My first ever game I think I was Romania. I had a few friendly interactions with Ukraine, who was level 40 or something, and was chatting frequently with them. I was in a coalition with other noobs at the time. I had taken some AI countries, ppfffttt, no match for me. Taken a couple other low ranked countries and was feeling pretty cocky about this game. Then Ukraine attacked my team mate. I did consider just watching all the drama unfold, but no, decided to do the right thing and help my coalition partner.
Anyway, I was on a roll, first game and kicking arse, maybe I could beat this level 40 wannabe megalomaniac! So I attacked. Then I noticed all these rainbows coming from my cities. A pot of gold perhaps! NOPE, they were death rainbows. Had a giant mushroom infestation instead. Then some cities turned green. It was now raining cruise missiles. Oh well still had some tanks. NOPE, Ukraine sent in some strike fighters, they dead. I can counter with my ASF. NOPE, by now their navy was of my capital. Ooh what a good idea I thought, why didn't I think of building a navy. In a battle of 2 chevrons v 3 stars, his navy was to strong for my ASF which were also bombarded when they landed to refuel. Now they dead. I had a few tanks finally come back to my homelands and, given the navy was in a river I thought I could park my tanks on the river bank and bombard their silly boats. So I sent them to attack. They went straight to a port and jumped on a boat. This will be awesome I thought to myself. They must be going to fire the tanks from barges. NOPE, they dead. Well, I thought if all their military is attacking me, I will launch a sneaky counter attack on the Ukraine homeland. NOPE, had more military in homelands, now counterattack is dead. Completely out classed. Don't think I even scratched any pant in the Ukraine military.
In another game I was playing as one of the Stan countries, can't remember if Afganistan or Pakistan, but in a coalition of three. Another coalition of three were the top dogs. Everyone else was not much chop. I had been talking to one of the other coalition members, seemed a bit arrogant, but at least talkative. The plan was both coalitions team up and defeat the African coalition. As their coalition was bigger and they were closer to victory, It was decided that they get most of the VP for victory and we get the left overs for a bit more gold. Everyone was happy.
So we attacked from the South, and the homelands of the South African coalition, as we were closer, they came in from the North. Except for Austria, who it seemed was having none of this sharing business. Immediately began to claim lands just above us and box us in. Then in one day, annexed a city, built level 4 airport, level 5 barracks, level 5 arms industry. The next day another city annexed. Only one reason I could think of to spend this much money trying to contain us. So we prepared for a counter attack. After another day, Austria tried to take us on by themselves. On the first day about 40,000 gold was spent on sabotage agents, on just me. Not sure how much on other team members. Went after airfields and fuel. Spent a lot of the rest of the game with negative fuel, occasionally just positive fuel. Over 16 days, the least spent on sabotage agents was about 16,000 gold. The most was 84,000 but averaged 26,000. And yes, it was such an impressive amount I sat down and started to work out how much was being spent. And that's just agents. Countless cities annexed and max level whatever they chose to build.
They had taken out all my airstrips, but could not quite take out airfields in homelands. I was a mild annoyance in my conquered territory. But they were unable to hurt me close to my homelands. Try as they might, they could not get my homelands. They chipped away at my conquered territory, but wave after wave crashed and burned close to home. Their Officers would suffer heavy damage and lose all their squad members. But back the next day fully healed and in a new stack. I was struggling to balance between building arms industries to get enough fuel and building to replace my military. 16 days this went on for till their coalition finally had enough VP and it was game over with my 150ish gold prize. One of my intel agents got a message of one of them and Austria was bragging how I was not a very hard opponent and I remember thinking come on, how much have you spent so far and all can do is contain me.
So that is my worst defeat, and the worst someone has crippled me economically. Now I always try and have an over supply in case someone sends in sabotage agents again.
Anyway, I was on a roll, first game and kicking arse, maybe I could beat this level 40 wannabe megalomaniac! So I attacked. Then I noticed all these rainbows coming from my cities. A pot of gold perhaps! NOPE, they were death rainbows. Had a giant mushroom infestation instead. Then some cities turned green. It was now raining cruise missiles. Oh well still had some tanks. NOPE, Ukraine sent in some strike fighters, they dead. I can counter with my ASF. NOPE, by now their navy was of my capital. Ooh what a good idea I thought, why didn't I think of building a navy. In a battle of 2 chevrons v 3 stars, his navy was to strong for my ASF which were also bombarded when they landed to refuel. Now they dead. I had a few tanks finally come back to my homelands and, given the navy was in a river I thought I could park my tanks on the river bank and bombard their silly boats. So I sent them to attack. They went straight to a port and jumped on a boat. This will be awesome I thought to myself. They must be going to fire the tanks from barges. NOPE, they dead. Well, I thought if all their military is attacking me, I will launch a sneaky counter attack on the Ukraine homeland. NOPE, had more military in homelands, now counterattack is dead. Completely out classed. Don't think I even scratched any pant in the Ukraine military.
In another game I was playing as one of the Stan countries, can't remember if Afganistan or Pakistan, but in a coalition of three. Another coalition of three were the top dogs. Everyone else was not much chop. I had been talking to one of the other coalition members, seemed a bit arrogant, but at least talkative. The plan was both coalitions team up and defeat the African coalition. As their coalition was bigger and they were closer to victory, It was decided that they get most of the VP for victory and we get the left overs for a bit more gold. Everyone was happy.
So we attacked from the South, and the homelands of the South African coalition, as we were closer, they came in from the North. Except for Austria, who it seemed was having none of this sharing business. Immediately began to claim lands just above us and box us in. Then in one day, annexed a city, built level 4 airport, level 5 barracks, level 5 arms industry. The next day another city annexed. Only one reason I could think of to spend this much money trying to contain us. So we prepared for a counter attack. After another day, Austria tried to take us on by themselves. On the first day about 40,000 gold was spent on sabotage agents, on just me. Not sure how much on other team members. Went after airfields and fuel. Spent a lot of the rest of the game with negative fuel, occasionally just positive fuel. Over 16 days, the least spent on sabotage agents was about 16,000 gold. The most was 84,000 but averaged 26,000. And yes, it was such an impressive amount I sat down and started to work out how much was being spent. And that's just agents. Countless cities annexed and max level whatever they chose to build.
They had taken out all my airstrips, but could not quite take out airfields in homelands. I was a mild annoyance in my conquered territory. But they were unable to hurt me close to my homelands. Try as they might, they could not get my homelands. They chipped away at my conquered territory, but wave after wave crashed and burned close to home. Their Officers would suffer heavy damage and lose all their squad members. But back the next day fully healed and in a new stack. I was struggling to balance between building arms industries to get enough fuel and building to replace my military. 16 days this went on for till their coalition finally had enough VP and it was game over with my 150ish gold prize. One of my intel agents got a message of one of them and Austria was bragging how I was not a very hard opponent and I remember thinking come on, how much have you spent so far and all can do is contain me.
So that is my worst defeat, and the worst someone has crippled me economically. Now I always try and have an over supply in case someone sends in sabotage agents again.