Biggest FAIL ever

ha this is a great thread. I've got to say though, most of you guys are probably much better than me, but I never had a lot of these n00bish ideas! haha
best one for me is the "its too crowded" penalty and thinking cottages reduced it! lol
but my immodesty aside, I do still tend to build a lot of buildings I don't need. Maybe towards later in the game when I think there might be a benefit, like just in case :P
but its still ok to build barracks in a couple of cities right??

There have been times when I've been wiped out by another civ :( so depressing to watch all your work eaten up. It was either before BTS came out, or I had "require complete kills" on - but when I was being destroyed I frantically got a galleon and a settler and abandoned everything to start a new life on the continent. Too bad the enemy was there too...
I used to be (and still am a bit, but not so much) a war n00b. I tried to avoid war and just be content with my 4 cities (yeah I used to let my first city grow to 5 pop before building a settler - I actually had a good starting score because I had some wonders in there. Then wondering why I fell behind so quick when everyone who wisely spent their time expanding utilising all their cities to destroy my pathetic amount!)
But I never gave tribute or help. They were like "give me meditation" and I'd me "meh you can go die". Then everyone declared war on me :(
But war is the best
 
Dragonxander PR said:
You know, you have the option to play with "No Barbarians".
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But they're part of the challenge. >_>

Rugbyleaguefan said:
once barbs appear and you think the huts are gone , only move him the 1 move and leave it . only a panther can kill you then . once you have scouted your immediate surroundings then bring him back home to spawnbust and keep him alive till borders get opened then use him to check out your neighbours territory.

problem solved

100 ordinary posts !!
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I can't not explore as much as possible. >_>

A scout has 2 move, so I must use both... I'm OCD about exploring everything I possibly can so every single plot is uncovered... this is especially important since I'm playing Huge Great Plains, so there are thousands of land squares that would take the first portion of the game to explore. So every move wasted prolongs this exploration.

It took me roughly almost the first 500 turns to explore the whole map, BTW.
 
Paper... I barely even explore, until I set out for the new worlds if applicable... I just trade for maps.
 
kochman said:
Paper... I barely even explore, until I set out for the new worlds if applicable... I just trade for maps.
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Paper's great for that, it's true. However, the more of the map you know, the more the other Civs will pay you to trade maps. If you've explored a good bit of the map and are first to paper, you pick up a lot of gold from trading maps. Then, when you find the new world, rinse and repeat.

Admittedly, eventually your scout dies. Oh well, he gave his life in a good cause. He's useless if he doesn't explore, so I see how long he'll live.
 
Ataxerxes said:
Paper's great for that, it's true. However, the more of the map you know, the more the other Civs will pay you to trade maps. If you've explored a good bit of the map and are first to paper, you pick up a lot of gold from trading maps. Then, when you find the new world, rinse and repeat.

Admittedly, eventually your scout dies. Oh well, he gave his life in a good cause. He's useless if he doesn't explore, so I see how long he'll live.
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The amount of micromanaging to do this is unbareable to me.
One trade of some tech that someone way behind didn't have is well worth it... then you have more map than anyone, and can start selling at the same rate.
 
I invaded Babylon which had lots of nice coastal cities using a big stack of carriers, fighters, destroyers, battleships, transports, marines, infantry and tanks. About 100 units total. After taking about 6 cities I decide to take the whole stack into a city to heal for a turn or two. Hammurabi at this stage is offering no resistance. Suddenly I get declared on by Boudica (surprise surprise) and she manages to destroy the entire stack in one turn. I wonder how the hell that's even possible when I realise I forgot to unload the land units into the city. I had about two marines defending the city and everything else was in transports. :blush: Lost about 60% of my power in that one turn.


Another game I was well on my way to a domination victory. Two civs dead, one capped. Lincoln was next. I had just taken one of his cities. Next turn a vote for a religious victory comes up and everyone votes for Lincoln. Game over.
Turns out the city I captured gave me my first Buddhist city which then allowed the religious victory to be enabled [pissed]
 
Revenant - those were two excellent :cool: Fails :hammer2:

In WOTM30,
Spoiler :
insert commercial for Game of the Month
about all I play single player now are games of the month
monthly BtS and Vanilla; Warlords every two months
Variety of levels, maps, AIs, settings etc
compare how you do with others
fun fun fun [pimp]
I had a lot of barbarian trouble at first and was so relieved to get my settler to the promised land safely for my second city (and distracted by my son) that I settled it one turn too soon. :wallbash:
Instead of three fish, gems, iron (unrevealed); it had one fish, gems, iron (later).
Those other two fish are now 3 tiles away and unuseable by any cities.
 
Revenant said:
I invaded Babylon which had lots of nice coastal cities using a big stack of carriers, fighters, destroyers, battleships, transports, marines, infantry and tanks. About 100 units total. After taking about 6 cities I decide to take the whole stack into a city to heal for a turn or two. Hammurabi at this stage is offering no resistance. Suddenly I get declared on by Boudica (surprise surprise) and she manages to destroy the entire stack in one turn. I wonder how the hell that's even possible when I realise I forgot to unload the land units into the city. I had about two marines defending the city and everything else was in transports. :blush: Lost about 60% of my power in that one turn.


Another game I was well on my way to a domination victory. Two civs dead, one capped. Lincoln was next. I had just taken one of his cities. Next turn a vote for a religious victory comes up and everyone votes for Lincoln. Game over.
Turns out the city I captured gave me my first Buddhist city which then allowed the religious victory to be enabled [pissed]
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I never even knew you have to unload them in order for them to be able to defend. I only found out about 2-3 weeks ago from TMIT's Ragnar let's play. I guess lucky me I never lost any units that way all those years...
 
Revenant said:
I invaded Babylon which had lots of nice coastal cities using a big stack of carriers, fighters, destroyers, battleships, transports, marines, infantry and tanks. About 100 units total. After taking about 6 cities I decide to take the whole stack into a city to heal for a turn or two. Hammurabi at this stage is offering no resistance. Suddenly I get declared on by Boudica (surprise surprise) and she manages to destroy the entire stack in one turn. I wonder how the hell that's even possible when I realise I forgot to unload the land units into the city. I had about two marines defending the city and everything else was in transports. :blush: Lost about 60% of my power in that one turn.
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I think we have a winner.
 
Don't go jumping the gun... there are way too many people here to contend for that title... most of them have their political compass proudly displayed in their signature line (not you best brian)
 
Yeah I've noticed the political compass sigs are quite prolific. I probably should care more about politics in general but I'd just end up angry at the ridiculousness of it all.

As they say ignorance is bliss.
 
When my New World Outpost on the Earth map(not Earth 18Civs) was attacked by 25+ Riflemen and Grenadiers and killed my three Machine Guns defending the area.
 
kochman said:
Don't go jumping the gun... there are way too many people here to contend for that title... most of them have their political compass proudly displayed in their signature line (not you best brian)
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I resemble that remark! :lol:
 
Revenant said:
Yeah I've noticed the political compass sigs are quite prolific. I probably should care more about politics in general but I'd just end up angry at the ridiculousness of it all.

As they say ignorance is bliss.
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Yes!!!
I concurrently nominate you for wisest member of the board.
 
Chariot rushed Babylon as Egypt. This helpfully left my capitol undefended for Cyprus to chariot rush me. :(
 
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