Had to post this wild border situation on Earth 18 civs
After a shameful amount of hours playing civ 4, a lot of them on earth 18 civs I’ve never seen borders turn out like this.
(I’m playing a ‘recreate the British Empire challenge where I can only directly control the British isles but must settle/invade all the historical colonies, I do it on a high difficulty, hence the enhanced British Isles).
France settled Sweden, maybe the first or second time I’ve seen this out of (sadly) literally hundreds of times of playing Earth.
Germany got stumped by Russia at their second city and Russia is expanding into Finland. Germany also managed to grab a barb city in Vietnam? 😂
There’s a barb city halfway up Scandinavia which I’ve never seen before.
Greece managed to settle all the way into Central Asia, never seen that before, Rome settled North Africa, (think I’ve seen that once).
Rather than expand southwards, Egypt appears to have waged war on Mali, stumping both empires significantly, except Egypt managed to grab the usual barb city in Siberia 😂 don’t think I’ve seen them get it before, it’s usually a toss up between Arabia, Rome, Greece or Persia.
On a side note, Egypt almost always founds Judaism on my Earth, this time Mali did. Persia settling south India?? That’s a first. Then China getting severely handicapped with just 3 cities by 0Ad is completely new. Arabia is settling Indonesia and has settled the Philippines, which is a definite first, also weird that they’re grabbing Southeast Asia before Africa.
Mongolia of all places managed to grab south east China.
There’s problem is I rely on a powerful Chinese hegemon in the area to secure all the Asian luxury resources to trade with them, he’s really easy to become friends with by running bureaucracy. Now I’m gonna struggle to get all the sugar silk, banana and rice my empire needs to run great people and achieve my objective.