All of us who play civ3 extensively usually have these great moments when we complete something that we couldnt think done. In some cases a defeat of a stronger nation, or a building of an incredibly long road or railroad, or the building of anempire out of a jungle start. Feel free to share them here, screenies would be nice.

My own great moment is shown below. I was playing as Egyptians and was at war with France in the mid Industrial Age. I had one infantry stationed in Heliopolis (4 turns away from the motherland by transport) at the start of the war qand the town itself was still plodding away on its aqueduct as it had been for at least 20 turns. The french were one turn away from their motherland and began landing 8 units per turn, mostly infantry, right next to my city. By the end of the war (about 21 turns or so) i had modernized Heliopolis, had over 40 units stationed there and had killed 86 French units at Heliopolis alone with a loss of only 3 of my own infantry. it was the first time i've ever withstood a massive AI seige like that, a great moment for me.

No reloads I hope.

Good work :)

Now, when will you finish your story?

My finest moment was my first Monarch win.
I was Persians and started near Iroquois, Romans, Ottomans and Vikings and one other civ somewhere.
I started to build Colossus and I got it. It helped me a great deal.
Then I started to build Immortals, I had 15 Immortals in my border and I attacked Iroquois and got Salamanca and Sun Tzu's, after 15 turns I had driven Iroquois to 2-tile island.
Then there was wars between Romans and Ottomans, Ottomans got few Roman cities and they were #1 in territory. Then I started to build Infantrys just in case someone attacks, there was only some desperate Viking berserk attacks which I got under control.
Finally I got into Modern Age and I had no rubber and oil, so I captured that Iroquois only city in that island and got rubber, (I had imported my rubber until that, then I finished Vikings and got Oil. Then it was a Space Race between me and Ottomans. It was a good race and I won it by 1 turn. I was so happy about the 1st victory to be a tight Space Race. Final Score was something around 3100. The End.

How did you manage to get the computer to 'show' 4 infantry units on 1 square?

When i had one town left. Surrounded by about 50 egyptian tanks that would destroy me nxt turn.Then Greece holds the Un vote and i win!!!
Take that Cleo

However, not really a spectacular achievment, I always remember my first Regent win. (don't really know why, it just has stuck with me)

Originally posted by NewWaver
How did you manage to get the computer to 'show' 4 infantry units on 1 square?

By the multi unit graphics they've just put up. It is a okay mod, but i've decided i like normal graphics better.

My finest is when I played it on my cousin's computer. I was Russia and had most of the world under control, with Rome, Greece, and France as my virtual vassals/puppets because I was so powerful (I was playing Regent and I tend to go Communist in the levels that I consider too hard to play as Democracy) and had a powerful army - so they MPP-ed w/ me and I was grabbing tribute from them - France even gave me a big city near their capital (of course I had to give them something back, but I already forgot what I gave them in exchange for that metropolis). My "alliance's" arch-enemies were the Germans and Egyptians - the former were my rival in military might, though their empire was like 1/5 of mine. The Egyptians were stuck on an "archipelago" of islands. THey did indeed build up their *cough*[outdated]*cough* forces on the coasts of their islands so no invasion was possible unless you attacked their cities. They were however getting limited military technologies from Germany. My rival attacked Rome so I went to war with them because of the MPP - the others also declared war on Germany while Egypt clung strongly to its German ally. Rome - the capital - was captured by Germany. Unfortunately, that was the city that had most of the Roman economic, scientific, and military infrastructure. So the Roman Democratic Republic crumbled to the German Reich. Then, France invaded the German homeland - they captured Konigsberg. Unfortunately, the Germans had a lust for revenge for this and they launched their nukes toward the French cities - my city was spared [whew!], prompting a complete collapse of France. However, the Germans only wanted to regain Konigsberg and got Egypt to invade and conquer the radioactive French continent. This brought me into direct confrontation with Egypt. While Egpyt used a lot of its forces to take control in France, Greece invaded THEIR homeland. THe now-weakly defended Egyptian Archipelago fell quickly - the Greeks feared the wrath of Germany so they gave Alexandria to Germany and got a cease-fire. Meanwhile I attacked Occupied France and took it under the wings of the Russian Soviet Republic ;) . I was desperately trying to clean up pollution when suddenly, the Germans nuked Leningrad (I renamed St. Petersbrug :) ). That infuriated me and I went to all-out war on Germany. I launched like 7 massive invasions with transportships completely-filled with my finest troops. Oh yeah - and I initiated a naval blockade of the Reich, and I took out almost all of their navy with it. I convinced Greece to launch nuclear weapons on the German capital. Berlin was nuked and I let Greece take it as a reward. So then I took the rest of the German cities. They all fell to my armies in about 5 turns. So I assimilated all of the German Reich, leaving Greece as the only other nation in the world, still inferior to me. I used espionage to bring Berlin into my control, too. Since I had anti-nuclear facilities set up in all of my cities form now on, Greece would not be able to launch nukes against me. And since they still didn't get the anti-nuke technology, then I could unleash war on them any time I wanted. However, I didn't - I kept the status quo, but I had initiated a naval blockade on the Greek islands/continents so that they wouldnt expand into the un-occupied little islands - I wanted those for myself :) . So that was it - I was the most powerful in size and military and technology and economy and culture and everything .

