I'm playing Civilization -- the old Avalon Hill boardgame not the Sid Meyer one you're probably thinking of -- and I just had the most spectacularly bad turn based on one dumb decision and I have absolutely cratered my chance to win. It's hard to describe exactly what happened if you don't know the game but it's very hard to truly bone yourself on one decision and somehow I did it. I still love this game but man.
If you do know the game, I wound up in a situation where all my dudes were money so when I reduced cities I had to eliminate them instead and on the next turn I still don't have any dudes to turn into money so the cities that survived were lost because I couldn't pay my taxes. On top of that I can't repopulate (still no people). So I went from 9 cities to 0 and at most I'd only be able to recover 1 but this late in the game that's no good.
Go barbarian. It's the only thing to do.
ReplyDeleteI only wish I'd gotten hit by the barbarian hordes -- they would've put more people into stock for the next round.
ReplyDeleteWe used to refer to it as "going barbarian" when a player had no way to win so instead of trying to protect some hopeless position they just converted everything they could to armies and attacked anyone in reach. Thus, barbarian.
ReplyDeleteThat's an ouch. I hope the game was fun at least.
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