Gogf
Indescribable
BTW, why was everyone's first game as the Aztecs?
Tell of your very first Civ gamebefore you learned how to play
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BorgeoisBuffoon
Local Idiot
I did fairly well per se, but I was too cocky and put in a game at too hard a difficulty for my first game. I only had four cities and India was about to capture Philadelphia. 
Brewster
stays crunchy in milk
I picked up a copy of Civ3 (my introduction to the series) last Christmas after watching a buddy playing it. Every strategy game I had played up until this point had been in real-time. I was giddy with excitement as I watched the game load and finally I was ready for world domination (warcraft style - attack anything that is not yours).
I started out by reading the manual (complete waste of time) and selecting Japan as my civ of choice. By 100AD I was at war with every civ in the game and trailing in every measuable category. I was sending out settlers unescorted, sending single units (mostly spearmen) at well fortified towns and cities, and only had two workers trying to link my five towns together. It was a slaugter. By 250AD my game was done.
Shortly after that (and several more) humiliating defeat(s), I came to the realization that I was no longer playing warcraft and decided to go online for some serious help. I found CFC and the rest is history.
I started out by reading the manual (complete waste of time) and selecting Japan as my civ of choice. By 100AD I was at war with every civ in the game and trailing in every measuable category. I was sending out settlers unescorted, sending single units (mostly spearmen) at well fortified towns and cities, and only had two workers trying to link my five towns together. It was a slaugter. By 250AD my game was done.
Shortly after that (and several more) humiliating defeat(s), I came to the realization that I was no longer playing warcraft and decided to go online for some serious help. I found CFC and the rest is history.
I was the Greeks (don't remember why) and managed to get several wonders in my capital before my first war (chieftan level, of course). Nice big city, my capital was.
My other cities (all four? of them) were strung out along the coast and one inland. Had Egypt in the south and India to the North. Egypt attacked and I just barely held her off. Got a GL from the battle but had no idea what I was supposed to do with it. So, I tried to attack with it. Heh!
India then came at me from the North and managed to get my capital and one other town. I held them off for a while in my remaining two cities. Meanwhile, my capital kept flipping back to me because of all the culture in it. Must have happened like four or five times. I just never had enough troops to hold it each time. Well, then India got the Jumbos and that's all she wrote. All I remember was tusks and trunks!
Man, was that poor!
My other cities (all four? of them) were strung out along the coast and one inland. Had Egypt in the south and India to the North. Egypt attacked and I just barely held her off. Got a GL from the battle but had no idea what I was supposed to do with it. So, I tried to attack with it. Heh!
India then came at me from the North and managed to get my capital and one other town. I held them off for a while in my remaining two cities. Meanwhile, my capital kept flipping back to me because of all the culture in it. Must have happened like four or five times. I just never had enough troops to hold it each time. Well, then India got the Jumbos and that's all she wrote. All I remember was tusks and trunks!
Man, was that poor!
KingBruiser
Chieftain
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KingBruiser
Chieftain
I was used to civ2 so i was trying to build a road with my settler LOL, oh i was england and got battered on regent
NankingDan
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I was the Greeks, and in about 400 BC I was absolutely raped by the Egyptians. I had seven cities, only two workers, and an average of only one hoplite and one warrior in every city. I remember being amazed that they had stacks of five archers attacking my cities. Stupidly, I had almost all my military in my capital and nearly none on my borders
NankingDan
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I was the Greeks, and in about 400 BC I was absolutely raped by the Egyptians. I had seven cities, only two workers, and an average of only one hoplite and one warrior in every city. I remember being amazed that they had stacks of five archers attacking my cities. Stupidly, I had almost all my military in my capital and nearly none on my borders
Samurai Matt
Chieftain
Ah yes. I was introduced to Civ3 by my brother, who had borrowed it from a freind. My first game sucked, to say the least. I played as the Americans, and I filled the AI roster. Fortunetlly, I played as a cheiftan. Unfortunatlly, I didn't understand the full concept of territorial borders. I ended up at war with virtually every civ on the same continent as me. I managed to just barely get into the industrial age before the Zulus finally wiped me out. I didn't produce much except units (I think I may have built the Pyramids, but nothing after that), most of which were workers and settlers. I didn't give the slightest thought to escorts for settlers until two games later, when I saw the Americans (I was playing as greeks) do it.
My 1st game of Civ 1 was at a friends (I had no PC, I was um 11?) I only did what he told me to but clearly he did not know all to much about the game. I remember building a granary a market place and finally a second city. I always liked to look in the city when it grew.
When I went back home I did not have contact with any other civs, had only 2 cities and all the area around was still black...
