I don't deny I enjoy wartime fighting disturbingly way too much but this time all I wanted was a peaceful rule among our neighbours aiming to achieve technological prowess; "Nooo!" they said, "We feel Hate Filled, Aggressive and Jealous of you. Give me Kawah Ijen, give me Kitalpha, give me my independent people, surrender to my ally..."

"Come and get it... if you can!" I replied. "Tell you Emperor, even his dreams cannot grasp where our puissance can reach!"

Joking aside for the first time in my campaigns, AI formed alliances against me and declared war one by one to protect their allies. Only AI I didn't have war against was Black Maya; they were just chilling in their desert in the middle of a global chaos. I'm not sure why it turned out this way. What surprised and impressed me this time regarding AI's capabilities is how they all decided to protect their allies considering it was the right time to react and followed each other in declaring war or making me declare by refusing my demands. I'm really impressed!

I always enjoy aggression from rival empires early on in campaigns. Ancient/Classical/Medieval warfare is my favourite. Besides, in this campaign I might not be as innocent as I would think of myself; I never yielded to their demands and asked them to sweeten the deals for me to accept those non-aggression pacts they have been requesting since the beginning of the game. It's still not my fault, though; they kept stealing wonders I desperately needed, three times in a row and exactly in the same turn I just saved enough influence to claim those. So deep down in my heart I was hoping that they would save me from the burden of declaring war with a 'resolute but heavy heart'. What can I say? I just needed those wonders. :)))

It was definitely a tour de force to deal with all of them at once but what a pleasure it was (and still is since wars are ongoing at the moment). The Himalayan passages in Giant Earth Map where Pink Aksumites established city of Sidon was especially a nightmare to march through. I could barely travel through this region tile by tile while waging mountain warfare against two empires and could make it at the gates of the capital of now Pink English just in time, in the exact turn that they had to surrender. Lighthouse of Alexandria that I desperately needed to set sails for New World was in Byblos whose boundaries were not even visible enough to let me plan my attack until last turn and I had only one turn to conquer the city. I think I now know how Anibal (Hannibal) might have felt when he finally managed to march his army with 37 war elephants through Pyrenees and Alps.

Humankind is such a joy to play! It's been 850hrs (including Closed Beta) and counting and I can still think of numerous different paths to follow for next campaigns. 

[Edited to include later post]

Hi Daarkarrow,

Do you mean Peaceful AI setting in game options? You're right I don't use this setting toggled on. I always enjoy aggression from my rivals early on in my campaigns. Ancient/Classical/Medieval warfare is my favourite. Besides, in this campaign I might not be as innocent as I would think of myself; I never yielded to their demands and asked them to sweeten the deals for me to accept those non-aggression pacts they all have been requesting since the beginning of the game. It's still not my fault, though; they kept stealing wonders I desperately needed, three times in a row exactly in the same turn I just saved enough influence to claim for myself. So deep down in my heart I was hoping that they would save me from the burden of declaring war with a resolute but heavy heart. What can I say? I just needed those wonders. :)))

What surprised and impressed me this time regarding AI's capabilities is how they all decided to protect their allies considering it was the right time to react and followed each other in declaring war themselves or making me declare war by refusing my demands. I'm really impressed!

It was definitely a tour de force to deal with all of them at once but what a pleasure it was (and still is since wars are ongoing at the moment). The Himalayan passages in Giant Earth Map where Pink Aksumites established city of Sidon was especially a nightmare to march through. I could barely travel through this region tile by tile while waging mountain warfare against two empires and could make it at the gates of the capital of now Pink English just in time, in the exact turn that they had to surrender. Lighthouse of Alexandria that I desperately needed was in Byblos and I had one turn to conquer the city. I think now I know how Anibal (Hannibal) felt when he finally managed to march his army with 37 war elephants through Pyrenees and Alps.

Humankind is such a joy to play! It's been 850hrs (including Closed Beta) and counting in this game and I can still think of numerous different paths to follow for my next campaigns. 

Awesome story dude. I also am the same way lol I want peace but I ain't paying 5000 good for your resources when I can just take it lol also I too cover the lighthouse of Alexandria, I need it as well as the pyramids. Peace at the barrel end of a gun lol love it dude.

But I think you should edit your first post of possibly to let others know your telling a story. Cause I think it is getting mixed up with you asking for a peaceful option lol