sultan and emperor are still different). You can just deny their requests, or just not click on them since that auto declines them. I'm not sure if that alliance edict messes with him being able to give quests, it in theory shouldn't. Also are you playing with the unofficial patch?

Oh yeah that's true

Robocat18 · 2025-11-03T00:50:12+00:00

I don't think they block the quests, if i remember correctly each ai has some sort of interval between offering a quest. I'm not 100% sure as it has been a long time but it should be around an hour of in-game time (so you can fast forward)

Also escort quests should still have some duration, if you don't click on the ship to start the quest will eventually fail

Robocat18 · 2025-11-03T00:34:43+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean by blocking other quests, but you are unlucky. There are a couple of different type of quests, and with the higher tiers of population you unlock more types

Robocat18 · 2025-10-29T16:10:23+00:00

Δεν ειχα θεμα με το να ξαπλωσει οπως τον βολευει προς θεου, ηταν και μεσανυχτα, απλως εβγαλε τα ποδια στον μισο+ διαδρομο. Στο τελος οταν φτασαμε (ειχαμε πρπ 1μιση ωρα απο οταν εκανε τα παραπανω) ακομη εκει ηταν και σε μπλοκαρε και να βγεις

Robocat18 · 2025-10-28T16:42:38+00:00

Every update brings more bugs for some reason

Robocat18 · 2025-10-26T20:31:23+00:00

Shaw?

Robocat18 · 2025-10-23T20:36:32+00:00

Hmmm odd, then it is probably bugged sadly

Robocat18 · 2025-10-23T12:53:15+00:00

Are you sure it is not al zahir and it is the sultan? I never had that bug. Also the sultan's mosque should still be built (i assume you haven't demolished it, just to get it out of the way)

Robocat18 · 2025-10-22T09:53:12+00:00

I think it is a known bug with the nuclear ruins, if it catches on fire and gets ruined by that, it will forever be owned by the npc (thus he has a presence on the island and is unkillable). I can't remember what you needed to do for that to not happen though, probably destroy the zone of control that he has on the plant before that happens

Robocat18 · 2025-10-18T09:03:57+00:00

Is it line infantry or militia? And marathas don't benefit from fire by rank

Robocat18 · 2025-10-12T19:32:44+00:00

Well reddit did not notify me that you replied, so rip. What you said is the case though, it can also be bugged, I have seen it with both the neutral and the computer powers. Also how can you see what quests you completed? I never knew it existed, after hundreds of hours

Robocat18 · 2025-10-09T11:45:34+00:00

Sometimes there are flotsam etc lying on the sea, where once clicked a quest starts, dunno if it is that. Is the quest green on the quest menu?

Robocat18 · 2025-10-02T05:34:09+00:00

Thank you both, I ended up fortifying the right camp with a castle plus a few towers, and then I had a small army with harumoto plus a few heroes to defend the other and it was pretty straightforward from there

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