Boom22
I kill VIRTUAL Spanish!
Has anyone had a war that doesn't seem to end?
Endless war
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Boom22
I kill VIRTUAL Spanish!
An extremly long war
Silence101
King
That happens to me every game. I'm such a warmonger.
Evil Twin
Demented Sociopath
I had a particularily drawn out war against Zara Yaqob. Granted, it didn't help matters that he was on the other side of the world and I razed every city I captured (which led to the sneaky little urchin spamming settlers past my troops).
In the end I had to make peace due to massive war weariness (damn population. I miss nerve-stapling). Still, alls well that ends well, eventually I gave Zara a generous present.. ICBMs on every inch of his land! Hahahahaha.. burn!
In the end I had to make peace due to massive war weariness (damn population. I miss nerve-stapling). Still, alls well that ends well, eventually I gave Zara a generous present.. ICBMs on every inch of his land! Hahahahaha.. burn!
I had a game of Civ III long ago where I was in virtually endless war. I was playing the English and was placed in the south central part of a large continent. The part I was in was sizable, to the south was narrow and east was mountains and a fair amount of land beyond that, and to the northwest was a huge area. I ended up being "bottled up" in my area after only being able to settle six or seven cities.
I was technologically advanced but the lack of cities and resources was hurting me. I started a war with the French to the south to secure saltpeter for musketmen. It was a short and effective war. In short time, however, I ended up at war with the Mongols, which was a tough fight. Then my allies, the Indians (we were almost at max relations) declared war on me for no reason (phony war, we were too far apart to do much fighting). Then the Russians invaded with two Stacks of Doom of obsolete units. Then the Romans jumped in, and the Arabs started a naval war with me. Then the Germans on my eastern border jumped in.
All told, by the end of the game, I had gone to war with every single Civ on my continent at least once, and at one point was at war with four of them. Plus out of the total 14 civs in that game, due to alliances I was at war with ten of them at one point. Talk about a Civ version of World War I... I never had more than 10 turns of peace.
I was technologically advanced but the lack of cities and resources was hurting me. I started a war with the French to the south to secure saltpeter for musketmen. It was a short and effective war. In short time, however, I ended up at war with the Mongols, which was a tough fight. Then my allies, the Indians (we were almost at max relations) declared war on me for no reason (phony war, we were too far apart to do much fighting). Then the Russians invaded with two Stacks of Doom of obsolete units. Then the Romans jumped in, and the Arabs started a naval war with me. Then the Germans on my eastern border jumped in.
All told, by the end of the game, I had gone to war with every single Civ on my continent at least once, and at one point was at war with four of them. Plus out of the total 14 civs in that game, due to alliances I was at war with ten of them at one point. Talk about a Civ version of World War I... I never had more than 10 turns of peace.
Daiyoukai Ramza
Chieftain
Somewhat off-topic, but when I saw the topic title... a modified version of "The Song that Never Ends" came to mind.
This is the war that never ends,
Yes, it goes on and on my friends.
Some people started fighting it, not knowing what it was,
And they'll continue fighting it forever just because---
More on-topic... I've never really had a war that dragged on and on. Usually, by the time I've achieved my goal for a war, I can sue for peace. I've had cascading wars, though... where several nations will perform a merry-go-round of war-&-peace with me. But that really only happened when I went the "Try to please everyone and usually fail" diplomacy route. Now I'm a bit more... discerning in my diplomacy.
This is the war that never ends,
Yes, it goes on and on my friends.
Some people started fighting it, not knowing what it was,
And they'll continue fighting it forever just because---
More on-topic... I've never really had a war that dragged on and on. Usually, by the time I've achieved my goal for a war, I can sue for peace. I've had cascading wars, though... where several nations will perform a merry-go-round of war-&-peace with me. But that really only happened when I went the "Try to please everyone and usually fail" diplomacy route. Now I'm a bit more... discerning in my diplomacy.
Diamondeye
So Happy I Could Die
Hellyeah - against Cyrus as Elizabeth - "The battle of Susa" (and a barbfounded city, but I forgt the name). It started like after archery, and lasted till I had an abundance of knights and catties to whoop his ass - that's more than one hour of constant warfare 
aronnax
Let your spirit be free
A little off topic but once there was a city that had change hands 5 times
It belong to Aztecs and......
