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

[apenpaap]

I played that game on until the 1850s, interfering with other civs as little as possible so I could see how they did on their own.

The Byzantine Empire expanded a little more into Europe, taking Italy and later Wien, and vassalised the displaced Turks. They lost a few cities to the German flip, but kept doing very well, with Greece, Turkey, Austria, Italy, Babylon, the near east, and part of Arabia in their empire.

However, somewhere in the 1830s they lost Verona and Sparta to a congress and collapsed the next turn. Their unique power kept them alive, but then Russia suddenly steamrolled through Turkey with a stack of Cossacks.





Another strange thing in this game: when America spawned (having only French and Spanish colonies to flip since I killed England), it received the name Empire of Columbia. Constantinople was the holy city of Catholicism, while Rome was the holy city of Orthodoxy. France also got a very strangely shaped country when it respawned:

 

[DC123456789]

I guess America switched to Monarchy as soon as it spawned- which is really far too common.

 

[High Emperor]

I started a marathon, 3000 BC America game, just to see what the AI would do. And this is what I found...



Rome is a farm, controlled by no one. Guess the Pope is a hermit.

Also, Russians in Italy.

 

[Royal Tenenbaum]

I started a marathon, 3000 BC America game, just to see what the AI would do. And this is what I found...

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Rome is a farm, controlled by no one. Guess the Pope is a hermit.

Also, Russians in Italy.

Nobody dares build on the Pope's farm, it causes super instability.

 

[Daedwartin]

Nobody dares build on the Pope's farm, it causes super instability.

GET OFF MY FARM! YOU GERMAN/FRENCH/SPANISH/ARAB/TURK/...RUSSIAN?...what are you doing over here?/POLISH/ANYONE WHO DARE TAKE MY FARM.
While I run Catholicism from it at least

 

[Pavel Chichikov]

literal lol

 

[apenpaap]

A couple from my Russia game:

China conquering the Mongols the turn after they spawned. Unfortunately Qara Qorum and the Korean city still flipped to them, respawning them, but they never really were much of a threat after that.

Spain and Portugal collapsing left some odd civs in Iberia.

And finally, one from my recent Carthage game:

That's one city I never expected to found Catholicism... The Celts set up quite a nice empire in France, thanks to the Romans leaving them alone due to being dead.

 

[Bair_the_Normal]

In the second picture, is that... The Big Blue Blob? O_o

 

[Locutus_Morti]

Greece, doing something for once. Incredible.

 

[Daedwartin]

in the second picture, is that... The big blue blob? O_o

RUUUUNNNN! THE FINAL BOSS HAS TRANSCENDED FRANCHISES AND COMPANIES!
...yep. It be a blobing france

 

[eel]

Greece, doing something for once. Incredible.

Greece usually does well when Rome dies before it has chance to roflstomp Greece with free legions and catapults

 

[apenpaap]

Yeah, Greece, like the Celts, was doing very well, being about the size of the Byzantine flip zone. Since I had never bothered settling Sur, I wasn't at war with them either. It seems Carthage would really have been doing a public service by winning the Punic wars.

And in the Iberia pic, France was huge indeed. The Holy Roman Empire collapsed early too, and they got most of it.

 

[dmitrytrue]

Koreans spawned, and what did they see?
If i were Wang Kon, i would be surprised.

 

[dmitrytrue]

It turns out, if you build Cape Town with third settler, you can move galleys loaded with starting legions farther to China
Also, China is easy to conquer in the beginning, you have to deal with archers and catapults, besides, cities should be connected, and you will be able to produce new legions using slavery

 

[Daedwartin]

Koreans spawned, and what did they see?
If i were Wang Kon, i would be surprised.

Yeah, for a player to do it, not OMG. But true, inversely, of you were Corea, I be cursing a storm now.

 

[Tomorrow's Dawn]

Wat.

 

[mykeedee]

^ Russians in the middle east are surprisingly common in my games.

 

[Tomorrow's Dawn]

^ Russians in the middle east are surprisingly common in my games.

...It's not just that, look again.

 

[DC123456789]

Ottomans controlling Egypt? (which isn't really that uncommon) France actually colonizing Madagascar?

 

[mykeedee]

...It's not just that, look again.

Russians in Greece? Turks with capital at Antioch? crappy city placement all round?