Funny Screenshots: Part Deux

[capnvonbaron]

oh noes!! catapult rush!!

 

[paulcarri]

oh noes!! catapult rush!!

lol i wasnt laughing when i lost a cavalry in the first attack but it made me chuckle yup

 

[Sidder]

Whats the map type where you each seem to got yer own Isle?

 

[Drakarska]

Whats the map type where you each seem to got yer own Isle?

Custom islands, 1 per civ. it's in the lower section after picking the islands script.

 

[Imperator Knoedel]

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The American President is facing impeachment, four years too early but close enough to still be somewhat funny.
Also this America is socialist, make of that what you will.

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Gandhi is plotting a war!?

 

[Silv Something]

Willem really feels the need to construct dozens of ships which never leave his borders . . .

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. . . except when I send a privateer within a few tiles. Then his sends four frigates after it.

I wonder if those ships have something to do with his code, with him being Dutch and all. He also somehow decided to replace all those mines in the first screen shot with lovely Dutch windmills.

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Justinian founded 3 religions, and two of them were on the same 1-tile island.

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My great engineer could build wonders, but he chose to build a farm.

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Sidenote: Does anyone else play Tectonics maps? This was my first one and it had disappointingly little land, even with Earthlike settings.

 

[Chakram Bearer]

Does anyone else play Tectonics maps? This was my first one and it had disappointingly little land, even with Earthlike settings.

Tectonics can generate very interesting maps, but the "Earthlike" settings (I think it's 70% water) result in these very small landmasses. I used to play around, generating several maps and experimenting with the different variables, and IIRC there's a 60% water option which should provide a much gameplay-friendlier map.

 

[paulcarri]

Whats the map type where you each seem to got yer own Isle?

Thats what im playing after several pangea games... teching is quite slow at the start, although i got a killer island this time and got civil service around 1ad... i know thats not super early but..with no tech trading it isnt bad

 

[Silv Something]

Tectonics can generate very interesting maps, but the "Earthlike" settings (I think it's 70% water) result in these very small landmasses. I used to play around, generating several maps and experimenting with the different variables, and IIRC there's a 60% water option which should provide a much gameplay-friendlier map.

Thanks Chakram Bearer!

 

[Manco Capac]

Tectonics=crappy
Tectonics=interesting

 

[6K Man]

Julius Caesar is a creep. I've been semi-isolated with him for a while now, and K-Mod JC keeps spamming units and declaring on me, when all I want to do is get to Optics and avoid falling behind the rest of this large, 18-Civ world...

Anyway, enough preamble. Julius had 14 units (Praets, Spears, Catapults mostly) parked on a forest outside Arretium-which-I-had-stolen-from-him. I had a bunch of Maces, Xbows, Catapults and Keshiks. And after I suicided 4 Cats on his stack, this happened:

Yup. 14 straight wins. Odds weren't all overwhelming, either:
90.1%
89.8%
78.3%
59.2%
63.0%
68.0%
47.3%
74.1%
72.8%
92.5%
93.1%
98.3%
99.1%
99.9%

Having gotten this off my chest, I'm going to reload from my previous save. Doesn't seem fair to take out a stack of 14 units without losing any.

 

[choxorn]

The Random Number God gives you a gift and you choose not to accept it? Careful, that might anger it.

Also, assuming I calculated correctly, that had about a 3.44% chance of happening. Great luck, but not unbelievable luck unless your units also didn't even get hurt much.

 

[Yudishtira]

90.1%
89.8%
78.3%
59.2%
63.0%
68.0%
47.3%
74.1%
72.8%
92.5%
93.1%
98.3%
99.1%
99.9%

Having gotten this off my chest, I'm going to reload from my previous save. Doesn't seem fair to take out a stack of 14 units without losing any.

choxorn beat me to it. I also made it 3.44%. I admit I did think it would be less. Since I've lost at least one unit at 0.2% probability, I don't think you need to do JC the courtesy of reloading...

 

[CocoIsKing28]

Do him only the courtesy of sending him his dead TO SOAK UP HIS TEARS!

 

[Lord Bigfoot]

Julius Caesar is a creep. I've been semi-isolated with him for a while now, and K-Mod JC keeps spamming units and declaring on me, when all I want to do is get to Optics and avoid falling behind the rest of this large, 18-Civ world...

Anyway, enough preamble. Julius had 14 units (Praets, Spears, Catapults mostly) parked on a forest outside Arretium-which-I-had-stolen-from-him. I had a bunch of Maces, Xbows, Catapults and Keshiks. And after I suicided 4 Cats on his stack, this happened:

Yup. 14 straight wins. Odds weren't all overwhelming, either:
90.1%
89.8%
78.3%
59.2%
63.0%
68.0%
47.3%
74.1%
72.8%
92.5%
93.1%
98.3%
99.1%
99.9%

Having gotten this off my chest, I'm going to reload from my previous save. Doesn't seem fair to take out a stack of 14 units without losing any.

Unless you chose the new random seed on reload option the results will still be the same.

 

[Silv Something]

What if he attacks with a different order of units?

 

[Abegweit]

The RNG will still be the same. However, he might lose some units because the odds will change.

 

[Graceheart the Leopard]

"Hey, shouldn't we do something about that barbarian settlement that's completely surrounded by our land?"

"Eh, screw it."

 

[Bowsling]

To be fair, I wouldn't attack that city either. Amphibious attack onto a hill for a completely and utterly useless city is not a great fight.

 

[Drakarska]

Agreed. Just culture flip him ( look, see?, shiny baubles).