The 'Interficio' challenge

What does ERTW and DOW mean here?

same

Ignatio Oddball wrote:

My current ERTW is petering out and rather than just turtling a solo-win against one AI at the time, I'm considering DoWing the entire map to have some challenge. There are 9 major nations and 13 minor nations left. All of them but one major nation is AI.

Has anyone tried this? Is it any different than the usual fighting 2-3 AIs at a time?

Total war! So be it! America is barely visible, but is at war too.

Not much happened so far, but the map might look differently after a nights sleep

The worst part is they could win if they were active…

AI still needs a lot of love to make it work. I don't know what is the ambition of Bytro on this, but the AI still isn't a challenge despite the various improvements made to it.

(game is now over)

New question on this topic: Has anyone tried DoWing every nation on day 1 AND survived or won?

Good job! The only time I’ve ever lose to AI is when I have basically no army left from big wars and I was attacked by a former player with a large army… actually more like 2/3 nations.