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BEC NOIR! RUN!

Sometimes the AI make no sense at all:
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The Caravel came right out of the fog, I had no idea it was there. So the Vikings decide to use their amphibious unit... to land on the hill next to an undefended city!![]()
Doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Darski, you should really enjoy this one.
In a recent game as the Celts, I had Theodora as a neighbor. I built an embassy in Constantinople. Soon thereafter, I discovered . . .
Spoiler :that she had built her capital next to a volcano.
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I'm sure that you can imagine where the story goes from here:
Spoiler :The volcano erupted, destroying Constantinople.
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Not to be deterred by such rotten luck, Theo persisted . . .
Spoiler :and built Varna on the same spot.
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Well, Mother Nature was not about to be deterred, either.
Spoiler :And She destroyed Varna, just like she had Constantinople.
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Mother Nature had spoken. Apparently, Theo wasn't listening.
Spoiler :She promptly put Trebizond on the very same spot!
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I was reminded of a scene from a Monty Python movie. At the moment, I don't recall whether it was the Life of Brian or the Meaning of live, but it's a medieval scene in which the lord of the manor wants to talk to his son (who keeps trying to break into song.) "They said I was daft to build a castle in a swamp, but I built one anyway. It sank. So I built a second one. It sank, too. So I built a third one. It burned down, fell over, then sank. So I built a fourth one. And it stayed up!"
I was reminded of a scene from a Monty Python movie. At the moment, I don't recall whether it was the Life of Brian or the Meaning of live, but it's a medieval scene in which the lord of the manor wants to talk to his son (who keeps trying to break into song.) "They said I was daft to build a castle in a swamp, but I built one anyway. It sank. So I built a second one. It sank, too. So I built a third one. It burned down, fell over, then sank. So I built a fourth one. And it stayed up!"
Actually, she lost 3 cities there: Constantinople, Varna & Trebizond!Actually, Theo had really bad luck losing two cities to a volcano like that. How often does one erupt per game - every so-many thousand years? And each time the odds are 8/1 against that the city tile is the one polluted.
Aabra - the sketch was from the 'Holy Grail'.
THAT was it! Thanks.The movie was Monty Python and the Holy Grail.