what's your shortest game ever

[RussiaWarMachin]

I think my shortest game ever was the time I anihalated the Indians in 35 turns. But it was more a thing of luck than anything else. It was on a Tiny Pangea world with only 1 AI player, I was the Russians of course.

First I started on an ideal location, I had 3 weat grasslands a river and ivory all in the square adacent to my starting location. By the time I was ready to build a Settler, I noticed (with my scout) the the Indians were only 10 or so turns away from me. I managed to blocade them in by building cities on there border. On about the 10th turn or so I had some military units and moved in on there 2 only cities. The progress was slow going but with my superiority in cities I was able to vanquish them by the time I had my first technology advance.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Tiny Pangea, 80% water, Aztecs, Emperor. I scored 19.8k points for victory in 1950 BC.

 

[thebignastyone]

i Played for a half hour once and was BEATEN on diety before i even got into the 2nd age. Sad but true.

 

[ChrTh]

Can we include the all mountain 1-turn win exploit?

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Nope.


I can include a 4 turn victory 1 vs 1 against another human player who can remain nameless hehe.

 

[Bouchehog]

I've had a couple of games at higher levels where I've gone for a warrior gambit and lost them. The loss of production and expansion is crippling and if they chose to go to war before you recover you're so fecked! I've lost within thirty turns before that way.

 

[Bacon King]

I won a Monarch game (by conquest) on the 20 by 20 earth map in about 20 turns.

I know, i'm so good

 

[NKorea_Nuke]

I think I won in about 2900 BC on warlord as Aztecs once with Jaguar Warrior rush.

 

[DaveMcW]

Small/Aztecs/Chieftain

 

[JAILEM]

Started game on and surrounded by Jungle. Moved worker north, still in jungle. Moved settler SE, exposed Barbarian directly east. Barbarian attacked, I'm dead.

Suffered Military defeat in 4000BC.

Elapsed time, 30 sec!

 

[amirsan]

What about the longest???

 

[Inter4]

@amirsan: 24 hours, 35 minutes Pangea/Regent/Huge/Ottomans/Diplomatic Win

 

[Beanzy]

I once arbitrarily desided that I didn't like the game and disbanded my settler. Hehe, I lost pretty badly.

 

[billindenver]

Originally posted by JAILEM
Started game on and surrounded by Jungle. Moved worker north, still in jungle. Moved settler SE, exposed Barbarian directly east. Barbarian attacked, I'm dead.

Suffered Military defeat in 4000BC.

Elapsed time, 30 sec!

OK, that's pretty funny. Not a heck of a lot you could have done about it either. I've never had my original settler get killed. It shoulda let you keep playing. Maybe your worker would pop a settler from a goody hut.

My shortest game (that I played to near conclusion) was probably 2000BC. Great start location, started pumping out settlers and had 4 cities up in short order. England was blocking me in though and I had little more room to expand. England suddenly demanded something from me, and I refused. They came at me with a warrior and spearman against my spearman/warrior defender in my capital. Two attacks later, my capital was gone



Still, I figured there was hope. I attacked with swords and warriors, he with warriors and spears. After about 10 attacks, he had captured 3 of my 4 cities, and I had lost 50% of my counterattacks. It was hopeless at that point, since every city except my capital was burned the ground and I had only one city remaining with one defender, and England wasn't speaking. I quit.

 

[spanna88]

Monarch, Standard, 8 AI Civs, Space Race Victory at 1100AD.

Could Have won earlier but I wanted to get the Ottomans and The Arabians of MY Continent.
That said I have suffered some truly embarassing defeats

 

[Junzi Nicuzn]

It was my first monarch game.
Huge Pangea Map, 8 Other Civies

I was Rome, founded my city, built an archer and started exploring. After a few turns I found out the Aztec capital was close to mine, so I started producing archers for a rush.

I sent 4 archers to attack their capital. Unfortunately they had Jaguar Warriors and I made the mistake of attacking over a river.

So my archers fail, and I'm at war with the Aztecs. They send 5 Jaguar Warriors down to my capital (which was my only city because of the rush). Rome was on a plains square next to a lake but no river (in other words, my archers got no defense bonus)

My archers (3 of them) amazingly held of and killed 4 Jaguar Warriors (I lost 2 archers and the third was in the red), but the fifth Jaguar kills the archer and captured my capital.

I lost before I had even made one technology advance (was working on bronze working)

-My pathetic first attempt at monarchy game-

 

[puglover]

Originally posted by amirsan
What about the longest???

18 hours. And it didn't get finished.

 

[Azale]

I had a 56 hour game as rome (my very first real game) on a huge pangea map.

Won a culture victory (cheiftan)

 

[Bamspeedy]

Longest game-
I had a GOTM take 85 hours. I know other games have taken me longer, especially on the huge maps when they were bigger than they are now, but that was before PTW (to know exactly how many hours I spent). I'm guessing my HoF game took 200 hours or more.

Shortest game-
Don't remember the dates or time, but was sneak attacked by the Germans on a tiny map and by the English on a huge map (both deity level), and when I had only my capital.

 

[Fanatix]

My shortest game was the Zulu against the romans, tiny, raging barbarians, archipelago, 80%, cool, normal, 5 billion, chieftain.
The Romans were 4 turns away from my capital and unprotected, so I traded for bronze-working, and sent one impi into Rome.
The game was over in 3350 B.C.