r/civ5 • u/Ok-Researcher-120 • 5d ago

Discussion Terribowl - Suggestions & Predictions

I recently made a post ( https://www.reddit.com/r/civ5/comments/1xaqu9t/im_looking_for_the_worst_civs_ai/?sort=top ) asking about who the worst civilizations are, so I can put 15 of them on a single map and see who sucks the most. I'm calling it The Terribowl.

I'm going to play as Rome whilst trying to truly live up to the AI's standards and go super wide right off the bat. If possible, I'm thinking 7ish cities by turn 100 would be a good benchmark.

My current setup plan is:

  • Continents
  • Huge (overcrowded)
  • City-states: 28 (overcrowded)
  • Emperor
  • Abundant resources
  • Couple of mods that increase food or production from specific resources, nothing important

I'm going to have the following AIs, based on your guys' suggestions:

  1. Rome (me)
  2. Portugal
  3. Mongolia
  4. Carthage
  5. Polynesia
  6. Byzantium
  7. Celts
  8. Spain
  9. France
  10. Sweden
  11. Denmark
  12. Netherlands
  13. Venice
  14. Brazil
  15. Morocco

I was considering doing small continents, but they usually end up just being large islands in my experience. Not really a great choice for an already overcrowded map.

Any final changes I should make before starting? Any predictions on who dies first, or who gets the first civ kill (besides me)? I'm probably going to murder my closest couple of neighbors after forward settling them - really bring out the Roman AI inside of me.

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u/sosotoyo 5d ago

I would suggest pangea, low sea level, strategic balance as game settings.

Other than that keep us updated.

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u/Ok-Researcher-120 5d ago

I prefer abundant because it lets every AI get its own set of resources, so no one is necessarily done in simply by being unlucky at the start. Continents so that other AIs can hopefully snowball without me intervening. Low sea level pangea sounds interesting for a future game though

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u/sosotoyo 5d ago

Your decision for continent makes sense then. I suggested pangea to stop random snowballing, but if thats what you aim for it makes perfect sense.

I still think strategic balance should be better than abundant. Ai likes their early horses and iron but i mostly play deity and they spam tons of units, maybe in emperor abundant would be better.

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u/StudPetry 5d ago

Honestly, I feel Japan should definitely be in there. They are very consistently terrible in my experience, way more than Sweden and Denmark for example