• Random Dent@lemmy.ml
    26·
    1 year ago

    It’s always fun for revenge stories too!

    I had one game in I think Civ V where Dido was just being an asshole to me the entire game, and in the sort of mid-late game she did her big move and invaded. I lost maybe 3 cities, then the defenses started to hold and I pushed back. Took my cities back and then just kept going, and absolutely refused all offers on peace (which were becoming increasingly elaborate.) Even when every other civilization started denouncing me as a warmonger even though I didn’t start it, I kept going. Eventually got her down to two cities. I took the one closest to me, renamed it to Fart City, then offered it back to her in exchange for peace which she gladly took.

    Then I waited a few turns until it had cooled off, then declared war on her again. This time I took the city on the other side, leaving her with Fart City and about three workable tiles, completely surrounded within my territory. I stayed at war for the entire rest of the game, with troops completely surrounding her. Every time she built an improvement I instantly pillaged it, ever worker was instantly captured, every troop immediately blasted. She just got to live out the next thousand years or so in squalor in Fart City, while every other country denounced me for my crimes lol.

    • I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Dido was starting shit for all of history, then kills your people to take their resources. Too bad there isn’t the possibility for a civilization to overthrow their leader. You could have supported a revolutionary movement in her civilization so she would have been guillotined a la mode, then become allies with the new government.

      At least it sounds like the other civilizations learned not to fuck with you.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 year ago

      There’s actually an old DOS game called Conflict: Middle East where you’re the more or less autocratic Prime Minister of Israel.

      If memory serves, you can invade Lebanon, Syria, even Egypt, but you can’t grant Palestine independence, only decide how much you’ll spend on your military oppression of its people.

      All in all depressingly realistic for such a simple game.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    6·
    1 year ago

    Time for the bomber plane and aircraft carrier :)
    Yes, I have about 15 carriers with each having 2 bombers on each side of the continent + 10 in production.

    You want to declare war? I will declare complete annihilation.

  • kemsat@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Oh man, the feeling of having built an army that can withstand the hordes, adding in the feeling of having commanded that army to victory… oh yeah, it’s good. That’s what the game is all about. Not always with armies, but always still.