This morning, after a month-long break, I played a warm-up game against the Extreme AI.
Everything seemed normal until we reached Castle Age when I took the AI by surprise with my army of around 20 +2/+2 knights (I was Byz, AI was Viet).
After destroying their army and causing some damage to their economy, the AI simply stopped playing.
They didn’t resign, but just had a lot of idle villagers around the map.
Some of their villagers were still gathering resources and the AI was still producing monks and trying to collect relics, but that was it.
It was really strange.
Did I somehow cause the AI to malfunction?
Has anyone ever seen something similar?
I’m used to the AI never having idle villagers, so I was taken aback when I watched the replay.