Rage-quit tactics and strategy

[Zargade]

Hey guys, long time (many years) lurker and need some very specific advise.

So I got my roommate to finally try Civ and he loves it. We play a few games with the handicap that we would not DoW on each other until he got the hang of the game. About 5 games later (all previous games unfinished because he wasn't happy with his choices/civs/beginner mistakes) he decides to surprise attack me and takes me down FAST and has proceeded to rub my face in it, without a chance at a rematch... until now.

When we began the game, I asked him if he was ready for a real game, he said no, not yet. I informed him that since we were still playing with kid gloves on, I would take the opportunity to practice my tall empire strategy, since I'm not very good at it, but I knew I could handle the AI. So he took advantage of the knowledge and I made the mistake of trusting him.

That was in the past, now for vengance...

Currently playing as Dido, he's running Korea. He's on his own small continent south-west of me. We both just hit the renaissance and he has neglected diplomacy (while I have all the AI's eating out of my hand), he has neglected his military (my continent used to house Askia & Monty, so my war room has a very lived-in feel to it) despite the fact that I taught him otherwise. His only advantage is scientific. He has plenty of jungle tiles to boot.

My invasion force can easily destroy him, but that's not what I want to do. I just want to annoy him until he rage quits. I plan on doing the following things:


-Take his cities and sell them to Japan & Pacal (these two AI's seem to be on good terms with eachother)
-Chop down his jungles with an army or workers
-Pillage & destroy his trading routes
-Cut-off his continent with a naval blockade

I was hoping you guys had other ways of making him want to rage-quit. I know it's wrong, I know it's hateful, but he opened the door. I'm just walking through it.

Any ideas?

 

[Ritzy Cat]

LOL

Train up a bunch of great missionaries, and just bombard the Capital. Literally train about 5 of them before sending them up (if you have the faith to do this). Or do it in the midst of battle if you can spread the religion without getting killed

You can also send in a bunch of artillery and just bomb the Capital but don't actually capture it.

Buy all of your AIs a war with him,

 

[Syntax Error]

Bribe everyone to DOW him. That would be quite nice

 

[thadian]

bribe everyone to war him, ally any city states near him, denounce him, plant a spy in his city, send a great prophet + inquisitor to destroy his religion, capture his workers and gift them to the AI!

 

[Callonia]

Don't forget to pillage every improvement he have.

 

[GThreepwood]

Everything they said. Also while you're spying him take a note when he's building wonders which you can build faster so you can troll him 2 turns before wonder finish.

 

[alpaca]

If you're after him in the turn order you could build the UN, let him gobble up all the CS, then buy them off in the last turn. You'll have won, but it's very rage-inducing anyways.

You could also gear up some city states on his continent so much that they are able to raze his cities, then declare war on him.

As for cities, it's much more stinging if you just go for his best science city and leave him the rest. Then don't give it to the AI, raze it!

 

[DutchJob]

Don't forget to pillage every improvement he have.

Especially the virtual ones.

 

[chazzycat]

gift a ton of units to a CS on his island (all at once) then bribe that CS's ally to DOW him in 2 turns. On the 3rd turn all the units you gifted magically show up and suprise the crap out of him...

 

[Febreze]

I hate to be the party pooper of the thread, but to be honest I don't think it's a good idea, at least in the interest of having your friend continue to play with you. People don't usually respond well to having their recently boosted egos systematically dismantled, especially when playing games with their friends. I don't know your friend, but I do know that it will be funny as hell, up until he loses hope of defeating you (probably a major motivator for playing with you in the first place) and decides Civ isn't fun anymore. Sounds , but that's the way many people work. Usually a better alternative is to gauge their skill level and adjust your performance to be slightly beyond that. It still asserts your dominance, while preserving both his ego and his hope of surpassing you. I don't know your friend though obviously, so for all I know it could just snowball into fiercely awesome competition.

I suppose if you REALLY wanted to piss him off, though, build a massive army/navy if you don't have one already and march it close to him without letting him see it. Then, request open borders in the interest of mutual map exploration, then sprawl your units all over his lands. Pay special attention to occupying unworked tiles and roads. He will be unable to move through his own lands effectively or work anything new, and his only options will be to endure it for 25 turns or DoW you, which he knows would immediately doom his whole empire.