Whats the stupidest thing you've ever done in civ2?

[Crazy_Vasey]

I think mine was in my first game of civ2. The Celts nuked London so I obliterated them in a hail of nukes and caued uncontrollable global warming. I still won the game though just had a lot of starvation.

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[Benz]

I was having a good start... I though. Until I see that my neibor was bigger than me. A very lovely Russian. So lovely that he decided to conquer me. To naive, I noted that I didn't build war unit enough to protect the borders against them.

So I took the chance to send some of my units from my main cities, to defend those that were attacked by the Russians. Leaving without protection my capital and two other main cities.

The murphy's law apply!

The Egyptien came at me. I use to have good relation with that tribes but, not in that game. They looked at my cities and said themselve "That's too good to be true!". They easily took my 3 cities. The Russians defeated me with the left hand and I remained with only one small city with the size of 3.

That was the worse defeat I got ever. Except one of my first games where I didn't protect my city at start and with my first unit, I explored the area and open a village with barbarians into it. Two turns and I was out!

Back to my tiny city with the size of 3... I decided to do a exodus operation. I moved two settlers away, far away on another land which I knew it was desert. And slowly, I build back a little empire. I was dead last for the most part of the game but, suddenly, I climb to the third positions. I was in good position but, the Russian launch a space ship and they won.

What happened with my size 3 city? I think they got somehow pity of it and I was able to save it anyway. It remains a very lovely choice for the ennemies to attacked but, I never lost it.

Never, ever think too peaceful in that game.

 

[CivPartisan]

I built a spaceship. Then I learned.

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[damunzy]

Besides getting killed on the first turn, my settler explored a hut and got stomped!
In a Diety lvl game I made 11 cities(the computers had 4 at this time) before I realized that your population gets mad when you make more cities, oh I had the Despotism form of Gov't!

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[VanillaCube]

The stupidest thing I ever did was building the manhaten progect when I was far behind in tec and all the other civs were really at me
then like 2 moves after I built it nukes were coming at me from every angle.

 

[Warlord56]

I was trying to see if I coul duse the Babalonyans welland during the game I onl ybuilt three cities.

But, that wasn't the stupidest thing I did in that game.

I somehow survived the whole game until 2020 though we were down to two civs very quickly.
I built the Great Library when there were two civs left I didn't know that until I built Marco POlo's Embassy when I already had an embassy with the French.
I ended up with ony a 19% score for that game.



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let the defenders create an army atttacks are inaccurate.

 

[TTG]

Well, this isn't in civ2, it's in civ1, but I don't play civ2 so...

When I first got civ1 I didn't have the manual and had to teach myself how to play. When I first discovered that you could increase the size of your cities by 1 by pressing "b" with the settler when on the city, I thought "great! free population!". I set all of my cities to building settlers, and then as soon as the settlers were built I would add them to the city that built them. As you can probably guess, this got me nowhere. I continued it for dozens of turns before I realized that creating a settler decreases the population of that city by 1.

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[Matrix]

Now that's really cool! I also started Civ I without manual and I didn't know what to do when a city got a riot. That actually really frustrated me, and I felt really stupid when someone else showed me what to do...

 

[SunTzu]

Only attacking a Deity level civ that was higher in tech than me and had nukes, attacking that civ with only 3 nukes and then got 35 in return


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[BeBro]

Not the stupidest, but the funniest thing:
In a scenario I attacked a stack of enemy units. Result:

"30 units killed" ;D

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[drake]

Don't put your eggs all in one basket unless you know you're going to win! I was getting a fairly good beating in a pickup game and I knew I had to deal a crushing blow to my competitor to get back into it. His capital was right off the coast and yet to have city walls. It was still ancient times and I knew that most of his army was at the front. This would have been a great backdoor attack and got me back into the swing of the game. I stacked a boat load of kick ass units onto a mountain next to the city, with the assumption that my defending unit ( a legion) would not be able to be un-seated by his currently highest attacking unit (elephant). Well this was a bad assumption and his vet elephant took my legion and a bunch of catapults and elephants and erased them all. It was my bad judgement, but the game was hopeless after that. Definetly a lesson learned.....

 

[Wentu]

The Manhattan Project is a very delicate thing. I like much when noone builds it. But when someone does, i try to be the first to use them against my worst enemy. When i dont do that, i am sure it will be the first to nuke.
Wentu

 

[Håkan Eriksson]

Stupidest thing i ever done is this:


I'm the smalest tribe in the world and at war with one of the middel big tribes.

When I got a spy fore the first time I noted that it could "Plant Nuclear Device" into a city! Nice I thought, I dont need to by a expensive nuc. missile!

So i tested it on the middel sized city of Weii (size 11) and it was great i took that city rigt off!

But now to the bad thing. Every one started war at me! Why???? .<IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/smilies/cwm24.gif" border=0>


Ironical I ended upp (after a 3 turn war) with just the city of Weii

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[VanillaCube]

well I would start a war with you too because I would think you might do the same to me!!
planting a nukular bomb is the rash move of a MADMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Håkan Eriksson]

Well, it sure did the work! <IMG SRC="http://forums.civfanatics.com/smilies/cwm28.gif" border=0>

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[usgreth]

It would have to be on Civ I trying to play on the hardest level on my third game at it. Even the barbarians had better tech than I did, the best unit I got was a musketeer and that was one I bribed from the barbarians

 

[SlowwHand]

The dumbest thing I've done is teach Boann.
Because now it may just be a matter of time before the student passes the teacher.

Other than that, I think the dumbest is not when you're new. It's when you know better, and do it anyway.
Like not paying attention and losing trireme, or however it's spelled.



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[Dell19]

My stupidest thing was porbably thinking it was a good idea to build as many cities early on as possible.

By about halfway I was losing 200+ gold per turn and had to keep on selling improvements. I was only saved by building Adam Stock's wonder (buildings requiring 1 gold for support no longer had to be payed)and changing to a communist government which reduced corruption.

Later on I started losing money heavily again. I had already launched my shuttle (On TOT -Extended original). This time I was saved by changing entertainers into Taxmen.

Next time I will stay small. However I did conquer the whole world, just with incontrollable debt.


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[scorch]

ok guyz, those are too funny, keep this topic at the top. the stupidest thing to do is play civ when you are drunk or tired. then when you come back later and wonder why the major attack on the americans has disapperad and you have captured one of their buildings only for them have caputred 3 of yers.

 

[woke25]

This is a great thread. the building settlers to let them grow with "b" made me laugh for 5 minutes, i couldnt stop, tnx a lot, no offense ment.

My stupiest thing must be trying to keep peace with the english in civ2. It doesnt matter how powerfull or weak i am, when i make peace with the english, its standard they sneak attack me directly the next turn.

Now what did i do? i thought, lets build great wall. In a democracy, i got peace directly with the english, eventhough i didnt want to meet them (signed permanent peace threaty behind your back) and you are unable to attack them. Next turn: loose a city ---> peace, next turn loose a city --> peace. got totally destroyed by the english in 10 turns.

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