Dumbest Thing You Ever Did in Civ3

[Der Sensenmann]

I suppose my stupidest action was all down to my uncontrollable urge to enslave ALL unprotected workers I saw in enemy territory while exploring. I'm still only a lowly Warlord player, and had about 6 AIs, all bigger than me, on my continent and all annoyed because of my frequent tribute demands. I enslaved Dutch, then Korean workers, then declared war on England and Scandinavia after they refused my demands for cash.

Big dogpile=dead me.

Maybe I'd better be less of a maniac next time

 

[Babbler]

Another dumb thing to do: I purphased PTW when Conquests was out.

 

[Tripwire]

Used a tac-nuke on an enemy warship to see what it would do to the ship itself and some of the ships surrounding it. They retaliated of course, and even with SMD, I lost a couple cities to nuke strikes.

Runner up would be attacking France from across the ocean without enough units. I didn't stack my armor, artillery and infantry all in a single stack, thus they had a much easier time of taking me out. They also captured a TON of my artillery before I ever got to use it, and of course, turned them back around on me. And fiinally, I failed to use my massive force of bombers to cut off their rail and road access to the beaches. I painfully watched as they crushed my invasion in a single turn. (There were so many units involved this took about 10 minutes to complete.)

I've since learned from my mistakes.

 

[bob rulz]

Another thing to add.

I attacked Germany from across they ocean with marines/tanks in equal numbers (about 2 transports full of each).

Needless to say their Panzers slaughtered me.

 

[Brewster]

Simple. Used my first Great Leader to rush a Barracks (I was Japan)

 

[philippe]

i once nuked a city i thought it was the german one until i realised it was mine
Damn!

 

[Mr. Do]

Congratulations philippe, you just won the thread!

 

[dgfred]

Some of the Hall of Shame moments from my game play:

- I was trying out tactical nukes for the first time. My sub was a offshore from an AI civ I was keeping close tabs on, and I wanted to see which of his cities were in range. So I selected the nuke, and saw which cities could be hit if we needed to... but when I returned the nuke to my sub, I left clicked by mistake, leaving a nice mushroom cloud over that spot of ocean (yep folks, we just nuked our own submarine!). :knucklehead-salute:

- Once when I got a Great Leader during an AA war, I hurried him back to a nearby city to build an Army, then hit the wrong icon and rushed a nearly completed spearman

- I managed to abandon a stack of cats once when I unthinkingly moved all of the supporting units into an adjoining moutain tile. The AI got a nice windfall there...

Those are really good-ones .

 

[Jawz II]

dumbest thing ive ever done,i went for the scientific method with everything i had,got it (had a palace going with 600 shields into it or so), built the darwin thing, sling shot past everyone else got electronics,all this to build the hoover dam,then i couldnt,i figured well someone else prolly beat me to it,i was at war with india and though they were done with it

20 rounds later i check the civilopedia only to learn it has to be built in a city with river.....

felt pretty stoopid when the indians actually did build it 2 or 3 turns after that....

always have a palace going somewhere...
breaking the above rule constantly is the dumbest thing i tend to do, regularly...

 

[JackRules]

Just in my most recent game, playing as Sumaria on Regent. I'd just read in GK2 about warrior to sword mass upgrade and couldn't wait to try it. So I build a busload of Enkidu Warriors and just as I'm about to declare on the Aztecs, I hook up the iron to begin my mass upgrade, only to learn the Enkidu don't upgrade to swords! Many turns later I manage to get a Great Leader and what do I do? I don't move him to a nearby city and hit enter, so now he's sitting there being defended by one redlined sword. A very short lifespan for that leader.

 

[Greebley]

I put 30+ bombers in a newly captured city. It flipped and I lost them all leaving only the 3 or 4 bombers not in the city.