A Thousand & One Things We’ve Learned From Sid Meier’s Civilization IV

[Issus]

194. King Tut nevr existed

 

[Myth5]

195. Civ takes the place of food, drink, sleep, and human interaction.

 

[Moshe Dayan]

196. Troops can cross the shores of the world's largest rivers without needing to take a boat. However, the weaponry used by the soldiers becomes significantly weaker after being exposed to water.

197. Fish are only present where they can be seen jumping out of the water. No jumping, no fish.

198. Killing your own soldiers is a great way to produce revenue.

199. Livestock never die or give birth

200. It's always daytime.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

201. Catherine of Russia was actually sort of pretty.
202. One does not get Montezuma's Revenge from invading the Aztecs.
203. It takes considerably more computer horsepower to mod Civ than it does to actually play it.

 

[*Svart*]

204. In your capital the only military force are a bunch of bearbed guys with stone clubs. In 2050. It's ok.

 

[BammBamm]

205. Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alekseyevna a/k/a/ Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg (but best known as “Catherine the Great”) once tried to seduce me during a dangerous liaison in broad daylight at the Vladivostok Starbucks near the corner of Dnieper Drive and Borsht Boulevard in 1315 AD.​

 

[ethemenanki]

206. It is inevitable to nuke and invade every nation that launches a space ship.
207. Crop cannot be replanted and rice only grows in the same spot. It's impossible to move or rebreed livestock.
208. Cows cannot be destroyed by nuclear attacks.
209. Nuclear war is harmless. Radioactive pollution and damage to infrastructure is removed within two years. Also nuclear waste in the city core is impossible.
210. Global warming isn't global at all, because it only affects random spots on the map.

 

[Magnificent One]

211 : Nukes don't destory cities at all,they just destroy surrounding land.
212 : After 5000 years,the wro,d is destroyed,and a new one is created.
213 : The Spanish weren't Christian.They were Buddhist.
214 : There are no Protestants, or Catholics, just Christians.
215 : The most people in the army at any time was probably around 20
216 : Entires forets of gigantics trees can grow in just one year.
217 : The Meiji Restoration never happened in Japan,and so they never traded with anyone.
218 : There was never more than 200 countries on the Earth.

 

[Yared]

219) After your troops have arrived at some place, you must wait months or even years before they can attack something just next to them.


BTW, 211 is pretty much the same as 209.

 

[Magnificent One]

220 : On the year 2050,no technological advancements or developments shall ever be made from that point on.

 

[Absolute Zero]

220 : On the year 2050,no technological advancements or developments shall ever be made from that point on.

221. Unless the civilization who wins the game chooses to click "Wait! Just one more turn..."

 

[Anemos]

222: Only one nation in the world will ever see a material benefit from producing tin.

223: The touching story of a single wounded soldier has the power to bring a decades-long war to a diplomatic end.

 

[ethemenanki]

224: Elephants can attack and destroy helicopters in flight. It just happened.
225: When the helicopter is hit by an elephant, exploding stuff will appear around the vehicle.

 

[BammBamm]

226. Even though a land unit might have exhausted their maximum tile movement, they still seem to muster enough strength to board a ship, probably motivated by tales of unattended booty in distant lands.
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227. Never misunderestimate (sic) the power of map trading, as one can effectively prove the earth is spherical without ever launching a sailing vessel of their own. Those +1 water tile movement bonuses can often bedevil the buhJesus out of pursuing frigates whilst one is engaged in the sport of guerilla privateering.
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[Thjof]

228. Hiding in a forest will help you greatly if you're being attacked by a wild animal.

 

[civnoob13]

229. Helicopters fly really low, just so a man with a club can hit them
230. You can build stonehenge with no stone
231. You can choose what is and is not allowed to happen during a game before you are even a world leader
232. If you are halfway through a world wonder but someone else builds it, your one gets magically transferred into gold
233. Cities forget about their motherland if their leader is killed
234. Leaders still hold grudges from thousands of years ago
235. You can send a spaceship into space with one engine and one casing
236. You can't chop down forests before bronze working ... but you can move trees about when building roads.
237. Civilizations can only communicate with you in a few well known phrases

 

[CerberusAlpha]

238. And every civilization speaks English

 

[EvanMeisterX]

239. But the militaries speak in different languages.

 

[Yared]

240. And the workers.

 

[CivRulesAll]

241 Ragnar invaded Hammurabi in 1800 something B.C. and took over his capital with 18 swordsmen.