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| The Night Civilization II went Hardcore | | | Author: | | | IP: | XXXX | | Date: | 10/11/99 01:10 | | Game Type: | Other | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 2, Max: 9, Min: 7
Lifetime Rating for Flint79: 6.3714 |   | Pre-game: Just got back from my Grandparents for Thanksgiving. Feeling a little bit bored, I decided to use a free movie rental at Rogers. I could'nt resist the look of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" when I saw it siting there all alone on the rack. Great Movie. I had also just come back from University for the weekend and I had been on a week long bender with beer and wine. The alcohol bug was still quite alive in my liver o' my brothers. Since none of my friends were around to drink with...I braced for what looked to be boring night. I came back from the movie store and waited for my dear old Dad to hit the sac. I booted up Civ II.
I planned to be quite peaceful in this game. I picked the English to command and wanted to become the Globo-Cop. If shit went down and there was justice to be done...I would step in with tech superior troops and just own. It's fun being Globo-Cop sometimes.
I made my first city (London) and got a settler to slap down the first few roads and irrigate the land when I was interupted in a very rude way by the Romans. The Romans came up with Horseman. He started demanding tech and such and I said 'No Way'. We made a peace treaty anyway...but the Romans still kept bothering me and saying how crappy my civilization was. I knew at that point...this land was not big enough for the both of us.
I made 3 more cities and just sat there and teched. I got librarys and universities for my cities and reached the tech of "Monotheism" (The belief in one God). This allowed me to train Crusaders. Not a bad little unit...additional movement and good early attack. I made 5 of them and moved out south in search of those bastard Romans.
As I was en-route I met up with a Roman Horseman. He wanted me to have a chat with their Emperor. I said, "ok...let's talk". Inside was thinking, "Just start something with me...make this war nice and legal jackass." Well, Mr. Roman wanted 50 bucks from me followed up by a little insult. When I stonewalled him on the cash he declared war upon me. Sweet...he gets a black mark on his record and this war is nice and legal for me :) . He also threw the first punch in attacking one of my Crusaders and killing it. The war was on.
I managed to crush and capture all his cities but one, I could'nt find with my Crusaders in a series of victories. The Roman Emperor offered 1200 dollars for a cease-fire and I took it...but I vowed as soon as I found him...he was dead. I sat around and teched some more. I had no other contacts in the world and the game was getting kinda late in Technology. The better units were starting to emerge.
Around this time my Pop went to bed so I saved the game and threw in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High". I checked what there was alcohol-wise in the house and saw no beer :( . I shivered when I grabbed the bottle of Rum as a bad drinking fashback hit me like a sack of bricks. I passed on the Rum...perhaps Vodka. Vodka Shots are nice...but not really the occasion when I'm up alone here. Besides...I had no OJ to mix it with :( . Then I see the old bottle of Rye. I hate liquor...I don't have much tolerance for it. I can drink beer till a 24 is the better part finished...but rye just gets me all rowdy. I made my Rye and Coke a Tripple and watched the movie. After two more of those...I got up to put back a shot and sat right back down again. I was'nt loaded...but I was feeling pretty randy. It's still early so I went back to Civ II.
When I got back to the game I was little confused as to what to do. So I played Mr.Peaceful for little while longer. I got the United Nations built in London and met up with all the Other Civilizations around the world I had not met yet. There were the the Americans, Egyptians, Mongols, Vikings and French. They were all very happy to meet me and we all allied. I got the tech to make Armor (Tanks) and started to mobilize my army.
The Rye was pumping through me a tad and I planned to start a War like no other. I noticed that the other civilizations were also quite up there in Tech. The Americans and Vikings would present a problem....but the French, Mongols and Egyptians were still using Knights and Catapults. I loaded up 8 armor units and moved out to France.
I ran over Knights on horseback with my tank treads and crushed Phalanx units. This was a joke. I took Paris and things were looking good. The other nations were giving me shit through the United Nations I built, but I did'nt care. After I took out France...I moved on to the Mongol Empire where my tanks crushed their Elephant units (hehe). I layed the smackdown but the French and Mongol's had taken protection under the Americans and built a few cities there. I made landing in the United States. I also attacked the Egyptians and the Americans were fed up and went to war with me.
So let's re-cap my actions. I was at war with the Americans, French, Mongols and Egyptions. The only nation I had'nt pissed off was the Vikings and I sent out one of my men to talk with them. They were quite high in tech and after giving them two technologies of my own...I got them to make war with the Americans. I was quite pleased when I heard the Vikings sacked Detroit for me. Then the Vikings made PEACE with the Americans. They must die. It was the whole World VS. Me and I was'nt backing down.
I took Boston and Washington but was pushed out of those cities a few times. We kept stealing each others tech with each city we captured and re-captured. It was mess. The Americans were coming at me with Para-Troopers, Tanks, and Bombers. I kept sending over Tank divisons, but I just could'nt hold the area. It was too much. Just then I was able to make nuclear weapons. An evil grin took to my face.
I made two nukes and loaded them in submarine. I sent it off to the American Coastline. I nuked Chigago and Boston. In Civilization...nukes are VERY bad. They pollute the surrounding area and kill half the population living in the city. If pollution builds up...the Ice Caps melt and the water line changes. I invaded again and took the ruined cities as my tanks rolled over the dead and wounded. Each time I took a city...Partisans took to the country and resisted me. The map of battle was just packed with units. I attacked the Vikings and made the World vs Me war complete. It was a slow go...but I was gaining ground.
Just then...in London...a siren went off. My citizens looked to the sky to see a Nuclear warhead moving in. In a split second...half were dead. I have never been nuked by the computer before...they always threaten to, but never follow through. It was the Vikings that nuked me and in the same turn they also nuked Paris. Damn. Son of a bitch must pay. Say ,"Hello" to a nuclear war with combined ground forces. I made a carrier and got to serious work on Nukes.
Back in America...the shit was still hitting the fan bigtime. Cities changed hands many times and enemy para-troopers landed in my cites while I bombed theirs and did amphibious Marine landings in Atlanta and New York. It was anarchy. Partisans ran the country side commiting murder, Howitzers fired upon innocent civilians and cruise missiles landed on military units.
I launched 6 more nukes at Major U.S and Viking cities and had my beautiful London nuked twice more...3/4 of the population in that city was dead and radiation was in the country-side. This went on for another 50 years...
Eventually...we all got tired of this bloodbath. Peace talks began and we allied once more. Usually after you backstab the computer...he will get you right back, but this time was different. We all just kinda sat back and took a breather from what had just happened and looked around a bit. I eventually colonized Alpha Centuri and ended the game. I did retain more cites at the end...but millions were dead and the ice caps melted 5 TIMES!!! Who has time to clean up pollution during a nuclear war? As soon as a settler went to clean up radiation a cruise missle landed on his back.
Nuclear war solves nothing people...remember that. I don't even have a rough estimate on the amount of civilian dead...I'm sure it was a gross amount though. And that's my little story of Civilization game gone Hardcore
-Flint- |
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