tjs282
Stone \ Cold / Fish
Yeah... So last night I rolled another one of my (nearly) All-Random games (Small map, DG level, Restless Barbs, Normal AI-aggression). I got curb-stomped by the Iros on Turn 20, making this my Shortest. Civ3. Game. Ever.
So I'm looking for sympathy here (or at least, funny stories): Not including Regicide / Elimination-games, what's the fastest you've ever lost a solo-game (any difficulty, any map-size)?
Spoiler :
I got the Inca, with a coastal Grassland start, and an Ivory-Forest right next door, but no freshwater visible (nearest river was 4 tiles away, as I discovered after founding). So I sent my Scout out exploring while I built Axes to keep order/ explore, while the BGrasses got roaded and the Ivory got chopped + roaded.
I quickly suspected I'd rolled a Pan-map (confirmed on replay): by Turn 19, my 2 explorers (Scout north, rAxe south) had already popped CBurial and met the Iros, Dutch and Portuguese, and my Scout was on his way back down south to meet the Hittites. Cuzco was about to hit Pop3, with just over 20s in the box, including chop-shields (i.e. I still had only one city -- Hiawatha already had 4!), and I was min-running at Maths/SoZ, having already traded for Alph and Bronze.
On the IBT, a pair of Iro-Axes invaded from the corner of Cuzco's BFC -- I figured they were after the Barbs to the south, which the Dutch were dealing with, and I wasn't in any position to give a boot-order. I'd built 2 rAxes, and popped a cAxe from a nearby hut, but only one rAxe was keeping the home-fires burning at that point. On the Turn 20 IBT, Hiawatha DoW'd me out of the blue, and his first Axe-attack killed my garrison and captured Cuzco. So that was me knocked out of the game. Oops...
I quickly suspected I'd rolled a Pan-map (confirmed on replay): by Turn 19, my 2 explorers (Scout north, rAxe south) had already popped CBurial and met the Iros, Dutch and Portuguese, and my Scout was on his way back down south to meet the Hittites. Cuzco was about to hit Pop3, with just over 20s in the box, including chop-shields (i.e. I still had only one city -- Hiawatha already had 4!), and I was min-running at Maths/SoZ, having already traded for Alph and Bronze.
On the IBT, a pair of Iro-Axes invaded from the corner of Cuzco's BFC -- I figured they were after the Barbs to the south, which the Dutch were dealing with, and I wasn't in any position to give a boot-order. I'd built 2 rAxes, and popped a cAxe from a nearby hut, but only one rAxe was keeping the home-fires burning at that point. On the Turn 20 IBT, Hiawatha DoW'd me out of the blue, and his first Axe-attack killed my garrison and captured Cuzco. So that was me knocked out of the game. Oops...