Scariest Wars

[americanpotatos]

tell me some of the scariest wars you have been in!

mine was probably when i had 3 countries bordering me (china, egypt, and rome) and i declared war on egypt thinking that i would be able to take a few cities with my mass of swordsman.

i was wrong...

turns out the egyptians had knights all over the place and they pulled the other two countries into the war. china was pulling in their swordsman, and the knights came in like the friggen flying monkeys!

i lost probably 70% of my army and 2 cities but i didnt completely lose everything i was fighting for... until 4 turns later when the cities i captured got flipped

i lost that game

 

[timerover51]

My scariest was early in playing Civ3 Vanilla, and I was on a long skinny continent with Greece on one side and India on the other, with more civilizations on that continent and the others. India put in a city right next to my territory, while Greece kept sending settlers and warriors across my territory from the other side. I got tired of it and trashed one of the settler combinations, and of course Greece declares war. The next turn, the Indian city next to my territory culture-flipped to me. India declares war. I was getting hit from both sides. After two turns, I simply dumped the game and started a new one. That was one of the reasons that I quit playing the standard game and started editing it.

 

[Spoonwood]

That one where I ducked the bullet whizzing by my brain.

 

[Kaidonni]

I'm about to be in one VERY soon, as in just over 20 turns. Playing as the Americans, Monarch difficulty (renamed to New Normandy...it's good to be ), and at the moment, I have a massive Aztec empire on my doorstep. I dealt with the Iroquois, even got these Aztecs to assist (possibly a mistake). The continent is more or less split in two - there's this inland sea, and on both sides of it, I've been building Barricades to discourage further Aztec reinforcements to their newly conquered territories (previously Iroquois settlements which were previously Japanese ). I managed to deal with the main part of the Iroquois empire, mind you, so I have a great centre of production, and hefty conquered territories, but they make up the south east of my empire. The Aztecs are to the southwest and west, as are the settlements they conquered from the Iroquois... I'm fed up of the Aztecs, basically. They have a massive army, it keeps growing and I only just held my own in the last war with them, centuries ago now (it's now 1080AD), and I believe back then Fortresses/Barricades are what discouraged them from advancing further (I effectively pushed them back to the inland sea I mentioned earlier). The current building projects should seal the land bridges, but there are more than enough Aztec forces on my end to pose a dire threat.

So, Golden Age hit me just recently (built Copernicus' Observatory...darn Mayans stole Leonardo's Workshop, and with ONE turn to go too! I suppose I shouldn't be too angry, though, I switched to the Observatory and got it in a single turn and this Golden Age ). I'm building up three separate armies to strike at the Aztecs. Lemme see...15 Medieval Infantry, 7 Longbowmen, 7 Trebuchets...possibly 5/6 Musketmen also in each army. If they want a war, they got one!

But, you know...even the best laid of plans can be ruined.

I fear this will be the pre-requisite to a full-scale war the likes of which I have never fought in this game, and I'll definitely need to hold the seas and those land bridges. The seas because the Aztecs have an actual navy (but I can navigate Sea squares, so I can blockade, or at least delay, any naval transports). The land bridges because...well...you ever seen Star Trek Deep Space Nine, and the episodes when they mine the mouth of the wormhole to stop the Dominion bringing further reinforcements into the Alpha Quadrant? It's like that, it really is. I make no assumptions it will be easy, so that's why I am building these (possibly overkill) stacks of doom. Better to be safe than sorry! I just dread starting the war, and where the Aztecs will send their forces...

 

[Aabraxan]

Probably my first war in my first successful Emperor game. I played as the Iros and the Romans settled within 3-4 tiles of my capital, crowding me pretty hard. That was before I could even get to iron working or horseback riding, so my entire military consisted of 4 warriors and 4 archers. I had 4 cities, so the warriors were busy on MP duty. I had to attack Rome with my grand military might of 4 archers! I figured I'd better deal with that city before Rome got Legions. I lost 3 of my archers in the first assault! Fortunately, I destroyed the city with that last one.

 

[timerover51]

That one where I ducked the bullet whizzing by my brain.

If I thought that AmericanPotatos was referring to real wars, I might have included nearly being called back on active duty twice even though medically retired from the US Army for disability in 1978. The first was during the 1st Gulf War in 1991, when the US Marines nearly put me back on active duty, and the second was during the invasion of Afghanistan, when the DIA almost pulled me back in with the idea of sending me to Afghanistan.

 

[Spoonwood]

Timerover51,

I merely meant my comment as a joke. My apologies if I drudged up unwanted memories.

 

[Snarkhunter]

Timerover51,

I merely meant my comment as a joke. My apologies if I drudged up unwanted memories.

Well, you dredged up memories of my draft number being 3 I just missed on that, which was probably better for everyone all around

My scariest wars in C3 are right now, adjusting to emperor. The AI isn't afraid to tackle an army or two, has lots of units & if I have to invade across water, usually has infantry defenders crawling out the walls. Plus it declares at the drop of a hat & will dogpile at a moment's notice. It's. . . educational

kk

 

[timerover51]

Timerover51,

I merely meant my comment as a joke. My apologies if I drudged up unwanted memories.

Actually, my wife was the most upset about the possibility of me going back on active duty both times. She had this sneaking suspicion that I would not stay safely in the rear, but instead go forward and make sure some of the ideas that I came up with were being used and working properly. The Marines were kind of thinking along those lines in 1991. In Afghanistan, that would have been pretty much a certainty.

Well, you dredged up memories of my draft number being 3 I just missed on that, which was probably better for everyone all around

Snarkhunter, when I signed up for ROTC in 1971, and competed for an ROTC scholarship, my draft number was 339. The ROTC Department at Western Illinois U had no doubts whatsoever that I was a genuine volunteer.

