Jecrell
Ruled: Civ3 - Civ5
I had the game for a while now. I think I've been playing it three days straight -- almsot non-stop with little sleep. Mostly I've been playing single-player and some failed multiplayer experiments with some friends of mine. Most of which kept messing up by alt+tabbing and getting dropped from the game (running the game on medium or low usually stops the alt+tab crashes).
Anyway, this morning I was up for a game and hanging in the Civ IV chatroom when someone asks "Anyone up for a 1v1?" I said, "sure," and shortly we were in a duel match, which, at that time, I did not know was a battle.
It didn't take long for war to start. It began at about the time my second city was built. As the Incans, I took advantage of my tropical forests by using the woodsman promotion on my Quechau to make a standoff just outside my city with his archers. Literally sentrying it near my city which was near his borders. Then shortly he dropped his scout next to my city and fortified it to prevent me from moving troops in and out of the city.
Now our little standoff went on for a while until I unleashed my chariots of doom! I was able to attack with three chariots -- one to kill his scout, two to kill his second archer. One got out alive and strolled neatly into his borders -- destroying a city and offing his warrior that he used to protect his city.
At this point, he got really -- really -- pissed. He told me that I had the only horse resource on the map (I couldn't verify this -- I had no scout to begin with). Then when I told him he should probably declare peace or I would destroy him (since I didn't know this was a "War Duel" for "ladder games").
So we had a ceasefire. However, during this he revealed he had only played Civ IV for like 2-3 hours. He put up a really good strategy for assaulting my borders non-the-less, but he got really -- really -- pissed because I had the only horses on the map. He literally declared himself done with the game and quit -- saying that horses were way overpowered and that he was going to have a talk with the designers of the game about it. To which I argued that spearman could probably take down my horses.
... But it was too late. And he was gone.
This is the first game I regret winning.
Anyway, this morning I was up for a game and hanging in the Civ IV chatroom when someone asks "Anyone up for a 1v1?" I said, "sure," and shortly we were in a duel match, which, at that time, I did not know was a battle.
It didn't take long for war to start. It began at about the time my second city was built. As the Incans, I took advantage of my tropical forests by using the woodsman promotion on my Quechau to make a standoff just outside my city with his archers. Literally sentrying it near my city which was near his borders. Then shortly he dropped his scout next to my city and fortified it to prevent me from moving troops in and out of the city.
Now our little standoff went on for a while until I unleashed my chariots of doom! I was able to attack with three chariots -- one to kill his scout, two to kill his second archer. One got out alive and strolled neatly into his borders -- destroying a city and offing his warrior that he used to protect his city.
At this point, he got really -- really -- pissed. He told me that I had the only horse resource on the map (I couldn't verify this -- I had no scout to begin with). Then when I told him he should probably declare peace or I would destroy him (since I didn't know this was a "War Duel" for "ladder games").
So we had a ceasefire. However, during this he revealed he had only played Civ IV for like 2-3 hours. He put up a really good strategy for assaulting my borders non-the-less, but he got really -- really -- pissed because I had the only horses on the map. He literally declared himself done with the game and quit -- saying that horses were way overpowered and that he was going to have a talk with the designers of the game about it. To which I argued that spearman could probably take down my horses.
... But it was too late. And he was gone.
This is the first game I regret winning.
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