Greatest Sneak Attacks

[Rwedgie]

So, anyone got any good sneak attack stories that put pearl harbour to shame, that don't necessarily involve Rop ( i mean you could potentially wipe out a civ with a rop rape)

I've only really got one.. I was playing against the Iroquous.. they had the northern half of one continent and i had a continent to myself, all the islands, and a few cities on the southern half. We had just been in a MPP and had burned the civ to the souths cities to the ground. I think they managed to take two and I had the rest. They had just got the tech for tanks.. i could already build most space ship parts.

two turns after the two of us remained, the Icbms launched. two hit the city they had just aquired and destroyed and redlined their entire tank and calv force. Then I had about two icbms for every city over size 12, and one for every city over size 9. Everything was railroaded so in my first turn i took/razed 12 cities.

I actually regretted launching the nukes - the pollution slowed down my tanks from crushing them

Edit: ohh and usually if i have a RoP with the AI, i like to park defensive units on their resources and luxes to pillage if they decide to double cross me

 

[dresdor]

Let me get this straight...you nuked them...

So...how is that a sneak attack? They weren't expecting it obviously, but ICBMs were designed to blow up cities halfway accross the world undetected.

 

[slightlymarxist]

My last game with Spain I put those 6-move Conqustadors on pillaging duty, quickly reducing the great army of Russia back to Spearmen and Longbows... Then I swarmed their cities after I lured out remaining Cavalry and Musketmen... They really thought they had an edge...

 

[troytheface]

this one is easy --multiplayer-elimination - i was hittites with no horse but i built statue of zeus- only three of us left - rome and i think Mayan- i was in last place-
took all my ancient calvary (4) and shipped them across the ocean
one galley sank- 2 turns left - landed my two ancient calvary on a back roman city- he had one legion and raced a warrior in as well- My two ancient Calvary hit tha unwalled city and...
- killed legion-killed the warrior- and my two hit point left ancients destroyed rome with one turn to go-
a case of a smalll civ killing a much larger one in one lucky stroke....

 

[IbnSina]

I was playing the Russians, and allied with Germany to annihilate the Egyptians. I had a tech lead, with core cities producing a tank per turn, while Germany had no tanks. The turn after the Egyptians disappeared, the Germans declared war on me (no real surprise there). We had such a number of tanks and artillery and railroads in place at that point, that I took 11 of their cities in the first turn of the war.

Obviously, this was not a sneak attack - I was going to do that anyway, but I found it amusing that they declared war on me at precisely the time that I had planned to wipe them out anyway. Domination followed within three or four turns...

 

[MeteorPunch]

My last game with Spain I put those 6-move Conqustadors on pillaging duty, quickly reducing the great army of Russia back to Spearmen and Longbows... Then I swarmed their cities after I lured out remaining Cavalry and Musketmen... They really thought they had an edge...

Cool, so that's what Conquistadors are for.

 

[slightlymarxist]

Cool, so that's what Conquistadors are for.

Yup, it's really quite powerful to be able to deny your opponent strategic/luxury resources like that... underestimated UU no doubt.

 

[Garand]

My greatest sneak attack was in a long game I played as the Greeks. I shared a fairly small continent with the Incans, and early in the game I used galleys to search for new areas to colonize. I found a continent separated by a 4-square wide strait and built two cities there. Unfortunately the Persians were also there and controlled the entire rest of that very small continent.

I was building those towns up when out of nowhere Xerxes attacked with around 2 dozen immortals. Needless to say I lost those towns, and was none too happy about it, so I made a decision. I would let him have the towns... for now... but he would pay dearly in the future.

So after another millenia or two of playing, and discovering flight, amphibious warfare, and so forth, I decided to get my revenge in grand style. Xerxes woke up one morning to find 4 of my transports off his coast full of tanks, artillery, infantry and marines, along with 4 battleships, 12 destroyers, a carrier, a couple of cruisers, (a full 1/4 of my total navy) and enough bombers and airplanes to shake a stick at. My great D-Day invasion to liberate my two lost cities was completely unexpected for him, and little did he know that it was two millenia in the making. A pity he didn't put up a fight - cavalry and musketmen were all he could summon against my technological might!

 

[catchsomezzz]

My last game with Spain I put those 6-move Conqustadors on pillaging duty

Even better, put 3-4 Conquistators into an Army. With 3 additional moves and zero movement penalty for pillaging, a Conquistator Army can effectively destroy the enemy's resources & production completely in just a few turns. Just pillage with every step.

The AI civs almost never attack armies (the exception being when they bombed with their bombers then attacked with modern armors), so your Conquistator Armies will be effective well into the modern age.

