Civilization stories!

[Josh123914]

Well I'm currently playing A Mod of Ice and Fire, really good btw, basically I started off as Dorne and quickly took the Reach and Stormlands. The Tyrells were wiped out and Renly is squatting up in the Vale with one city.

Things were going well, until I met Daenerys, Edmure and Khal Drogo. Daenerys has tonnes of cities in Essos, as does Khal Drogo who seems to enjoy annexing every Free City I befriend (Essos is about 3x larger than Westeros, so that's the idea really. 2 civs had free reign over a mainly uninhabited fertile land while the other 8 squabbled over a much smaller landmass).
I quickly found that Edmure was to be my main rival on my continent, since he had 10 cities along with whatever ones he puppeted from his wars with Robb in the north.

Then Khal Drogo conquered Myr and Volantis, giving him access to the Narrow Sea. King Robert was right, if he crosses with a Dothraki hoarde at his side no one will be able to stop him.
I decided that to stop Drogo and win I'll need to take all of Westeros and then cross the Narrow Sea, my plans are still unclear as to how to deal with Daenerys but she doesn't seem to be an immediate threat right now so I'll leave it at that.

So my first target was Tywin. I gave him a chance by demanding his gold...... and he accepted........ so then I invaded anyway, razed is only other city to the ground and then marched on Casterly Rock. His navy was tough but I had about 5 trebuchets and wasn't about to build up a fleet or anything.

Tywin is down, with him and the Tyrells gone that's 5 more to go before taking on Drogo.

After him I headed for the riverlands. I burned 2 cities to a crisp and then captured Riverrun. Edmure relocated his capital to Harrenhal and offered me his 3rd largest city along with the peace treaty. I razed that one to the ground too.


Currently I've amassed about 30 units outside the crownlands and plan to wipe out Stannis, from there Renly will drop fairly easily and after that I'll try and wipe the Greyjoys off the map (they only have Pyke, but I only have 1 ship).


Also if anyone wants to add me my user's Josh13914, I can't get good matches online and it'd be nice to play someone on here.

 

[NightmareExpress]

Captured the world piece by piece as Germany.
Gandhi proceeds to threaten me with destruction if I don't trade him some advanced tech for one of the ancient ones I bypassed.

Said no, destroyed India with nukes.
A fate that I would have inevitably faced myself had I allowed Gandhi to continue his passive aggressive-ism.
Because, for whatever reason, Gandhi has the highest chance to go for nukes.
Sick joke by the developers? Probably.

 

[thiosk]

Your friend is a mad builder, like me.

My penchant for building is why I typically do not play competitively.

 

[Evil Smurf]

When I play Alpha Centuri, I always play as Geia and constantly attack with mindworms. Also I go for green, planting forests everywhere I go and destroy The believers before they turn on me.

 

[Kantoken]

Ah yes, Civilization. From the very first one on an MS-DOS machine to the Gods & Kings on a powerhouse, Civilization was and will remain one of my favourite series.

Civilization 2: Gold Edition allowed multiplayer. I've got a lot of amazing stories from this one, but will keep it at one (for now). Me and a close friend were playing an open game (meaning anyone could join), and we're a day into the game when a stranger enters and joins the game. He then proceeds to kick both my and my friend's ass until we're left with only our starting capitals. He then left the game, never to return.
The stunned silence from me and my friend seemed to last forever. What the F just happened?

Civilization 3 - You can conquer cities by having enough cultural influence. France, with its mighty armies, would destroy my units and conquer my cities, but a couple of turns later, my Egyptian culture was high enough to win the cities right back. What followed was a game of back and forth, until my cultural output got so ridiculously high that I was starting to conquer original French cities. Taking Paris had never been so easy.

Civilization 5: Gods & Kings - This game introduced Faith, allowing you to found Religions. Playing with a friend, I found out that you can actually change the name of the Religion you are founding. I won't go into detail, but I laughed my ass off, and finding the silliest names is now a tradition in our games.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Another one: in Alpha Centauri, my lady friend won a transcendance victory over us all, without having ever played a Civ game before, without much help from us.

And then she never wanted to play a Civ game again. We may never know how she did it, how she knew how to do it, and why nobody of us was even close to winning the game when it happened!

I assume it was an online match? Sounds like you might have gotten Cyrano de Bergeraced.

I remember a game of vanilla CiV where I was wandering around with a scout collecting goodie in the opening turns of the game. He hit a "promotion" hut and became an archer, then a second promotion hut and became a Cho-Ko-Nu (Repeating Crossbow - China's unique unit). This was in the early days of CiV, before promotions were patched to be one per unit. Needless to say a Repeating Crossbow unit with ranged STR 10 and multiple shots per turn in that era was absolutely ludicrous, and it proceeded to almost single-handedly devastate my three nearest neighbors, giving me access to all their rich lands and luxuries. Most ridiculously lopsided and easy win I ever enjoyed.

Second easiest was the time I played as Spain and found El Dorado and The Fountain of Youth in rapid succession during the opening exploration phase.

 

[Rayce Archer]

Gonna roll all the way back to Call to Power here.

So a friend and I were locked into an immensely long hotseat against a bunch of AIs. He was going full tilt for space colonization and virtual democracy and all that good shit but I decided naw, time to stick with COMMUNISM. My empire consisted mostly of an archipelago of tropical islands that I shared with a pretty powerful enemy nation that had just started bombing us from space.

However, as communism stayed in place and I started building stuff like robot factories, and refineries in every town, things got weird. The pollution from any one of my cities was easily as high as from a whole opposing country, and my production was so massive that I could shit out a nuke per city in about two turns. As I slowly erased my neighbor with atomic fire the planet literally began to die; first the oceans rose and wiped out a bunch of the enemy, three of my own towns, and some of my friend's, then the individual tiles around my cities just started exploding into irradiated waste spontaneously. I didn't care, I had tens of thousands of public works a turn so I just terraformed them right back. One of the AIs started the wonder that lowers global pollution and eliminates the five worst enemy cities, but I queued it up in my capital and had it in five turns. It didn't help.

Eventually the rain of nukes and sheer unlivability of every part of the planet (except my artificial jungle paradises) simply debilitated all the AI civs, allowing their towns to be subjugated without a fight. To this day I lament the fact that no other civ game has made horrible, earth-murdering bastardy a viable way to win (or let you build cities on the ocean floor for that matter).