My saddest discovery

[Bereta_Eder]

My saddest discovery was during my first game of Civ 2.

Some civ managed to launch their spaceship before me.
I thought there wasn't any problem because I could capture their capital and the spaceship would return (like it happens in civ 1).

I spent the rest of the game chasing their capital which was changing all the time.

They finally relocated in an island in the middle of nowhere just 1 years before their spaceship laneded on AC

[shade]

my saddest discovery?

first:that it is impossible to get an alliance with one of the AI-players(maybe except when you give him anything you have)and that they make alliances against me like it is the simplest thing in the world.(this means when attacking one of them you get a world war against you)
second:the AI seems to know everything,having a civilization with over 100 cities and 99 of them have SDI they succeed in nuking just that 1 city(no other unit or spy has been near that city since it was build)
third:the AI seems to be building stuff at only half the cost I have

[Juggler]

My saddest discovery:
1) assembling a huge army for thousands of years, getting ready to attack America from Europe. Later I found out that the Americans and the Aztecs were small and weak, mainly because of their wars. I had no fun at all in that game.
2) I searched all of Asia and Africa for Vikings, not realizing that they just might have been in Scandinavia

[Dry]

My saddest discovery is one or two years old. I discovered that I played so many years underestimating the power of WLTLeaderD in governments like Monarchy, Communism and Fundamentalism.
I had to play SMAC to discover the power of the Golden Age. I then went back to Civ to see that it is as powerfull here.
I started with Communism and found it was easier to maintain WLTKD than I expected, so I tried it also with Monarchy.
Later (six month ago), I had to play the eastwind, rain scenario to discover that WLTHighPriestD *was* possible in fundamentalism (I always thought that in fundamentalism there was no unhappy, no happy people, just content, making all WLTLD impossible).

I am now trying to develop an 'early fundamentalism' strategy that seems to work quiet well.

[Scouse Gits]

Originally posted by Dry
I am now trying to develop an 'early fundamentalism' strategy that seems to work quiet well.

Doesn't it just ...

[Caesar the Great]

1. Nuking the enemy tank right next to my city.... seemed like a good idea at the time...

2. Sending on fighters on suicide runs against bombers that had attacked my city, realizing they were one move short to reach.

3. My oponent was 2 turns from building Miches, I was 40 sheilds away, missing still 21 gold if I sold improvements... I got a caravan from a city that was only 2 road squares away, I was like oh yeah you're gonna lose sucker, I go to the city with the caravan...... I establish a trade route by accident....

4. Spilling coke on my keyboard right in the middle of a game, this caused weird effects, half my keys stopped working and half were locked down..... my comp went to hell and back again...

5. Landing 6 triremes full of vet crusaders next to an enemy city... THEN canceling the alliance....

[Bereta_Eder]

LOL Ceasar hehehe


4 has happened to me too and it messed up my brand new microsoft internet explorer optical sensitivity state of the art mouse. Now it's crap.

[mad max]

Ones I concered a City and thought about what to do with it. I decided to buy a Unit to defend it, bought a palast and changed the production to the unit I wanted. Ah, no I forgot to change that and the palast was build.
I didn´t care about this, it was the last turn for my spaceship to reach AC, so what could happen?
Next turn my new capital was concered and my spaceship was destroyed.

[rixxe]

I was trying to conquer the spanish city of Madrid, to take control of the Leo's workshop. The whole spanish empire was located on a big island filled with jungle, so the only thing I wanted was LW,...

But, unfortunately, I destroyed the city,...

[The Mad Monk]

This is actually a 'happy' discovery, but I just have to answer this:

second:the AI seems to know everything,having a civilization with over 100 cities and 99 of them have SDI they succeed in nuking just that 1 city(no other unit or spy has been near that city since it was build)

Since SDI's have a three square range, it's possible for the SDI of one city to protect other cities, if the spacing is just a little tight. I once had a game where I put a city on a small island between two large cities, just to keep the AI from building there; a nuclear war happened, and this small city was one of a half-dozen without the SDI, and the closest one to the enemy civ. The AI tossed nuke after nuke at it, because it didn't have SDI, and nuke after nuke failed, because the larger cities had it covered with their SDI's.

It was fun to watch the AI waste soooo many nukes...


My saddest discovery to date is that rush-building in each and every city in a single turn with an 'extra large' civ makes for and exceptionally long and boring 'next' turn...

[rah]

Shameless bump.

There are too many good stories in this thread for it to fall to page 2.

I would love to hear some stories from the zoners. (Oh, that's right, they're so good they never make mistakes)

RAH

[Campo]

Okay, I've got another one that I've done a couple times.

I move several catapult and a few musketeers up to a hill or forest one square outside an AI capitol. I fortify my musketeers because my settlers haven't built a fort yet, and I'll lose the whole stack if one of them gets defeated. (I don't attack the same turn because, even with roads, the catapults lose attack points when they move.)

My musketeers withstand whatever attack the AI mounts during its turn.

The next turn I attack with the catapult wave, the final one capturing the city. In my self-satisfaction, I forget to activate the musketeers to move them into the city. I hit "enter" a second before realizing my mistake.

During the AI's turn an archer kills my lone defending catapult, recaptures the city, and the AI takes gunpowder. My 500-year military tech advantage evaporates immediately.