Saved by a whim!

[Warlord Mike]

Hiya

I was playing a very much regular Civ 4 game. I was Bismarck and it was an Isolated Start and I was heading for a Space Race victory. After I'd completed the Manhattan Project I built a nuke in Berlin just for the heck of it (I'm a peacemonger). Anyway, eventually I built my space ship. Just to be sure I saved the game before I launched the ship. Launched the ship. Anyway, two turns before Alpha Centauri, bam! Darius I has won a Cultural Victory!

Yeah, I was pissed. Then I remember my nuke. So, I load the game, bomb the living daylights out of the Persian city with the 3rd highest culture and sail onto victory (and managed to make peace with Darius I for a 1,500 gold). And in such a way I was saved just by building a nuke for the heck of it, peacemonger or not.

There were a few funny things that happened along the way.
- towards the end I kept getting offered deals of Their Cow for My Uranium
- Hammurabi built the Apostolic Palace for Christianity. By the time I was forced to join there were three members: me, Roosevelt and Hammurabi. I had one vote, Roosevelt had three and Hammurabi had several hundred
- Montezuma adopted Pacifisim

So. That's that. Feel free to ignore. (I hope this is in the right subforum)

 

[Ramesses]

You should have paid more attention to your opponent's culture levels.

 

[Warlord Mike]

Yes, well, I am a pathetic and insofar unskilled Civ 4 player. But it was a learning experience. Now I do. Pay more attention, that is.

 

[Crime Doesn't Pay]

Yea. I've had this happen to me before. With mansa muss. It took me 2 hours after the game for me to I could have nukes him to Oblivion. But by then I already had already deleted my save.

If you haven't followed your hunch you could have just used world builder. Kabloooooie!

 

[Turquoiside]

MY first game was won, on accident pretty ,uch. Of the many ones, one was where I accidentaly let the govenorspam workers at 2 a turn. Sometimes, the Govener knows best

 

[hexem3117]

MY first game was won, on accident pretty ,uch. Of the many ones, one was where I accidentaly let the govenorspam workers at 2 a turn. Sometimes, the Govener knows best

Please elaborate, for I am much confused by this statement. How did you win? What do workers have to do with it?

 

[RulerOfDaPeople]

Governer? That sounds like a Civ III thing.

 

[Turquoiside]

I was Carthage and had decided to invade Babylon. I captured it, but it was so late it had two finished tiles already. This allowed for a Settler pump while I did my regular actions. The extra workers put my empire into fruition so fast I was soon back from 0% to 605 on the slider. Goveneror are still in CIV if you let them control your city..

 

[RulerOfDaPeople]

What's better? Granting independence and making a colony for your Cities/Empire on other continents, or just letting the governer do it when you have 30 Cities?

I would think with State Property the more cities the more science you got, but it's such a pain to go over everything each loooooong turn.

And since we're talking about sudden AI suprises, don't you just hate it when you have a nice plot of land all picked out with your Settler and his escort a few tiles away when suddently an AI city appears out of nowhere?

 

[ferenginar]

An AI city appearing on my prime spot constitutes a DoW, and is treated as such.

 

[RulerOfDaPeople]

An AI city appearing on my prime spot constitutes a DoW, and is treated as such.

Strong and stern. I like that. How do you handle the diplomacy reprocutions?

 

[Helghallen]

I was in the process of securing my continent with cultural borders (after killing gandhi) when DeGaulle decided he liked a spot on my northern coastline. I went DoW and kicked him off. Then decided to finish the job on his island for his arrogance

 

[Xellos-_^]

Strong and stern. I like that. How do you handle the diplomacy reprocutions?

what repercussion?

you finish the job by either finishing off the AI or vasselize it.

 

[RulerOfDaPeople]

what repercussion?

you finish the job by either finishing off the AI or vasselize it.

I mean how do you handle all the other civs getting mad at you for declaring war on them? They always give you the -1 "You declared war on our friend" against all other civs in the game if that civ had +1 or better modifiers with your victim.