Ghandi declared war on me?

[Whispdragoon62]

I thought he was peaceful? With the pop growth perk he had already reached the nuclear age and immediately nuked me?

[Boredflak]

LOL you thought he was peaceful? Ghandi is a terror in CIV. If you see him in game the best way to deal is wipe him out totally as soon as you encounter him.

[Grendalcat]

Gandhi does like his nukes.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/001/125/488/807.jpg

Comes from a bug in the original Civilization, where Gandhi was so peaceful he could suddenly become extremely aggressive. Players liked it, so Sid Meier kept it in the succeeding versions of Civ.

[Amanoob105]

Even peaceful civs will attack you if:
-They believe your military is that much weaker than theirs.
-You have touching borders.
-You've been doing anything that they don't like (examples include, "you're winning").
-Any combination of the above.

Plus, as mentioned above, Gandhi is also a special case.
In the first civ the game doesn't know how to count below 0. Gandhi was set to not only be almost 0 in warmongering, but also default to taking Democracy which for the AI lowered their warmongering even lower.
However in Gandhi's case it lowered it so much it wanted to go just below 0, the game didn't know how so reset the chance from the top, suddenly making him the single most warmongering civ on the planet.
And so, a legend (and running joke) was born.

[Señor Brown]

Originally posted by Whispdragoon62:

I thought he was peaceful? With the pop growth perk he had already reached the nuclear age and immediately nuked me?

Gandhi is very peaceful and friendly. But he also has the highest tendency to pursue and use nukes (due to a bug in the first game that was kept as a running joke).

[Sep]

Another nuke victim...

RIP

[Bfloo]

We've all been nuked by Ghandi at least once.

[Reepus Vanguard]

prepare for the end times.

[Vzamp]

Never been nuked by ghandi. i see ghandi and i always wipe him out first because i know the horrors he's capable of.

[Damsteri]

Gandhi with nukes is so good at late game. Just a small bribe (to go to a war) and you can clear some another civ out of the map. It's proxy war with nuclear weapons. It's so good to see how Gandhi nukes your enemy for a single luxury resource, or less.

Just be sure that you are playing nice to all other civilizations, other wise he will use them against you.

[Vzamp]

Originally posted by Damsteri:

Gandhi with nukes is so good at late game. Just a small bribe (to go to a war) and you can clear some another civ out of the map. It's proxy war with nuclear weapons. It's so good to see how Gandhi nukes your enemy for a single luxury resource, or less.

Just be sure that you are playing nice to all other civilizations, other wise he will use them against you.

Civ 5 is simple, yet has so much depth to it. This is another trick I've never tried, thanks for the tip! Gandhi happens to be in my current game and is in the lead, so it's time for some Armageddon. Hopefully I won't end up on the receiving end, but it would be hilarious if I reported back something like "Well, I finally got Gandhi'd."

[Andromeda]

Gandhi is a crier. i you defeat him, he is all poor nation of innocent people. But if you let him develop, he will nuke you.

[Warrior Whitten]

This is a Civ inside joke. He was set to have the lowest aggression for war, and then they had the bright idea to give him personally an extra -1 aggression. The problem is back in the first Civ the code didn't go from 0 to -1, but registered the error to looped all the way around to max aggression.
Look up Nuclear Gandhi on Wikipedia.

[Ryika]

Originally posted by Warrior Whitten:

The problem is back in the first Civ the code didn't go from 0 to -1, but registered the error to looped all the way around to max aggression. Look up Nuclear Gandhi on Wikipedia.

Uh...

Nuclear Gandhi is a video game urban legend purporting the existence of a software bug in the 1991 strategy video game Civilization that would eventually force the pacifist leader Mahatma Gandhi to become extremely aggressive and make heavy use of nuclear weapons. The claim was mentioned on the TV Tropes wiki in 2012, and continued until 2020, when the series' creator, Sid Meier, confirmed that the bug would have been impossible in the original game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi