Most Embarassing Moment

[YNCS]

On game turn 10 I had my worker roading a square right next to a goody hut. My border expanded because of the palace's culture, popping the hut with three barbs. I lost the worker right away, and the barbs then pillaged all the improvements.

 

[Hooray]

The first time I had a stack of 30 or so modern armor try to take a large and well defended enemy city and I watched it get cut in half. Instead of continuing my attack on the city, I decided to nuke the thing to weaken its defenses (nukes had not yet been used in the game either.) I nuked the city and destroyed all defensive units, then realized I had forgotten to move my own units out of the blast range of the nuke first.

Ouch...I've done that too. Completely ruined a carefully planned invasion.

 

[TCS1]

Today I forgot to save my game after playing for a while. I thought, "No problem, there are auto-saves." So when I started playing later, I became completely sidetracked with a conquest. I only got the Conquest expansion pack a few week ago, and I hadn't checked out the conquests yet. So, I lost an hour's worth of game play in one file. But I'm really kicking *** in the Mespotamia conquest.

 

[AA-battery]

Welcome to CFC TCS1!
Back on topic: I just lost an army of four mech infantry to a veteran rifleman!

 

[Michelangelo]

It must be the one time I overlooked a single horseman. I was well on track to have a domination / spacerace / cultural victory combo and after MM the turn for half an hour or so, I overlooked that one unit. Ofcourse I had some undefended (large) cities, but outside of my core, and it took and razed 2 of them in 1 turn. To take a city doesn't count as an attack?? In the end it didn't matter much, got all of the victory conditions, but it just shows you can easily focus on the saving of 1 gold, and totally forgetting about a very much more important big city.

 

[eldar]

COTM07:
In a game where I captured the Great Library from a neighbour to catapult me into the IA;
In a game where I successfully smash a 20+-unit SOD to bits with the loss of 1 Hussar;
In a game where I have MGLs coming out of my ears;
I completely forget that the Civ I'm at war with has:
(a) Landed a single MedInf next to an undefended city, and
(b) Has an MPP with the Civ I've just signed a Peace Treaty with!!

Neil.

 

[col]

Every time my palace prebuild goes to completion when I forget about it.

 

[steviejay]

Maybe when I was a sophomore in HS and told Jody McRae I loved her and she gave me the "I love you too, but not in that way" speech.

Everyone's had that speech, I got it off Louisa Stewart, sucked ass

Most embarassing moment would be in a Emperor game I was playing a while ago and I lost a full MDI army and an empty army due to a flip. That game sucked after that

 

[jb1964]

I think my worst though, was discovering how Diplomatic victories work, on my last Chieftain game. I posted it here under 'How did I lose from here'

I remember this one because I had the same experience. "UN Secretary General?" "Sure, why not."

"You have suffered a humiliating defeat!" - doh!

On topic...
I managed to nuke my own city. I selected the nuke and the next thing I knew it wasted the very city it was launched from.

The real insult was that the rest of the world was now hacked that I had popped a nuke. Where's the love and sympathy!?

 

[BassDude726]

I've done that. I have a tendency to double-click nukes by accident. I call it "pulling a Chernobyl".

Most embarassing moment was probably not noticing an extra "0" on the end of an gold offer of 150 for a world map. Bye bye treasury. 1500 well spent.

 

[hoplite505]

Hehe, I've seen this from the other side. I popped a warrior from a hut when I founded my capital, took out 2 AI civs before they could get their first units. (It was one of those archipeligos where the RMG sticks everyone on a single island)

You were obviously playing less than emperor or sid because if you ever declared war that early on a hard difficulty twenty archers would come to avenge your warrior

My most embaresing moment in civ was when the dutch were in the MA before i had writing, but they got annialated in about five turns. (they wasted thier whole military trying to kill an army of mine, and also generated a 2nd leader for me )

 

[NankingDan]

Catherine contacted me and offered to give me Ivory for 500 gold, 20 gold per turn, combustion, silks, and spices...and I accidentally agreed to it.

 

[Choffy]

At ther beginning of the middle age, capture a city and leave a good chunk of my military forces in it including chivalry armies.
Then cultural flip...

 

[Choffy]

Great fun is also the Palace jump (in Play the world) that jumps in the wrong city...

 

[Roso]

The thing after which I was looking with my mouth open and couldn't beleve was long ago when attacking city defended with 2 REGULAR infantries. Two of my attackers were ARMIES with 4 cavalries each. The first army was killed, the second retreated.
In contrast to this in another veteran cavalry with 3 hitpoints killed my last (and the only one for the city) infantry - regular but full health.

 

[Beamup]

*Examine Russian territory*

"Hey look, they're using Pikemen to defend their cities still! Roll out the Cavalry, we're going killin'!"

*Lose horribly*
*Take a closer look at the units*

"I REALLY need to clean my glasses."

(They were INFANTRY, not pikemen. No, it wasn't any sort of upgrade, it was me actually seeing Infantry and thinking they were Pikemen.)

 

[Jason Fliegel]

In the last Conquest of the Month, I was going for a SpaceRace Victory but didn't have rubber. None of the civs had excess rubber to trade, either, so I came up with a bold plan: The Romans had rubber along their coast, so I would send a settler ashore with a stack of TOW Infantry, plop down a city, and rush a harbor. All I would have to do is survive long enough to begin building the spaceship exterior.

My plan went horribly wrong, of course -- the Koreans declared war on me and dragged the Romans into the fight, so as soon as my guys landed, they got pummelled by Roman troops and my settler was captured before he could even found the city. But what made this an embarassing moment was the fact that I quickly realized that had I simply rushed a temple or other cultural building at one of my outlying tundra cities, I would have had rubber in my territory. Fortunately, I survived the Korean/Roman war, hooked up that rubber, and managed to launch myself into space!

 

[dgfred]

*Examine Russian territory*

"Hey look, they're using Pikemen to defend their cities still! Roll out the Cavalry, we're going killin'!"

*Lose horribly*
*Take a closer look at the units*

"I REALLY need to clean my glasses."

(They were INFANTRY, not pikemen. No, it wasn't any sort of upgrade, it was me actually seeing Infantry and thinking they were Pikemen.)

Ouch , that's more than nasty.

 

[Strato]

I was the Germans, building up a huge force to crush the Americans on another continent, and my closest allies the Ottoman's wanted to sign a mutual passage agreement. Next turn, I waited a few minutes while they moved a huge number of their unique units into my borders, then just laid waste to one significant part of my civ that had a few strategic resources. I failed to mount an army on the ground, only cities which had a few infantry and artillery to defend, and overwhelming numbers killed me. It was embarasing because I actually trusted the AI not to attack me!

I guess I didn't learn anything from Civ II...

 

[dannyevilcat]

In my latest game, playing as England, I decided use my SGL Isaac Newton to build Newton's University in London, before realizing I hadn't switched London's production from it's previous project. Ironically, I was building a university at the time (presumably why I didn't notice at first), so the real Newton's University turned out to be just the regular variety.