We've all been there, watching in disbelief as our AI-controlled civilization decides to declare war on a powerful neighbor for no apparent reason, only to be completely wiped out in a single turn. Share your favorite hilarious civilization AI moments with us and let's all laugh together at the ridiculousness of computer-controlled diplomacy!

Hi again! I just finished narrating this one today, and I'm pleased as punch to share it with all of you. It's the Scramble for Russia, where I placed a whole bunch of Russian and nearby leaders in a circle in the middle of Russia and told them to fight it out. Some of them thought that was a fine idea, some of them did their own thing. Either way, I hope you enjoy the bloodshed.

There are a lot of famous leaders in this area, and many led places of the same name, so this is going to be... complicated. The good news is that I have found the ability to change team colors. While it doesn't fix, "The Soviet Union has denounced the USSR" being completely useless for information or the icons themselves, at least the map will be a little less confusing with so many using the same yellow on red color scheme.

So here are the entrants and their colors:

Vladimir Lenin- Yellow on Hot Pink

Catherine the Great- Black on Yellow (unchanged)

Nicholas II- Gold on Green (unchanged)

Vladimir Putin- Purple on Pink

Alexander I- Light Blue on Purple

Josef Stalin- Black on Green

Boris Yeltsin- Light Blue on Dark Blue (unchanged)

Leonid Brezhnev- Orange on Black

Nikita Khrushchev- Tan on Crimson (unchanged)

Leon Trotsky- Red on Orange

Konstantin Chernenko- Cream on Light Red (unchanged)

Mikhail Gorbachev- Red on Yellow

Ivan IV (Muscovy)- Cream on Brown (unchanged)

Islam Karimov (Uzbekistan)- Blue on Seafoam

Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Ukraine)- Tan on Navy (unchanged)

Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Zaporozhian Host)- Tan on Aqua (unchanged)

Saint Olga (Kievan Rus')- Tan on Light Brown (unchanged)

Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan)- Yellow on Electric Blue (unchanged)

Alikhan Bukeikhanov (Alash Autonomy)- White on Gold (unchanged)

Tamar the Great (Georgia)- Rust on Blue-Grey (unchanged)

Alexander Lukashenko (Belarus)- Red on Lime Green (unchanged)

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Part 0: Scramble for Russia: Preparing to Cook

Part 1: Scramble for Russia: The eggs-citement begins.

Part 2: Scramble for Russia 2: Shell Game

Part 3: Scramble for Russia 3: The Yolk's on You

Part 4: Scramble for Russia 4: It takes skill-ets to pay the bill-ets.

Part 5: Scramble for Russia 5: You Gotta Break Some Civs to Make an Omelette

Part 6: Scramble for Russia 6: Chicken Kiev

Part 7: Scramble for Russia 7: Omelet them eat Cake

Part 8: Scramble for Russia 8: The Cracks Begin to Form

Part 9: Scramble for Russia 9: Total War

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Hi friends! It's been a while since I've posted, but I've done two whole Bot Battles since last we chatted. AI kind of took a different meaning to me, so I started just calling them Bots, but it's still the same content. In good news, you don't have to wait around for the content to roll in, it's all already done! The Battle for Asia, or B4A, can be viewed in as many or as few sittings as you like.

In this game in particular, I made the mistake of leaving other victory conditions on, which meant that in several ways, some of the contestants were taking actions that may not have been beneficial to the real goal of killing one another. It created some interesting narratives though, and starting over wasn't an options, so here we are. Hope you enjoy!

Here's my contestants in this game.

Cao Cao of Wei

Meng Huo of Nanman Tribes

Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam

Sun Quan of Wu

Jigme Singye Wangchuck of Bhutan

Narai the Great of Ayutthaya

King Anawrahta of Burma

Indira Gandhi of India

Mahatma Gandhi of Dominion of India

Ching Shih of Canton Pirates

Wu Zeitan of China

Liu Bei of Shu

Chiang Kai-shek of Republic of China

Seonjo of Korea

Kublai Khan of Yuan

Mao Zedong of People's Republic of China

Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia

Songstan Gampo of Tibet

Timur of Timurids

Went-Antu of Harappa (Indus Valley)

Zahir Shah of Afghanistan

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Episode 1: https://photos.app.goo.gl/c5bNPL276NenKppr6

Episode 2: https://photos.app.goo.gl/a4kfv7oRemRT8XnM8

Episode 3: https://photos.app.goo.gl/2MYGXSExAd81i8ek8

Episode 4: https://photos.app.goo.gl/FRSbSf829nGavVFm9

Episode 5: https://photos.app.goo.gl/aUD9YQCHiLFaCre28

Episode 6: https://photos.app.goo.gl/nnrr2q8b2w7rHHZLA

Episode 7: https://photos.app.goo.gl/fnwEia1EvQft7Lw49

Episode 8: https://photos.app.goo.gl/VEzg3Wh2PmUYxZaH7

Episode 9: https://photos.app.goo.gl/5SkrhPbaT6962XrZA

Episode 10: https://photos.app.goo.gl/WnER6wTYvauLXhJE6

Episode 11 (Total War begins): https://photos.app.goo.gl/16jazHDstdMTgheo9

Episode 12: https://photos.app.goo.gl/BV2dChUQBMUErJPo9

Welcome to the Downward Spiral!

The premise is simple: 21 Civilizations will be stuffed into a tiny-sized map for 20 Rounds with the goal of getting as many eliminations as possible. However, the winner by Domination of each Round will be permanently removed from all future Rounds until only one Civ remains.

Other Details:

• All Civilizations will start with their standard Deity spawn units (2 Settlers, 2 Workers, 3 Warriors, 1 Scout) all concentrated on the same tile and with all Deity bonus techs removed.
• New Random Seed is disabled, thus ensuring that almost all changes in outcome are caused exclusively by the absence of last Round’s winner.
• World Congress has also been disabled because I don’t like it. :gigachad:
• In the event that a Civilization is still alive when another Civ wins the Round, the Civilization that most recently took their Capitol while they still owned it will be credited as their eliminator.

How you can participate

SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED

All you have to do is submit 3 Civilizations from the Public List of Civ 5 Custom Civilizations in either the comments of this post or in my channel (#elysium-parlor) on the CAG Discord server. Your top Civ will be the first one chosen, with the middle and bottom Civs serving as back-ups in case your main Civ is unstable or if not enough submissions are reached. If more than 20 submissions are received, only the earliest 20 of them will be used.

Please do try to avoid having the same top Civ as anyone else, though middle and bottom Civs are fair game for duplicates.

To start things off:

My submission:

1. Carthage (Hannibal)
2. Kazakhs (Ablai Khan) (DuskJockey)
3. Aztecs (Tenoch)

Orangechrisy's submission:

1. Chumash
2. Ohlone
3. Kumeyaay

Have fun submitting! Though don't expect anything for a little while while I test your submissions and record the first few Rounds.

If not, how can I do it?