what was your shortest game

[Addled Platypus]

just happened

Bigger, Bigger World - 20 civs Playing China- Monarchy

39 minutes


gonna reload

[1889]

The Shengoku scenario. Diyamo killed by barbarians on turn 5 or so. A complete game of Civ in less than 10 min.

[Modo44]

The Shengoku scenario. Daimyo killed by barbarians Paddy on turn 5 10 or so. A complete game of Civ in less than 10 20 min.

(Fortunately I had a second civ in that game. That one survived a bit longer.

[Krill]

3 seconds. Saw 5 tiles of coast, 5 tiles of sea, and 6 tiles of tundra (and a few forests).

Ctrl-Shift-Q.

[joncnunn]

Shortest complete game is something like 15 minutes. (Defeat via Conquest) Played an expansionstic civ on a tiny map, the nearest neighbor was much closer than expected and they sneak attacked my capital before I completed my first military unit.

[Elda king]

5 turns; I set the options to a few VP, and the AI got them in 5 turns.

[Vince278]

At the start. Underfoot two year old son hit the power strip. (after spending two hours reloading to get a decent starting position )

[Dis]

does this count restarts when you have a ****ty starting position?

Actually I rarely do that, unless the position is truelly horrid.

I like to play through adversity. My last game I had no iron, despite having a huge friggin land mass. I had to go to war, and create a chain of cities south to secure iron. So basically my iron city was surrounded on 3 sides by other AI's. I had to build up culture improvements to make sure it didn't flip, and defend it well, because it was in a vulnerable defensive position.

But that's not the end of it. I couldn't build Hoover Dam because I didn't have a city on a river (no rivers at all in my territory). So I extended from my iron city even further south (through warfare), and used a scientific great leader to build the hoover dam (otherwise it would have taken 400 turns ). This city was really vulnerable. I put a massive number of defensive (and offensive units) there. I still almost lost it- though I could have taken it back. But the AI moved his 2 mega stacks of doom north towards my main empire and disregarded my city with the hoover dam in it.

[Addled Platypus]

Had a 1 1/2 year long pbem no lux's/resources for the whole game (10 cities on an island)...yeah lost that game too

traded and spent dearly for what I needed

[Golden Bear]

1 turn.

I moved my settler 1 hex to find a better starting spot.

A volcano let loose and the settler died.

Truthfully, this happened. I wish that I had saved a screenshot.


Golden Bear

[Addled Platypus]

I had no idea Volcanoes injured units

so far the best (worse case) short game

[Harovan]

Mine was a plain Civ3 game. I played as Iroquois and had just sent a couple of scouts from my first city. Then I built a warrior as garrison, and after this I started a settler. It was not even 3000BC yet, when a German elite archer (must have popped a hut with barbarians) showed up, beelined to my capital and finished me off. Game over. I'd say, not even 10 minutes. And there was nothing I could do.

[aoerana]

Are you asking as a win or as a loss?

[Datajack Franit]

How can you let your only city in the condition of being destroyed after 3 turns?

[Harovan]

What can I say?

Because I suck.