Earth 18 civs map. I played as America, wiped Monty out early and spread across the western hemisphere at the speed of fast. I then spent the next several centuries, till the modern age, colonizing Australia, south Africa, and bulking up my economy.
I then decided that France, who had taken out Spain, Germany, and Rome was getting a little too big for my tastes. England was good enough to give me their island and I prepared for my own version of Normandy. Several Tactical Nukes later Paris is unguarded and I'm ready to walk in. All was going well generally.
And then came the epic fail, my 55+ unit stack storms ashore and the tiny, little, totally unimportant detail that SDI only stops nukes in my territory leads to well... no more unit stack in one turn.
. I send some swords up to capture Acre. I capture a few more cities and then I have about 5 cities up there compared to 3 down in my core area 
Then it all falls apart. I try to attack Damascus and lose about 5-6 of my best units. Antioch spawns and flips some of my cities. Aswan, north of my capital, decides to revolt. Jerusalem decides to leave my empire. I lose 2 swords taking it back. The KoJ spawns and flips Jerusalem and Acre. I bail on my dying empire and become Jerusalem.
)
When I checked the autosaves in WB later it turned out she'd just teched IW the turn before, and had iron under one roaded mine in Madrid's BFC! 
If it wasn't for the forest (reminds me of the Ents from LoTR 
) I would almost surely have captured it ... before that incident I loved chopping; now I love it even more 
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