[quote name='mediamixerj']Must be the difficulty you are playing at. I've had it declare war at different times depending on how well built my military is and whether or not they see me building an army. I've had war declared on me at like turn 173 and another time in the 300 range. It starts to lag in a huge map with several ai players though.[/QUOTE]
I'm playing on Prince right now, mother
ers are all up in my grill.
We had our first war at around turn 30. Stay out of that one, then get dragged in around turn 50. That war ends with nothing much happening.
Some time later, Japan gets pissed off at me, declares war, then after I take a city of his, Greece decides "Hey, Rome is spread out, it's go time." Me and Greece swap cities while a lone Ballista on a hill is decimating Japanese troops. Get Greece off my back, then claim Tokyo for my own. Japan negotiates peace.
Things settle down for awhile, except for another city swap with Greece. Then Japan brokers a deal with Germany and Russia and all three come down, looking for a fight. Main defensive strategy consists of Legions/Longswordsmen dancing between hexes while Ballistae/Trebuchets are in rough terrain, making enemies spend extra movement to get to them. Each front has a Great General backing them up. Ranged units are slaughtering units and the melee guys strike against anything that comes in range.
Right now, I've gotten Germany and Japan to call off hostilities. Greece is lining up troops, but hasn't yet made a proclaimation of war. Russia just got to the war front, they're a few empires away, so they're not yet ready to not have everything destroyed.
This sums up what this current game is like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJhNPBT7nss&feature=related