Great moments when we complete something that we couldnt think done.

The greatest moment is when my wife and kids are sleeping and I can finaly place PTW disk inside the comp and load the game.:king:

More seriously, the greatest moment will be when I will launch the Space Ship in an OCC game. :eek:

My greatest moment came playing for the first time as the Ottomans, DyP mod, standard, Pangea, 8 civs, regent or monarch, I think.

Anyway, I use the AI tactic of settler diarrhea to make a land grab and create a defensible position for myself. My northern border is bounded by jungle and little to nothing can get through as I make most units wheeled and mountains and jungle impassable to wheeled units. I am in a corner with about half my empire on the sea and open plains and hills on the other border with France. At the end of the ancient age/beginning middle age after complete peace the whole period, the rest of the world got together and decided to kill the Ottomans. For some reason this seems to be the AIs main strategy in most of my games lately, odd as I am mostly a builder.

The rest of the middle ages to the modern era I barely hold on against the AI onslaught. I manage to maintain all my border cities, thankfully the AI did not head to the center of the empire. The time is spent fighting, making peace so I can rebuild and then I am attacked again. The AI rotated two civs attacking me in groups. One group would attack, make peace and shortly later another group would attack. Eventually, five civs are left with four against me. I manage to keep my forces modernized and get a small tech lead, and soon the tables turn. Production is high in my interior cities and I begin shifting fresh armoured and mechanized force to the French/Ottoman border, accompanied by stacks of artillery. I also developed many squadrons of bombers operating from rearward bases.

While my forces are developing, I use hidden spec ops troops to devaste the French infrastructure near my border so that the spec ops forces can make quick dashes back to safety over the border. They also capture about 30+ French workers who are put to work repairing the wrongs to the Ottomans. Soon the Ottoman defense forces are ready to carry out their mission to protect the motherland. Ottoman generals and advisors in conference with their munificent leader decide that the best strategy for Ottoman survival in the face of the fierce opposition is unrelenting genocide for all other peoples and nations, first time I ever did this.

Vastly outnumbered by the rest of the world the mother of all battles began. The French were the first as they were the first to back stab me and turn on me from friendship. Hmmmm :) Well, it began in earnest, their cities were pounded by copious amounts of arty and subjected to massive aerial bombardment. In most places French cities were being hit each round for several rounds by 20 arty and 12 bombers each per turn. French cities were reduced from size 30-35 to 2 or 3 when modern armour armies advanced crushing all else with mech infantry and grunts coming in to mop up. All cities are razed with an occasional city being kept as a forward operations base.

The French are extinct, the Greeks are next. I overcame certain defeat to certain victor. This has been the hardest fought and most savage game of civ I have played to date. It certainly has been exciting. Thanks for listening to me ramble. It has been a great victory and game!

Not a truly remarkable achievement, but it holds a special place in my heart.

