Your Most Embarressing Military Victory

[Tsar_of_Cows]

Have you even been so utterly overwhemingly strong that you've felt embarressed about crushing your opponents?

This happened the other day to me, when I was asked to declare war on Julius Ceaser by Tokugawa. Julius was kind of a little pet empire, right on the border with mine. He had suffered the embarressment of losing 3 cities to barbarians, and only reached the medievil era in 1950 with the aid of some of my technology.

When the war started I only had some minor forces in the area - I've been aiming for a diplomacy victory, and so I was at best maintaining garrisons and interception forces, I didnt have an invasion force. However, remembering that only 10 turns earlier I had gifted Julius "Calender" tech, and my first modern armours were rolling off the production lines, I wasn't too worried.

So, I sent in 1 modern armour and 2 gunships I happened to have nearby.

I squished him in about 5 turns. Using these three units. It was embarressing watching longbowmen defending vs Helicopters. It would have been less but I had to wait for my Modern armour to reach his last city to capture it.

[Son of David]

Really, if he was that weak you should have absorbed the remnants of his 'empire' and built up his last remaining cities.

I'm surprised his people weren't clamouring to join your Empire anyway, and revolting over to your side.

[Dauphin]

I once had a game start about with my warrior 4-5 diagonal squares from the Germans settler starting position. The game setting was on Marathon, meaning that when I saw the cultural borders I decided to walk straight on through - knowing that the only defence the AI could possibly have was a scout, who was probably scouting and not sitting in Berlin.

Must have been the quickest destructions of an empire I've seen or heard of that didn't involve a bug or a player quitting.

[Son of David]

Originally posted by Dauphin
I once had a game start about with my warrior 4-5 diagonal squares from the Germans settler starting position. The game setting was on Marathon, meaning that when I saw the cultural borders I decided to walk straight on through - knowing that the only defence the AI could possibly have was a scout, who was probably scouting and not sitting in Berlin.

Must have been the quickest destructions of an empire I've seen or heard of that didn't involve a bug or a player quitting.

Yeah, but that's CHEATING. A bit like stealing candy from a baby.

[Dauphin]

It wasn't cheating, it was just plain bad luck on his part.

[Pythagoras]

There was the time I was playing around with the custom settings and noticed I could play with no AI's. Needless to say that I started the game, and got a domination victory in nearly 4000 BC. My score was tremendous, and the game was my top game in the hall of fame....

Next time I do that, maybe I'll turn off most victory conditions.

[Qwertqwert]

Me and Isabella, I had about 50 modern armors, and 20 gunships to take 6 cities of Isabella, each with just a few grenaiders. No other countries were involved in this war, though a few were mad at me for going to war. I took all of Isabellas cities except for 1, and I didn't get that one because Cyprus (bastard) won a diplomatic victory then, and I didn't want to bother to continue an unwinnable game.

[Yosho]

Originally posted by Pythagoras
There was the time I was playing around with the custom settings and noticed I could play with no AI's. Needless to say that I started the game, and got a domination victory in nearly 4000 BC. My score was tremendous, and the game was my top game in the hall of fame....

Next time I do that, maybe I'll turn off most victory conditions.

It would be interesting if you did that, set it to diety, turned off most victory condiditions, and turned on raging barbarians. See if you can beat a world of barbarians on your own.

[Nacht]

[Theseus]

Good thing you prepped the invasion with those MechInfs!!

[Generaldoktor]

Originally posted by Yosho



It would be interesting if you did that, set it to diety, turned off most victory condiditions, and turned on raging barbarians. See if you can beat a world of barbarians on your own.

I've become a real cheerleader for Highlands maps. Great satisfaction for the builder, if you can survive waves of Barbies, (fortified border hills and later, "search and destroy" killer groups, seem to help.) On a huge Highlands map, linked mountain ranges, (whatever they're called; ) Raging Barbs, Marathon; Barb cities and even empires spawn in the "dark places" created by the mountain ranges and the AI, unless lucky to have a start position very close, can take centuries to find you, (while their scouts die in droves.) You end up building your tech and Wonders, quietly; (Chichen Itza sure helps,) and killing Barbs like its Space Invaders. For much of the game, you are essentially just playing (and playing off of) the Barbs.

[Spiderjeru]

It would be interesting if you did that, set it to diety, turned off most victory condiditions, and turned on raging barbarians. See if you can beat a world of barbarians on your own.

Is it just me, or have you just given the most succinct explanation of Republican foreign policy in history?

[Theseus]

Do you mean Rome or the USA?


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