Ever feel bad for the little guy?

Specifically, in an ill-advised war? Yesterday I couldn't help but feel badly for Ghengis.

I'd been a very peaceful Napoleon, slowly building on the large island I shared with Monte and Ghengis. Monte was easy to make friends with. Ghengis was having none of the "friends" thing and would attack. Early on, I would just hunker down and kill what came at me. I was always ahead on techs. First was his archers I slaughtered with swords, then the knights I killed off with rifles, then the next wave of knights with infantry (he seemed to have gotten stuck on a tech tree limb.)

Finally, I'd had enough. I'd just gotten tanks and he declared on me by sending one crossbow into my territory. I responded by sending two Marine-Tank teams into his territory and surrounding the island with destroyers. I plugged his cities one after another, sending in troops for fortification.

And I think I wept a little tear for the silly guy. Curious, I looked at the power bar. At the time of his invasion, our power was just about the same. What it didn't fully account for was that I had only a few, but those few were either infantry in the border cities or promoted tanks and marines.

Actually both monti and him bring a little smile to my face when their empires crumble. Guess you could say Im one for grudges.

Same with me. When Monte and Isabella die I laugh. I've never been freinds with either civs so seeing them crash and burn brings me great pleasure.

I have a game when Isabella is my friend, something around +20 (a little less), and she won't ever give me a free tech or any avantadgeous trade... *****.

Naokaukodem said:

I have a game when Isabella is my friend, something around +20 (a little less), and she won't ever give me a free tech or any avantadgeous trade... *****.

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Civ 4 rule number one : never be friend with Isabella.

lol

happened me once in all my game of civs. I usually play at warlords level which is easy but only putting the domination and spacecraft victory on a very large map. (cultural for sure but the AI never do that anyway). What I try is to dominate the entire world. so one time I was losing a war for sure and Alexander converted to my religion and helped me in that war. It enabled me to release pressure on me and build units. the war ended and another civ (1st in points) declared war on me. Once again Alex came to rescue me because I would have not survive because it was very early in the game and was on an agressive city founding spree. so by 1800 AD when all civs were eliminated and only me and Alex were left with his 4 cities I couldnt betray him and finish him. It would have taken me 2 turns but I went for spacecraft. It's the only time I went emotional

I love wiping out the little ones! I also love wiping out the big ones. Come to think of it, I enjoy most wipings out immensely.

Feel bad?!
I'm sizing him up
in order to steal
everything he owns
ASAP!

Yes, I do. Once I had made the Zulus shrink to two cities and they capitulated to me and I gave them bunches of techs and put lots of soilders to defend his region and worked the land I had pillaged and gave him his former capital that I had captured.

I feel really bad for the weaklings

As a Creative civ, you can really push civs around in the early game due to the free expanding borders. I have been horribly mean to some AIs in the past that way, and yes, I do feel sorry for them. It's one thing to declare war and attack - you're at least being honest about your intentions - but cultural aggression of that sort feels even more dastardly for some reason.

Eh, just kill the little guys. Then the big guys become little guys. Then build up a few big stacks of troops. Blitzkreig is very effective. On my very first real game I amassed quite a few knights and samurais and slaughtered alexander in about 4 turns. First thought? WOW! This game rocks!

The only one I feel bad about destroying is Mansa Musa for some reason, but as for the rest, . Especially that bastard Qin Shi Huang, who has declared war on me one way or another EVERY game I've played against him so far.

Yes, I do. Once I had made the Zulus shrink to two cities and they capitulated to me and I gave them bunches of techs and put lots of soilders to defend his region and worked the land I had pillaged and gave him his former capital that I had captured.

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In the game described above, that's why Monti turned into for me. Later, the Germans got into themselves to wipe him out. Ended up that Monti had two cities surrounded by my cities, and the rest were wiped out. He kept those two cities for the rest of the game ... though he didn't enjoy being landlocked and cut off relations with me. But I protected him.

Leader I don't mind obliterating: Monty, Isabella, Peter and Cyrus
But one game I could of won but I let Catherine take it...
Also I don't like killing Washington or Mansa Musa

Sometimes I feel bad about it,
for example in one game I had good relations with Saladin who was smaller than my empire, was a brother in faith and we had good relations.
But nevertheless I finally attacked him because he had some nice cities and resources which were useful to stay strong compared to my biggest rival in the world (Brennus) [an attack against Brennus himself at this time would´ve been unwise because of his three vassals]

But against some people I will never feel bad, best example is Isabella.
For example in my current game we shared a continent (and she was second place in power after me) then suddenly she declared war on me.
I was able to raze oine city, capture 3 others (among them the holy city of christianity ) and declared peace (with now only having 2 border cities to Isabella. Then centuries passed, until finally she tried a nice culture war against one of these border cities (obviously she transformed all of her available money into culture points).
When I reacted and was able to halt her advancing cultural borders with only one tile lost (I built lots of culture producing buldings in the border city) she, once again, declared war on me and I really liked it to finally take almost all of her cities on the continent (including her capital) despite her constantly pleading for peace (until, when she had only 4 cities on the continent left, which were located in rather unproductive terrain I agreed on peace at the cost of all of her gold she had avaiolable at the moment )

You simply cannot have a peaceful coexistence with this woman (unless you share her religion)

Never, because the AI never feel bad when destroying my civ either.

It is all about a game. You win or you loose.

Regards,
Arto.

I gifted Huanya Cuapac a city once because he lost both of his to barbarians, that lasted all of about 12 turns before chairman mao and his merry band of vassals moved in.

In my latest game, I was Egypt and was all alone on a large (and I mean LARGE) island. The only civ on the same land mass was Nappy, trapped on a small isthmus blocked off by mountains. The other five civs were on smaller islands. Nappy could only build two cities on his starting point, and after a long time managed to build a small colony near me that was quickly swallowed up. He declared war on me soon after that. When I got to Paris I was met by one of the biggest SOD's I had ever seen.
They were all outdated but 20 spears, 30 + axes and lots of archers can put a dent in an invasion. All he could build was military so his power graph was high.
It actually set me back and lost to a space launch from Asoka. I should have put him out of his misery earlier on.
So much for pity for the little guy.

I don't like killing Ragnar because he represents my civ, I don't like killing Gandhi either, Asoka, Shaka or Washington
but I like killing Cathy (she isn't very attractive in the game), Pete, Josef (I'm actually not a Russian hater), Mao, Huayana Capac (don't you just hate this fella - always clapping BWA), Izzy, Nappy.

In Civ III I could never ever kill Empress Teddy of the Byzantines. She was a beauty

Sometimes I feel bad for the underdog, and let them keep 1 city, and be a vasal to me!