The "OMG! Look what happened in DoC!" Thread

[Tomorrow's Dawn]

How come you're trying to go west instead of east in this Persia game? Isn't the best tactic to usually kill India?

I finally rolled a start with a weak Babylon and rolled over Greece & Rome.
No Oracle but it turned out to be inconsequential in the end.
Founded Buddhism, Catholicism & Islam and have all the Buddhist wonders and teching Education at 900AD.
I wiped several times on a few earlier attempts doing India because Greek conquerors were too overwhelming and you have to maintain your core to expand.
Arabia is completely manageable if you can keep Phoenicia and Egypt alive and strong.
I emptied Babylon and Shush for the whole ten turns and just built Wealth/Wonders.
I'm currently preparing for Seljuks and Ottomans.

 

[Shadow Merc]

I finally rolled a start with a weak Babylon and rolled over Greece & Rome.
No Oracle but it turned out to be inconsequential in the end.
Founded Buddhism, Catholicism & Islam and have all the Buddhist wonders and teching Education at 900AD.
I wiped several times on a few earlier attempts doing India because Greek conquerors were too overwhelming and you have to maintain your core to expand.
Arabia is completely manageable if you can keep Phoenicia and Egypt alive and strong.
I emptied Babylon and Shush for the whole ten turns and just built Wealth/Wonders.
I'm currently preparing for Seljuks and Ottomans.

Man, I jelly. I'm hoping one day to have a Persia game like that without needing to restart multiple times.

 

[THEK1NG]

What a terrible Mexican start:

A world congress happens a turn after I flip my cities. You can imagine how super-France and not so super-Spain felt about my flipping . I should have just accepted...:

Spoiler :

A war against me and America (my ally). No big deal, AI navy sucks. They'll ask for peace eventually. Wait a second...

Spoiler :

French machine guns?! Stack of doom?

 

[Tomorrow's Dawn]

^I'm more impressed that you managed to flip a Great Prophet.

 

[Shadow Merc]

^I'm more impressed that you managed to flip a Great Prophet.

And that just about everyone declared war on him for the Congress flip refusal. I've never seen Congress results that bad.

 

[ales_]

Where do you see a GP?

 

[THEK1NG]

GP = Cancun (Chicken Itza wonder) Good part is that the city has a LOT of culture. Downside? It's going to be taken by the french in a few turns...

 

[Tomorrow's Dawn]

Where do you see a GP?

Look for the big magenta musical note.

 

[Tomorrow's Dawn]

French Egypt! They swept in after Arabia's collapse.
Ignore everything else. Those are the products of my own creation.

 

[mrrandomplayer]

I finally rolled a start with a weak Babylon and rolled over Greece & Rome.
No Oracle but it turned out to be inconsequential in the end.
Founded Buddhism, Catholicism & Islam and have all the Buddhist wonders and teching Education at 900AD.
I wiped several times on a few earlier attempts doing India because Greek conquerors were too overwhelming and you have to maintain your core to expand.
Arabia is completely manageable if you can keep Phoenicia and Egypt alive and strong.
I emptied Babylon and Shush for the whole ten turns and just built Wealth/Wonders.
I'm currently preparing for Seljuks and Ottomans.

Yeah, I actually rolled a weak Babylon start myself, where they had burned Shush and founded a city 1S of it. I quickly burned their other city and captured Babylon, then swung into India.

 

[Alexius08]

GP = Cancun (Chicken Itza wonder) Good part is that the city has a LOT of culture. Downside? It's going to be taken by the french in a few turns...

Cancun is surrounded by jungle, which is impassable to most units. Unless the French launches an amphibious assault there, you should be fine.

 

[Leoreth]

Not if you have calendar and have improved the Dye there.

 

[THEK1NG]

Continuation of Mexico's WTH
Background: I'm fighting the Mexican Independence war against the French. Got a Great General and promoted a Mexican UU, making him a super soldier. This is at the peak of my Mexico (mostly done with my Great General):

Spoiler :

I was about to start trying to attack the French city in my core when suddenly these new units start appearing:

Spoiler :

Infantry?

Spoiler :

Alexius, you cursed me. A few turns after this, the French launched an amphibious assault and captured Cancun (pictured on the bottom right, hard to see) :'(

Notice the World Congress. This can't be good.

Spoiler :

They took my second core city. I tried denying them in an alternate save... a world war against me started after that.

Okay, at this point I'm done. There is no way I'm going to win, all my troops are in Mexico City and I'm surrounded by the French. The only other territory I own is in California (and Baja California) so I just want peace so I can live...

Spoiler :

Talk about beating a dead horse They want my last good city THEY NEVER CONTROLLED

Spoiler :

Just my luck. A plague and my Great General died. RIP Mexico.

 

[spaceman98]

Won't the plague also stall the French?

 

[Tomorrow's Dawn]

Won't the plague also stall the French?

Not as well as you might think. There isn't any way THEK1NG can come back from this if the French have Infantry.

 

[Alexius08]

Okay, at this point I'm done. There is no way I'm going to win, all my troops are in Mexico City and I'm surrounded by the French. The only other territory I own is in California (and Baja California) so I just want peace so I can live...

What do you have at San Diego? A stack of ships?

 

[Shadow Merc]

Just my luck. A plague and my Great General died. RIP Mexico.

I thought the plague didn't kill units anymore?

 

[VGL]

And in the mean time, England was researching electricity

 

[THEK1NG]

I had a stack of useless workers in San Diego. And the plague barely made a dent on the French, their troops recovered in a few turns.

Besides, I knew there was a 0% chance of winning after they killed my 5-6 promotion Great General. That one calvary unit was the only thing stopping an invading French and after it died... well that's the end.

I collapsed a few turns after I made peace with France (after a few hearty gifts, I even signed a defensive pact). America declared war on me and I gave away all my Californian cities to avoid dying, which probably killed my stability. Was probably the best game I've ever played though!

 

[Stuart98]

What a terrible Mexican start:

A world congress happens a turn after I flip my cities. You can imagine how super-France and not so super-Spain felt about my flipping . I should have just accepted...:

Spoiler :

A war against me and America (my ally). No big deal, AI navy sucks. They'll ask for peace eventually. Wait a second...

Spoiler :

French machine guns?! Stack of doom?

Totally wasn't the cause for the changes in the latest svn.


Someone posted a pic a couple pages back of an American colony in Africa. Does a sort of (Improperly located) Liberia get founded normally or is that a complete random happening?