Re: My God died.
 

Not having priests or temples is not necessarily fatal. You can always appoint a prophet. You may have to wait, but that shouldn't end the game.

You could also get a military or victory point victory even with the god dead.

No dominion is, of course, fatal, whether the god is alive or not.

Re: My God died.
 

This is either a bug or a fabrication. The death of your god means little else except the loss of a powerful unit and the temple checks he provides. This isn't Total Annihilation. The death of your god has little to no effect on the strength of the dominion in 37 provinces over one turn.

Re: My God died.
 

I would have thought it would only happen if dominion was reduced to zero or you lost all of your provinces. After all, you can always build temples and recruit priests as long as you control at least one province.

Looking at the AI problem, I think it's similar to the implosion problem already reported with imprisoned/dormant pretenders. It looks as if the AI is taking a low dominion pretender and not increasing it beyond the initial dominion. It's then getting wiped out when someone lays siege to it's capital and slays it's pretender.

Re: My God died.
 

Make that one province with recruitable priests and a temple in it.

Re: My God died.
 

Actually you can almost always get a priest, either you have a prophet or you can recruit a commander and (possibly after a wait if your previous prophet just died) prophetise him.

Re: My God died.
 

Now I feel stupid for not saving the game.

I had thought it was the massive negative hit points that did it at the time. He had 10 or 12 horror marks due to 2 battles right before it happened. His hit points were so massively negative I thought it was a computer glitch at first.

I jumped to the conclusion that he had been damaged past recall and did not read the end game message very well. I did not mind loosing him much. But I was mad because I would have won without him as he was pretty useless.

I think I had a prophet and I am not sure if I had more than the starting temple. I usualy build a couple for cheap extra priests. I just don't remember. It was one of my first games when I got the disk.

There were no province battles that round.

Re: My God died.
 

Are you sure you lost?

Maybe you dominion killed your opponent?

If you just skimmed the message, having just seen your god die, could you have misread it?

Re: My God died.
 

I think thejeff is right. It makes more sense here to assume you actually won. You wouldn't need to take his castle either, just his dominion.

Re: My God died.
 

Now I realy feel like a idiot.

You might be right. It was late, I was tired and I was so disgusted I just quit. Then erased it the next day.

Having read these forums for the last few days I can understand what you are saying. I had never heard of winning by dominion at that time.

You reasoning makes total sense. It was the first game I had played to the end. I could see me making such a error.

Re: My God died.
 

At least you can be happy you won.