i'm doing the first map where you get iron in Zhou dynasty and getting attacked by Ji and later ganged up on by other cities.
during a battle the game sometimes pops up with 'Defeated: you are forced to pay tribute as a vassal', and I'm not sure why. What are the conditions for losing? They didn't even attack my city or destroy any buildings either time.
- In a huge battle where several cities invaded me that lasted for months I lost most of my 12 or so armies but still had a large number of towers and all the walls in tact.
- In another game, near the start of the map I had excellent wall/tower defences and just started building my first army. The enemy didn't even get into combat with my army or destroy anything and it declared that I lost and was a vassal. I was really looking forward to testing my tower defences! The battle was over in about 1 minute.
Any idea what's going on? Is it a balance of their armies vs my army numbers that decides on win/lose?
Is there a timeout in which I have to destroy the invaders?
Why won't they even attack my city?
I would have assumed they would have to destroy at least some of my important buildings to win...
during a battle the game sometimes pops up with 'Defeated: you are forced to pay tribute as a vassal', and I'm not sure why. What are the conditions for losing? They didn't even attack my city or destroy any buildings either time.
- In a huge battle where several cities invaded me that lasted for months I lost most of my 12 or so armies but still had a large number of towers and all the walls in tact.
- In another game, near the start of the map I had excellent wall/tower defences and just started building my first army. The enemy didn't even get into combat with my army or destroy anything and it declared that I lost and was a vassal. I was really looking forward to testing my tower defences! The battle was over in about 1 minute.
Any idea what's going on? Is it a balance of their armies vs my army numbers that decides on win/lose?
Is there a timeout in which I have to destroy the invaders?
Why won't they even attack my city?
I would have assumed they would have to destroy at least some of my important buildings to win...