First time playing on Regent, was France. I expanded extensively at the beginning of the game and did not fight any wars. Then I was surprise attacked by England (appropriately) but, thankfully, I had so much surpluss money (due to a river and grassland empire, plus republic) I bribed Russia and Germany to go to war with England too. Well, I simply rotated all my defensive units to the small border I shared with England (another case of irrational AI war) and concentrated on making the important Middle-Age wonders (JS Bach's, Sistine, Sun-Tzu), since everybody else, pretty much, was at war (as, on the other side of the pangaea, the Zulus were being destroyed by a Persio-American alliance). Finally, the war with England came to a close. I had gained a scientific lead, most of my jungles were cleared out, and every single one of my cities had at least 12 developed squares. My core cities thus started building a massive army of cavalry.

Well, I was ready (with about 50 cavalry to go to war - more than enough). And, right on cue, Germany inexplicably declared war on me. Now, to get to certain parts of Germany, I had to get a Rights of Passage with both Russia and Babylon, so I did. I lost about 20 cavalry due to the highly-defensible territories of the Germans, but the majority of the rest became Elite. Once Germany was conquered, I was not sure what to do. Realizing that my German province was cut off from mainland France, I needed to get rid of either Babylon or Russia. Well, I RoP raped them both (I don't do this anymore, but I was still new to the game). Within two turns I had control of 3/5 of the world. All that remained were England, my most powerful enemy, America (mediocre) and Persia, who had been devastated during the Zulu war. I hit the Modern Age in 1520 AD (it took a long time for me to beat that record) and then America attacks one of my cities with a Rifleman. I had handily been creating a massive tank army, and so I quickly took over Persia (they were in the way) and then America.

Domination victory.

My revenge against England would never be satisfied. Oddly enough, England is always the last nation standing in each of my games, and always the second most powerful. I guess it's because I play as France :-)

Another remarkable achievement was when I started on a massive continent with three other civs. My first three warriors, all sent in different directions, managed to destroy all the opposition before they could get a good defense up. I'd never ever been so lucky in a game before. Playing as the Ottomans, I became incredibly powerful and was able to play as a builder without opposition. Once I discovered the other continent (with four civs, but smaller), I had twice as many points as the top two from the new world. So yeah, the game was in my bag.

I guess my most remarkable accomplishment was surviving a 4000 year war with Russia on a Chieftain game as Germany. My first game. And I lost badly. But made it to the end of the game :-)

My finest moment was my first victory on warlord :D Laugh if you want, but the step from chieftain to warlord is a tough one. I must have lost or given up on a half a dozen games before I won one.

Recently, my finest moment was my when I beat my brother. I was Russians, he was Chinese, in a long, drawn out game, I finally beat him yesterday. (Hope he doesn't read this ;))

Well I haven't gotten too much time into playing Civ III but one game I payed I decided that every enemy city I captured I would keep. Usually by the end of a game I have something near 50 cities which is a good number. Well at the end of this game I had somewhere near 200. It was so hard to manage and each turn took way too long but when I looked at that World Map and saw most of it covered in dark green... well... that was special. Heh.

My best moment was a massive war with India. I was the Japanese and India and I divided up a massive continent. We had never fought a war before, but they had been a thorn in my side (embargoes, moving troops into my territory for a turn, attacking my trading partners, etc.) So finally, in the late modern time of the game I decided to fight them...I sent a good 100-150 modern armors and a whole bunch of mech infantry, and radar artillery support, stealth bombers, cruise missiles, etc. In short...it was fun to see a super power reduced to rubble (though they put up a stiff fight).

My finest moment was on the second time that I played Civ. I remember fondly building up my Zulu empire right next to the Iroquois. We shared half-and-half of a nicely-sized continent. England was contacted to the north with her many archipelagoes. I was exploring that very area, and progessing well into the Middle Ages, when my game crashed. :(

I might have had finer moments, but this one will stay close to my heart.

Well, this was not a particularly proud moment, but I sure was glad when I finished this map!

I was tired of not ever fighting a Modern War in most of my games (It seems like the spaceship was ready to launch by the time I got any significant amounts of Modern Armours.) So I set up a game where the only win condition possible was completely eliminating everyone. The problem was that I chose a Large Scenario Map (10 Lands - from the PTW CD ((a very good map, btw!)) ). I then very foolishly decided to "give the AI a chance", and only took over my main continent and did no other invasions until Tanks became available.