First changed hands when the Madrid flipped it.
Second, Aztecs invaded Spain and took it back
Third it flip back to Spain while in resitance
Fourth, Saladin made the city Arabian
Fifth, I took it and razed it.
The funny thing was it was a Dersert City, it was worthless except for a cow resource. Its population never went higher then 5 or 6.
It belong to Aztecs and......
First changed hands when the Madrid flipped it.
Second, Aztecs invaded Spain and took it back
Third it flip back to Spain while in resitance
Fourth, Saladin made the city Arabian
Fifth, I took it and razed it.
The funny thing was it was a Dersert City, it was worthless except for a cow resource. Its population never went higher then 5 or 6.
Elros
Paranoid Android
Yes.
Using always war mode
Using always war mode
PimpyMicPimp
Regrets His Username.
Any late game war feels like it's endless
blitzkrieg1980
Octobrist
Yes.
Using always war mode
completely off topic:::::> Awesome signature. Yeah old school radiohead!
Elros
Paranoid Android
Completely off topic: Why thank you.
Completely on topic: I've just had a siege that lasted 12 centuries. Mainly cause they were the only side with horses but I had better techs, so it was a complete deadlock.
Completely on topic: I've just had a siege that lasted 12 centuries. Mainly cause they were the only side with horses but I had better techs, so it was a complete deadlock.
My playing style is to go after a domination victory and I use siege weapons to do it. Wars get endless because when AI doesn't give in to my demands for free techs (to get their exactly-10-turns of peace while I heal and regroup) or because the AI builds new cities in out of the way locations while I capture the heart of their empire.
ScubaSteve
Chieftain
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Longest non-AW war was in civ 3 when i was Japan and the Aztecs declared war on me early on, like 2500bc-ish if IIRC. Well, eventually I had him knocked off the continent but he didnt go away. turns out he had an 1-tile island city :angry: No matter what I did he wouldnt make peace either. He was the final civ left against me around 1900 AD. Then, I noticed I didnt have the proper techs to build the units that could attack the city, cant exactly recall which the were, but I finished him around 1920 AD. Fun game though
xfactor99
Warlord
Napoleon declared war on me and tried to take Elephantine (which I had capture d from the now-dead Egyptians), and I repelled the attack, but he wanted me to give him 90 gold for peace. I ignored him, forgot I was at war for a few hundred years, declared war on Shaka, wiped him out, and went back to Napoleon. He was now willing to give me 280 gold and 2 GPT, so I happily accepted.
I'd imagine it would be situations like that. Kind of like Korea at the present moment.
I'd imagine it would be situations like that. Kind of like Korea at the present moment.
I had a game that ended up with one of those. I fought a couple of early wars and became one of the top civs in the game.
Eventually though, this lead to a scenario where I'd fight one war, drive some civ down to a couple of cities, they'd become somebody's vassal, meaning I now had a war with a little civ and a "big civ" (i.e. one about my size). I'd finish the little civ off, then beat the "big civ" down to just a couple of cities, when IT would become a vassal of some other civ, etc., etc., etc., etc.
After about the 4th iteration of this, and realizing that it would likely continue for another 4 or 5 (I was playing with something like 11+ civs), I just quit the game. I really don't enjoy the warmongering experience, but once I'm in a war, I stay in it as long as it appears I'm winning.
Eventually though, this lead to a scenario where I'd fight one war, drive some civ down to a couple of cities, they'd become somebody's vassal, meaning I now had a war with a little civ and a "big civ" (i.e. one about my size). I'd finish the little civ off, then beat the "big civ" down to just a couple of cities, when IT would become a vassal of some other civ, etc., etc., etc., etc.
After about the 4th iteration of this, and realizing that it would likely continue for another 4 or 5 (I was playing with something like 11+ civs), I just quit the game. I really don't enjoy the warmongering experience, but once I'm in a war, I stay in it as long as it appears I'm winning.
