You know you're in trouble if

[Master Shake]

You know you're in trouble when...

...you're stuck on a continent with the Persians on one side, the Celts on the other, each with access to Iron, and you with access to none.



I wish I had screenshotted that game. Would have made a funny picture...

-mS

 

[Chieftess]

I just had a game like that on Sid level. I had NO resources, but the Byzantines had horses. I was on a fairly small island with a chokehold, so I had 6 cities to their 3, but archers just didn't cut it...

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

I've just been humiliated by the Persians. I landed 3 stacks of modern armour armies, TOW Infantry, Radar Artillery and Mobile SAM's totalling nearly 100 units, supported by two fleets of aircraft carriers, battleships and AEGIS cruisers.

Their small empire (10-15 cities) was defended by Infantry, cavalry, guerillas and leftover immortals, pikemen etc. I captured 1 city which was immediately retaken with the loss of most of that stack. They outnumbered me about 100-1. At least my commanders got what they deserved :die:

 

[col]

Originally posted by Enkidu Warrior
I I landed 3 stacks ... totalling nearly 100 units,
They outnumbered me about 100-1.

So they had 10000 units ?

 

[Sukenis]

This happened to me once. The Arabs got the statue of Zesusvery early on. They were on a small island as well (right by a colony island I had). They declared on me (I think to get the 2 cities I had on a close island). The best units they had were rifflemen and their UU(SoZ had not been obsolete long since they were way behind in tech) to my tanks and infentry. I landed about 8 transports (not at the same time) worth of units on their island.

Each rounds I landed took 20-25 min. Every one of my units got promoted to elite, but it did not matter. Unit after unit attack me. Their UU has a move of 3 so it could retreat from my tanks. I got attacked at least 40-50 times by AC. Another 40-50 with their UU. Then the rifflemen finished off what was left.

In the end my invasion failed miserably. Being a democracy I had to settel for peace and plan a more stratgic invasion (marines to take the first city and 18 TOW infentery to defend it). I was so far ahead of them, yet it was once of the bloodiest wars I have ever been in.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

I played a game once were I was Germany on a small continent with the Persians, Romans, and Chinese. I was sandwiched between all of them, and I was the only one without iron. Then I declared war on China to get some iron and they got the other two to declare war on me in the ancient age. I managed to take half of China and all of Rome until I got overrun by Immortals.

 

[microbe]

Originally posted by col


So they had 10000 units ?

LOL, that would need a lot of cash to maintain. How could they do it with only 10-15 cities? GPT bug?

 

[Enkidu Warrior]

Originally posted by col


So they had 10000 units ?

When you get humiliated by one of those "minor provinces" on the fringe of your vast empire, you will exaggerate aswell. I couldn't say how many units they actually had, but they had the tech lead among the AI so could conceivably have been making loads of cash per turn. After I took the first city, they moved a stack of mixed infantry into a forward position that made me weep, and only then began attacking with cavalry. Several hundred units would be a minimum, I agree 100% that a minor 10-15 city "province" should not be able to support that sort of army, but tell that to my once proud military.

 

[Zardnaar]

Yep I've had disastrous results vs "obsolete" civs before. If the have enough stuff you're going to take loses- sometimes alot of losses.

 

[PorthosdPirate]

Oh joy! You guys are giving me hope when I launch my attack against the Romans. I think Knights are thier most advance unit and they have plenty of them.

 

[Colonel Klink]

You know you're in trouble when...

Your attacking a country and a ridiculous ammount of ancient cavalry come out of one city and overrun your attack group of guerillas, cavalry, tanks and artilery like a bullet through tissue paper.

 

[Goober]

You know you're in trouble when . . .

You are playing a MP game, and you have NO Iron, Rubber, Coal, Oil OR Saltpeter, pretty much everything you need to have a chance at success. (I did have horses, but those are pretty darn useless in the Industrial Era). Oh, and btw, you have friends who have MASSIVE amounts of Calvary and soon-to-be tanks on thier borders, ready to go WWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE through my territory. THEN you have slight disadvantage, since you only have guerillas to defend.

 

[somateria]

I know I'm in trouble when, every time a get 50 or 100 gold in my treasury, I just give it away to save the AI the trouble of demanding it from me. Then, it's just a matter of time before the viking longboats come for me . . .



P. S. How do people win on Sid?

 

[The Economist]

One of the AI's advantages on higher difficulty levels is that it does not have to pay to support its military units. So that's why they can just maintain these enormous hordes of units :-/