Well, the difficulty level was on Emporer, and the Tech race, as usual, was frenetic. Everyone had Nukes by around 1300 AD. I had to capture 5 large continents and assorted small islands held by 5 large and advanced civs (most larger than me.) It was brutal, bloody, and loooooooooong. Towards the end I was sick of moving and bombarding with 75+ Battleships. I had 18+ fully Elite Modern Armor Armies (which were a god-send against fortified enemy Mech Infantry!).

I finally won in the year 1972 AD, with a grand total of over 142 hours spent on this one map!

Never, ever, EVER again!!!

my greatest civ moment was most definatley my first deity win in GOTM 20. I won diplomaticaly by slowing down the tech pace by signing a military alliance with everyone against japan(i was sooooo far behind). this, not incidently, caused for everyone to love me :king: What I was most proud about was the fact that i never actually lost/ gave up except for my first few chieftan games (when i didnt even know what workers or settlers did) and my first warlord game. then i found this wonderful site and havent lost once yet. im 2 for 2 on deity :)

My greatest moment was utterly destroying a Roman Empire in DyP with 6 elephants. Beat that Hannibal!

My finest moment was running over the Russians in 11 turns by about 40 recently upgraded Cavalry. Took about 4-5 cities per turn, (average) in the first 5 turns.

That was fun...

My finest moment was running over the Russians in 11 turns by about 40 recently upgraded Egyptian Cavalry. Took about 4-5 cities per turn, (average) in the first 5 turns.

That was fun...

That or the Dozens of Mounted Warriors pulverizing the Americans and Aztecs, giving me the conquest win! Took me 21 turns to kill them both.

That happened today!

My current game is one of my proudest.

A monarch game as Germany. My settler was stuck in tundra. It took forever to get 2 settlers out, while my Iroquois neighbors built 7 cities on grassland and plains with cattle. I decided the only hope I had was an early war, so I built up about 10-15 horsemen and cleaned their clock. I went from the puniest civ to the strongest.

I was then isolated from the rest of the world til the late middle ages due to the ocean separation. I never got too far behind on tech and am now handily ahead of my remaining competitors.

It won't be close to my high score since it's already 1970 or so and I've only got 1600 pts or so, but to salvage such a crappy start location is really an accomplishment for me.

My best moment thus far (only played three games) would be bribing France to attack Germany with me, then watching the French bravely die to weaken German defenses- then I would send the cavlary and easily take the city. The Frence died for nothnig, and I gained the city with no losses. Kept doing that and obliterated the Germans. :D

my finest achievement was my regent game as egypt that i just finished. i was poised to crush the romans with over 275 modern armor inside his borders (ROP of course :D) just before i was ready to attack, i won by culture in the year 1888 and ended up with over 4600 points.

I beleive I have a new finest moment. Took me over an hour, but I brokered a massive deal.

I ended up getting Polytheism, Math, Horseback Riding, Philosophy, Code of Laws, the World Map, a Right of Passage, 109 gold, and Tech parity with the rest of the world!

All this, for 2/3 of my income per turn (21gpt)

That was pretty good, in my opinion.

I once built a road from the tip of the Iberian Peninsula all the way to Palestine. :D By the time it was finished I had flight so it was pretty much worthless.

I play egypt, and I very rarely go to war, what I do, is science!

My starategy is, once I get to the later ages (Industrial, late Feudal) I start selling off my techs for high ammounts of gold per turn, then setting up my sciences to research more techs and sell them... :D Believe me, it works for space race victories, also for cultural sometimes.

Below are a few of the trades I made (my 3 best) if you don't believe I actually made those trades I can send you the full screenshot with the advisor saying "This deal will probably be acceptable."

