Nuked on the final turn...

[Garwulf]

Has this happened to anybody else?

Okay, I've got a population of around 60,000,000, and my spaceship is about to land. The Persians have been reduced to a single city beside the Babylonians, and everybody else is at peace with me. I have two main continents, the mainland and the land that used to be Persia (but isn't any more). The Celts (yours truly) and Persia are democracies, the Mongols are a Theocracy, and everybody else is a republic.

The final turn begins. An Egyptian nuke hits a city close to my capital, and then my spaceship lands. Game ends, I win.

Huh?

I have to ask...have many people come across Republics declaring war with nuclear sneak attacks on the very last turn?

Best regards to all,

Robert "Garwulf" Marks

 

[Ren]

1) Why didn't you have SDI Defence?

2) WTH is Theocracy??

3) Why are you complaining? you won, didn't you?

 

[duke o' york]

Maybe he plays it in a foreign language and hasn't translated it properly to post here, or maybe has just configured the game because Theocracy is a better way to describe the government form, but a theocracy equates to fundy.

 

[Garwulf]

Actually, it was writing late at night and not being able to think of the word. Yes, I meant "Fundamentalist".

(And, to answer the first question, I did have SDI defences, just not in that city.)

Best regards to all,

Robert Marks

 

[willemvanoranje]

theocracy and fundamentalism is about the same: only I think theocracy really limits it's possibilities to a certain religion.

 

[Talar]

I think they knew they were going to loose, nuking one of your cities just made them feel better about it. Computer AI:s can really get pissed off sometimes when they loose

 

[skyskipper]

That's happened to me too. I was at peace with everyone and all of a sudden they nuked one of my cities... it just hurts.

 

[SomeGuyNamedRob]

Originally posted by Ren
3) Why are you complaining? you won, didn't you?

I think the complaint is that the nuke lowered his population, and put him in conflict - which both lower your score.

Personally, I make sure to use dips and spies to sabotage any civs that are getting too close to me as far as technology goes.

 

[NewWaver]

Nukes are one thing...have you ever noticed the AI's obsession in using masses of cruise missiles in a single turn? It's crazy!

 

[SomeGuyNamedRob]

Originally posted by NewWaver
Nukes are one thing...have you ever noticed the AI's obsession in using masses of cruise missiles in a single turn? It's crazy!

You've never believe my war campaigns then. I love loading a carrier or two with cruise missles to soften up the defenses of my enemies. My ground units can then usually just waltz right in and take 3 or 4 cities a turn when I get on a good tear.

 

[anarchywrksbest]

It happened to me in the bloody GOTM and I didn't have time to clean up the pollution, so I got -100 points for pollution.

 

[ferenginar]

Forget the loss of citizens and the polution caused and the subsequent score loss as a result, I'd be upset that I didn't get the chance to make them pay for it.

ferenginar 58

 

[alamo]

You probably had a bad rep from breaking too many deals or sneak attacks. I am always careful to cancel deals and declare war formally before attacking to preserve my rep so I can negotiate peace treaties that hold and don't get that kind of thing.

The suggestion to use spies was a good one. If you had discovered the nuke being built you could have sabbataged the construction or just made a pre-emptive strike.

 

[Ramses II]

Who was the leader?? Ramsess usually attacks more often then cloepatra...i dont know why though...

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Originally posted by ferenginar
Forget the loss of citizens and the polution caused and the subsequent score loss as a result, I'd be upset that I didn't get the chance to make them pay for it.

ferenginar 58

Exactly. Make the buggers regret it!

The AI will very frequently abandon millenia of peace, become a fundy, and be very silly. Bad AI. Anymore behaviour like that, and it will be a visit from Mr. Battleship...