Civ 4

spokomptonjdub · Post by **spokomptonjdub** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:04 am

I am going to shoot this game in the face.

Playing a game tonight, and I have a massive egyptian empire, strongest military, wealthiest, most culture, most advanced.

The Russians declare war, they attack St. Petersburg (which I had captured in a previous war hundreds of years ago).

I have a stack of over 20 units in the city, fortified, ranging from infantry, tanks, gunships, and artillery. They attack my city with 6 units, 1 SAM infantry, 4 tanks, and 1 artillery. They then proceed to completely hatefuck my entire stack, they destroy all my units, and they lose... ONE, their artillery. The city is lost.

THEN I attack Novgorod, passing around the force that took St. Petersburg, with a stack of 11 units, of roughly the same composition as my defensive force. These are also veteran units, with upgrades. There are 4 defenders in Novgorod, all artillery. These four artillery units wipe out my invading force, without a single loss.

This story means nothing and is useless, but I'm drinking heavily while playing and I needed to channel my anger somewhere, as I already punched my desk and came close to hitting my monitor as well.

Must go get... gun

Jesus Christ · Post by **Jesus Christ** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:28 am

Try civ 2 instead.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:11 am

There's no beating the Russians. True story.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:26 am

Civ 4 really did suck balls. I hated it even more than Civ 3.

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:07 am

Grace Alpha Centauri instead.

Jesus Christ · Post by **Jesus Christ** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:01 am

Blargh wrote:Grace civ 2 instead.

Blargh speaks the truth.

Psychoul · Post by **Psychoul** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:48 am

St. Toxic wrote:There's no beating the Russians. True story.

lol, it is true, no joke. Name one time where another country successfully invaded russia and kept it, It was invaded multiple times, but wasnt held for very long.

its because they're non-capitalists, and dont revolve around the business of war, but the aftermath of war. The freedom afterwards. lol, that part was a joke

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:44 am

Jesus Christ wrote:Try civ 2 instead.

I endorse this message.

OriahUlrich wrote:
St. Toxic wrote:There's no beating the Russians. True story.
lol, it is true, no joke. Name one time where another country successfully invaded russia and kept it, It was invaded multiple times, but wasnt held for very long.
its because they're non-capitalists, and dont revolve around the business of war, but the aftermath of war. The freedom afterwards. lol, that part was a joke

Why would anyone want to keep Russia?

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:17 pm

OriahUlrich wrote:
St. Toxic wrote:There's no beating the Russians. True story.
lol, it is true, no joke. Name one time where another country successfully invaded russia and kept it, It was invaded multiple times, but wasnt held for very long.
its because they're non-capitalists, and dont revolve around the business of war, but the aftermath of war. The freedom afterwards. lol, that part was a joke

Sure, controlling the inner mother continent with an outside force is nigh impossible. Uniting it is even harder. But control can be achieved through the outer rim. Read some works of Halford Mackinder and Karl Haushofer on the subject of Heartland. It's pretty much the basis of (aggressive) US foreign policy, even today.

" a ring of outer and insular bases for sea-power and commerce, inaccessible to the land-power of Euro-Asia [...] Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; Who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; Who rules the World-Island commands the World."

Blargh wrote:Grace Alpha Centauri instead.

= the unavoidable truth.

niejadek5 · Post by **niejadek5** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:43 pm

OriahUlrich wrote:lol, it is true, no joke. Name one time where another country successfully invaded russia and kept it

Poland is the only country that successfully invaded Russia - we got into Moscow but, as in 1410 with teutonic knights, we blew it by drinking...

spokomptonjdub · Post by **spokomptonjdub** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:08 am

Blargh wrote:Grace Alpha Centauri instead.

Holy shit! I had almost forgotten how much better Alpha Centauri is compared to Civ III and IV.

Weren't they supposed to make another one soon? Whatever happened to that?

rad resistance · Post by **rad resistance** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:28 pm

Niejadek5, you talking smack on the Teutonic Knights?

PiP · Post by **PiP** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:18 am

ya ya Alpha Centauri obsly but Civ IV with the exp packs is good

niejadek5 · Post by **niejadek5** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:51 am

rad resistance wrote:Niejadek5, you talking smack on the Teutonic Knights?

Why?

Mismatch · Post by **Mismatch** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:22 pm

PiP wrote:ya ya Alpha Centauri obsly but Civ IV with the exp packs is good

Im, at present, trying out the planetfall mod for civ4, which aims at a civ4-->alpha centauri conversion.

Still needs some work, but it's well worh a play.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:31 pm

Civ 4 is good, you just suck if you lost to the Russians.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 10:16 pm

Why not play AS the Russians? Seems like a fairly obvious solution, to me at least.

spokomptonjdub · Post by **spokomptonjdub** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 4:11 am

St. Toxic wrote:Why not play AS the Russians? Seems like a fairly obvious solution, to me at least.

Who would you rather sleep with, Cleopatra or Catherine the Great?

rad resistance · Post by **rad resistance** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 5:10 am

Catherine the Great, more powerful then Cleopratra was.

St. Toxic · Post by **St. Toxic** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:33 am

spokomptonjdub wrote:Who would you rather sleep with, Cleopatra or Catherine the Great?

The latter; I don't do sandniggres.