Favorite Ka-Pow Moments

[King Kalmah]

Originally Posted by GA econ FTW

challenged player, I've had that moment of relief when a civ declares on my peace-loving, city garrisoned tech-for-parity civ and it's a stack of....28 catapults, 27 trebuchet and a single Knight......okaayyyy.....I bet it woulda been one line of code to let the AI in on the new rules of siege NEEDING some support ?

it is sad,but thats what mods are for..I guess...

[Jake Blues]

I had 12 Privateers when most Civs still had galleys and triremes. I set up off the coast to three different Civs who had massive, but primitive navies. I would go into their coastline, kill a ship and move back out of their range. I sank well over 150 enemy ships over several decades without losing a single Privateer. The AI refused to hide the ships in their cities, instead keeping them along the coast for me to pick off one at a time.

[rah]

I'm always amused when trying to figure out why any civ needs 30 caravels.

[GA econ FTW]

^ Dutch Shipbuilder: "So, Um...willem..."
Williem Van Oranje: "Call me bill, billy or Orangie...my friends often do"
Shipbuilder...."Yessir....All right, so, even though we typically are a peaceloving, trading yet strong seafaring nation, I suggest we build this armada of easy-to build caravels...I recommend thirty or more."
WvO: Thirty?? Why? I control the East India Company, and they are MUCH better ships, let that Hack Jooo....er...jowo...Joaaayoo....let JOHNNIE of portugal fly around the world and settle the barbarian infested jungles of the new world..(pretends to put hand to ear) what johnnie...your stupid unique unit holds only TWO peeps, enough for a settler and a cavalry unit?...aww, no room for a chopper?...looks like you'll have colonial expense forever sucks to be you!
Shipbuilder: Um, no sir, my point is once we build these caravels, because our civ makes a BUTTLOAD of gold because the Human is playing diety level so we have a handicap that makes us, like...UBER rich...what we do is...once we get to Combustion, we just....spend a lot of money, and BAM, we've got the most powerful destroyer fleet of. all. Time!
WvO: really?....so...how do we turn an 80 foot long wooden ship with maybe a 10 foot reveal above sealine into a 200 foot long metal behemoth sporting 4 6-inch rifled cannon without....putting it in drydock....um....tearing the whole DAMN thing down to scrap, and ...maybe burning the scrap to run the electrical boilers as we start from scratch building these tin cans?....why, we'd be better off making our modern fleets out of horseflesh!!
Shipbuilder: No sir, that's where you're wrong, you use horses to build modern Helicopter assault vessels....
WvO looks to audience with a fourth wall look of desperation, summons his messenger...."Find the Human in this world, hopefully they've already developed gunpowder. declare war on his civilization and send only a stack of our siege against him...that should piss him or her off just enough to get me mercifully wiped off this planet....


Shipbuilder: So, it's a "no", sir?

[Owfin]

I got a settler from a goody hut in my current game's capital (perfect since the entire point of this game was to teach myself how not to expand like a turtle), and moved it over to some promising looking terrain in the east. I found COMMERCE LAND.



Unfortunately, that lovely bit of land was also smack dab next to Julius Caesar. I weighed my options. Playing as Mehemed, I didn't start with mining so going for bronze working and trying to put together an axe rush would be too much of a risk against Caesar, who's already got a head start there. Anything else would take too long. But with my two cities, building some warriors and getting a worker out became a possibility. I threw together a little force and deftly swooped into his territory, killing the poor guy before he even knew what was coming.

The gratification, however, truly came when my explorers went south. I discovered Brennus and Monty. At first I thought "uh oh", but further exploration revealed that they were next door neighboors (thereby keeping each other busy), and there was a large jungle between me and them. By removing Caesar, I had obtained both relative safety and the northern half of the continent to myself. And it was a rich, river-studded hunk of land too!

[happyturtle]

I'm playing on an inland sea map for conquest, with stacks working their way around in both directions until I only have two opponents left: Hatty and Churchill. Hatty says she won't capitulate because "We fear your powerful enemies." The same turn, I razed another of Churchill's cities, and he was ready to fold.

Me: "What powerful enemies?"

Hatty:

[i_imperator]

Originally Posted by TheMeInTeam

Nuking and killing a 10+ city enemy in a single turn. The perfect instant death, an eradication of an entire empire in the blink of an eye.

Now that's my favourite KA-POW! Moment aswel, i love doing that to ai's especially when they have modern armour and modern tech when you only have WWII material+nukes.