Bad starts

[unscratchedfoot]

How's this for the worst start possible? I plant my first city as-per-usual as the romans. I build one warrior who goes out to explore and then build a settler. The settler is produced after the usual lapse of time and meanwhile my warrior has explored a vast area.
The second settler plants and starts to build a spearman. My home city produces a second settler and he heads to a fabulous area rich in silks, a river and hills.

So far okay but the problem is I've been manually moving my warrior and carefully avoiding the deadly "goody huts" you know that are always full of nasties. One insidious hut is located 2 squares from my second city. When the city's culture takes it in it will surely give a good result.

Now as my second settler is wandering past the hut suddenly a reckless american explorer comes hurtling down from the hills straight through the hut. Bad guys explode from the hut!! My settler drops so fast I didn't even see the barbarian attack (mayber super ki power or something). The barbs, full of lust, rampage into my undefended city. My fledging city is sacked, pillaged and all are put to the sword in an orgy of killing and mayhem.

Any worse starts?

 

[BCLG100]

yeah

being stuck on an ice continent where your city can only grow to size 2 and with continuous barb attacks

 

[punkbass2000]

Originally posted by unscratchedfoot
How's this for the worst start possible? I plant my first city as-per-usual as the romans. I build one warrior who goes out to explore and then build a settler. The settler is produced after the usual lapse of time and meanwhile my warrior has explored a vast area.
The second settler plants and starts to build a spearman. My home city produces a second settler and he heads to a fabulous area rich in silks, a river and hills.

So far okay but the problem is I've been manually moving my warrior and carefully avoiding the deadly "goody huts" you know that are always full of nasties. One insidious hut is located 2 squares from my second city. When the city's culture takes it in it will surely give a good result.

Now as my second settler is wandering past the hut suddenly a reckless american explorer comes hurtling down from the hills straight through the hut. Bad guys explode from the hut!! My settler drops so fast I didn't even see the barbarian attack (mayber super ki power or something). The barbs, full of lust, rampage into my undefended city. My fledging city is sacked, pillaged and all are put to the sword in an orgy of killing and mayhem.

Any worse starts?

Unless you were playing without CSA, then this makes no sense. An American unit should never get barbarians from a hut.

 

[unscratchedfoot]

I just described what happened. That's all.

 

[Maple]

What if you start in a mountain range that is 20 squares wide and 15 high? And you start RIGHT in the middle?

 

[b00zy]

what about a 1 square island about 20 squares away from the first other piece of land?

 

[unscratchedfoot]

yeah, and the 1 square island is a mountain with a barbarian hut on it

 

[ainwood]

I think the intent was for people to past trhe worst starts they have actually had

 

[JoeM]

I thought I'd try a Deity game on a small map to prepare me for the GOTMVII and got seven Civs on the same small island (!!!) with me in the desert. Didn't last long as you can imagine.

Luckily the GOTM wasn't nearly so cruel....so far.

 

[Jason Fox]

Three squares of grassland surrounded by mountains, at least two squares worth in every direction. Horrible. What was worse is the good land outside the mountains was rapidly being taken by two other civs, leaving me mostly jungle. By the time I had four cities (and connecting them was no picnic either) I was already hopelessly behind and started again.

 

[unscratchedfoot]

Originally posted by JoeM
I thought I'd try a Deity game on a small map to prepare me for the GOTMVII and got seven Civs on the same small island (!!!) with me in the desert. Didn't last long as you can imagine.

Luckily the GOTM wasn't nearly so cruel....so far.

What's it like playing in the Gotm? Is that a multi-player game or something? Is it short for "I got 'em."?

 

[Sullla]

GOTM stands for "game of the month", a competition that this website runs every month. Go to the main page of the CivFanatics website and click on the Game of the Month button on the right side to see what it's all about.

 

[b00zy]

I was in belgium once!!! That's about the wordt scenario you can get, what a nightmare

 

[God]

I was stuck on a hill surrounded by tundra. There was grassland a bit further south but not in my capital's squares.

 

[The Last Conformist]

My Japanese once found themselves starting on a penisula near the south pole. It was nowhere more than three tiles wide, devoid of grassland (my capital was on a hill with no open terrain bar the sea within the city radius), and when I finally reached the mainland (near the equator) it was populated by extremely militant Indians.

Another pretty bad one began in a perfect city radius-sized patch of grassland and forrest . The catch was that all other terrain within some twenty tiles was jungle and water. Just outside the jungle lay Berlin and Salamanca ...