Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey

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OK, so I'm playing nice with a couple of pretty powerful AI's who are asking me often for money to help their war effort. They're both Friendly with me, and not asking for much relative to my economy, so I don't care to hand over some cash now and then.

Suddenly, though, both of them come back at me with the reply, "Way to go, cheese eating surrender monkey!" What a damned insult! After that diplomatic slap in the face, it became my sole priority to take both of them down, not merely conquering their worlds, but doing so in the worst possible ways (gas, core detonations, whatever horrible ways I had at hand), then destroying the colonies utterly.

Better to be a surrender monkey than a bit of space dust!


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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, sometimes you have to wonder about those wacky aleins. Playing a custom race on challenging, the Terrans (and 3 other races) asked me to help them take out the Dregin who were getting to big for the Terrans to handle. So, being the nice little Deathgerbil I proceeded to move my attack fleets into Dregin space and declared war on them. Thing was, I had to go through Terran space to do so, to which the Terrans responded with that bit about "Massing your fleets near our space, we know what you are up to". Duh, yeah, I am going to war on the Dregin like you asked. Silly apes.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Obviously, the Terrans wanted you to go AROUND their territory. AROUND. AROUND. . . yes, it will take months, but they have their pride to consider.

Alternatively, you could have sold them some ships instead, I guess. . . I mean, heck, even I'd be a bit leery of my friends if they started marching troops and armor through my territory. It doesn't look good to the constituents.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Obviously, the Terrans wanted you to go AROUND their territory. AROUND. AROUND. . . yes, it will take months, but they have their pride to consider.

Alternatively, you could have sold them some ships instead, I guess. . . I mean, heck, even I'd be a bit leery of my friends if they started marching troops and armor through my territory. It doesn't look good to the constituents.



Bah, I should have just declared war on the Terrans a turn later and turned THEIR territory into MY territory.   
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey


  That's funny. I don't care who you are.   

Better to be a surrender monkey than a bit of space dust!


Gotta disagree. I'll NEVER give in to their demands!



OK. Maybe "never" wasn't exactly the right word here. Maybe something more like "rarely" or "sometimes". Or only when it suits me. Yeah. That's the ticket.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Obviously, the Terrans wanted you to go AROUND their territory. AROUND. AROUND. . . yes, it will take months, but they have their pride to consider.

Alternatively, you could have sold them some ships instead, I guess. . . I mean, heck, even I'd be a bit leery of my friends if they started marching troops and armor through my territory. It doesn't look good to the constituents.



Bah, I should have just declared war on the Terrans a turn later and turned THEIR territory into MY territory.   


That would be a valid solution, yes.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The line the Iconians give me sometimes is funny also. They will come to me and whine how the war vs. anyone is going badly and they wont last very long. I give them 100 BC and they give me the line about happy hampsters dancing in my name. No wonder the Iconians suck...
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The line the Iconians give me sometimes is funny also. They will come to me and whine how the war vs. anyone is going badly and they wont last very long. I give them 100 BC and they give me the line about happy hampsters dancing in my name. No wonder the Iconians suck...



To which I always respond "I'M A GERBIL YOU MYOPIC FREAKS !! SEE THE TAIL ?"


Hamsters, bah.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The line the Iconians give me sometimes is funny also. They will come to me and whine how the war vs. anyone is going badly and they wont last very long. I give them 100 BC and they give me the line about happy hampsters dancing in my name. No wonder the Iconians suck...


The Iconians suck because their Super Ability is only useful in the initial colony rush, whereas most other races' special abilities can be useful throughout the whole game to some degree or another.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The Iconians suck because their Super Ability is only useful in the initial colony rush, whereas most other races' special abilities can be useful throughout the whole game to some degree or another.


change their super ability or disable them entire, and the iconians still suck. change their personality type, and they're suddenly a lot better.