Worst Turns Ever

[pindicator]

I can contribute the worst GA bomb ever

Before:




After (5 turns later):




Mission accomplished: I got all the western mountains!

[GermanJoey]

Thank Krill, who is my worst mistake ever, for underestimating the amount of effort and chicanery one player will go through to prevent an opponent from winning.

My biggest mistake should actually be playing in a game with unit gifting allowed.

MMMMmmm, PB18 drama, love it.

Anyone who followed PB22 knows my worst turn, where insanely high tension, missing the first half of the timer due to an important meeting at work, my ignorance of a few turns-out-to-be-critical modern-era unit mechanics (I didn't know fighers could intercept more than one per turn, and I didn't know you could rebase missiles far further than their stated range) combined in a Quintessence of Fail that not only resulted in me losing the entirety of my 100+ ship navy, my Commando-capable Heroic Epic, but my last chance to win that game.

The context, from my perspective, was that Gavagai, Gawdzak, and myself were in a 3 way-mexican-standoff + spacerace in the modern era, each of us with very large and yet very different civs, each of which were neck-and-neck in demographics, techs, and military (with solidier-counts near 15M). I had built and conquered an absurd archipelago empire, controlling something like 3000 tiles in total with a huge population lead, and yet was in last place in land (by the time the game ended, and only the top 5 remained). My logistics situation was a nightmare; pre-airpots, units took as long as 10 turn to reach the front, even with massive transport chains (at one point I had 13 pairs of transports chained together to go from my southeast to my mid-north), and ships took as much as 7-8. I was also the "pickle in the middle" between Gawdzak and Gav, and I greatly feared the latter coming to get his revenge on me. Earlier, in the early-to-mid industrial era, Gavagai was at near-runaway status, but Gawdzak and I teamed up, sort-of, at my instigation, to pin him down a bit. Gavagai took heavy losses and lost several of his best core cities, including his capital. Gavagai had no real way of coming back after Gawdzak but he did, on the other hand, have a fairly sizeable border with me, once you consider the range of transports, and he had every right to blame me (and turns out, did) for his earlier suffering. Anyways, tensions flared, and the two of us drove straight at each other, pedal to the floor. I was the one who flinched first, trying to go for a decapitation strike to seal his navy on a small island between our borders. It didn't work, and when I retreated, exhausted from a multi-hour turn, I did not think of the possibility that most of his navy was actually triple-promoable and that the tile I left my navy on was actually left it within hitting range of his battleships and submarines. My whole navy, wiped in a turn.

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before:




after:


I can still remember the agony of logging in the next day to find my navy and all those settled great generals gone, goddamn.

That might have been Gav's worst turn ever too, because the one city I managed to raze was his National Epic and it turned out he had a GE about to birth that would have been his 4th GP that he needed to launch his last MoM GA. (and push him back into the clear favorite position to win the game). Too bad that game ended in the way it did, with the server malfunction and then Gawdzak disappearing forever by the time it came back up.

Honorable Mention: My forever-war against Churchill in PB18 continues for One More Turn:

T198.

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gawdzak got to whip once last time T197. i lost 5 battles at 90%+ odds out of 34.

I think I had been at war for something like 70 turns by that point, and had wracked up an insane amount of war-weariness, IIRC 12 unhappy faces in my capital, and basically took me out of the running for that game. A Pyrrhic victory indeed.

[Gavagai]

Yeah, I was thinking about that turn too as one of my worst ones. You are not exactly right here, though, most of my ships were only double-promoted, nav1 on Battleships was enough to reach your fleet.
By contrast, I had a lot of potentially triple-promoted tanks which I moved againsts your on land on this very turn. They were supposed to be able to take ambush and thus survive your inevitable counter-attack - that was the idea behind them. However, I was so exhausted by killing your ships that I forgot to give them any promos at all, so they got hammered next turn.

[Khan]

This is the best thread ever. I don't have anything epic to contribute just yet, but I did lose my settler for my third city (PBEM66) because I misunderstood some mechanics (I moved my settler on top of someone elses warrior thinking that if they declared war, their warrior would be moved and lose his movement. Instead, my city-to-be died).

[Haram]

Worst turn ever: my second pitboss on RB, the moment I realized I have Joey as a neighbour once again

Just kidding, my friend

However, I was so exhausted by killing your ships that I forgot to...

That was epic

[darrelljs]

Someone needs to poke rego, since his worst turn ever is *the* worst turn ever. This would be mine:

This game is essentially over .

My counter-attack destroyed Amelia's HA stack. I moved in the Morr'ta'nar stack and apparently between Tsunami and Raging Seas its dead. I did not realize Raging Seas could actually kill units . I could stand to lose 25 Vampires and still have a shot against uberfish, but 50?

Darrell

Darrell

[Jowy]

When I threw all my units @ Sullla's and Speaker's stack out of frustration in PB2.

[zakalwe]

I had a bad turn in PBEM49 when I thought I had stemmed Novice's attack, but he used a great general to push through and raze my copper city. Here was my reaction:

Apologies for the long lull in reporting. I wanted to make a big report to celebrate our strong position and renewed optimism, but I was busy murdering innocent villagers and pursuing various other activities, and kept getting sidetracked.

Anyway, I'll take the easy way out and just post a video from the most recent meeting in the command bunker.

[scooter]

Really enjoying these stories. Some of them are kind of nostalgic to me, and some of them (Bob, Joey) I hadn't read yet. Joey's story pretty much sums up why games that are close late have a tendency to end in draws. The more modern and sloggy war gets, the more it stops being fun and starts becoming a job. That story definitely gave me some flashbacks to some agonizingly long turns.

[Molach]

My worst turn was from an ongoing game so can't go into too much detail. But the main theme was "Just....one....more.....attack...."