Please help - constant war by turn 30-40

[Brufus]

I'm playing on the Governor difficulty (whatever one up from default is). I do pretty much nothing but build warriors and slingers for the first 30 turns, besides a settler or two. But no matter what, I have 2 or 3 civs declaring war on me in like every game I start.

I'm not purposely settling close, and again, I have 3 warrios and 2 slingers at least. but I can't handle being attacked from 2 or 3 fronts like every damn game.

I'm sure it's on me, but any tips would be extremely helpful. I understand that this is a pure military game for the first 40 turns, but it's becoming rts-like in my need to build nothing but spamming military units.

Thanks all!

[cheshire.panther]

That's how the game is, just go and play Civ 5.

[Ðe§er†FoX]

Haven't had that problem, sounds fun. Maybe you are just unlucky. But it sounds more like skill issue and simple solution. If Governor is too hard, go to lower difficulty.

[tiamath]

The only agressivity you should face this early are independant powers. As for other civs, be sure to welcome them friendly when you meet them, that will delay their potential angryness. Even if not on purpose, they will get angry if they end up too close to you, never ever let your borders touch theirs or it will get even worse.

Tip : you can try "standard" bigger map and reduce the total number of civs so you'll all have more space to extend.

[DeadSlash]

Originally posted by Brufus:

I'm playing on the Governor difficulty (whatever one up from default is). I do pretty much nothing but build warriors and slingers for the first 30 turns, besides a settler or two. But no matter what, I have 2 or 3 civs declaring war on me in like every game I start.

I'm not purposely settling close, and again, I have 3 warrios and 2 slingers at least. but I can't handle being attacked from 2 or 3 fronts like every damn game.

I'm sure it's on me, but any tips would be extremely helpful. I understand that this is a pure military game for the first 40 turns, but it's becoming rts-like in my need to build nothing but spamming military units.

Thanks all!

I haven't had this problem either, are you spending any diplomacy? Maybe if you refuse everything they go to war faster?

[Martin]

Originally posted by Brufus:

I'm playing on the Governor difficulty (whatever one up from default is). I do pretty much nothing but build warriors and slingers for the first 30 turns, besides a settler or two. But no matter what, I have 2 or 3 civs declaring war on me in like every game I start.

I'm not purposely settling close, and again, I have 3 warrios and 2 slingers at least. but I can't handle being attacked from 2 or 3 fronts like every damn game.

I'm sure it's on me, but any tips would be extremely helpful. I understand that this is a pure military game for the first 40 turns, but it's becoming rts-like in my need to build nothing but spamming military units.

Thanks all!

Don't build too big an army, don't expand too fast, don't build too close to another civ.. and so on, talk to them in diplomacy, go slow offer them nice things.

But dont worry at some point, they'll all suddenly hate you for no reason and declare war on you.

The simplest advice i'd give is. Start game. Save Game. Explore the map, if you can find a decent or a few decent spots to build you war machine on.. go for it or reload the start and redo or just scrap the map and start all over.

Because in Civ, the map makes the game. And most maps are worthless to play on.

[Amethyst_Cat]

One game playing Machiavelli heading up the Greeks I had hostile independent city-states attacking me left, right and centre. Which was awful because I'd deliberately gone with a diplomatic leader to avoid this sort of thing! On that first run I hadn't figured out you could mollify those city-states with diplomacy and win them over to your side. This was on a Continents Plus map.

In my second run through (now) I'm Ibn Battuta heading up Persia on Antiquity then Abbasid in Exploration. Mastered the winning over of city-states with diplomacy in Antiquity although it annoyed Xerxes who declared war, was roundly beaten and sued for a no city swap peace. One city-state did remain hostile but with a ton of money (economic focus) I just kept churning out the units, conquered then dispersed the settlement. This was on a Fractal map.

[DadouXIII]

Originally posted by Brufus:

I'm playing on the Governor difficulty (whatever one up from default is). I do pretty much nothing but build warriors and slingers for the first 30 turns, besides a settler or two. But no matter what, I have 2 or 3 civs declaring war on me in like every game I start.

I'm not purposely settling close, and again, I have 3 warrios and 2 slingers at least. but I can't handle being attacked from 2 or 3 fronts like every damn game.

I'm sure it's on me, but any tips would be extremely helpful. I understand that this is a pure military game for the first 40 turns, but it's becoming rts-like in my need to build nothing but spamming military units.

Thanks all!

Do you have a screenshot of your current game map you could share? That might help.

[Das_Daw]

I've never played on govenor, but just finished a godlike game without having that kinda trouble in Era 1.
-My experience is that the AI just really gets agressive if you settle like 4 or 5 tiles from an existing city.
-Otherwise if you invest your influence in certain diplomatic projects, you will better your relationsships with that AI (hover over it and it will show).
-Also check the waring AIs personality (select their icon, then go to the head with with the ? fourth on the right) to see what they value and what might have triggered their agression.
-It can be a good idea to immediately barrel for city walls in the science tab - walls cost only 200g but they help a lot.
- I cannot relate to your situation with 2-3 Ais going to war, so try the above. But generally speaking waging war on one AI in the first Era isn't such a bad idea, because land for settling can be pretty rare, you weaken a contender and the AI is dumb as ****.