 

[pat1968]

Current game, picked marlas european map for a change, as the english..monarch difficulty, most the civs included.

Things went ok, scottish killed off early, managed to settle ireland... even managed to keep control of unit costs during early republic and beelined to Military Tradition (now im a cav/army fan).

Then...houston we have a problem!, no saltpeter or horses on the british isles!. I could secure horses, but NOONE would trade me saltpeter for anything i had to offer! So, i took a look, and nearest to me was spains /(huge civ), but quite deep in.

Sooo i researched chivalry and built a pile of galleys and knights and trebuchets and went to war ... fully expecting to lose all my units in 3 turns and be invaded.

As it happened... i captured 4 cities but couldnt reach the saltpeter before war weariness killed off the war.. and had to pay over 2k to get it off the romans later... but its the earliest ive ever had MA and epic so not a complete loss

 

[char81]

It was a huge map with Persia and Me as Germany I declared war on them, they had huge amount of stacks of riflemen against my cites on the other side of the map from where my core was. Yet I prevailed.

 

[bob rulz]

One game I was on a Pangaea, standard-size 8 civs. The Iroquois became a runaway civ and controlled about 70% of the continent. Eventually it was down to me and them. Sure enough, they declared war on me, and not only were they much bigger, but they were much more advanced.

They took a bunch of territory from me early on, and there was no stopping them, and they ended up winning a domination victory (only time I've ever let another AI get domination...I assure you I'm never letting that happen again!).

Another game I lost after getting just destroyed by the Iroquois very early on...you know those Iroquois.

In one of the first games I played (vanilla civ 3) I was attacked from both sides by Egypt and Rome. I lost all of my territory except for 1 faraway city. I played for about 20-30 more turns just for the hell of it before someone came in and took my last city.

And just recently, I played all 31 civs for the first time. The Mayans "sneak-attacked" me early and caught me off-guard. I was able to beat them back eventually, but the damaged caused was enough, and pretty soon I was attacked by Portugal, India, China, Spain, and the Hittites (who did the most damage as they were right next to me). I held out as long as I could but as they were more powerful than me they gave outrageous terms for peace. I was able to get peace with some of them (India and Spain) at the cost of a couple of crappy cities, but the Hittites and China kept pushing, reducing me to about 5 cities and eventually I gave up as even if I did sue for peace, I knew there was no way I would ever catch up. That was definitely the worst game for me in quite a while (aside from any games where I got stuck on an island and gave up quickly).

 

[Spoonwood]

My American war here, from my military advison, LOOKS pretty scary.

 

[TheOverseer714]

A scary war for me, as Japan, I was at 65% and had to attack Sumeria to win. I captured their island towns where we shared islands and a couple of their mainland cities. When I ran out of steam, I battened down the hatches and prepared for the counterattack. What a storm it was. I lost everything on the mainland that I had taken and a little more to waves of cavalry. When it ended, I won, but by a tiny bit. Sumeria always is a powerhouse in my games.

 

[CommandoBob]

My scariest war was back in CBob01, as Russia, fighting the Hittites in the Ancient Age. It wasn't so much the war itself, it was the fact that this was an AW Training Day Game and I was really depending on someone else to help coach us through this attempt, but they weren't able to participate. This was also, as best I remember, my first Always War game, too!

So here I am, leading a bunch of others in an AW game, hoping to teach them how to make war in this manner, and I don't have a real good grasp of what to expect!

Yeah, I was scared!

 

[LoraHup]

What the scariest movie youve ever seen?
I saw the movie The Omen the one that came out this year. I saw it in the movies and I got pretty scared for awhile, tough time sleeping and everything

 

[Aabraxan]

My scariest war was back in CBob01, as Russia, fighting the Hittites in the Ancient Age. It wasn't so much the war itself, it was the fact that this was an AW Training Day Game and I was really depending on someone else to help coach us through this attempt, but they weren't able to participate. This was also, as best I remember, my first Always War game, too!

So here I am, leading a bunch of others in an AW game, hoping to teach them how to make war in this manner, and I don't have a real good grasp of what to expect!

Yeah, I was scared!

That one was scary! I think that might have been my first AW game, too.

Edited: Welcome to CFC, LoraHup.

 

[TheOverseer714]

Scariest movie? I've never seen it but Mama Mia! is it. Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan sing the songs of ABBA. What could be more frightening? Getting back on subject, another scary war that I had was against a modern age Maya powerhouse. Fortunately, they had no oil to build tanks, or I would have never won.

 

[CommandoBob]

Off Topic
I was surprised at how good a singing voice Streep has. The man who was once 'Bond. James Bond.' well....not so good. On the plus side, they both took the roles and insisted on singing their own songs, not have them dubbed over in post production. So while I don't like his voice, I do admire his gutiness to do something as best he could, even when his best wasn't very good.

It coud have been worse; it could have been William Shatner in that role!

 

[Sashie VII]

This was way back, I was playing Korea on a large continental map, Emperor IIRC. I've just upgraded ~50 horsemen to knights and they're marching to my southern border to greet some Mayans. The core of my empire is relatively empty (really, it's empty) and immediately after I declare war (on the Mayans), they sign the Arabs to my east on their turn, and I was left cursing as the Ansars rode in on their turn. In numbers. To put things in perspective, it took about 3-4 turns for my knights to get from the Mayan border to the Arabic front.

Took me quite a few turns to clean that mess up. Wasn't fun.

EDIT: In retrospect, that would've been an amazing story chapter.