Do you have any misgivings about attacking/destroying your Real Life civilisation?

[The Puny Celt]

Well, my informal poll has gone pretty much the way I should have expected: cold, ruthless practicality the clear winner over sentimentality!

[Alex]

You can't be sentimental if you want to rule the world...

[Chemical Ollie]

I don't have PtW, but I would not be a sentimental nationalist if I had it. The Viking pagans would be sent to Valhall by my mighty armies any time I played another tribe.

[ducki]

Originally posted by wilbill
None at all. It IS a game, after all.

I just picture George W. instead of Abe and it's surprisingly easy to put Atlanta to the torch. William Tecumseh Sherman was a great role model.

First of all, Sherman is a wretched role model for anything but civ3 warmonger play, and even then, razing cities causes WW under enlightened governments.

Second, you do realize that W. is a Yankee, right?
They are from Kennebunkport, Maine, not Texas.

He carpetbagged his way to a failed career as an "oilman" (hah!) on his daddy's gold card.

Every time someone calls him a Texan, I shudder.
He's as much a Texan as Hillary Clinton is a New Yorker.


Now, to the original question, I like roleplaying my games as much as the next guy, but if you are having this sort of issue, it might be time to go outside - you know, sunlight, fresh air, birds, trees - until you remember it's just a game.

I mean really - if you have that sort of hang-up, you should either only play your real life civ, or seek help like vmxa1 said.

[Naiveplayer]

I actually get some great satisfaction in burning, say, Portland to the ground. Or Las Vegas. So I don't mind. It's probably even better so I don't have to garrison it like hell and risk the AI coming back and seizing it from me again. And cause I was so mad at Abe for having his MPP dragging me into a war against him that I was glad to burn his cities.

[Dis]

No

I completely annhilated the Americans once or twice. If they have the misfortune of starting next to me they die. that used to happen all the time when I played with culturally linked starting positions and I played my former favourite civ the Aztecs. But now I play Japan and the Celts.

[Mad Bomber]

No problems here with destroying any civ in my way, but I play America more than any of the other civ's combined so I rarely have to destroy my "countrymen".

[wilbill]

ducki,

I don't think we disagree on anything. Sorry if I mixed my metaphors (or whatever they were). I was just saying that I have fewer qualms launching war against G.W.B's America than against Lincoln's America. Regardless of whether W's from Texas or Maine.

Since the thread is "Do you have any misgivings about attacking/destroying your Real Life civilisation? " I think Sherman's a pretty good role model. I do find him less distasteful than other possibilities - Stalin, Saddam, Pol Pot, Idi Ammin, for example. Didn't mean to refight the Civil War.

It IS a game, after all.

[JamesDS]

When it's England, I don't really thinnk about it! Actually, I forget! War in civ3 is a bit harder though, in civ2 they didn't give you a smile, or even call you by name. In civ3, they're nicer. I feel so sad about declaring war on some civs that're nice to me, that I ally with them and keep them safe! I just can't bear seeing them look at me in anger!

[Carver]

No. America deserves a good beat down.

[Redstar]

I usually play AS my real life civ ...'cept on the old world maps where starting on a tiny island is a very bad thing Then i play as the russians.

[Mad Bomber]

JamesDS:

You need help or better yet a good AI ROP rape. Do me (and yourself) a favor, play a game where Persia is on your continent, make sure they have access to iron and you do not. Then sign a ROP and watch what happens. This will cure you of any compunction of helping out those poor, evil, lying, nasty, SOB's.

[Stuie]

America always seems to be exceptionally weak in the games I play, so I usually throw some techs/resoures at them to try and prop them up. Didn't matter in my current game; the Mongols still wiped them out.

However, were the Americans my neighbors I would have done the wiping out without the slightest twinge of guilt.

[TheStinger]

doesn't bother me

[Tiberius]

When I encounter Magyar barbarians I try to give them techs and a city or two, but for some unknown and unexplained reason it doesn't work