Your most embarrassing mistakes...

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In the midsts of a domination victory. Mansa Musa and I are tied in tech, but my empire is larger and my millitary production capabilities far exceed his. I decide to take the plunge and go after Mansa Musa, but en route, I have a brief stop at Tokugawa's place for a little rape and pillage. Tok is Mansa's neighbor and I really just want an air base to launch my bombers against Mansa. At this point, Tok's been holed up building war elephants or something equally meaningless to my tanks. In the same turn that I declare against Tok, I completely wipe out his northern territory and move my entire air force into one city. (See it coming?)

I'm cocky. Nothing Tok's got can possibly touch my one injured tank in the city and the other 16 that have already moved that turn.:confused: Guess I should have checked that before I moved my airforce in, huh?

Brave little tank must have beaten about a dozen horse archers and pikemen before falling. I think I lost over twenty bombers. Good thing I hadn't declared against Mansa yet.
 
Worst mistake I ever did was in civ 3. I'm basically at war with everyone and I own all the uranium, so I decide to nuke them with my 30 icbms. I move them all to my capitol just for fun, except for the last one... which i accidently press the wrong button and instead of moving it there I targeted it. bye bye capitol and all those nukes too.


a week later (seriously) I nuke a stack of enemy tanks..... which happens to be right next to a city... Ive been very careful with nukes since
 
Oh I got a goodie. It's late game but being the evil maniac I am I decided that my massively overpopulated cities could do with some whipping to churn out a few units for the war I had just started. It was not for a few turns that I noticed that it was not simple war wearyness but bloody "We demand Emancipation" had crippled every city to a stand still and my economy (going nicely but no surplus) to collapse disbanding my hard earned tanks.
 
Its late in the game and I want to get moving on that spaceship. I'm building the space elevator.

Then, I look up, and its 4:00 AM! I have to be in at work in 4 hours! :-)

Breunor
 
Breunor said:
Then, I look up, and its 4:00 AM! I have to be in at work in 4 hours! :-)

Breunor
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And, what? You don't think you can finish the spaceship in four hours?

BD - "Sleep is for the weak"
 
Breunor said:
Its late in the game and I want to get moving on that spaceship. I'm building the space elevator.

Then, I look up, and its 4:00 AM! I have to be in at work in 4 hours! :-)
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Agreed, holding a job was an embarrassing mistake. O_:-} Inteferes mightily with my game play too. (I can get away with posting to a forum while at work... but not taking over a planet.)
 
Buying this game, and subsequently ending up with no more free time for anything else.
 
In a recent game, I had quite a nasty barb problem, and was devoting the production of several cities to swordsmen to clean them out. I did'nt notice the announcement that I'd created a great artist in one of my cities, and promptly sent him off to war. He did'nt fare very well.
 
Barmer said:
And, what? You don't think you can finish the spaceship in four hours?

BD - "Sleep is for the weak"
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Well, there is transit time, showering, etc.

And if I stayed up and DIDN'T finish the spaceship ....... :-)

Breunor
 
This thread makes me feel so much better. Misery loves company...

I've made a lot of the same smaller mistakes in Civ games. I'm still new enough to Civ IV that I haven't made any major blunders there yet, but I'm sure it'll happen before long...
 
OK, I now have another one. In my first major war of the game, I experience severe unhappiness problems and have no religion so can't build temples. Later on Christianity spreads to one of my cities. I'm planning another war and don't want to repeat the problem so I eagerly spread Christianity and build temples everywhere.

See what's coming....?

Yep, I then declare war on a *Christian* opponent. I immediately get around +2 unhappiness in most cities for 'We will not fight our brothers and sisters in the faith' - more than counteracting the temples.

(Edited: Grammar)
 
I made my very 1st spy last night. I was really enjoying watching her do fiips and cartwheels as she pillaged and wrecked production in Tokugowa's cities. Then one turn the "fun" buttons were greyed out. It was only then that I realized that each of those missions was costing gold. I went through nearly 2000 gold wrecking random cottages and resources that he still had more of, and disrupting the builds of cavalry, etc.
 
I'm usually very studious of all the graphs, diplomacy screens, etc.. I'm leading in score and tech with the nearest rival being Egypt. Decide it is about time to expand by taking out a neighbor. I carefully build up my army, check the power graph and decide that Cyrus is ripe for the picking as i appears I have a huge lead in power and a slight lead in tech. I attack and take a city only to see two hugh stacks coming at me. I think, "What the hell", he can't have that many. Go back and look at the power graph again, only to realize I was looking not at the power but at the score graph.
 
Heres one not really game related, but made me want to put my head throught the monitor...I'd turned auto-save off..manually saving every now and again..

Well its late game , Im winning a tense one..suddenly game flips back to desktop..(what the heck..ahh its my cordless mouse warning of low batteries)..doesnt matter I'll just alt tab back..

No I can't Ive got the mem save option on ..well doesnt matter I'll load the auto-save....ahhhh fick...:stupid:

I hadnt saved since the 1700s (it was the 1950s) and the answer is NO I couldnt be bothered to play it all again...taught me to leave the autosave on though...
 
asylumlost said:
Worst mistake I ever did was in civ 3. I'm basically at war with everyone and I own all the uranium, so I decide to nuke them with my 30 icbms. I move them all to my capitol just for fun, except for the last one... which i accidently press the wrong button and instead of moving it there I targeted it. bye bye capitol and all those nukes too.


a week later (seriously) I nuke a stack of enemy tanks..... which happens to be right next to a city... Ive been very careful with nukes since
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Ouch! I can't even compare to that one. :eek:

HawkeyeGS said:
Oh I got a goodie. It's late game but being the evil maniac I am I decided that my massively overpopulated cities could do with some whipping to churn out a few units for the war I had just started. It was not for a few turns that I noticed that it was not simple war wearyness but bloody "We demand Emancipation" had crippled every city to a stand still and my economy (going nicely but no surplus) to collapse disbanding my hard earned tanks.
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I've done that myself thinking I could pop rush, only to experience the same thing. :cry:

My current game I accidently pop rushed a crossbowman in my Captial for 4 population, when I was really trying to move a unit into that city, and my mouse slipped. :mad:
 
I once built the UN hoping for a diplo victory. On the first vote i managed to be the secretary-general. At that time most of my neighbors and i had the same religion. in the next vote i accidently chose free religion and it was passed. Only next turn i realized that this civic causes all the religion diplomatic modifiers to go zero and after that those civs who voted 4 me in the sec-gen vote no longer supported me.
you can imagine what happened next. when the time came 4 thenext sec-gen vote. Washington got all the votes except mine, and within a few turns i was back lookong at the score graph.
 
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