Civ 5 Playthru -How to Conquer the World by being Poor, Upset and Massively Outgunned

[lemmy101]

I love you Civ 5!

Lovely tactile production queue controls! I can just move things up and down the list, so can swap and change between two production projects as often as I like instead of all the confusing, restrictive (and sometimes disasterous) shift/alt clicking combinations that led me to delete many a nearly completed wonder over the years.

 

[lemmy101]

Exciting times! The voyage of the damned, probably.

 

[lemmy101]

Your name isn't Ghandi by any chance? No?

Bugger.

 

[lemmy101]

It slowly dawns on the captain that setting sail may not have been a sound plan after all.

 

[Gruekiller]

Ave, Caesar!

 

[sbrylski06]

Keep it coming, my favorite thread of the day so far.

 

[the_lor]

I stopped lurking and registered specifically to state that this thread has been greatly entertaining during my work day. Thank you, sir.

 

[lemmy101]

Within two turns of meeting them, Caesar asks me to go to war with Monty. Politics!

I always knew where I stood with Bismark, we were either at war or nearly at war, or just having had a war. Feeling nostalgic I go and say hello to my old friend.

Perhaps I'll give this Montezuma guy a second chance...

 

[lemmy101]

Montezuma asks me to enter a Pact of Secrecy against Caesar. Immediately afterward Caesar asks me to enter a Pact of Secrecy against Montezuma.

Man, they do like to bicker over here in Europe.

I say yes to them both. I suspect this is 'clever' somehow.

I have to say I'm not to impressed with Europe, they all seem to be militaristic nutters.... I hope whoever I meet next is a friendly, down-to-earth fellow....

 

[Dr Darkspeed]

This is very entertaining, thanks! It inspired me to wipe out Bismark in my demo game!

 

[lemmy101]

Look! There's some war happening over there! No wonder everyone here seems so grumpy.

My astute geography skills tell me that sailing into the Baltic Sea is going to get me nowhere. I should head down the coast of Africa see what's happening down there. With any luck I can meet another militaristic civ.

 

[Gruekiller]

It'd be so awesome if there were two civs warring in Australia.

 

[lemmy101]

Finally I meet Suleiman. Something about him makes me want to give him a big hug.

I can't find the hug option, so I ask him for a pact of cooperation instead.

He declines, but he sounds sad about it so I'll let him off.

 

[lemmy101]

They like their secrecy over here. I'm asked to be in a secrecy pact with Suleiman. Turns out he doesn't like Montezuma either.

I say yes. I like secrets too!

I wonder who's winning? now I've met more people I should check.

Oh.

 

[lemmy101]

...

 

[lemmy101]

It'd be so awesome if there were two civs warring in Australia.

Likely given the civs in this game... ;D

 

[Set]

whats up with the titles. Why are napoleon and suleiman pious and montezuma a consul

 

[lemmy101]

What social policy branches they picked.

 

[Gruekiller]

Dynamic titles, I suspect. Depends on the civics or whatever 2K has renamed 'em. If only they could put in dynamic civ names, too.

 

[lemmy101]

While I've been exploring the world I wasn't really paying much attention to Bismark. He's been busy back home....

Uh oh.