Funny Screenshots: Part Deux

[bestbrian]

Back story to this screenshot: I have been in and out of war, mostly with minor nations, for the better part of 4000 years. Since I'm Imperialistic, I have by now 8 great generals, 2 of which were settled, 5 of which were attached to various units, and 1 of which is awaiting the creation of The Bismark. I have some level 12 units running around, and my average unit's experience is probably somewhere in the 40's, and that's with a Chm leader. So I gather a stack of almost 60 of my most experienced units. And I go and attack the other superpower, the French. Fortunately, I decide to explore his coastal cities 2 turns before attacking, and I see this. And that's just one city. There were some similar stacks in 6 other cities.

I can just imagine my units disembarking, looking at the city, and saying, 'Whose idea was this?'

Later, I sent a Great Spy over. The power ratio was literally 0.0 . That means Napoleon had more than 20 times my units.:suicide:

Spam cannons, dow, then just sit back and wait.

 

[Kullervo]

I ended up doing similar, except instead of spamming cannons, I spammed warships, and... THE BISMARK ! !... and then DOW'ed and waited for him to send his 100 or so ships at me. I won with minor losses. Napoleon didn't, and neither did Pericles... Nappy attacked him with some 30 galleon's worth of soldiers... poor Perry was down to 2 cities before I started eating away at Nappy's mainland. The part that pisses me off is that he's STILL nearly me equal in score and, 10 turns after the end of the war, he's already at .3 power to me!

 

[bestbrian]

With a Fish and a Clam in the BFC and the island itself a Plains Hill, it is actually quite a decent place to settle if you want to give an overseas trade route to all your cities. Still have to hit that B key though

I just did something like this to Louis in my most recent game. After founding Sushi and Mining Inc, I settled a rock just off his coast. Fortified the heck out of it, and filled it with Bombers. When his inevitable dow came, he crashed his stack against my rock while my subs savaged his fleet. Meanwhile, my bombers and guided missiles cut his only source of oil and aluminum.

Those little nothing rocks can come in handy sometimes.

 

[Bobbtjoe]

I cannot believe the pathfinder in these games. Was playing RFC, and told a scouting warrior to head to Spain. When I met the French they didn't sign open borders with me, so my warrior tried to find a different way to Spain...

Uhhhh... how about no.

 

[choxorn]

The stupid game seems to always assume you can walk on unknown spaces.

 

[EmperorFool]

Not only does it merrily send you into uncharted territory, assuming it is all passable, but it also uses the knowledge of what's really on a tile rather than what has been revealed to you. This is a handy way to locate new unexposed roads.

 

[Calouste]

That new-fangled "expand your city's influence by one tile at a time" in Civ5 and no more Big Fat Cross?

It already exists in my version of Civ4:

 

[ruff_hi]

Three screenies from a recent game:
1) I'm sorry, what? I think you have it backwards.
2) Seriously, what? You definitely do.
3) Saladin can't make up his mind.

P.S. The English capital became San Fransisco. Hah.

How come you can see lat and long before you even know the earth is round or have discovered calender (or have you got that tech?)?

 

[mystyfly]

@ruff: The minimap looks quite centered - which is either done by calendar, or most likely in this case, the henge

 

[ruff_hi]

@ruff: The minimap looks quite centered - which is either done by calendar, or most likely in this case, the henge

true - well spotted - thanks.

 

[mechaerik]

Except for Mechs. I've never got all that far into the game, but mechs are in the sevopedia.

Phungus wanted to replace those mechs with more accurate near-future infantry though (I think).

 

[JustinianVII]

Futuristic David vs. Goliath

 

[fdgsgds]

Futuristic David vs. Goliath

Nice city too, with the Eiffel Tower and Islamic Shrine.

I actually lol'd at Dishonest Abe.

 

[Graceheart the Leopard]

It seems that the Turkish government has a very strange foreign policy...

 

[Mathalamus]

he is willing to declare war but not stop trading with Oda?

 

[Dragonxander PR]

It may be that the resources he gets from Oda are quite valuable, & with war he can get them as well.

 

[Mallin]

I had this in another thread but jOanne suggested that I put it here too.

Help is available to anyone anywhere!

An event that came up while playing one of my custom civs.

 

[r_rolo1]

You should be close of Port Royal ...

 

[Aljar]

So I wanted to see how a Water map without Moai Statues is, and played a game as Darius-Washington in Vanilla. Archipelago, High Water level, Small Islands. Chieftain diffuculty because in my last Noble game I had massive problems with a monster Bismarck. Turned out to be a very Universal Suffrage-heavy game, since I had tons of money without ever having built a single cottage, but almost no hammers.
Besides a couple of weird stuff like Monty running Pacifism and being more technologically advanced than MM (maybe because he had the Great Library), Stonehenge never being built and someone telling me HR was extremely useful when I was already running US, there was this:

I had just finished the Kremlin (bought it for 20k Gold), and then I noticed the Pyramids were not built yet Of course this was totally unnecessary, but I just couldn't resist the 1500-something AD Pyramids.

 

[madviking]

^ Any reason that your playing as the beleaguered former coach of the French national team?

This is an odd map.