"Well that was intelligent..."

**Kataphractos** · July 15, 2013, 08:31 PM

So what are some n00bish or otherwise outright stupid mistakes you've made while playing?

I had an epic one earlier today: Held Cairo following a crusade, and some time after taking it, a plague started there. I still had a great cross, crusader knights and crusader sergeants in the city, and since they were my heaviest troops in the region, I decided to send them to Alexandria, which I'd just taken, for safekeeping.

Right after I send them, I suddenly remember reading something on the forum saying you can spread a plague to other cities with spies. I mouse back to Alexandria, and sure enough, the plague is now there. Think I lost over 20k population combined from those cities. And THEN I forgot about said plague and spread it to Jerusalem when I took it several turns later

**Ashu-Siralis** · July 16, 2013, 04:24 AM

Spawning seven merchants and getting them all eaten by the same enemy merchant. Very smart.

**MDCCLXXVI** · July 16, 2013, 07:44 AM

Sending an important army in a 1-ship fleet down to Arguin (northwest africa) in vanilla. Part of my strategy to take Africa swiftly.

Needless to say, I was interdicted by pirates and an army of elite units died. it was hard to resist reloading to a saved game to do it over. alas, i learned and now never send armies on the high seas with a minimal escort.

**Ashu-Siralis** · July 16, 2013, 08:34 AM

Originally Posted by MDCCLXXVI

Sending an important army in a 1-ship fleet down to Arguin (northwest africa) in vanilla. Part of my strategy to take Africa swiftly.

Needless to say, I was interdicted by pirates and an army of elite units died. it was hard to resist reloading to a saved game to do it over. alas, i learned and now never send armies on the high seas with a minimal escort.

Weird. My Dhows can't sail in those waters for whatever reason!

**Dr. Conquest** · July 16, 2013, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by Ashu-Siralis

Weird. My Dhows can't sail in those waters for whatever reason!

Dhows can't sail in the deep water off the west coast of Africa, neither can any of the other early boats. MDCCLXXVI either had advanced ships and was able to discover the Americas or he didn't get much past Marrakesh before disaster struck.

**The Useless Member** · July 16, 2013, 06:04 PM

WALKING my general into stakes.

**Ashu-Siralis** · July 17, 2013, 12:48 AM

Originally Posted by Dr. Conquest

Dhows can't sail in the deep water off the west coast of Africa, neither can any of the other early boats. MDCCLXXVI either had advanced ships and was able to discover the Americas or he didn't get much past Marrakesh before disaster struck.

That's what I thought. . .You can only get to Arguin by land through Timbuktu in early game.

**Aymer de Valence** · July 17, 2013, 02:49 AM

Probably my mangonel usage while defending a city....placing them down a side road so they can shoot at enemy siege towers, only to have them fire into my own men defending the gate. Strawberry jam all over the place and not a care in the world given by the catapult crew. Those heartless pixel peasants

**Sicky Mouse** · August 11, 2013, 04:57 PM

i sent a good sized naval fleet against a smallish Hungarian one that was besieging one of my ports. i some how lost every ship. i figured one of my other fleets in the area could finish the job so without much thought i threw a small one, forgetting about the young general on board at them. they too were all wiped out. ****in' Hungary...

**Salah ad Din Yusuf** · August 13, 2013, 02:04 AM

I wasted dozens of thousands of florins bribing an english army I would have easily crushed. The main mistake here is that I bothered to train diplomats.

**Aymer de Valence** · August 13, 2013, 02:17 AM

Originally Posted by Salah ad Din Yusuf

I wasted dozens of thousands of florins bribing an english army I would have easily crushed. The main mistake here is that I bothered to train diplomats.

The sickening thing is they have a 100 florin upkeep but you can't get rid of them!

**General Retreat** · August 15, 2013, 07:28 AM

More than one I've accidentally deselected a stack and sent my lone general charging towards an enemy force. Of course, this leaves him in the enemy control zone and just out of range of his own army. Bad times then occur.

**The Despondent Mind** · August 15, 2013, 07:40 AM

More than one I've accidentally deselected a stack and sent my lone general charging towards an enemy force. O

**Sicky Mouse** · August 15, 2013, 01:50 PM

i gave the mongols 10,000 so they would ally with me. they used that to become the 2nd largest power next to me and betrayed me.

**✠Ikaroqx✠** · August 15, 2013, 07:04 PM

In my current Milanese campaign I've got around 8-10 diplomats. I forget that I already have some, and train more. Please tell me assassins target them or they die from old age??

**Friedrich Ironhide** · August 17, 2013, 02:23 AM

Playing as Portugal I sent two armies on a crusade to Cairo playing the KGCM on vh/vh (so I'm not a noob). Each army is on a separate boat. Well one army actually makes it to the target and takes the city.

The second army; left it parked of the coast of Siscily and completely forgot about it for about 100 turns. Its not until I'm conquering Sicily 50 years later with completely different armies that I notice some ship of mine is just chilling there. I click on it and sure enough...19 units of my best units just gathering dust.

It would have been 20 but my general, who was leading the army had died about 30 years earlier. HAHA!