Dumbest Thing You Ever Did in Civ3

[Lennon]

Eh- this is kind of embarassing, but what the hey.

I was playing as China, had established a large empire, and had 3 cities on a border with Greece. They sent a SOD of longbows (13) towards the border town of Canton, even though he was Polite w/ me. Not wanting to be destroyed, I quickly sent a task force of 7 pikeman to reinforce Canton. But due to an overeager use of the Go To button, my pikes ended up IN THE WRONG CITY! Canton was taken while my pikeman milled around Teintsin and fumed. I then sent dozens of swords to capture it back, but stupidly I forgot that the Greeks have Hoplites, which they can mass produce MUCH faster than my swords. Needless to say, they were infuriated and destroyed me.

That's why we have autosaves. Loading to correct that kind of thing isn't cheating in my opinion. You don't mistakenly send an army to the wrong city in a 5 years long turn, so I usually load and do it right...

 

[nameless53]

i also make those mistakes.. but i let it be and say its a "miscommunication" or something.. like storms.. just lost ect...


let history take its course...


i know... wierd...

 

[scoutsout]

This is great stuff!

Some of the mistakes I've made, from rank newbie to fairly recently.

Problems figuring out how to load an army: Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.

Revolting in a GA: Sold that T-shirt at a yard sale.

Let's see... here are some a good ones, and I did these in Sucession Games for all to see (screenies and everything):

Bugs1: I made a really nice tech trade with France, emptying Joanie's treasury. I was getting ready to start building spaceship parts when a single French Cavalry emerged from the fog and sacked an undefended city. (We had a RoP with France.) I think there were about 8 Mech infantry in the next town, and a mech infantry fortified on an airfield right next to the town that got sacked...

RoP+railroads+undefended cities=fewer cities than you had last turn.

SGOTM2 (as a team leader) handed off a game with the capitol in full riot.

EOC2: Went on a Sipahi Rampage that was so nasty I lost track of where the Carthaginian capitol had jumped off too.

Of all the mistakes listed here, I didn't make Turner's. I got the game as a gift.

 

[ForTheEmpire]

Let's see if my moronic moments can rank up here.

1) Long time ago, captured a city that contained pyramids, sun tzu's, and copernicus's, but I hit the "We don't want the city, raze it" button because I thought that the wonders' abilities, not just the culture were negated when they changed hands, so I didn't want to deal with a flippable city!

2) Attacking hoplites with my spearmen

3) Revolting in a GA [dance]

4) Cavalry vs. fully-healed, fortified-in-city-built-on-hill infanty is a big that I only found out after I lost 12 straight cavsto the SAME infantry unit.

5) Spy failures on the most powerful nation which lead to a 10 civ dogpile on me the next turn

 

[SesnOfWthr]

Stupid things, eh? How about:

Hitting "will you accept this gift" instead of "what will you offer for this" (did this in an SG recently)

Stacking a bunch of units in a city that, looking back, was guaranteed to flip....

Of course the unloaded army....

Trading a tech for gpt, then declaring war....

 

[Gumby78]

Pillaged newly completed road/irrigation/mine with the unit guarding the worker stack.
Clicking “lump sum” instead of “per turn”

 

[viper275]

I just thought of it. One of my first games ever, I was Germany and was at war with America. I was eager to try out a couple nukes, it sounded like fun. so I have a HUGE stack of Panzers at Atlanta. They were right next to the city and I decided I'd nuke the city to get rid of defenses so I could just capture it then use the Panzers on other cities. So I got out a *cough* *cough* expensive ICBM and nuked Atlanta. Sure, Atlanta's defenses were gone, but so were my Panzers!

 

[SwitchbladeNGC]

I was in Despotism and revolted (wanted Monarchy), after the 5 or so turns of Anarchy it asked which Gov I wanted and I, without thinking, clicked on Despotism.

 

[Paradigne]

I was loading units into my transports, including all my oboslete units that I didn't have the cash to upgrade, and realized (to late) that there was an empty army in my port city. So I ended up with an army of 2 spearmen and a longbow going against mech inf... <sigh>

 

[Sir Bugsy]

In my second game (didn't finish the first game because I couldn't figure out how to get off the large island I owned by myself), I got a leader and tried to rush an FP by pushing the hurry button in the city screen. Never figured out how to use the buttons that actually make the leader do things, until I joined CFC and asked. So I had an unused leader for the rest of the game.

In the Fall of Rome Abbasids SG (RBC12H) I didn't recognize an impending Byzantine attack and the team had to scramble for about ten turns to recover.

 

[ManOfMiracles]

3) Revolting in a GA [dance]

I just did that last week and I should know better by now...

Really stupid thing was to accidentally declare war when negotiating a tech trade. I thought I could arrow through the choices...

 

[Turner]

Of all the mistakes listed here, I didn't make Turner's. I got the game as a gift.

Well, technically, VC3 was a gift. I had a gift certificate for Microcenter, and that's one of the things I bought. But I soon lost the disc (actually, I think I still have it, it just has a wicked crack in it) and was, um, unable to play for a while. Then PTW came out, and I bought that. Saw VC3 cheap, bought it again. And bought C3C when it was on sale at Amazon. So all told I've spent about $100 on the games, not counting the g/c.

A common one, like Grille, was clearing the jungle before building the city.

 

[BigNHuge]

I have you all beat.

This was my first Monarch game. It was Elimination and had just 2 enemies left.

I was at war with Russia and we were going nowhere. I decided i would give to get out and rebuild. I gave them Banking and the city of XinJian. To my surprise, I was instantly defeated and couldnt get back. I was feeling extremly

 

[rainmaker]

tried to sink a loaded enemy transport by stayihy next to it and using "bombard". Used three battleships. Couldn't underatand why I couldn't sink it. Kept missing.

 

[Mr. Do]

Here's something dumb I just did: moveed two pieces of artillrey into my enemy's border, with the intention of moving my cavalry up to protect them, but I forgot to move them. The excellent thing is the AI didn't choose to take them off me!

 

[Okatu Nineteen]

I recall playing a few months back and setting up my third town near two "goodie huts" like a fool i'd forgotten i'd set the barbarian level high, of course, I realized once I had 6 barbarian warriors threatening my new city! Dohhh!

 

[Randy]

I played COTM 03 (Demogod level). I got my butt handed to me. I would normal play one level down. I was not ready for the step up.

 

[ForTheEmpire]

@Okatu Nineteen
Welcome to CFC!
[dance] [dance]

 

[Sir Bugsy]

I played COTM 03 (Demogod level). I got my butt handed to me. I would normal play one level down. I was not ready for the step up.

I don't think that's dumb at all. You challenged yourself and probably learned a lot. I got my head handed to me in GotM 24, but I learned a lot, and studied how others played it. Everyone's final saves will be available when they post the results. Download the saves of the top players and run them through Dianthus' replay utility and compare them to your game. You'll learn a lot... promise.

 

[scoutsout]

@Randy: I agree with Bugsy there. Not dumb. Audacious, yes...dumb, no.

...and the day will come when your audacity will be rewarded in civ play.

on!