Awesomandias
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- Jun 26, 2012
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I'm up way too early, and on too much caffeine, so that may be behind this, but I think it would be fun for people to tell some stories of things that have happened in their games that really stood out, stuff that simply could never happen in vanilla.
For instance, in a game I played recently, with aggressive barbs and barb generals, I'm not sure how the hell it happened since I was playing Japan, and we didn't get a scout on the mainland until halfway through ancient (for personal choice, wanted to build up as a purely insular country, needing nothing, NOTHING! from those savages on the larger country.) but this one particular stack of barbs had apparently gone through pretty much all of mainland euerasia, decimating every civ in its path, turning the entire continent into a ridiculous no-man's-land, somehow held back by the Carthaginians (who had done a frightening job of the same thing on their continent) from Africa, leaving us, England and a single Viking city on the very tip of the peninsula.
We were forced to adopt defensive agreements with the few left, after watching the civ counter on the side, which had cost far too much money to the Koreans to fill, slowly lose names. After making some solid headway into each side, by which I mean we had each managed to take, at the most, three cities each over the next thousand or so years and actually hold them long enough to call them ours, the Cherokee showed up. Apparently we had wasted so much time on military alone that the American nations were now discovering, in this bizarre dystopia, the "new world." We never had a chance. The mighty empire of the Rising Sun fell.
Anyone else have a game that really struck you as just incredibly badass?
For instance, in a game I played recently, with aggressive barbs and barb generals, I'm not sure how the hell it happened since I was playing Japan, and we didn't get a scout on the mainland until halfway through ancient (for personal choice, wanted to build up as a purely insular country, needing nothing, NOTHING! from those savages on the larger country.) but this one particular stack of barbs had apparently gone through pretty much all of mainland euerasia, decimating every civ in its path, turning the entire continent into a ridiculous no-man's-land, somehow held back by the Carthaginians (who had done a frightening job of the same thing on their continent) from Africa, leaving us, England and a single Viking city on the very tip of the peninsula.
We were forced to adopt defensive agreements with the few left, after watching the civ counter on the side, which had cost far too much money to the Koreans to fill, slowly lose names. After making some solid headway into each side, by which I mean we had each managed to take, at the most, three cities each over the next thousand or so years and actually hold them long enough to call them ours, the Cherokee showed up. Apparently we had wasted so much time on military alone that the American nations were now discovering, in this bizarre dystopia, the "new world." We never had a chance. The mighty empire of the Rising Sun fell.
Anyone else have a game that really struck you as just incredibly badass?
) I just had to settle it as soon as I got a tribe. The civs there weren't too happy about the invasion, each sending their pretty decently sized armies. I just got reinforcements in time that the portuguese began to have second thoughts, so they just occupied a forested hill instead of assaulting the city itself.
