Re: What is your nastiest surprise ever in Dom III?
 

Mine may have been when playing MP as Vanheim, and finding out the hard way that frost giants completely trumped all my men with their wall of frost, no matter how skilled, and that I had no magic to protect against the cold. That surprise was soon topped when I was thinking I might be turning the situation around, and then having my dominion vanish.

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Mmmn, there was also the time my killer pretender got killed by an independent hoburg with a magic sword...

Re: What is your nastiest surprise ever in Dom III
 

Seems pretty tame compared to these, but:

I have a mage with boots of the planes (teleport) and the Chalice. He teleports around to different armies and reduces afflictions. This is necessary as all my mages are ancient and keep getting more and more afflictions, and mages are the basis of my armies.

Anyways, one turn he just disappears. Can't find him. Overview doesn't list him. Can't remake the chalice or the boots, so I am pretty sure he is out there somewhere. No idea what is going on. Except my extended armies are falling apart, and my mass of researchers/caster in the capital are dying off quickly now.

Re: What is your nastiest surprise ever in Dom III
 

Lost in Space and Time, perhaps? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/stupid.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image.../firedevil.gif

Re: What is your nastiest surprise ever in Dom III
 

Yea, the boots can cause that to happen iirc.

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That sounds like a good guess to me. Darn it.

Re: What is your nastiest surprise ever in Dom III
 

Nothing big, but this turn in a game I've lost a two times empowered mage with an about 80 gems worth gear, including hammer and 3 boosters. He was forging in a lab in a dom 8 province protected by an astral dome, there was a garnison and lots of other mages, he had bodyguards, he wasn't old, I had no particular message about his death... It seems the wrath of god global has chosen to kill Him among my hundreds of units (the "funniest" thing is I had 17 units wounded and only one killed by the ligthnings this turn and it was this one).

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Ha ha, if I were you I would dispel Pangaea's Wrath of God, I considered dispelling it but choose not too as it would hurt all other players in the game as well as me. Good call by me.

That really is what I call bad luck...

Hunter of Heroes. :o
 

I think the nastiest surprise I've seen so far was seeing the Hunter of Heroes eat multiple of my non-horror-marked HoFers before the HHNerf mod. :p

Starting in the dead center of a random map and rapidly needing to deal with war on six fronts was also a very unpleasant surprise in one game.

Re: Hunter of Heroes. :o
 

SP: Playing MA C'Tis and fighting a two front war against Caelum and Arcos, trading land for time and slowly wearing down their several hundred strong armies. (lots of elephants from Arcos)
When on my third front Ulm starts invading with a 2k+ army.
First SP game i lost since the early days of Dom2.
Annoyed me especially since i had a lot of spies in Ulm and so could tell that this invasion army consisted of about 90% of all his troops. If the dastard had tried that in multiplayer he'd have been eviscerated by the other nations that bordered him. But the AIs there left him alone for at least a dozen turns which was when i gave up, having no more land to use for attrition tactics. Especially since by then Ulm had recruited another thousand or so troops ready to reinforce the remainders of the first army.
On the plus side, i found a lot of nasty tricks to pull off to inflict disruption and casualites on national armies with minimal losses. (except the provinces of course)