The "OMG! Look what happened!" Thread

[Alexius08]

I want to see AI Spain take over the Netherlands... Anyone ever seen that?

I've seen that and managed to take a screenshot.

Spoiler :

In this case, the Dutch can't handle a war with France, Spain and Vikings all at the same time. Germany won't bother helping Willem.

 

[SilchasRuin]

they never keep it though, it'll get surrounded by foreign culture and they'll either give it to the French or Germans, or it will be given to the French or Germans in a congress

 

[Bouw]

spanish took amsterdam when the dutch were my vassals as I was playing the greek
But i kicked them out and gifted amsterdam back to willem cos i'm dutch myself

 

[hangman]

I've had one game where the Inca where conquered by the Byzantines.

 

[Alexius08]

I've had one game where the Inca where conquered by the Byzantines.

How did the Incans deal with cataphracts?

 

[sennomulo]

A naval battle in Lake Malawi.

 

[Alexius08]

A naval battle in Lake Malawi.

It happened once IRL:

Spoiler :

On August 16, 1914, Lake Malawi or Nyaza was the scene of a brief naval battle when the British gunboat Guendolen, commanded by a Captain Rhoades, heard that World War I had broken out, and he received orders from the British Empire's high command to "sink, burn, or destroy" the German Empire's only gunboat on the lake, the Hermann von Wissmann, commanded by a Captain Berndt. Rhoades's crew located the Hermann von Wissmann in a bay near "Sphinxhaven", in German East African territorial waters. Guendolen disabled the German boat with a single cannon shot from a range of about 2,000 yards (1,800 m). This very brief gunboat conflict was hailed by The Times in England as the British Empire's first naval victory of World War I.

 

[civ_king]

totally epic story

 

[merijn_v1]

Mali colony?!

 

[Ready_set_go]

A naval battle in Lake Malawi.

So I'll assume you've all seen the Mayans in Africa...

 

[duckstab]

It happened once IRL:

Spoiler :

On August 16, 1914, Lake Malawi or Nyaza was the scene of a brief naval battle when the British gunboat Guendolen, commanded by a Captain Rhoades, heard that World War I had broken out, and he received orders from the British Empire's high command to "sink, burn, or destroy" the German Empire's only gunboat on the lake, the Hermann von Wissmann, commanded by a Captain Berndt. Rhoades's crew located the Hermann von Wissmann in a bay near "Sphinxhaven", in German East African territorial waters. Guendolen disabled the German boat with a single cannon shot from a range of about 2,000 yards (1,800 m). This very brief gunboat conflict was hailed by The Times in England as the British Empire's first naval victory of World War I.

Spoiler :

I assume this was the inspiration for "The African Queen".

"By the authority vested in me by Kaiser Wilhelm II, I pronounce you man and wife. Proceed with the execution."

 

[Alexius08]

Hindu Turks in a 600 AD start.

Spoiler :

 

[hangman]

How did the Incans deal with cataphracts?

Not very well, apparently.

 

[Ready_set_go]

Hindu Turks in a 600 AD start.

Mad at the world for being a bad religion!

 

[Gruekiller]

Not too OMG, but I can't recall ever seeing Adrianople before. That qualifies as weird, right?

 

[SilchasRuin]

well, I often build it as the Greeks (Odessos) or Romans, because I think it is abetter site than Constantinople, but I've never seen it built by the AI before

 

[Gruekiller]

I don't think I've ever seen Persia get this big this late in the game. It's about AD 1100. Shortly after I took this screen, they took the Arabs' last city in Egypt and moved on to Ethiopia. Right now they're slugging it out with Mega-Greece in some sort of Middle Eastern battle royale. Can't wait 'till the Turks show up and make things interesting.

 

[sennomulo]

I don't think I've ever seen Persia get this big this late in the game. It's about AD 1100. Shortly after I took this screen, they took the Arabs' last city in Egypt and moved on to Ethiopia. Right now they're slugging it out with Mega-Greece in some sort of Middle Eastern battle royale. Can't wait 'till the Turks show up and make things interesting.

That's a pretty interesting game! Who are you playing?

 

[Gruekiller]

Germany. As of the moment, I've taken half of (and vassalized) Vikings and France, and control a good portion of Central/Eastern Europe (depends on where you place Poland). I'm gonna try to focus on colonial power instead of continental power in this game.

 

[Alexius08]

Who razed Jerusalem?