So I was playing Hatshepsut (spiritual, creative) of Egypt...
Started out stranded on my own continent. Did ok, had some nice resources and found my own religion, wasn't too much behind when I finally found the other civs. After that I successfully repelled a couple of attacks, expanded on another, smaller continent, and managed to keep good relations with everyone. My long term strategy was to win a space race victory.
Ok then. One of the AI's (Pacal II) was going for cultural victory. As their cities close on the legendary culture state, I had to make calculations on when to strike them in order to stay in the game. I realized, I didn't have all that much time to prepare myself... So I deviced a plan for an "intervention".
I had already done a lot of preparing, when Pacal finishes the UN just before me. But few turns later I got voted to be the secretary-general anyway.
Eventually I had massed a superior navy including 2 subs full of tactical nukes, cramped up 8 transports of troops for a "shock and awe" attack, in which I would have invaded their capital (and that annoying small island just northeast to my continent) both in 1 turn (or in 2 turns after the boats launch from their home bases).
And then I suddenly won a diplomatic victory literally 2 turns before I was to start the mayhem.
I had been preparing so carefully for so long, and then... nothing. Well, not nothing... I won, but still. Saved the game after the win for horsehockeys and giggles.
Settings: Monarch, Small / Fractal, 6 civs, Normal speed (ignore the city names, it's just my neurotic way of keeping track of specialization of my cities)
Started out stranded on my own continent. Did ok, had some nice resources and found my own religion, wasn't too much behind when I finally found the other civs. After that I successfully repelled a couple of attacks, expanded on another, smaller continent, and managed to keep good relations with everyone. My long term strategy was to win a space race victory.
Ok then. One of the AI's (Pacal II) was going for cultural victory. As their cities close on the legendary culture state, I had to make calculations on when to strike them in order to stay in the game. I realized, I didn't have all that much time to prepare myself... So I deviced a plan for an "intervention".
I had already done a lot of preparing, when Pacal finishes the UN just before me. But few turns later I got voted to be the secretary-general anyway.
Eventually I had massed a superior navy including 2 subs full of tactical nukes, cramped up 8 transports of troops for a "shock and awe" attack, in which I would have invaded their capital (and that annoying small island just northeast to my continent) both in 1 turn (or in 2 turns after the boats launch from their home bases).
And then I suddenly won a diplomatic victory literally 2 turns before I was to start the mayhem.
I had been preparing so carefully for so long, and then... nothing. Well, not nothing... I won, but still. Saved the game after the win for horsehockeys and giggles.
Settings: Monarch, Small / Fractal, 6 civs, Normal speed (ignore the city names, it's just my neurotic way of keeping track of specialization of my cities)
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