Your earliest defeat of another civ?

[mechaerik]

I was playing a Noble Epic game as the Dutch and used my starting warrior to explore. I found out that a few tiles to my south was Asoka, who left his capital unguarded. I declared, moved in my warrior and in 2 turns:

So what's the fastest you've ever defeated another civ?

 

[Turquoiside]

In 2 turns, though the capital is not usually undefended, even by Asoka because the A.I. I'm pretty sure gets a free warrior in its que when the game starts at least on Prince. I deduced this from a WB check that showed the A.iI. making 1 warrior in a turn on its first move, so it can probably explore if it has one warrior....


Edit: I thought you meant duration of the war. Though it is possible with awful luck for the A.I. with only one other civ on a Duel Map to win in one move.

 

[Zack]

In Earth 18, I was Spain and defeated an undefended Paris in 2 moves... but that happens every time.

 

[mechaerik]

In 2 turns, though the capital is not usually undefended, even by Asoka because the A.I. I'm pretty sure gets a free warrior in its que when the game starts at least on Prince. I deduced this from a WB check that showed the A.iI. making 1 warrior in a turn on its first move, so it can probably explore if it has one warrior....

If it was in two turns, that civ must have spawned reeeeaally close.

 

[Zack]

If it was in two turns, that civ must have spawned reeeeaally close.

He means the actual war took two turns.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

If you do something odd like almost no-land tectonics on duel with 18 civs some funny stuff can happen.

 

[6K Man]

I've had 2-turn wars. Enter the BFC from a corner, attack, capital gone, the end.

 

[Conqistador]

On Genghis Kai's giant earth map as the Dutch on marathon speed and noble difficulty, you can walk right into either Paris or Berlin. (both are possible, but the odds of both is around 20% due to a warrior in the 2nd capital by the time you get there) You can also do this with several other civs as well, both Chinese civs can do it to each other, Babylon and Israel (renamed Sumerians) can take out each other. There are several others in addition to these examples.

On earth 18 civs with the same settings as above, starting as Spain. If the warrior is 2 tiles east of your settler, you can take Rome, Paris, Berlin and Athens if you waste no turns. Any other position for the warrior will stop you from getting Athens, and anything west of the settler will stop you getting Berlin.

 

[Neoclast]

On the opposite side of the scale, I lost in 46 turns today on emporer level. got the horde of barbarian archers spawned at the end of my peninsula...

 

[sydhe]

I defeated Shaka once on the second turn. First turn:My settler is at the end of a two-by-one peninsula. My warrior is at the base of the peninsula. I move my warrior one space and Shaka's settler appears next to him. Shaka dies without ever founding a city.

 

[djvandrake]

I took out Isabella around 3300 B.C. with a warrior rush once. Now that I play on Monarch and the AI starts with Archers, it's more like 1800 B.C. to complete a rush.

 

[pfo]

I did the same, against Gandhi, found an unguarded cap in 6 turns.