Most WTH Civ IV moment?
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TheMulattoMaker
Dictator of RF
Off the top of my head, it was the time I rigged up an Always Peace/No Barbs start for a nice quiet culture/wonderwhore-it-up game. As it went on, I saw one AI building Chichen Itza while another was building Statue of Zeus. Not sure what they were trying to accomplish, guess they were desperate for GPP since I was taking all the good wonders... 
The7Sins
Hungry Burger
A couple years back playing as Alexander on a Pangaea map I despite being the most powerful got declared on by all 17 other civs in the same turn. Only 3 of whom were vassals. The rest either hated me or were fellow warmongers and apparently got bribed into attacking me.
The best part? I won via conquest. Because I suck at diplo, and had almost everyone except my fellow warmongers Genghis and Shaka furious with me, and I had a tech lead I had stockpiled a bunch of ICBMs before this occurred.
The best part? I won via conquest. Because I suck at diplo, and had almost everyone except my fellow warmongers Genghis and Shaka furious with me, and I had a tech lead I had stockpiled a bunch of ICBMs before this occurred.
Most of my favorites have to do with the change that siege couldn't destroy unit after vanilla but the devs not changing the code so the AI still thinks they can.
Sitting on an island and noticing a large invasion fleet and scrambling to get whatever defenders I can to their possible landing site and then laughing when every unit unloaded from the invasion fleet is a siege unit.
Sitting on an island and noticing a large invasion fleet and scrambling to get whatever defenders I can to their possible landing site and then laughing when every unit unloaded from the invasion fleet is a siege unit.
1st experience with colonial maintence... Played Earth huge map (china).. after few wars control most east Asia.. and than got this stupid idea to remove capital from Beijing to Tokyo.. after it I lost 200 gold/turn at 100% wealth... palace whip saved me from bankrupt 
Lennier
Emperor
My first BTS game. Prince/Hemispheres/Huge/Marathon and I was Monty. Early in the game I got notification that the Oracle had been completed in a distant land, followed by a notification that Confucianism had been founded. Later, I got a notification that the Babylonian civilization was destroyed. Much later, after I circumnavigated the globe and libbed Astronomy, I noticed that my p-vassal Mansa had founded a couple of cities on a landmass I hadn't "discovered" yet. After investigation, I found that the large island had several barbarian cities that had Confucianism in them. Went a-conquering, and found the former Babylonian capital (now barbarian city) at size one. It had Stonehenge, the Oracle, and the Kong Miao. Yes, Hammurabi built Stonehenge and never founded a second city. 
My two biggest moments have already essentially been described by rah and lennier: a naval invasion force of 4 carracks and 3 galleons that spooked me, but then only had cats and trebs inside and was mopped up by the 6 cuirassiers I managed to pull to my east coast (made extra "WTH" by the fact that the invasion force landed one tile outside my culture, so I had one turn to prepare... and signed 3 defensive pacts in that turn which didn't deter the AI in the slightest, and also that the AI I signed the pacts with would have been invaded by me in less than 5 turns, lol, and were invaded by me before I got peace with the invader. I ended up getting to pleased with that civ because of shared wars and open borders!); and Hatshepsut only ever building 1 city because (after I checked with WB on a hunch) she was trying to build the pyramids out of her 1 city. She didn't get it.
Many of my WTH moments are with warmongers.
Everybody's Buddhist and the AP is Buddhist. The motion for "Defensive Pacts with all Members" is passed. Two turns later Ragnar, who is one of the most powerful civs, declares on his neighbor. How to dogpile yourself. He wound up getting vassalized and was a non-factor for the rest of the game.
On a huge map I found Monty on an isolated landmass, totally backward. I was doing quite well and was the dominant world power. Naturally, Monty declares on me. He hadn't researched Optics yet and couldn't get to me. I would have wiped him out but it just wasn't worth the effort.
Everybody's Buddhist and the AP is Buddhist. The motion for "Defensive Pacts with all Members" is passed. Two turns later Ragnar, who is one of the most powerful civs, declares on his neighbor. How to dogpile yourself. He wound up getting vassalized and was a non-factor for the rest of the game.
On a huge map I found Monty on an isolated landmass, totally backward. I was doing quite well and was the dominant world power. Naturally, Monty declares on me. He hadn't researched Optics yet and couldn't get to me. I would have wiped him out but it just wasn't worth the effort.
TheMulattoMaker
Dictator of RF
Gurn Blanston
MOstly Lurking
I dunno if this qualifies, but my WTH moment happened in real life. I was at my local gym when this good looking brunette jumps on the treamill beside me. hadn't seen her before so I thought i'd chat with her a little, maybe get to know her. We talked for a while and it turns out we both like civ. Turns out we both know about this forum and we both hang out here. turns out we've both never played an MP game. I complain that my favorite mod -BAT- doesn't wok in MP. She says she's trying to fix that.
Turns out she's Lemon Merchant
Turns out she's Lemon Merchant
TheMulattoMaker
Dictator of RF
In the game I'm currently playing, Mao Zedong just built the Spiral Minaret, without stone, despite having been isolated all game, and having only 1 city with his state religion (which I gave him). He's not attempting to spread it, and he's far from my shrine city, so he's unlikely to have it spread naturally almost ever.
In the same game, hatshepsut was running OR before I gave her a religion.
In the same game, hatshepsut was running OR before I gave her a religion.
Not begging, but threatening a civ about to invade me to give me 1 gold, and them accepting. I knew it worked at pleased, but cautious? I'm threatening to (maybe) go to war with you (could be bluff) unless you give me money, and you were 1 turn from declaring war on me. So... you pay me off? It makes no sense at all.
Aristos
Lightseeker
Well, at least now we know she is a fellow Canuck...
(gonna visit BC some day Lemmon? Mi casa es tu casa...)
SpitfireMI
Chieftain
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I think it was when my vassal sank one of my privateers with 2 caravalles!
IIHAAETTEAAHII
Warlord
If you are at pleased or higher, then you can 'ask nicely' for gold, techs, cities etc.. This is a fairly simple mechanic: it just counts the turns until you last begged something from that civilization (included failed attempts IIRC) and checks if that turn number is high enough to grant you the thing you asked. It also gets you in a ten turn peace treaty.
If you are at cautious or below, you cannot 'beg', only demand tribute; the likelihood of accepting depends on both the value of the thing you asked and your power level (and possible other things). However, some AIs are willing to declare on you even if their power level is lower than you, and thus might be simultaneously plotting to invade you and accept to pay tribute because they 'fear your military might'.
Lennier
Emperor
Hmmm...sounds like Monty's thinking.
