The Civilization series is a hell of a drug

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 freaking love it
But did she learn to buy? Seems like her life was for rent and you were a nasty landlord 😜
There was on game in Civ 5 where I was spawned as Nobunaga in a nice continent with Montezuma. He caused problems to me until he declared war on me with his renaissance army while I was in Industrial age. Conquered all his cities except the capital and then declared peace. Did a lot of trade routes to Russia and England and with enough gold, bribed England to attack Monty. They captured his pathetic capital. Then I warred with England and captured the city back and revived Monty. Russia won the game through science but I taught Montezuma to not fuck with me.
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.

I didn't know they made Israel into a game!

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.
- Sick game! Although it's either always a short game or I was a rubbish kid who couldn't work it out
I remember when I used mods to play as Israel in civ 3
- What was their special unit?

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.

this guy USAs
- I will attack without oil reserves in the target nation.
I love it when my shit looks weak, they declare war and then suddenly there just an uninhabitable nuclear wasteland where all their biggest cities were....

I can never get into civilization due to the nature of the difficulty settings. Every difficulty is terrible at the game, but cheats an order of magnitude more than the previous one. On the other hand, civilization is fun against friends, but I can’t sucker any into spending 46 hours mounting a campaign against my glorious beacon of culture and violence... more than once.

Step 3 always happens first though. They always stack up on your borders and then declare war.

I'll get back to civ when I retire. It can get too life-ruiningly addictive for me.

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.