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Played a game as arabs earlier.
Expanded out quite early game so I had 3 cities, Indonesia thought it was a good idea to attack my capital, so after defending it from them I thought right I'm going to kick your ass from the game.
Gathered around 6 units, took 1 of his towns and his capital [he was still in the game].
I thought cool only 1 more and hes gone from the game, little did I know that my so called 'friends' were plotting against me (Netherlands, Byzantium and Persia).
So few turns after after taking Indonesia's towns I got absolutely steam rolled by NL, Byz and Persia. The only ones who I weren't at war with was the celts, lol.
I managed to defend it for a while but my god my capital was absolutely swarmed with units from the 3 factions, never seen it before.
The game does feel a lot better to play in BVW.
I had this happen as well, I was like what the hell
Worst is the AI now seems to know to keep back units and come at you in a large wave formation instead of drips and drabs.