What's your biggest blunder?

[Matrix]

I just made mine. My cities, partly conquered, where too far away from each other. To build cities in between would make them be much too close to each other. So I disbanded some apparently worthless cities so that I could rearrange.

Then I noticed one city wasn't that worthless. The conquered city of London had Great Wall and Pyramids. I just disbanded that city, only to reorganize my empire.

 

[erix]

A nice reorganization.

 

[Krayzeenbk]

I signed MPPs with all AIs but one so that I could gang up on that AI. I didn't look at the wars going on between the AIs though. Result: I end up at war with my rubber supplier after only a few turns of rubber. Another world war....

 

[Strider]

My greatest blunder was when I landed abunch of marines(24 of them) on an enemy AI island.... They were all wiped out the next turn.... about the same time I remembered that marines can attack from sea.

 

[Superevie]

Mine was probably when I was rome. I was bored and launched an attack on the indians. I forgot they had an MPP with greece and greece was right next door to some of my weaker cities. I reloaded fom that bcause it was so stupid.

 

[superslug]

I recently built too many Settlers. I tried to turn one into a city but had hit the 512 city limit so I got the warning instead. I hit F3 to see how many Settlers I had build that I didn't need. I had over 200...

 

[Aggie]

I once voted for the opponent in the UN and lost the game that way

 

[Esckey]

I once let this poor AI Civ live, even signing MPP with him to keep him alive cause of pity and he was suppling me with several resources that I needed. In the end once I had killed all the others I naturally turned on him. That was the hardest wall I've ever had. And to think I could just killed him off early on and gotten ALL of the resources he had and not just some

 

[RegentMan]

I wanted to use cavalry in my new army so I just put in a knight and attacked to get the Heroic Epic. The army died. Pissed me off sooooo much...

 

[Superevie]

Originally posted by Aggie
I once voted for the opponent in the UN and lost the game that way

Why did you vote for your opponent?! I hope you just clicked the wrong button.

 

[Hygro]

Originally posted by Aggie
I once voted for the opponent in the UN and lost the game that way

Well Aggie, I think you've just won the blunder award!

 

[RegentMan]

Well, there are some cases in which voting for your opponent might be smart.

 

[erix]

English is not my main language so I made an interesting mistake;

I thought "abstain" was a name of a leader so I voted for him/her.

 

[Aggie]

Originally posted by Superevie


Why did you vote for your opponent?! I hope you just clicked the wrong button.

I was very excited to beat the AI in building the UN and didn't look properly.

 

[LordKestrel]

I accidently loaded a warrior into my 2 knight army, instead of loading it into the galley that was also in the city

 

[Coorae]

I renamed my victorious knight to "Knight in Galley". that didnt work too well

 

[carlosMM]

buying Civ3. My social life was shot!

 

[RazorChain]

Well....I bought a French version of the game...and I'm not that fluent in french yet...so I had trouble reading about some units.....So when I got my first tactical nuke, I nuked a stack of Tanks and MI that were next to my capital.....:suicide:

So much for stopping that invasion

 

[Krayzeenbk]

This is good stuff...... Some of these may be eligible for the Darwin awards

 

[sabo]

Mine was when I first started playing Civ III a long time ago and I was making a gold per turn deal with an AI civ, well you know the two sides say "We'll accept" and "We'll give" well I forgot witch "We" was who, I ended up thinking I got a GREAT deal, the next turn my gold is draining at about 150 GPT, I was GIVING the gold rather than TAKING the gold... yeeesshh