Funny screenshots: part quatre

[Noble Zarkon]

I'd be interested in playing this but with Noble it is probably a Marathon game

It is and there's no horses nearby :-(

 

[Thrasybulos]

Settling on a desert tile turns an unproductive tile into a 2F 1H 1C tile.

The advisor knows that.

 

[Tecumseh1]

1500 hours on the game and bound to see stuff like this eventually. The great merchant in a convertible.

 

[Thrasybulos]

No screenshot, but still funny.

AI game:
HC and Napoleon are the only ones left (well, with one city, Louis is technically still in there too).
They're at war, and HC is barely holding, with Napoleon on the cusp of a Domination victory.
But it's turn 321, HC has launched and his ship is due to arrive on turn 323.

HC signs peace, giving up a city (which thus instantly provides 9 mores tiles under Napoleon's control).
Napoleon wins by Domination on turn 322.

 

[AspiringScholar]

No screenshot, but still funny.

AI game:
HC and Napoleon are the only ones left (well, with one city, Louis is technically still in there too).
They're at war, and HC is barely holding, with Napoleon on the cusp of a Domination victory.
But it's turn 321, HC has launched and his ship is due to arrive on turn 323.

HC signs peace, giving up a city (which thus instantly provides 9 mores tiles under Napoleon's control).
Napoleon wins by Domination on turn 322.

This comment does nothing to accentuate the humor, but I love that degree of tension in the endgame!

 

[Plains-Cow]

No screenshot, but still funny.

AI game:
HC and Napoleon are the only ones left (well, with one city, Louis is technically still in there too).
They're at war, and HC is barely holding, with Napoleon on the cusp of a Domination victory.
But it's turn 321, HC has launched and his ship is due to arrive on turn 323.

HC signs peace, giving up a city (which thus instantly provides 9 mores tiles under Napoleon's control).
Napoleon wins by Domination on turn 322.

If you have the game log, you can show us the events via screenshot, and that will also fit the thread theme!

 

[Thrasybulos]

No game log, unfortunately, it was with aiplay.
I just happened to be watching as the game was ending.

As for the funny part: the only reason HC lost was because he gave away that city.
If he'd stayed at war and the city had been conquered, it would still have been swamped in his culture.
But giving away a city in a peace treaty means erasing your culture from the city tile and the surrounding 8 tiles.
That was enough to push Nappy through the threshold.
Nappy would have got there, sure, but it would have taken him more than 2 turns.

Had HC won while being conquered, he would have snatched victory in the jaws of defeat.
But here, with a certain win 2 turns away, he pulled the only move which allowed him to snatch defeat in the jaws of victory.

 

[Thrasybulos]

HC is really having a bad time with the narrowest losses in this series:

 

[a pen-dragon]

In a recent deity game this ended up being my only war:

 

[Thrasybulos]

Look closer.

 

[danjuno]

Oooh. That took me a minute.

 

[choxorn]

Alright, I've been staring at it forever and still nothing, what am I missing?

 

[Thrasybulos]

Spoiler :

Brennus not having a good time.

Spoiler :

Look at the bottom, where his power graph is flatlining.
Also, doesn't help that the Celts' colour tends to blend with the background.

 

[Plains-Cow]

Spoiler :

Brennus not having a good time.

Spoiler :

Look at the bottom, where his power graph is flatlining.
Also, doesn't help that the Celts' colour tends to blend with the background.

Observer civ.

 

[Thrasybulos]

This was played with ai.autoplay so the observer civ was gone.
But he sure was playing the role.

Monty had been conquering the Celts and was about to finish them off when Toku decided he didn't like the looks of the feathered madman and wiped him out, leaving one Celt city in the midst of Japan.
Brennus managed to survive an impressive long time as a one-tile civ by passing his people off as a weird Ainu tribe, a fiction Toku was willing to entertain as long as he was busy with the only other power left in the world. But his first (an only) truce with Alex was the end of the "Celtainus".

 

[Plains-Cow]

This was played with ai.autoplay so the observer civ was gone.
But he sure was playing the role.

Monty had been conquering the Celts and was about to finish them off when Toku decided he didn't like the looks of the feathered madman and wiped him out, leaving one Celt city in the midst of Japan.
Brennus managed to survive an impressive long time as a one-tile civ by passing his people off as a weird Ainu tribe, a fiction Toku was willing to entertain as long as he was busy with the only other power left in the world. But his first (an only) truce with Alex was the end of the "Celtainus".

Yep! Was saying that's what it reminded me of from Sullla's games.

 

[Thrasybulos]

Maybe so, but I can't help harbouring the notion that some cheating was involved!

(The workers walking on ocean is a classic, but cavalry was a first as far as I can tell. )

 

[danjuno]

What's the big deal? They're just seahorses!

 

[Thrasybulos]

With guns !