Wiped out a civ in one turn.

[FrenziedEye]

Hey.

I started off a noble game as the Incans, with Izzy's settler and warrior one tile to my right. I didn't think it was possible to start off right next to another opponent, seeing as the map size was large.

So taking the biggest risk ever, on my very first turn I used my Quechua to declare war on Isabela's warrior.......and I was successful. I thought it was so funny because I wiped off the Spanish "civilisation" IN ONE TURN!!!.

Sorry to say I have no screenshots; this was a long time ago. so i guess youll just have to take my word for it =P. I eventually won a space race so yeah.... it wouldve been funny if this was a two player game. (but it could have backfired)

Has anyone had a ridiculously similar encounter in their civ gaming experience?

 

[Squidward117]

Well, in Civ III, you could find civs with their pants down all the time. I especially loved to play as the Aztecs. Build 2 Jaguar Warriors and you can basically eliminate any civ you encounter. Great fun...

 

[Macha]

it happened to me a lot in civ3 but not civ4

 

[Viperace]

I remember having that in civ3 (or civ2 ??), then soon after a civ is wiped off, a new civ will join the party at some random location. I guess this won't happen in civ4 .

 

[Emperor2]

You have got to be kidding.

That never happened to me, or anything even close. Wait, once, I was Napolean and had 3 cities with archers. The Romans to the north (they are always the weakest when i play against them) had one city, and 2 archers. So i killed them instantly. Talk about an inspirsation, i had a standard map with 5 custom civs, and by the end of the game all that was not french was 3 American cities. I got a great score for the 5th game I had played. Maby i will post a story about it. Somebody tell me if i should...nah, i can't remember enough of it and i don't have it saved. I didn't know about this site then, otherwise i would have it saved. But that was a great game.

 

[Jmall]

I was playing a 3v3 Multiplayer game. One of my allies was Washington, and started with a warrior. He scouted with his warrior, and a few tiles off was another enemy player's capital. He went in for the kill even though we told him not to. (It basically just ruined the game, as immediatly after everybody on the other team quit)

I also had a similar thing happen to me, only later in the game. It was a 1v1 Duel sized map. He was rampaging across my lands with a massive yet primative army. I was surely dead. So I delayed him with all my troops except for 2, and loaded 2 boats. 1 with a settler and a worker, and the other with a warrior and an archer (closest units I had). I sailed all the way around to the back of the continent, and unloaded both of the ships, established my city. Then I went into his area with my warrior and archer, making another warrior with my city. Next turn he killed my last city that he knew about. But! Much to my relief he left all 4 of his cities unguarded. I captured 3 of them, making units in them. By then he had gotten his army most of the way back. I quickly pumped out catapults, wrecked his army, and then just killed his last city of a population of 2. It was fun...

 

[Dan Quale]

Sometimes with huyana at monarch and above when you play at marathon you find capitol cities with only 1 archer with your starting quecha, you have about a 20 percent chance of wiping them off the game but a 100 percent of taking their worker its a win win situation.

 

[Lord Parkin]

Hey.

I started off a noble game as the Incans, with Izzy's settler and warrior one tile to my right. I didn't think it was possible to start off right next to another opponent, seeing as the map size was large.

So taking the biggest risk ever, on my very first turn I used my Quechua to declare war on Isabela's warrior.......and I was successful. I thought it was so funny because I wiped off the Spanish "civilisation" IN ONE TURN!!!.

Sorry to say I have no screenshots; this was a long time ago. so i guess youll just have to take my word for it =P. I eventually won a space race so yeah.... it wouldve been funny if this was a two player game. (but it could have backfired)

Has anyone had a ridiculously similar encounter in their civ gaming experience?

I've encountered this a couple of times. There seems to be a slight bug in the map generator which will occasionally place two or more civs ridiculously close to one another (capitals overlap). It happens more frequently when you have a higher number of players than the 'suggested' amount for that map size, but it even happens occasionally with the 'suggested' number of civs. Odd...

 

[Tulx]

I remember having that in civ3 (or civ2 ??), then soon after a civ is wiped off, a new civ will join the party at some random location. I guess this won't happen in civ4 .

It was in civ 2. Sometimes it was annoying but most of the times it was quite cool.

 

[Xerxes the Mad]

Just started a game on Pangea (Prince/standard/normal) and...
When I (Cyrus) started I could see the Mongolian scout but not the settler. Then came his capital visible across the water. Rubbed my hands, thinking "Warrior rush, tee-hee" but it turned out he was on a peninsula blocked from me by a mountain (no, really). And all I could do was sit and watch him build archers...
This was Pangea+Natural - always seems to put me on a spit of land and if I'm lucky there's seafood.

 

[The Flame]

Once me and Isabella started off fairly close. I had a warrior, she had a warrior (forgot what Civ I was playing). She used her warrior to explore. I sent my warrior out of my city and near hers. When she was far enough away from my city, I declared war. In two turns I destoryed the city.

That was pretty funny. However, by teh time I got to other Civs they had a decent defense.

 

[MinotaurWarrior]

Oddly enough, I did this against the Incans. Basically we were on a very small peninsula, very close together (my first cities little culture square cut him off from the outside world). I Could see when his first Quechua stared banging against my cultural borders. I Took my first warrior and ran up to his border, skipped my turn (so that my warrior would have the advantage in the race to the unguarded capital cities) then, declared war by entering his territory. I captured his city without resistance

 

[dazman92]

i did that once, kinda.

playing as Cyrus in Warlords on a duel map. rush to HR, get it in capital borders. rush 2 workers to get it, spit out 10 immortals, kill Hannibal halfway across the map.

good times...good times.

 

[Gooblah]

I've had starts like that. Isabella had founded Buddhism in Madrid, but was STILL building a warrior, so I took her out. She was surrounded by plains and grasslands, so she was at 10 culture, 2 pop. I kept the city. Also, I played as Louis XIV, and was on a tiny "continent" w/ Washington. DC was 5 tiles north of Paris. He fell easily.

 

[kirbystarfan]

I had a great start. Not only were there about 5 clams in my capital's radius, Hatshepsut was about four squares to the north. I got lucky and attacked while there was no defender. I attached the save in case anyone's interested.