This may or may not be an exploit, depending on your point of view. But I had fond memories of my Huge map - 16 civs Emperor game when I played as the Spaniards. I had three 4-Conquistador Armies that wrecked havoc upon those civs who dared picked on the great nation of Spain. Fun - fun - fun, and in the end, that's what it's all about.

IMO, Spain is one of the most (if not the most) underrated civ in the game because many players dismissed their UU as nothing more than a slightly beefed-up explorer. Used properly, Conquistators may arguably be the best UU, and definitely a military unit that has the longest span of usefulness (from mid-Medieval Age to the end of the game). Workers are not a military unit.

Incidentally, my best sneak attacks also involved my three Conquistator armies - within a few turns I can effectively disconnect every resources the enemy civs have and put them back to the stone age.

 

[MeteorPunch]

@catchsomezzz

I've got to try that someday. Thanks.

 

[Dell19]

One of the worst attempts at ROP rape by the Zulu(AI) was when they sent one cavalry along my railroads to attack my capital that was defended by two workers. The cavalry won and they even got a great leader from it. Didn't do them much good though as they never got close to my capital again and now they no longer exist as revenge.

Its quite a good trick to get the AI to go to war as its happened 3 times now that they have attacked me even though I am stronger because they know I have core cities that are lightly defended. Its a shame I have 14 armies, mostly of tanks. Dificulty is Monarch.

 

[Cu Chulainn]

Best was my last Spain game where the vikings, being an age behind me, were dying in droves for the purpose of distracting the English forces so that I could dominate them without losing any units. When the last Englishman was dead my armies turned their guns on the Viking Berserkers that were all over the English (now Spanish) territory. With the entirety of their offensive force utterly destroyed in a single turn they fell rather fast. Best part is I technically had no agreements with them at the time and no units in their territory so I didn't even suffer a rep hit.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

In one game, when I got refining, I discovered I had no oil, but Persia had 2. So as soon as I got Motorized Transport, I traded for oil, and set every city to building tanks. Of course, any human player would know what I was going to do next, but the poor Persian never had a clue. They lasted 5 turns.

 

[vmxa]

Rwedgie, if you use 3 ICBM's per city it will destroy all tanks and MI's, anything, but nukes. Investigate the city to see if the third one is worth the price. It will be dirt cheap to spy on the city at that time.

Also you half the pop with each one, so if they drop from say 31 to 15, the second drops them to 7-8. That is too good, the third will drop them to 4, now they will not be building back up.

Alternatively you can just hit all the large ones with just one to cut all the 9 tile improvements. They will now have no acces to the capitol and no trade net to speak of, may lux cuts as well. This is often the best way to grind the empire to a halt. This gets hard to do if you wait for SDI to come online as 1 in 7 hit rate is good at that time.

I look for metros with large troop concentration to get the double damage (lost of production and units). Those get three hits. Now if this is a Sid game, they may not have a single worker to road back resources.

I pick a landing zone to hit all nearby areas to a) reduce metros to towns b) kill massed units c) cut access to LZ. Cutting access is a way to stop those MA's from coming with MI's as they have 3 moves vs 2. If you can do it right they can only get to your door step and you get time to rush a barracks and pound the incoming.

 

[CoolioVonHoolio]

I once build a whole army of settlers and musketeers and pretty much took over a whole country by building citys all over in their territory, then i just wiped em out

 

[The Omega]

One game I nuked every single city in the world, then launched a major invasion of my main rival in the game....Mid-invasion, I suddenly get a message saying I won a cultural victory.

 

[Rwedgie]

Yeah.. i only have one military type victory to date because i always win by conquest or get impatient and rig the UN election with bribes. Or the spaceship comes along.

Just starting to get myself more military oriented and less builder like

 

[blk990]

The Americans were on a penninsula by themselves, and I arranged nuclear submarines with tactical nukes around their seaside border. The next turn I advanced all of them and all cites were under 12. I came in with modern aromor and went as deep as Washington in the first turn of war.

 

[Bluemofia]

I park 5 or 6 SODs on the border and then I blitz them. I destroyed a decent sized nation this way in 3 turns. AND no rep penalty because I declare war first.

 

[Praetorian]

I like my type of sneak-attack, and it works like this. You quietly move every single military type unit that you muster beside your nieghbors cities ( remember that they are all wearing sunglasses and hawian shirts so people will think they are tourists ) , here is the sneaky part when he tells you to move your troops or declare war, YOU DECLARE WAR.


man is he going to be surprised!!!!!!!