Alrighty, if you've followed a little of my posting habits on CFC, you'll probably notice that I'm a little bit of a troll with a really awkward sense of humor, and that I'm an achievement nut.
CivWorld has 36 achievements, all of them which are relatively simple except two - 1000 fame, and getting 10 Military medals. I completely lucked out on my first game, getting good advise from nation-mates and despite starting off terribly due to not knowing how game mechanics went, managed to remain at the top of the pile in my nation and end at 1168 fame. (I had a little civbuck help at the end just to be sure) Incidentally this game was also a hilarious trollfest, but more on that later
AAAANYWAY, with only 24 population and 10 military medals achievements left, I started to devise a plan for 10 military medals. Sitting in a warmonger civ with the biggest army didn't seem like it'd be the most reliable way to handle this, so I thought I'd take my chances by playing normally till mid-game, amassing a 'decent' army, then leaving to start a 1-man nation to farm the inactive/small civs. Since I'd be the only combatant, that was a guaranteed medal per invasion.
I did so. When I left, the only civ available to build was India. I hate India. I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE India, thanks to Civ 5 and Gandhi never failing to backstab me every single time (often with nukes) However, since it was the only option available to me, I went with the gig. Declared 4 wars, which would mean 3 repetitions to breach 10 medals assuming I won everything.
My thought was if they defended strongly enough to worry me, I'd talk to them, telling them 'hey you don't lose anything if I win, so just retreat' but if all else failed I'd let them have the win since -I- wouldn't lose anything either. Keeping my army intact was more important since I couldn't rebuild replacements - I had no tech. I could only rebuild buffer fortified militia/natives/etc.
And then I had another amazing idea. What if I did the same to the strongest nation in the game for the heck of it? Just declare war, and not show up, see what happened. SO BEGAN THE GREAT INDIAN INVASION OF JAPAN. Where Bollywood attempts to go head-to-head with anime/manga culture.
4 hours down the line. WHAT'S THIS? This is totally unprecedented! I'd totally expected Japan to roll over and let me take all their wonders. Why are they defending?
Well, on a more serious note, why are they throwing such large stacks at me? Did they not bother to check who exactly was invading, and that I had a paltry ~100 unit, single-nation army?
And then another thought hit me. A frightening thought. An ugly thought. What if... what if Secret Weapon showed up? That would be an amazing troll considering I didn't even intend to fight the battle in the first place.
If you read my other thread about being market-OCD, you'd know I have market control in every game I play and I'm a Great Person nut. I decided to check prices on GPs.
Why GPs? Well, originally, I'd actually planned to wait till ~Global Era, then spam-build wonders with all the GPs I'd amassed through the game and become a pinata, to see all the countries suddenly fight over me (and possibly defend me against each other so they could nab the wonders themselves) since I'm such a troll.
I changed plans. I decided I'd wait till Japan's vote to invade China passed (it was up) so they'd commit to it, then force secret weapon out if necessary by spamming Wonder Events. (I'm a solo nation, it only costs 2 GP per force)
Sure enough, with the uncanny way that these things happen, the last vote to pass the Chinese invasion came in the middle of the night. I decided I'd wait till the next Wonder Event shuffle before spamming my own force-changes. I figured with that and the GP I had, it'd be ~10 changes, or roughly 1 - (0.875^10) = 73.7% chance of succesfully forcing Secret Weapon. I like those odds.
I go back to working on projects, come back a couple of hours later, and whhhhoooaoaaaaa nelly what do you know.
I'll let the other images speak for themselves. At that point their units had pushed 3 pages on the battlefield. I exaggerate not. 3 pages.
So, I've actually managed to become the incarnation of Civ5 AI Gandhi - getting pissed at you for no apparent reason then trotting out the nukes. And I had 1 city, typical of Civ5 India playstyle. Funny how these things turn out. Of course, now if anyone from that game reads this thread, I'm probably dead. Hell, I'm probably dead anyway because no one likes a succesful troll. Anyway, I hope this proved at -least- a little amusing. I'll report back as to who wins Japan vs. China.
edit: Since I had the Great People to spare, why the hell not
edit: p.s. I'm such a great troll I even managed to troll myself by thinking "hey, if I build a whole bunch of lv1 buildings then popped Renaissance, wouldn't I become rich?" So I spent 5 minutes spamming up the entire map with the awful build interface while flash became more and more laggy as it always did.
