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Mountain Sage
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Hi again,
I just thought that for a change we could use a bit of humour. After all, Civ playing is also about having fun and having a good laugh, not only temple-building and warfare. Please post your stories about funny/absurd things the AI did (or you did!).
I'll start with mine:
Invasion fleet:
On one on my typical French plays (Huge map, 9 Civs, Monarch, I was on a small continent all by myself). Everything was working fine, meaning a never fired a shot.
Then, when I just had researched Mass Production, my pal Hammourabi kindly sent me a love letter of the kind ‘Give me X or else…’. Since being a pacifist does not mean for me to drop my… well  you understand, I told him ‘go… somewhere else’. My citizens overwhelmingly supported my policy of not falling to blackmail, so we all happily went to war with the Babylonians. 
Encouraged by the popular support, I used my MAR (Massive Allied Retaliation). I contacted all over Civs and for my World Map and 400-500 Gold each, everybody else went to war against the (poor) Babylonians.
That was of course the easy part. I was waiting with a bit of apprehension the arrival of the invasion fleet. My defences were a Spearman in each coastal town (with Mass Production!), plus a Warrior in my landlocked ones, no warships at all. All my coastal town were building factories/hospitals, and before they were building university/cathedral and before…. well, as you know by now, I hate building useless military units.
Then the invasion fleet appeared.  And I started to laugh. And my wife came to see what was happening. And I wanted to explain that an invasion fleet consisting of 1 Caravel and 1 Ironclad was a joke, but she just gave me a pitying look (the one you give to somebody who is playing games he should have stopped playing when he grew up, a very long time ago), so I just gave her a kiss and a goodbye. 
My War Shipyard managed to build a Destroyer (with a capital ‘D’, please), sacrifying a place of learning in the process, and he bravely sailed to meet that rusty Ironclad. I should have listened to those people who wanted to try its effectiveness first. My veteran (at least I did build a harbour in each city) destroyer (with a small ’d’) was promptly sunk by that old and rusty Ironclad.  And the invasion of our sacred motherland began. And I had to stop laughing aloud or this time my wife would have called the doctor. Babylon invaded with two… Pikemen and attacked one of my towns. My brave and lone Spearman easily defeated the invaders, got promoted to Elite, and got a medal from me. Of course, I sacked the Warfleet Chief Engineer.
That was the only shot (with a spear) my armed forces fired during the whole game.
Because, as usual, when I build a proper military I don’t get the chance to use it.
In the meantime, Babylon was happily pounced to rubble by the other 7 Civs. 
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Mountain Sage
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Datajack Franit,
Yes I could, but when playing the French the urge to build improvements is overwhelming. I  to see my city list with only 'wealth' on it. This is why I play the French.
Then I don't mind watching an enemy 12 pop city burning down
P.S. This thread is not doing well. One last try, then I close it:
How to poison tanks:
At a certain point, the Indian decided to invade Babylon. My scouts reported the approach of a mighty fleet (2 Aircraft carriers, 3 Transports, 3 Battleships, 3 Destroyers). Babylon had a large bay between two cities, perfect for a landing. The only resistance was a BIG stack of tanks on a nearby hill. As the fleet approached, the carriers bombed all the infrastructure, but not the tanks. Then as the landing ships approached shore, they bombed the two cities, but NOT the tanks. Finally, the Indians landed 12 War Elephants, right in front of the tanks.
One turn later, my kids came to ask me if I played ‘Jungle’.
But I believe that the AI was more subtle than that. The iron rations of the Babylonians tank crews were probably very bad, so they ate the elephant meat, which was of course poisoned, so they all died. So in fact the whole expedition was to ‘kill’ those tanks with very old and useless units. Do you wish to know how I came with this logical and sensible explanation?
The two towns fell later on to the English, which had to pass in front of the hill to get to the second one, which also fell to them, but until the last turn of the game those tanks never moved or fired a shot from their hill.
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Dominae
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quote:
Originally posted by Jarvin
I promptly started foaming at the mouth, enraged at how the filthy computer cheats... |
Alas, the AI does not cheat in combat...
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Dominae
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Stories like that make me more confident that the RNG is really "random".
Dominae
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Dominae
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quote:
Originally posted by Odin
I hope your being sarcastic. |
Nope! I mean, I sympathize with the bad luck, but nothing demonstrates that something is random like the odd outlying data point.
Dominae
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04-03-2003 16:38
The spearman went from regular to elite with a leader and lost NOT A SINGLE HP! 
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