Big difference is that on the hardest setting, you start with significantly fewer resources than your competition... we're more like the deity AI pissing it all away after a significantly advantaged start. Maybe should have tried harder to avoid that dark age...
you have been denounced by France (note: you are not at war)
you have been denounced by China (note: you are not at war)
you have been denounced by Morocco (note: you are not at war)
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The United States hasn’t made this bad a decision since Teddy Roosevelt decided to attack my Scythian empire out of nowhere and ended up with Charleston razed and Philly, DC, and Chicago captured.
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you have been denounced by China (note: you are not at war)
you have been denounced by Morocco (note: you are not at war)
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Image of the Civilization II council during anarchy.