Obviously I was a little miffed when I found out it seems to only upgrade one building of each type. Doh.
CivWorld has 36 achievements, all of them which are relatively simple except two - 1000 fame, and getting 10 Military medals. I completely lucked out on my first game, getting good advise from nation-mates and despite starting off terribly due to not knowing how game mechanics went, managed to remain at the top of the pile in my nation and end at 1168 fame. (I had a little civbuck help at the end just to be sure) Incidentally this game was also a hilarious trollfest, but more on that later
AAAANYWAY, with only 24 population and 10 military medals achievements left, I started to devise a plan for 10 military medals. Sitting in a warmonger civ with the biggest army didn't seem like it'd be the most reliable way to handle this, so I thought I'd take my chances by playing normally till mid-game, amassing a 'decent' army, then leaving to start a 1-man nation to farm the inactive/small civs. Since I'd be the only combatant, that was a guaranteed medal per invasion.
I did so. When I left, the only civ available to build was India. I hate India. I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE India, thanks to Civ 5 and Gandhi never failing to backstab me every single time (often with nukes) However, since it was the only option available to me, I went with the gig. Declared 4 wars, which would mean 3 repetitions to breach 10 medals assuming I won everything.
My thought was if they defended strongly enough to worry me, I'd talk to them, telling them 'hey you don't lose anything if I win, so just retreat' but if all else failed I'd let them have the win since -I- wouldn't lose anything either. Keeping my army intact was more important since I couldn't rebuild replacements - I had no tech. I could only rebuild buffer fortified militia/natives/etc.
And then I had another amazing idea. What if I did the same to the strongest nation in the game for the heck of it? Just declare war, and not show up, see what happened. SO BEGAN THE GREAT INDIAN INVASION OF JAPAN. Where Bollywood attempts to go head-to-head with anime/manga culture.
4 hours down the line. WHAT'S THIS? This is totally unprecedented! I'd totally expected Japan to roll over and let me take all their wonders. Why are they defending?
Well, on a more serious note, why are they throwing such large stacks at me? Did they not bother to check who exactly was invading, and that I had a paltry ~100 unit, single-nation army?
And then another thought hit me. A frightening thought. An ugly thought. What if... what if Secret Weapon showed up? That would be an amazing troll considering I didn't even intend to fight the battle in the first place.
If you read my other thread about being market-OCD, you'd know I have market control in every game I play and I'm a Great Person nut. I decided to check prices on GPs.
Why GPs? Well, originally, I'd actually planned to wait till ~Global Era, then spam-build wonders with all the GPs I'd amassed through the game and become a pinata, to see all the countries suddenly fight over me (and possibly defend me against each other so they could nab the wonders themselves) since I'm such a troll.
I changed plans. I decided I'd wait till Japan's vote to invade China passed (it was up) so they'd commit to it, then force secret weapon out if necessary by spamming Wonder Events. (I'm a solo nation, it only costs 2 GP per force)
Sure enough, with the uncanny way that these things happen, the last vote to pass the Chinese invasion came in the middle of the night. I decided I'd wait till the next Wonder Event shuffle before spamming my own force-changes. I figured with that and the GP I had, it'd be ~10 changes, or roughly 1 - (0.875^10) = 73.7% chance of succesfully forcing Secret Weapon. I like those odds.
I go back to working on projects, come back a couple of hours later, and whhhhoooaoaaaaa nelly what do you know.
I'll let the other images speak for themselves. At that point their units had pushed 3 pages on the battlefield. I exaggerate not. 3 pages.
So, I've actually managed to become the incarnation of Civ5 AI Gandhi - getting pissed at you for no apparent reason then trotting out the nukes. And I had 1 city, typical of Civ5 India playstyle. Funny how these things turn out. Of course, now if anyone from that game reads this thread, I'm probably dead. Hell, I'm probably dead anyway because no one likes a succesful troll. Anyway, I hope this proved at -least- a little amusing. I'll report back as to who wins Japan vs. China.
edit: Since I had the Great People to spare, why the hell not
edit: p.s. I'm such a great troll I even managed to troll myself by thinking "hey, if I build a whole bunch of lv1 buildings then popped Renaissance, wouldn't I become rich?" So I spent 5 minutes spamming up the entire map with the awful build interface while flash became more and more laggy as it always did.
Obviously I was a little miffed when I found out it seems to only upgrade one building of each type. Doh.
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