Moments you really just give up

oh oh oh - I got another one -Ive noticed these three things tend to happen simultaneously to me:

When I lose 3 or 4 80%+ battles in a row -just as-
Another AI declares war on me -just as-
my wife and 1 or more children pile into my computer room and start talking/arguing about the most inane topic -just as-
my head explodes and I quit to desktop.
 
An archipelago map where my island is by far the smallest and without essential resources.
 
When im aiming at cultural victory with just couple of archers defending cities, and i see stack of 7 Jaguars 3 Axemen and 3 catapults near border.
 
I rarely quit from falling behind in tech. I was playing a game (Noble, I think, and Vanilla). Stuck on an isolated continent and way behind in tech. I did have a ten city empire, though. Once I got Caravels and made contact with the other civs, I started tech-trading like mad. Caught up and passed everyone on my way to a Space Race victory. That was one of my sweetest wins -- thought I was dead but kept after it and pulled it out in the end.
I did quit one time when the Barbarian city on my continent upgraded their Longbows to Riflemen. I was just going to attack with Cats and Macemen, too. That really stunk. Without that nice Barb city, there was no way I could win. I was getting crushed. When even the Barbs are out-teching you, it's time to throw in the towel...
 
This belongs with FfHII...but, snakey archipelago, two cities, one defender each, access points defended(entenched on hills), very early in game.....Barbarian Galleon(!?) rocks up to 1st city carrying 3 barbarians!? Evil....game over.
 
I pretty much hate war-mongering, but do it as necessary.

I'll often quit when I can see 100 turns of moving units and bombarding cities in my future. I prefer peaceful victories, and only war when required. (I've resigned myself to some war being that I play on Monarch.)

snakey archipelago, two cities, one defender each, access points defended(entenched on hills), very early in game.....Barbarian Galleon(!?) rocks up to 1st city carrying 3 barbarians!? Evil....game over.
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ROFL IRL
 
Sometimes instead of quitting, I'll go into worldbuilder and give myself a few nukes, a couple modern armor, a gunship or 2, and some seals (cause they look so cool) - around 1000ad (a carrier group and some stealth bombers can also add to the fun). Pathetically enough, I once did this twice (after an AI burned my city with 10 stealth bombers in it via macemen), and conquest victory was still in question, so then I quit. It was satifsying to nuke and mow down all those cheating AIs though.
 
When my initial warrior gets eaten very early in the game (especially when it is against all odds) it is really a moment I want to quit...
 
Andraeianus I said:
When my initial warrior gets eaten very early in the game (especially when it is against all odds) it is really a moment I want to quit...
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Just a little while ago I had 2 Warriors and 1 popped Scouts eaten by animals before I finished my first settler. That was quite disheartening :cry:
 
Current game: Research stuck at 0% with a -12 defeciet... I hate when I overreach myself but those axes are so shiny. :crazyeye: Might be salvagable though if I can get enough cottages online.
 
cabert said:
It might be salvaged if you use your axes ;)
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My mighty army of 5 brave remaining axemen... I'm not used to the balance of the new warlords chariots just yet, just got the expansion, they are scary. Note to self: Include spearmen next time. :lol:

I recall another game I had to give up, my first attempt at emperor a while back. Was playing England as almost always and ended up far out on a jungle heavy peninsula with Catherine beside me and Tokugava also on the continent. A cultural leader as neighbor is hell but I got 3 cities up and lucked with iron. Then she declared war on Toku and I saw my chances. My swords marched through city after citybut oh my was there a lot of them. She had like 12 compared to my 3... I still won the war but with a crippled Toku as only tradepartner and the rest of the AI (who were showing up with caravels) miles ahead in tech it was over. :sad:
 
When I'm at war with a civ and they are on their last gasps and suddenly a long time friend vassals that empire forcing a war with me and hit me in the back. I seriously considered quiting when mass cavalry took my northern most city and pillaged a bunch of tiles. Lucky for me I just reached infantry and had substantial money so I upgraded my crappy defense of things like maceman into infantry and fortified my border. Now its like 15 turns later and the Chinese are about to learn how I killed my last four victims. :D
 
On the 4th or 5th "favorable" odds of winning, and attacking knights with my pikemen leaves me without a single pikeman. When it really seems a "98% chance to win" consistenly means "if you win, it'll cost you 98% of your hit points".
When I've depleted my defenders and fallen 8 techs behind, I turn it off.
 
Lol ya that happens a lot to. I can't tell you how many times I've hit an enemy's capital and have a 50% chance to kill the last defender. I of course lose and my guy does nothing to it and then my second crappier attacker loses. Next turn 6 new defenders reach the capital. :mad:
 
ditto rabidveggie. I like to think that I plan an attack with minimal excess building, but 6 new defenders requires reinforcements for attack and if I don't have reserves nearby, then war is lost. How often do I have reserves instead of a stream of freshly built troops? Almost never.
 
Picture continents with two neighbors on our continent. I researched Theocracy first. The other continent founded the rest of the religions so we were a Christian continent. When we discovered the other continent, it was one happy family under the Bhudda. the other religions never gained traction.

We all had global tech parity. Well, they had the bigger continent, but we were doing fine, right? Nope... That game I discovered the meaning "We fear you are becoming too advanced". My two close AI friends and I were creamed within a hundred turns. It turns out and I had used up my entire tech trade "allowance".

My tech trading stopped, but not the enemy AI. They jumped ahead so fast my eyes spun. I couldn't fight the advanced units they sent before long. I felt the game was winnable so I kept restarting around the discovery of astronomy (the earliest save I had at the time) playing different tactics trying to improve our chances. I didn't give up for two weeks real life time.

I wish I still had that start. The terrain was absolutely phenomenal and I know how to specialize cities now. I even controlled the entire world supply of coal! It should have been a cakewalk. :cry: Why does oil come up so quick?
 
my first ever deity game. i was trying for a specific type of win, diplomatic, so i wasn't going to go to war at all, was going to be friends with everybody. researched to alphabet, was first to get it. within a few turns of getting it, mansa musa says "this might be of use to you" and gives me bronze working for free!

now, it was deity, and i was playing OCC, so i'd definitely expected to be behind, but not really that far behind that early :lol:. his kindness scared me away!!!

i have tried other deity games since then, and even won (altho of course bizarre kmad-style games). the moment that really made me give up tho, was mansa being a sweetheart.
 
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