		Smarter than your average AI

I was playing a game on Emporer with raging on some unknown world.  I
was the Babylonians and had built a huge empire of over fifty cities.
There were four other civilizations.  All were weaker and less advanced.
The Persians had seven cities that were size twelve and smaller and 
hadn't even discovered Automobile.  The Viking's were only a little 
better.  The Celts only had two cities.  The Egyptians were the only 
ones who were had sapceflight but were to weak to do any serious 
building.  I had an alliance with all of them.  The game was pretty 
boring so I decided to change civilizations and see how well I could 
do.  I switched over to the Egyptians.  They had about ten cities that
were somewhat developed.  The biggest was about size twenty.  That turn
I talked to the Babylonians.  They were naturallyvery high and mighty so 
they canceled our alliance. That made me so angry so I set out to 
destroy the Babylonians who were twenty times as powerful as me and if 
I were ruling them could kill the Egyptians in a matter of minutes.  So
I built a couple of nuclears and some cruise missles and paradroppers 
and so on.  The next turn I attacked splitting their empire in two.
They then recaptured the fallen capital but I attacked again and split 
them.  This struggle remained for a couple turns before I finally 
launched a barrage of cruise missles against their last remaining city.
I landed some paradroppers and the Babylonian empire was mine.  In 
about five turns I had completely destroyed a civilization twenty times
more powerful then me.  The computer could have never done that.  It 
was like another game on deity when I only had two cities and the Greeks 
had total of about fourty maxed out cities. Well one by one, capital by
capital I destroyed the Greeks and had risen from two to about fifteen
cities.  I then took out the rest of the civilizations.  There are two
morals to these stories: 1, no game is hopeless as long as you can
split their empire.  2, MicroProse can never create an AI that is 
smarter than the player.

Visit my Civ2 website at 
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/4991/index.html 
I have scenarios where you play a small civilization fighting for freedom
versus a huge empire.  It also has guides to beating deity and guides
to wonders and units.  

E-mail me at petefitz@seacoast.com