Biggest FAIL ever

^^^^^ that's epic!
this isn't a great fail, but its my biggest for a while and I feel the need to share it :p
Was portugal on a continents map. Declared on hannibal and took a good few cities, paused the war for a few turns to recoup and take the rest - he vassals to monty (who was pleased with me before, but now annoyed because we're at war. Then zara joins in (so my entire continent is at war with me). Eventually monty and hannibal leave me alone, had to give them a city though... Monty is pleased again, so with a tech I bribe him and hannibal to war with zara - take back some cities!
Monty makes peace after a while, and within 10 turns, zara bribed him to war with me again, and had a ridiculous stack of a million knights amongst loads of elephants, siege and more. Wiped me off the map :(
 
Two subs loaded full of nukes went away into the Bermuda Triangle. I'd never seen that "event" before \:(
On huge, marathon, that represented a lot of time and resources.
 
Being defeated by the barbs in ~2600 BC when playing with Mali :lol::blush:

In my defense, it was my second Deity Raging barbs game, and I did lose 3 battles with 90% odds in 2 turns, but still :crazyeye:.
 
Playing my first Deity game, and cruising right along thinking "what's so bad about this?", when Rameses shows up on the doorstep of my main chokepoint city with a GIFRICKINNORMOUS stack of WCs, Spears, Swords, Lions, Tigers, Bears, oh my. He gets past this city, and there is NOTHING in my heartland to stop him. Good news is I have pretty much my entire army in it. Bad news is that my entire army just took the darn thing from Sitting Bull, and is just a raggety grab bag of damaged surviviors and depleted siege (Note: when Bull is blockaded/surrounded, he just spams Archers. There must have been about 40 PRO archers in that darn city). I can't even whip walls, because the city is still in revolt. It's looking grim. Very grim.

Then I have the BEST RNG luck I've ever had in my entire life. He keeps attacking, I keep slaughtering. End result is that I ride the whole thing out with nary a single loss. :eek: This is the game right here. All I have to do is hold this city for the game, and I'm in the clear.

Then my computer froze. The last autosave was from before the attack. I play with new random seed on reload; needless to say I never got that lucky with the RNG again. EVER. The best I could manage was a frackin' war of attrition where I ended up holding out with just a handful of bloodied survivors.

Then came Willem over the hill. :mad:

Not quite as epic as losing my entire intercontinental invasion fleet to the Bermuda Frackin' Triangle, but close enough.
 
Its like a cosmic incident - having insane luck on the RNG, Gods RNG made your computer freeze to balance :p
 
Biggest fail ever! I have been playing civ since 1993, and have logged more hours playing civ4 than most commercial pilots have in a plane when they retire.
One of the most anyoing things about Civ 4 was, that when contacted by a civ asking a favour (declare war, trade, give, open borders etc), I wouldn't know status of the AI or the AI they were asking about. This bugged me ALOT.

Spoiler :

And all the time I could just have hit F4!!!


FAIL!
 
I had built a nice medieval stack to crush the celts who had sneak attacked me a few centuries before. Next thing I know our friend ragnar enters the picture with his stack of 50+ units and it takes my whole stack and defenders to whittle it down.

Then another stack emerges with 60+ grenadiers/ musketmen and I beg for peace and give them the city they want. So he goes after the celts and forces capitulation in 10 turns. Then he declares war again this time with a vassal and well...fail.
 
In one of my first games (noble difficulty) I had succeeded in getting a huge tech advantage over Napoleon. I decided to send in an army of tanks, complete with machine guns and tons of air support, into the French heartland to cause general mayhem. All I'm up against is a group of riflemen and a handful of grenadiers.

The tanks were completely destroyed. The gunship support was shot out of the sky. Half of the invasion force was overrun in 1 turn. Frenchies....
 
Last game I saw the message that Zara had changed to free Religion. I was shocked that liberalism was already gone and gave up on the race on it.

100s of turns later, I saw the message that Frederick had just won that race. :(

I could have easily got that.
 
I had set the victory condition to Space Race, researched Rocketry but couldn't build the Apollo Program. I checked the victory conditions and found I hadn't changed it from Domination from the game before. I now had to build an army, navy and air force and take over the world. Um, no.
 
i had the best start of any game i've ever had. i had 100 beakers going at an insane bc level(somewhere between 2200 and 1500). i had most of my units fogbusting and two axeman left in my capital. a lone archer comes from the only zone not fogbusting. my 1st axeman goes out to get him before he destroys improvement and i lose 95 percent plus odds. 2nd axeman kills him easy and heals. i should have built more units in capitol but was building and felt confident that i could bring fogbusters back if needed. 2nd archer comes through and my healed promoted axeman meets him on the open field w/ 99 percent plus to win. i should have brought extra units back but i figured what are the odds i lose the same bad beat twice. of course 99 percent lose later, my capital on the greatest start ever is being razed by an archer w/ no hit points left.
 
Dying of eager anticipation waiting for Civ (that shall not be mentioned) Then getting it and finding it WONT run on my old computer. Then spend 800 BIG ONES on a new tower and fire up the Civ (that shall not be mentioned) and following great disbelief and bouts of sobbing attempt to put Civ 4 on new tower and the game wont run (Windows 7). SO I dig out my old computer and put it in the other room so I can get my Civ fix and my new computer sits in the other room gathering DUST!!!!
 
sventhebold said:
Dying of eager anticipation waiting for Civ (that shall not be mentioned) Then getting it and finding it WONT run on my old computer. Then spend 800 BIG ONES on a new tower and fire up the Civ (that shall not be mentioned) and following great disbelief and bouts of sobbing attempt to put Civ 4 on new tower and the game wont run (Windows 7). SO I dig out my old computer and put it in the other room so I can get my Civ fix and my new computer sits in the other room gathering DUST!!!!
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Ow! It hurts just reading that.
 
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