In Civ2 my 1st start was on the South Pole!
But I did not play for more than 5 or so turns. Not because of the bad start but because Civ2 was my X-Mas present and it was like December 20th when I took it out of my parents room (they were not at home) and tried it out. I decided to deinstall it and put it back after reading the "Changes over Civ1" part in the manual.
Civ3 1st game was on Regent, I was Greek (I think, not sure) together on an island with the Egyptians. After noticing that Egypt had 7 cities compared to my 3 I realized that something must've went wrong. I declared war in order to change the cities number to my favour but the egypts did not take long to finally wipe me out...
When I went back home I did not have contact with any other civs, had only 2 cities and all the area around was still black...
In Civ2 my 1st start was on the South Pole!
But I did not play for more than 5 or so turns. Not because of the bad start but because Civ2 was my X-Mas present and it was like December 20th when I took it out of my parents room (they were not at home) and tried it out. I decided to deinstall it and put it back after reading the "Changes over Civ1" part in the manual.Civ3 1st game was on Regent, I was Greek (I think, not sure) together on an island with the Egyptians. After noticing that Egypt had 7 cities compared to my 3 I realized that something must've went wrong. I declared war in order to change the cities number to my favour but the egypts did not take long to finally wipe me out...
Charlie
Chieftain
Very first game was Colonisation: Played to the end and won far too late for a decent score. But I whipped the French: Woohoo!
Very first game of Civ was about ten years ago: I lost in early AD to a Zulu Chariot that wouldn´t die.
Brief flirtation with Civnet was all good as the AI was far too dumb to survive: a definite Darwin awards candidate!
Civ2 was about 6 years since: I won on Prince having plated the peace/war flip gambit to completely slaughter the Greeks when crossing from America in 1000AD.
Civ3 I got 2weeks ago, I started on Regent, huge world map, as my Civ2 level was usually Emperor or King and I decided to make it easy first time. Gosh, but Civ3 is somewhat harder than the previous incarnations. I lost having told the Iroquois with whom I shared South America where to go when they demanded tech. They attacked with mounted warriors and by the time that I ´pacified´them I was so far behind the rest of the world that I lost the Space race by about 5 turns to the Russians who had had it really easy on their own continent.
I have since won on Regent twice and am moving up next game. But I still dislike the Iroquois, that Mounted Warrior gives such a huge advantage in the early game.
Very first game of Civ was about ten years ago: I lost in early AD to a Zulu Chariot that wouldn´t die.
Brief flirtation with Civnet was all good as the AI was far too dumb to survive: a definite Darwin awards candidate!
Civ2 was about 6 years since: I won on Prince having plated the peace/war flip gambit to completely slaughter the Greeks when crossing from America in 1000AD.
Civ3 I got 2weeks ago, I started on Regent, huge world map, as my Civ2 level was usually Emperor or King and I decided to make it easy first time. Gosh, but Civ3 is somewhat harder than the previous incarnations. I lost having told the Iroquois with whom I shared South America where to go when they demanded tech. They attacked with mounted warriors and by the time that I ´pacified´them I was so far behind the rest of the world that I lost the Space race by about 5 turns to the Russians who had had it really easy on their own continent.
I have since won on Regent twice and am moving up next game. But I still dislike the Iroquois, that Mounted Warrior gives such a huge advantage in the early game.
barbslinger
Gun blast'n shot drinker
Played America every time. Lost over and over and over because I decided to start right at Monarch and I had never civved before. I finally went down to the lowest level to get a win. I didn't have a clue what to do with a great leader and tried to attack with him. Whats so great about this guy? Worthless I thought. After finding this site and others and reading countless literature, guides and stories the game is fantastic.
barbslinger
Gun blast'n shot drinker
Played America every time. Lost over and over and over because I decided to start right at Monarch and I had never civved before. I finally went down to the lowest level to get a win. I didn't have a clue what to do with a great leader and tried to attack with him. Whats so great about this guy? Worthless I thought. After finding this site and others and reading countless literature, guides and stories the game is fantastic.
deo
Emperor
After my friend told me how to play civilization 3 (How to move,attack garison...)I played in a normal archipelagro map with the egyptians and normaly a landet in a Island.After discovering the civilopedia good i had meet the babylons in the south.After a long time i have found how to trade maps with the babylons and so I discoverd the entire world.I think it was at 1100-1200 AD A had 2 wars with the babylons and caputerd 3 Citis in my island,1 in the war and 2 by culture.In 1850(I cant remember very good) The germans declared war and some of they units landet in my island and attacked one of my citis but culdnt captured it
After that germany was not in war only with the Iroquis (Because of the Murtal pro..)and i wanted for peace 99999999 gpt.I dont knowed about the bug.Then i rushed so my units,buildings
So i won by Domination.
