How high can BB get?

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Assuming that you are the only superpower, but not super enough to beat up everybody, how high do you dare to get your BB if you are not looking for WC?

 

[kurtbrian]

somewhere below the bb treshold...

and then keep a large enough army to discourage any dows

 

[Mad King James]

After you get to a certain level of military might, the AI leaves you alone, no matter how much of an evil bastard you were. This is because the AI is an opportunistic backstabber with no ethics whatsoever.

It is rather amusing to disband your army and then immediately rebuild it after the DoW flood comes in

 

[Incompetent]

After you get to a certain level of military might, the AI leaves you alone, no matter how much of an evil bastard you were. This is because the AI is an opportunistic backstabber with no ethics whatsoever.

It is rather amusing to disband your army and then immediately rebuild it after the DoW flood comes in

That's absolutely true on all difficulties except Very Hard, and even there when you're below the BB limit. Trouble is, on VH above the BB limit the AI throws away what little sense of realpolitik it has and commits suicide in the name of truth, justice and making the likes of Peter Ebbesen smile with glee.

Hamster, if you want to be free to choose your BB level, play on Hard. If you'd rather have BB acting as a restraint on your behaviour (a game where I absent-mindedly conquered half the world as Portugal springs to mind), play on Very Hard.

 

[Chaingun]

Actually I think BB wars do make sense from a "realistic" angle of view. If someone was incredibly aggressive, and on his way to conquer the entire world, wouldn't you fight him? Either that or you would have to subjugate yourself to his power, which is not an option if you want to preserve your own power as the ruler of a country. Just think about multiplayer, why do humans always tend to forge huge alliances versus the best player in the game if he has outclassed them so far by a huge amount? That's the way humans are, and therefore I think it isn't strange when the AI makes an united front against a world conqueror. The only stupid thing then is the ability to make "BB war rounds", and that the AI does make peace and does not exploit the huge war exhaustion the human else can get.

 

[Nikolai II]

Actually I think BB wars do make sense from a "realistic" angle of view. If someone was incredibly aggressive, and on his way to conquer the entire world, wouldn't you fight him? Either that or you would have to subjugate yourself to his power, which is not an option if you want to preserve your own power as the ruler of a country.

But if your option is to preserve your power in name and glory and have some say - or being messily executed for taking your pissant 2000 arquebusers up against the french behemoth and his 500.000 musketeers, what would you pick?

Not all humans are silly enough to choose death before being considered cowards.