How to defeat a Drakken Human player without going to war?

[Jester]

At the moment currently my friend and I both own the game.
We only play on the "fast" mode so we can finish a game in a night.
He loves the diplomatic victory condition and so uses the Drakken as his affinity.
We play usually with 4 bots on a 6 person map with the terrains set on all random.
I've lost every single game so far (We've played 5 or 6 now) with him winning around turn 105-110. I am always winning on every single front, Science, expansion, military cetera cetera.
But I choose to NOT go to war with him and annihalate him instead attempting to race him through a wonder, economic or science win. Thing is though I always lose the race...
Is this intentional?
Or am I doing something wrong?
At this point it seems like the Drakken are overpowered with this system as he just forces all the bots into peace with him and just sits there doing barely anything.
The only thing I can think of to disrupt him is to threaten him each turn.
This still seems like its not doing much...

[Zara]

Well if you are against killing him off, kill of the AI. You gain X diplomatic points towards victory based on war/coldwar/peace/alliance etc, so if he has 6 people who are feeding him points every turn, it seems teh easiest way to stop him (aside from stopping HIM), is to kill all of his allies.

[Lady Crimson (RIP)]

If you're willing to let him win by diplomatic points, and will not play as a custom,.. you could always go as Roving Clans, build some Mercenaries, make them privateers, and burn his cities to the ground. That is one thing that the Drakken cannot stop with peace.

[Jester]

We do play with custom factions, Hence me saying drakken as the affinty...
Whats the fastest way to win via objective?
I've been experimenting with the wild walkers as they dont need to attack anyone to finish their storyline and so with some movement speed, army size increase and the trait empire plan diatecs Ive been able to pump out the quests pree quick...
I do like the idea of the merc though. Thanks for that.
I guess against the bots the diplomatic win is the strongest.

[mvffinsandmilk]

Go for economic victory with broken lords or a broken lords custom faction your should def win way faster than any possible diplomatic victory if you focus on gold output from turn 1.


I wouldn't do merc armies, I played MP before and its pretty obvious to tell where a merc army comes from by checking the name of the merc army. Also drakkens have one of the most well rounded armies, and their heros compliment them well you should be glad he's going for diplomatic victory.