docbud
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Where no matter what you do, you just don't catch a break??
I just rage quit a game, and let me tell you--I was enraged.
Playing as Venice, Pangea, Prince level. Had a pretty decent start. On the coast next to mountains, lots of crab and fish, and marble. Sweet start.
I sent out my scout and warrior to check out ruins, and the ruins sucked. Most of them showed me barb encampments. Not a single thing worth while. And I found about a half dozen ruins.
My warrior finds a barb camp, and there are three units. Two attack. My scout finds one the same turn, and same thing--except just two attack. I spend several turns having my units run away, but when they run, they run into another barb unit. Both scout and warrior were surrounded.
Rather than give the AI the satisfaction of killing my units, I deleted them!
So now I am defenseless but I've got my city and I rush buy an archer, and have my worker. I have a good city defense with the mountains and a choke point, so I figure I'm safe for a while. Have my worker mine the marble and work my sheep.
Suddenly three barbs show up and invade. Pillage everything, and then kill my archer.
I rage quit at that point.
I don't know what happened. I only play at prince level, and I have a pretty good understanding of the game. But I don't know how this happened. It seems the barbs are relentless.
Usually I can deal with them, but I've never had a game go like this. And as a note: This all happened by turn 52 on standard speed.
Anyway--I'm just curious as to if anyone else has been in a situation where you just can't win? That the deck is stacked against you for some reason? That the Civ Gods have preordained your fate?
I just rage quit a game, and let me tell you--I was enraged.
Playing as Venice, Pangea, Prince level. Had a pretty decent start. On the coast next to mountains, lots of crab and fish, and marble. Sweet start.
I sent out my scout and warrior to check out ruins, and the ruins sucked. Most of them showed me barb encampments. Not a single thing worth while. And I found about a half dozen ruins.
My warrior finds a barb camp, and there are three units. Two attack. My scout finds one the same turn, and same thing--except just two attack. I spend several turns having my units run away, but when they run, they run into another barb unit. Both scout and warrior were surrounded.
Rather than give the AI the satisfaction of killing my units, I deleted them!
So now I am defenseless but I've got my city and I rush buy an archer, and have my worker. I have a good city defense with the mountains and a choke point, so I figure I'm safe for a while. Have my worker mine the marble and work my sheep.
Suddenly three barbs show up and invade. Pillage everything, and then kill my archer.
I rage quit at that point.
I don't know what happened. I only play at prince level, and I have a pretty good understanding of the game. But I don't know how this happened. It seems the barbs are relentless.
Usually I can deal with them, but I've never had a game go like this. And as a note: This all happened by turn 52 on standard speed.
Anyway--I'm just curious as to if anyone else has been in a situation where you just can't win? That the deck is stacked against you for some reason? That the Civ Gods have preordained your fate?