Strangest Experience in Civ3?

[mastertyguy]

I also got a ressources disappearing and appearing at the same place. hmmm....

 

[Turner]

I also got a ressources disappearing and appearing at the same place. hmmm....

That happens a lot, interestingly enough.

And with the different ratios to terrain types with Conquests, due to the addition of Volcanos, it seems to happen more often now, too.

But it is indeed strange.....

 

[Pentium]

I had reuced Rome to 3 small cities, defended by a few infantry, I ask for peace, and they offer me 10 gpt+world map!!!!!! I smashed them two turns later...

What did you expect them to offer? Techs, 100gpt? I guess they offered everything they had. Did you ask for cities?

 

[Theoden]

I once saw a privateer attack a barbarian galley, and it looked like one barbarian attacking another.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

In one of my old games the French found a resourse filled Island(2 oil, 1 rubber, 1 uranium and 3 alum). And to my surprise, in order to defend it they put marines on every coastal square. I might be wrong and they could have filled the entire Island and this wasnt strategy but if it was- wow!

 

[Pentium]

That would be called Treasure island. Didi you take it asap?

 

[Mordack]

when the AI's fought so much with each other that there was only two of them left by the industrial age

...all this without me firing a single shot

 

[Michelangelo]

On my current game, everyone is purple-ish.

I'm playing a random game and play as the portugese,

My oponents are: Inca, Chinese, Vikings(Scandanavia), America,Arabs, Iroquois, Aztecs

On the minimap you almost can't tell who is who. Ofcourse I killed the aztecs and reduced the americans to a couple of island cities for color-reasons

 

[aaglo]

Once (like 3 years ago) a resource of iron depleted - just to reappear in the same square at the same turn it depleted

 

[brennan]

A couple of weeks ago, when i flicked over to the Science advisor, he was saying something like "Compared to you, most people have the IQ of a carrot"!
I clicked on him a load of times but he wouldn't repeat it. I was way ahead in tech at the time.

But my all time number 1 surreal civ experience was years ago, when I was playing Civ 1 on my old Amiga (remember them anyone?), when out of the blue a certain Peace-loving, nappy wearing, Indian, who sports nerdy specs and a butter-wouldn't-melt-in-his-mouth innocent grin; nuked birmingham and killed 4 million people.

 

[Luthor_Saxburg]

When AI attacks me for no reason at all and send a few cavalry when they are halfway across the world!

If it's a Civ across the world sometimes I just forget about them until they arrive with *** of fresh units on the worst possible moment!

 

[Luthor_Saxburg]

In one game, on modern times, there was only 2 civ's left: Sumaria (me) and Germans. I had conquered the big island and the small island, whilst he had full control of the average island.

We both had a lot of nukes and SDI. So my plan (in order to win by full conquest) was simple Make RoP with him, find the city with SDI and conquer it in a traditional way... after that...

After spending some $$$ on spies, I could locate the city with SDI... right in the middle of the island. So I signed RoP and put my troops on boats... BUT when I arrived there the AI had all the squares filled with units (Mech Inf)...

Now what?! Re-build my forces based on marines, navy and bombers??? No time for that. Nuke them away... I don't remember how many nukes I used
but the SDI stood there. It was a stalemate... but my conquering dreams vanished like thin air!


Absolutly off-topic: I used to be a pacifist until Civ came along! Just like that old lady in the publicity Civ-4 video, I just want to nuke everybody!

 

[mastertyguy]

What did you expect them to offer? Techs, 100gpt? I guess they offered everything they had. Did you ask for cities?

I did ask for cities, but they didn't want.

 

[777]

Once I got free Meva when I clicked one in stack. It copied itself

 

[DBear]

I was just starting a succession game where I had some expansion civ, so I had scouts. Early in the game, my scout climbed a volcano to look around. The VERY next turn, it starts going active!

YOU HAVE ANGERED THE GAWDS

my scout beat feet outta there.

 

[CoolioVonHoolio]

man, one time i spent my whole game distroying the AI then when i killed everyone else and i was expecting the pop-up saying ive won and it never came up. turns out i set it so i could only win with a spaceship victory. what a waste of time...

 

[Spike59]

I was fighting Russia once. I had just taken a major city of theirs. Two turns later they had a massive sea lift of modern armor next to the city. At first I was marveling that the AI was actually using an amphibious landing correctly, i.e. using massive force in a concentrated area. They brought in 5 or 6 fully loaded transports of modern armor. It was the only time I had seen a good amphibious landing like that. After marveling a bit I realized that with the modern armor they were using they could have attacked directly over land and attacked that turn, rather than having to wait a turn after landing on the beach to attack. Waiting that turn cost them. I was able to rail in enough artillery and armor to wipe out the stack. If they had attacked directly they would have easily taken back the city and captured a significant amount of my artillery. It’s sad. The one time the AI does something right it’s at the wrong time.

 

[FeelGood]

I was fighting Russia once. I had just taken a major city of theirs. Two turns later they had a massive sea lift of modern armor next to the city. At first I was marveling that the AI was actually using an amphibious landing correctly, i.e. using massive force in a concentrated area. They brought in 5 or 6 fully loaded transports of modern armor. It was the only time I had seen a good amphibious landing like that. After marveling a bit I realized that with the modern armor they were using they could have attacked directly over land and attacked that turn, rather than having to wait a turn after landing on the beach to attack. Waiting that turn cost them. I was able to rail in enough artillery and armor to wipe out the stack. If they had attacked directly they would have easily taken back the city and captured a significant amount of my artillery. It’s sad. The one time the AI does something right it’s at the wrong time.

The`re landing not on a city tiles. That`s why they can`t move since landing takes all movement points. That`s the way I understand from your explanation.

As for strangest experience... hmmm ... let me think first! I don`t remember any . Maybe this, I`m always curious as when I conquer the AI capital or an ancient city with wonders, I`ll always get less corruption and waste where else cities near them will always be useless. It looks like, age affects them. But I`m sure I`m wrong. Do I?

 

[Invisible Rhino]

The strangest thing I ever saw in the game I'm currently playing where the Iroquois, Egpytians, and Incas all started within a square of each other. Made them easy pickings for my Gallic Swordsmen though

Also in this game I saw an odd pop up for the first time in three years of civ 3. "Your people want to build the Iron Works."

I spent so long thinking that small wonder was disabled, but I guess I had just never been able to build it.

 

[Luthor_Saxburg]

One more of the AI wonderfull tactics:

I was at war with the Greeks and only one city remained. I needed troops somewhere else, so I just moved few Cavalry next to the coastal city. Next turn I would try to take it with few troops - the city would fall or I would make peace and leave it for later.

The city was in a sort of Peninsula, so the city was a coastal one. What did the smart AI did? Took some troops (Rifleman?) and made a landing next to my troops!
So it was something like:
Square 1: 2 Greek rifleman
Square 2: My cavalary
Square 3: Greek city (let's say Delphos)

Their took out of the city units that could defend it! What happened? I attacked and barely won (destroying their Civ). BUT if they had stayed defending their last holdout... I don't think I could have won.