For me i have experienced cold war for the first time in civ5 (230hours clicked) and i absolutely loved the situation where you dont know if ai will war with you or not.

I was playing as Japan on huge random map with difficulty lvl 4 as the first playout, ai everywhere, south i had netherlands and ghandi to south-east, to the east i had greeks.

I was slowly developing focusing on economy and happiness with as minimal army i could have, 100~ish turns into game i still had only 2 cities but very developed ones, Greece started invading Netherlands and constantly moving it's forces just under my borders, that was the time i began to realise that cold war is about to start.

About 30 turns later my borders with greece got reinforced as much as i could and here started the war, even though we were denouncing each other, trade with greece continued as they gave me great boosts to money and also were able to spread some shinto to their cities.

Turn 230~ Netherland is starting to lose the war, decide that this is the time for me to act, i declared war on netherland and snached some critical cities around me before greece could.

Turn 280~ Greece starts fighting with India as well, they took few cities from them.

Turn 300~ Greece forces are still around my borders even though they changed quite a bit due to getting netherland's lands

Turn 330~ Decided to help ghandi and reduce my warmonger status from defeating netherlands and declare war to Greece

--- 150 turn war started ---

First 50 turns of war:
Trading blows with greece, liberated few ghandi cities just to make greece take them back next few turns and then took them for myself once warmonging was no issue anymore.

Second part of war:
Starting to war with Greece, they keep taking back their cities i conquer, (im at the point i can build tanks etc) start rapidly developing cities around to be able to purcharse and produce more tanks and great war infranry and other stuff.
Greece does the same and we keep fighting each other for two of their cities.

Greece at this point reached dive bombers which i had not and had no protection against, got constantly ♥♥♥♥♥ by them until passive damage to them takes out their dive bombers.
Finally see the chance and get into short term peace.


War against india breaks off after i started to spam more and more army, take almost all their cities including capital, leave the india with one small city on the other part of map which proved to be worthless to bother about.


Meanwhile me fighting India, Greece started to fight with me again.

Third part of war:

Due to ceasefire time i was able to reach tech that allowed me to build planes and antiair defense as well as some battleships and submarines.

Third part of great war started with rapid turns of events, found out greece has op fleet with cruisers of 750 power ohboy.jpg but i had superior amount of tanks and as well i had this german special tank with 200 defense, used it as a main attacking force supported by dive bombers, howitzers and other smaller tanks as well as infrantry and AA.

Cease fire.

Right now im about 500 turns into the game, overall took:
3 cities from netherlands
4 cities from india
6 cities from greece

Now whatever left from greece is buying out other civs and they keep denouncing me and asking for embassy right after denouncation ends lol.

My Japan lives in curious times.





Absolutely love the mod.