>First time playing Civ V
>Pick America
>Build capital on a river that's five tiles inland
>Meet Siam around turn 20
>he's scared of me
>don't worry I tell him and I make good ally out of him
>fast forward 1000 years
>The both of us raid Saudi Arabia
>because I was a old civ 4 player, I didn't really know much about the city defense function.
>I manage to capture two cities and add 'new' to their names while Siam takes the last remaining 7
>Fast forward another 1000 years
>I have a colony over seas
>working on a diplomacy win
>Friends with everybody but England
>England is south of me past a barren desert under influence of me Siam and India
>England denounces me
>I invade England along with Ghenghis Khan as an ally
>I'm using war Great Infantry
>England is defending a mainly hilly region of 11 cities with pikemen
>Take all of England's cities but one because I feel bad
>10 Turn promise of no war makes it impossible for me to protect England's last city from being razed by Ghengis Khan
>Oh well
>Oil is discovered a 100 years later
>A oil plot is in the desert between me and my English territories
>I buy it
>Siam suddenly flips his ♥♥♥♥
>He warns me a first turn
>He denounces me a second turn
>I know what's coming third turn
>I'm the second largest military and advanced technological nation in the world
>Siam is first by a large margin
>My capital is on the border of southern Siam heartland
>bulk of my forces is in England Territories as I believed in a single unit per a city policy
>Use diplomatic ties to get Defensive pacts quickly with Russia, India, China, Polynesia, France, Inca and use money to purchase City state help
>I activate all my stored Great engineers and scientists for a golden era and sciences
>War comes third turn
>I take the hit as my northern Cities and my capital take a 15 minute bombing on each city a piece
>India is too south to make major a difference
>everyone else just have naval battles with Siam
>I realize I'm not going to win a land battle as Siam has tanks and modem infantry plus bombers while I still have Great War Infanty
>World War I is in full swing 1930
>I lose my Main land
>I only have a colony left with remnants of my navy
>a cruiser and a carrier with 2 fighters
>use diplomacy to get oil and build colonies on islands w/ oil
>build mega fleet
>invade Siam
>destroy all his costal cities
>have intense fighter support to stop his cold
>I'm too far away and my forces are to spread out for him to use nukes
>I get atom technology
>I Nuke Siam's capital
>He surrenders
>I force him to give me back my original costal cities and capital
>I put him in a depression as I get every other nation on the treaty
>world at peace
>Make a spree of extra trade treaties with with India as he was my major ally in the war against Siam
>But history repeats itself
>World war 2 comes around 1980
>Ghandi nukes me and everybody around him in a unexpected surprise attack
>I didn't know about ghandis hidden nuclear genocide feature
>He launches a land surprise attack in my re acquired mainland
>He takes it
>Ghandi then gets a space victory shortly after

I rather would had lost to Siam then a traitor
♥♥♥♥ Ghandi