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There was the time when Jurri killed Boron's pretender on turn 2 of a game, or something absurd like that. But, I don't recall the details. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Late game, I was playing Jotunheim.
An opponet sent a fully kitted out golem against a very small PD (5 or 6 points). The golem attacked, one of the three militia men on the feild ran up to him and Knocked his head off, literally. the Jotun militia got lucky and inflicted the "lost head" wound which also inflicts blindness and feeble mind. After several more turns of combat, That golemn died, and I laughed and laughed.

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My Couatl disobeying script and casting Vortex of Returning instead...

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Demo version, marverni storms the last kailasa province with a crapload of Eponis (the guys are rather cheap and effective for a small map like silent seas) and lots of Carnutewhatevers going berserk.

I had some archers too, and some ambibates for dirty initial gate barging up front. The siege is a success, but when I watched the battle, I laughed hard.

The siege starts, monkeys and towers rain arrows, Ambibates hack through hordes of markatas and vanaras, both teams rout, Eponis charge and get torn by the shiny Hindus and their medusa goddess under spells, carnutes route the hindus but get eaten by the medusa, meanwhile an archer stops firing, goes forward, slips through the combatants(the shiny hindus, what do you call them, didn't somehow engage him), and STABS THE MEDUSA TO DEATH without dying. I saw he just lost an arm to a stray arrow. He was experience level 2 anyway.

Hail the one-armed slayer of Medusa! HAIL! The BOWLESS ARCHER!

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I was playing Niefelheim in a SP, and engaged a battle against Tir na n'Og with an army led by a completely equipped and empowered Niefel jarl and a Gygja (with nature 3 and charm scripted several times).

The Tir na n'Og commander (a tuatha sorceress) also used charmed and managed to charm my Niefel Jarl. My Gygja re-charmed the charmed Niefel jarl, then the tuatha sorceress re-re-charmed my charmed Niefel Jarl, and my Gygja managed (though I don't know how !) to re-re-re-charmed the charmed Niefel Jarl !

I don't now if the poor big thing still remembers on whose side he have to fight... :p

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Love it. I posted an enhancement request a while back regarding tracking and rewarding troops/commanders for just such "4 sigma" events. Call it the "David and Goliath" feature except you might get more than just a giant's head. The reward possibilities would be great fun. Finding the events would probably be the easiest part. A zoomed cut scene of that specific toe to toe battle sequence would be amazing to see and share. Likely this would be a Dom4 or Dom5 feature but heh... I can dream.

-SSJ

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There was this time my monkey PD killed a Heliophagus...

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Playing as EA Caelum, somewhere in the middle of a war with Yomi. With the bulk of my archer troops distracted fighting off the massive demonic chaff horde of the month, I was using my rainbow Arch Seraph both for expansion aid and site searching, by attacking indie provinces in the company of a few other mages, with a smallish group of archers for support.

Hit an indie province defended by heavy and light cavalry. Despite all sorts of lightning-related doom and arrows falling upon them, the heavies charged through, smashing the front rank of my hapless archers. One of my mages, standing with the rest in the middle of the group, cast Shock Wave. Not having seen that particular spell in effect before, my first reaction was "Holy ****", as a huge torrent of lightning slew dead every single unit standing in front of the mage, including about a third of my archers and most of the heavies, resulting in much chaos but a rout of the enemy forces.

My second reaction, after studying the battle more carefully, was to quit the game completely. My poor Arch Seraph was standing right in front of the mage. :doh:

-1 to all paths hurts a Rainbow hard.

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I've once had a blind abysian assassin slay 3-4 of my mages, by the way I was Hinnom and had GOH , about 70HP each mage and ring of poison protection. The lucky bastard never missed!