Biggest FAIL ever

[johnfalcon99977]

it was released yesterday in North America for PC. It hasn't even been released yet for some other countries.

O.o I thought i read this game calander in which it said that Civ5 comes out on the day reach came out (Which was last week)

 

[G-Max]

Not quite the worst fail that I've ever had, but...

I'm 2 turns away from discovering Code of Laws, and I get the message "Confucianism has been founded in a distant land"

 

[HorribleHarald]

Once I was Cathy and I was going to have Space Victory in 10 turns but then I press wrong button in Secretary General Vote. It was really stupid mistake.

 

[The7Sins]

Being nuked to the point of being helpless to defend my cities by Gandhi.

 

[Robbos]

Im new so dont have much experience to call up from but in the last game i was attacking Hyun cyap (or whatever lol!) as he had United Nations and was storming the voting. Luckily his territory was reasonably small and the city in which the UN was built was in striking distance of 2 friendly civs' border.

I proceeded to manouver a large force of tanks/infantry into position (behind in tech so minimal artillery) and then housed virtually every air unit i had in 2 adjacent friendly cities (with no land units). Considerably more units than i had on the ground.

After 2 turns of bombardment had kept unit health in that and 3 other closeby cities at 50% to subdue counter attack and destroyed city defences i finally got my land force into position to strike only for the next turn I noticed my gold deficit had suddenly decreased by over 175 gold and and then i noticed why.... it just hurts too much to type it !!! LMAO

Still killed UN tho, but was planning on levelling most his cities and then moving onto Hatchesput who was getting close to winning the space race. Grrr. All is not lost tho. I just refuse to return to an earlier saving or I wont learn from my mis....t....a... sigh. cant bring myself to say it

 

[Bucephalus]

I think I'm about to have my greatest fail.

I was cruising for a space win, now I've just got the message that Delhi has legendary culture. Closer examination reveals Ghandi will have the other two cities required in just twelve turns. Attacking him is complicated because he's vassaled to the #1 power in the game. I've got just 11 turns to come up with a game-saving strategy.

 

[kensington888]

thinking i didnt need cannons when my rifleman were attacking cities defended by longbowmen.

 

[jgroth1978]

My epic fail is starting a game of Civ4.

 

[totalepicness]

I was playing on a huge terra map, as Arabia. I decided to declare on sury, because he was just plain annoying me. So i created a stack of doom with 22 longbowmen i had lying around, 5 catapults, 4 trebuchets, and 7 crossbowmen i moved towards the blue borders and tried to attack with my siege on Angor Thom, but it my cat just moved into the city. then i realized that this was the city lincoln had captured during the khmer/american war, and that both civs had blue borders! so i had left my cities undefended and lost Mecca, Jeddah, and Dammam.

I quickly turned my stack around and took them back while sending other stacks to capture Angor Wat and the other cities whose name i can't pronounce.

 

[civverguy]

I was thinking that I built 2 caravels to explore the world only realize that the harbor cities were actually next to large lakes.

 

[SouthernKing]

Finding out that my "awesome" starting spot was an island about 16-20 tiles big...dont ask me what map it was, i forget.

 

[Bushface]

Pre-ordering Civ 5. Definitely my greatest fail ever in many years of strategy gaming.

 

[Pojman]

Pre-ordering Civ 5. Definitely my greatest fail ever in many years of strategy gaming.

lol! This is the MOST epic fail of this entire thread. This also happened to me..

 

[GreatLordofPie]

Having a warrior fortified in a forest being defeated by a wolf

 

[Yoshiegg737]

Having a warrior fortified in a forest being defeated by a wolf

How about having an archer fortified in a forest and killed by a bear? Yeah, I don't know how that happened either

 

[GreatLordofPie]

How about having an archer fortified in a forest and killed by a bear? Yeah, I don't know how that happened either

I've also had a trireme be defeated by a half-strength barb galley

 

[Lemon Merchant]

lol! This is the MOST epic fail of this entire thread. This also happened to me..

And to me. Thankfully, the uninstall wasn't an epic fail.

 

[feces42]

Along the line of probability fails:
Losing a 97% and a >99.9% in the same stack attack.

 

[huh?]

I have a new one:

discovering that big sea you settled near is really a lake....IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CONTINENT

Sweet spot. Look it is on a coast tile (yes, I checked for fresh water). Settle. The scout continues around. Evefn better, it is looking like a harbor with a choke point. Double Sweet. Oh...wait...my scout can navigate all the way around it.

The body of water broke the fresh water "lake" barrier by about 3 tiles.

 

[nfw]

I was just invading Carthage, and thought I was being clever by stationing my entire navy, including 8 carriers in a Greek city as Hannibal and Alexander were worst enemies and had no open border agreement.

But lo and behold, apparently the act of invasion made me Hannibal's new worst enemy, who would have thought. They promptly opened border and my SoD was taken out by a rifleman.