Re: Your biggest Doh moment...
 

My biggest "Dohh!" moment came in one of my first games. I had to stop a big mannish communion. I did not have many tools at hand but I eventually came up with a bold plan to have a mage cast Foul Vapors. I had previously noticed that the enemy mages used the spell "invulnerability" to protect themselves. This spell also gives the recipient 100 points of poison vulnerability so the plan was to distract the communion with all manner of spread out chaff while the enemy died from poison and suffered a Pyrrhic victory.

Everything worked wonderfully! Although I lost a lot of troops, the enemy mages were also dying in droves! But they did not stay down! Apparently the enemy had snuck in a Death mage that cast Life after Life on the army and every fallen mage rose again as the undead. Not only did I waste a huge amount of troops in order to screen my mages, the only thing I managed to cut down was the enemies upkeep costs, by a huge amount! It was terrible.

Re: Your biggest Doh moment...
 

I don't think that counts. You did nothing wrong, and just got outplayed. Though, shouldn't the newly undead mages die again? Undead start with poison immunity, but invulnerability takes that away. Unless your opponent forsaw you using foul vapors and switched to ironskin or something, in which case you really got outplayed.

Re: Your biggest Doh moment...
 

Also uploading a turn, then realizing you made a really dumb mistake, or have a blaze of insight into your opponent's plans. So you change your orders in a hurry, and breathe a sigh of relief. Catastrophe averted !

Then you forget to upload the revised turn.
And the exact thing you had taken active steps to prevent happens. :doh:

Re: Your biggest Doh moment...
 

Here's another. I wanted to give a thug a hero's blade so he could go after some ettins. Turns out I handed him the stone sword. He killed himself on the first swing. :p

Re: Your biggest Doh moment...
 

I wasted 4 fully penetration gear equipped mindhunters turns blasting a GoR'ed crusher with the stone sword. (Guess what happened).

Not my biggest doh, but frustrating the none the less.

Re: Your biggest Doh moment...
 

Eventually penetrated resistance only to find out that it`s immune?

Re: Your biggest Doh moment...
 

Give the man a prize!

Re: Your biggest Doh moment...
 

In my first ever MP game i did exactly this. astral dome up, and teleported some silver order mages with useful randoms in. I remember when reading the message from the dome i was thinking it resisted an enemy spell "bwaha, u deserved it sucker, I knew u would try something". Later did i realize what happened when i was looking for my mage.

Re: Your biggest Doh moment...
 

OK, I just stepped in a steaming pile of Doh!! Last night.

In one game I'm running an extreme bless strat with horrible scales and a consequently frugal budget and then I sent one of my armies with about a hundred sacreds into battle:

Couple of mages popping some gems for combat magic? Check
Battle formation setup well? Check
Bodyguards on mages to protect against the attack rear Zmeys? Check
H3 caster scripted to drop the divine bless? WTF??!!

Yup, accidentally deselected the divine blesser at the last castle. What should have been a fairly painless battle turns into a large scale massacre, with an embarrassingly large number of cap only sacreds in the mix.

Re: Your biggest Doh moment...
 

I can't tell you how many times I've prophetized the starting scout and forgot to make sure that it wasn't sneaking before I hit end turn with predictable results. Or just recently losing a 1,000 gold mage to a bunch of freespawn bats that were set to attack rear and not having any guards for my mage, so he got surrounded and toasted in one turn.