Yeah I am getting to know the "bite-sized" approach. It's just so tempting to pursue a military advantage as long as I can.
Just had an interesting start to a new game - randomed China on diff 5, found Rome and Songhai vaguely nearby. I somewhat hastily drop a buffer city in between us before they do; sure enough, there comes the giant horde of swordsmen 40 turns later. (Roman swordsmen are 13s instead of 11s, too.) Both of them declare war at the same time.
But wait, there's a catch: China's passive is faster-arriving and stronger Great Generals. Shortly after the war begins, one pops for me, and it buffs my units by +45% instead of 25%. Plus I had just bought the Tradition ability for 33% military strength in home territory.
Essentially, my two swordsmen (11) and two horses (12) end up fending off about eight swordsmen and another dozen weaker enemy units. So I'm turning it around and taking their cities now. In bite-sized pieces. :-)
Nice. Good luck! Japan's passive (units always fight at full strength) sounds awesome but has turned out not to be of much practical value, I'm sort of disappointed.
Or you get the Meritocracy policy and railroad the world. Sufficient roads and happiness-buildings in your own cities before you set off on your conquest go a pretty long way, as I often find it annoying to stop halfway. Beginning your conquest just prior to a Golden Age helps too, since the Courthouses build faster and you can just flat-out buy happiness buildings.
For the "city-states declare war on you" thing, they seem to only do it to one civ at a time. In my Germany game I got all the usual AI whining for being warmongering and conquering city-states, but since Russia was more warmongering than I was they ganged up on it instead. The other civs will also break out of trade agreements with you if they think you're too violent, but other warmongering type civs won't mind.
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Just had an interesting start to a new game - randomed China on diff 5, found Rome and Songhai vaguely nearby. I somewhat hastily drop a buffer city in between us before they do; sure enough, there comes the giant horde of swordsmen 40 turns later. (Roman swordsmen are 13s instead of 11s, too.) Both of them declare war at the same time.
But wait, there's a catch: China's passive is faster-arriving and stronger Great Generals. Shortly after the war begins, one pops for me, and it buffs my units by +45% instead of 25%. Plus I had just bought the Tradition ability for 33% military strength in home territory.
Essentially, my two swordsmen (11) and two horses (12) end up fending off about eight swordsmen and another dozen weaker enemy units. So I'm turning it around and taking their cities now. In bite-sized pieces. :-)
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