Dumbest Move Ever

[budweiser]

I was just playing Willem on a standard Emperor isolated start. It's 1898 and I am two turns away from city three going legendary. A UN vote comes up and since I am half asleep I asume it is for the secretary. Nope it was for Kublai Khan to win a diplomatic victory and I voted for him!

Doh! Reload.

 

[DMOC]

My dumbest move:

I attempt to sign a defensive pact and instead declare war on #1-in-score Shaka.

 

[budweiser]

My dumbest move:

I attempt to sign a defensive pact and instead declare war on #1-in-score Shaka.

Zulus?

10 char.

 

[wioneo]

"10 car"... pileup? You should pay more attention while driving, you know, and never play civ while behind the wheel.

 

[Crusher1]

I would vote people who lack fundamental game mechanics making an attempt to correct someone with superior game knowledge. Kinda like the blind trying to lead the blind. But it's good entertainment nonetheless.

 

[peppe1]

Not sure what my worst is, but for today I was doing everything right in a game... got some good SE wonders, got some good cities. Cut off some good land. Back filled some cities and tech. No one loves me and no one hates me and i am pretty happy with my land and city mix, so I focused on teching.

B-lined toward liberalism and stopped at it. No one had education yet, so I got the pre-reqs for steel and starting building musket men and trebs, and stocking up some cash. I start researching liberalism, and move my stack to the border of a long bow wielding civ. Finish Lib, take steel and go to upgrade to my cannons....

Spoiler :

what, they need iron?

Check the map for Iron and another civ has it in a border city with me. So i will move the stack over to that side of my empire and try to make it happen. Checked the rest of the continent and there are only 1-2 more sources, so lucky one is close at all.

 

[Lord Chambers]

Request that this thread be moved into Strategy & Tips.

 

[obsolete]

Here's one I've seen from the AI.

YOU are the only one who has uranium. So YOU are the one who builds the Manhattan project. Same turn the project is complete, YOU hold a UN vote asking for everyone to band nukes.

huh?????

And then somehow.. YOU misclick and also vote to ban....

 

[wioneo]

Here's one I've seen from the AI.

YOU are the only one who has uranium. So YOU are the one who builds the Manhattan project. Same turn the project is complete, YOU hold a UN vote asking for everyone to band nukes.

huh?????

And then somehow.. YOU misclick and also vote to ban....

The AI obviously saw the horrors which occured during the tests and sought to spare the world from the terrible effects. Quite touching, really.

 

[Kwibuss]

(huge map)
Being far ahead techwise and nearing a culture win I decided to built the UN... That while Tokugawa had 8 vassals and no other civ was near Mass Media. I figured that if I built it that I would have control over it... right.
Ofcourse Toku won the election for secretary, but luckily for me he missed a diplo win by 15 votes....

Interesting that Tokus first vote was to stop his war with Peter who was the 2nd largest civ and was getting steamrolled by Toku. WTH toku? You are about to vassal Peter and then you vote to stop the war... right....
What's even more funny is that Peter voted no while he was getting smacked around. Lucky for Toku 2 of his vassals defied the vote.

 

[obsolete]

I would vote people who lack fundamental game mechanics making an attempt to correct someone with superior game knowledge.

Well I have NEVER seen this on civfanatics before. Most probably because EVERYONE already does have superior game knowledge.

 

[Dhaulagiri]

My dumbest move from a long list is upgrading city raiders to machine guns in an early game. Couldnt figure out why they couldnt attack anymore.

 

[Meatbuster]

I remember an incident from when I started playing Civ years ago. I built the Pyramids and switched to Universal Suffrage... yeah, I thought "+2 from towns" affected even those cottages.

More recently, I was deleting obsolete units to decrease my upkeep. Some time later, Kublai Khan declared war on me and showed up with a large stack of outdated units. The only unit standing in their way at the border city was a lone infantry. If only I had kept that archer and warrior, I could've upgraded them (I think I sold techs turns before) and delayed Khan's advance.

 

[DMOC]

Zulus?

10 char.

Who else.


By the way, if you don't want to bother with the 10 character rule, just type in:

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And wrap image tags around it. This gives the illusion of having less than 10 chararcters.

 

[oyzar]

I once kept a loaded galleon in port with freshly upgraded infantery instead of unloading them after upgrading, lost the city the next turn...

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Something that happens to me quite often: I have enemy at my borders next to my workers but there is so much idiotic diplomacy screens and other things to pay attention to that I actually forget all about it and just click for next turn....
I mean I love diplomacy but honestly most of it in this game is pretty ********, plus I love that somebody still remembers that I have declared war on him like 2.5 milleniums ago or his friend who is now his worst enemy...

 

[JTMacc99]

Back in the day, I axe rushed Egypt and failed to bring any spears. Poor bastard axemen, never had a chance.

 

[Killroyan]

I let Monty live to long in one game and didn't check his power score. I thought that I was so technically advanced to him, what could possibly happen if I attack. So I bring my stack of 20 inf/15 canons only to see it obliterated by 50 cavalry or so. In the following few turns I lost about 4 cities. Hate monty since that day.

 

[ORION11380]

How this: after taking over a hotly contested city, I move my huge stack of near-death art and mod armour into the newly conqured city, to be defended and healed by the stack of mech inf with medic.

Then, to take out a nearby art to reduce the col damage from the impending counterattack, I forget to ungroup the 1 intended attacker, and my entire ATTACKING stack (without the defending mech inf, who used up all their movement) into the open, chasing after that 1 single art. Bye bye stack.

 

[Nyarlathothep]

My dumbest moves are really the ones I should do but for some reason do not do or forget to do. Like not rush wonders I prioritized and then losing them to some distant faraway AI.

Thankfully, the AI is really forgiving. I often sleepily ignore big AI stacks in front of a city with two outdated defenders.
Then, they only start bombarding for turns to come so I still have time to move plenty of defenders in or I can even kill them off with some siege...

Or the moment you accept Mansa Musa's beg for your eternal protection and just the turn after, his second city turns Legendary and you just know you did something wrong.

I sometimes got the feeling I play with a blindfold on my eyes.