Sorry for double-posting, forgot I couldn't edit in images.

one time i had 8 Modern Armor and I was at war with every other Nation(Zululand, Babylon, Egypt and Rome). I had captured a Roman coastal city and it was surrounded by practically the entire Zulu Army, plus troops from other countries.
Rome........aprox. 10 Infantry
Egypt........aprox. 10 infantry plus 3 Cavalry
Babylon.....aprox. 5 Infantry plus 10 Cavalry
Zululand....aprox. 25 Infantry
I had all my units fortified in a Size 8 city. 6 of the 8 Modern Armors were elite, while the other 2 were Veterans. I Destroyed all attackers which had surrounded my entire city without losing 1 unit. I was then able to take over Babylon and Rome. I took one Zulu city, then signed a Peace Treaty(I recieved a lot of Gold from it). I developed nukes a few turns later and nuked the Egyptian capitol. After that, I sighned a Peace Treaty with Egypt.

I remember one of the greatest moments being, after the French and German forces pounded their way through my satellite cities to my Core, FINALLY reaching them for peace, getting my resistors off of my back and launching the spaceship!

As a sidenote, how do I take screenshots of Civ3? I've tried it like I do with other strategy games, but to no avail so far.

I had my finest CivIII moment just yesterday . It was my first game on monarch level . Spain , huge map , 7 rivals , raging barbs . From the start of the game I was paranoid and tried to do my best in everything , from micromanagement to combat tactics . Till middle ages I did just fine , expanded fast and beat AI on Pyramids , TGL , HG ( goal is 20K cultural victory ) in my capital but then wars started an seems like every AI civ got GA . I fell back in research so badly !! I had cash , but damned AI wasn't going to sell its precious research for its life . That's not all . I had no iron , Scandinavia was pumping berserks , and all my cities had those pathetic spearmen :( . One moment I thought so fine started game is lost , I desperately needed GA . And then I suddenly realised I don't need iron for my brave conquistadors !! Oh-le , here they come my beaut's with dogs , and are they fast !! I had my GA , I built many good improvements very fast , I got tech lead and now every AI is bankrupt , I have 8000+ gold , 500+ per turn , 4 turn research , every lux imaginable and it seems like I'm gonna win . :)

i've got two finest moments, one's my Aztec empire against the weak Iroquois, the other one is my Chinese empire against the weak Egyptians. I picked up the game which i thought was going to lost about 3 weeks after. Them egyptians were situated on a big peninsula and a small island. i got all my troops to go over our border, it was countless numbers. then we burned their cities one by one. but near El-Ashmunein they've got 2 sources of rubber, and they used infantry to battle against us. i remember that one infantry who killed my entire army. but i still managed to kill them all. then there was this one little island left which they've got the city of Lisht on it. they've only got one spearman left. i didn't even wanted to kill it, but hell with it. it took me 3 hours. phew... :cooool:

I won a Domination victory as the Vikings on a huge map, vs. 7 other civs in 1840 AD on Regent level. Shocked the **** out of me!

Probably my first emporer game (I won by domination :king: ) as Persia on a Small map. Close second was a 20k regent culture win as Amercia where I had 109 culture per turn in Washington at the end.

I hope to have a new best moment by this weekend, my first Diety win (as China) on a standard sized map unless I screw it up.

This was not necessarily my finest moment, but it was very cool.

America was reduced to one city, nestled in the mountains near the coast and surrounded by the Chinese, who were the world power this game. I was somehow still alive. I had spent the last 5-10 turns assembling an invasion force to take that last city.

The same turn I landed my invasion force, China decides to go to war with America and deny me my prize. They charge a whole load of Riders onto the mountains surrounding the city and start attacking. The Chinese suffer some minor losses and reduce the Americans to a single red-lined elite Infantry unit. That's when they bring in the Rider Army, fresh and ready for some fighting.

I took one look at that and thought, there goes my city. The Army attacked, and this is from a mountain position, retreated, attacked again, and finally fell, defeated by a single unit with only one hit point. Kind of reminded me of The Spearman.

Of course, I killed him shortly after with a tank and took the city. :lol:

My first DyP win. Regent level. I was playing Celts, and was going agains the French, Greeks and Indians. I lost some ground to the indians, and managed to get it all back while decimating them. Kept the Greeks and the French fighting each other, nipping a french city here and there. Suddenly I had modern armor and mobile infantry, and I kicked some serious posterior. Mobile infantry rocks! It was really a case of nolo contendre after that. I think the greeks were gone two turns after the french.