Sorry if i can't write good
I don't Know very good english
After that germany was not in war only with the Iroquis (Because of the Murtal pro..)and i wanted for peace 99999999 gpt.I dont knowed about the bug.Then i rushed so my units,buildings
So i won by Domination.
Sorry if i can't write good
I don't Know very good english
My first time playing Civ, was years ago with Civ 2.
I had no idea what the shields/trade arrows/gold medallions were, so I simply ignored them, and figured the computer based how long it takes to build things, by how big my city was. I had no idea what a tile improvement was, until halfway through the game. I built a single settler, and improved one tile at a time. I tried building more, but to my dismay, they kept disbanding (I had no idea what unit support was). Eventually, I discovered flight. I was so happy, and started building planes immediately. I built a fighter, and tried to fly it my other city (about 5 million miles away, taken over from a rival civ), and it crashed over the ocean. I figured I didn't take a direct enough path, and I try again.... crash. This time, I thought I'd be tricky... I flew the plane to the edge of the water, thinking it would simply land if I kept it over the land and not the water (made sense to me at the time)... I ended my turn. *click away some boring warning messege* ...Crash... I am shocked, I lost 3 planes, of which took me forever to build (remember I hadn't really improved tiles), so I get so desperate that I cheat and nuke the world. The End
I had no idea what the shields/trade arrows/gold medallions were, so I simply ignored them, and figured the computer based how long it takes to build things, by how big my city was. I had no idea what a tile improvement was, until halfway through the game. I built a single settler, and improved one tile at a time. I tried building more, but to my dismay, they kept disbanding (I had no idea what unit support was). Eventually, I discovered flight. I was so happy, and started building planes immediately. I built a fighter, and tried to fly it my other city (about 5 million miles away, taken over from a rival civ), and it crashed over the ocean. I figured I didn't take a direct enough path, and I try again.... crash. This time, I thought I'd be tricky... I flew the plane to the edge of the water, thinking it would simply land if I kept it over the land and not the water (made sense to me at the time)... I ended my turn. *click away some boring warning messege* ...Crash... I am shocked, I lost 3 planes, of which took me forever to build (remember I hadn't really improved tiles), so I get so desperate that I cheat and nuke the world. The End
atomicgopher
Minigodzilla
I got civ III for christmas, and decided to put it n the drive right away with out reading the manual. I figured I'd be able to learn the game as I played. I had the map on large, and had absolutly no idea how to play. It turns out I got stuck by myself on a very large island, so I started found citys not knowing about corruption, city placement, happiness, technology, or how to manage my budget. The majority of my citys were very close together and in civil disorder. By the time I met any other Civ it was at least 1700 AD, and I was so behind everyone that I quit.
My second game was better. It was on a medium sized pangea map. However I lost to the greeks by diplomatic victory. I let the nukes fly after that and destroyed both the greeks and the romans. the egytians were destroyed early on in the game. I recently opened it back up, and looked around the map to see that half the tiles were desert.
My second game was better. It was on a medium sized pangea map. However I lost to the greeks by diplomatic victory. I let the nukes fly after that and destroyed both the greeks and the romans. the egytians were destroyed early on in the game. I recently opened it back up, and looked around the map to see that half the tiles were desert.
Butz
Chieftain
My first civ game was on Civ II, i really dont remeber it much but i use to play it at a computer store until they took the Civ II game off. 
But then latter on I eventually got the game. But for Civ III all I remeber was that i was the French...well that game didnt last long. 
But then latter on I eventually got the game. But for Civ III all I remeber was that i was the French...well that game didnt last long. My first CivIII game, having not played or heard of CivII before, didn't go well. I was the Americans and I didn't really understand any of the basics of the game except for unit movement. I was convinced that attacking with musketmen worked best, and used about 3, yes 3, to take over a small Civ, Egypt I think. I left them with about 2 cities off on the entire other part of the continent. Then a bunch of turns later I was invaded by my neighbors, Persia, with about 20 swordsmen. I think I gave up on that particular game, as I never got out of the Middle Ages and the Persians messed me up pretty bad. The year was 1922 when I gave up. That wasn't a very good game. Later, I tried reading the entire manual.
Bluemofia
F=ma
i kind of forgot my first game, but i remember my brothers. he was germany, and after about the time frame of 5 cities built, his cities went into disorder, and he was getting mad, and couldent do anything. the cities were in disorder for about 50 turns, when he gave up because of mobs blowing up his buildings.
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