Head to head Stories
 

I noticed in a recent game that a water elemental (from a bottle of living water) opened a can of whoop@ss on an earth elemental arriving via earth attack (living water seems to be a fine anti-assassin equip). I guess the outcome makes sense given the high Def of the water elemental against a single attacker (outcome perhaps only a surprise to me) but it got me to thinking what other ah-ha's the community has seen from other one on one battles. Apologies if this topic has been beat to death before.
-ssj


Slightly off topic - but I just remembered a battle where I took the last castle from an opponent. The next turn he/she set his last scout on attack and it proceeded to single handedly kill my (MA Ulm's) 3 PD force in another prov. The scout's name is carved in Ulm's Hall of Heros.

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My favorite so far has to be the massive capital assault in Vicious Circle 3. I'm Helheim, attacking Tir na Nog's capital. I don't even remember what all happened, troops on both sides dying in droves, massive battle spells going on, etc. Finally, both sides' mages are mostly fatigued out, and my 2 or 3 remaining Vanjarl thugs are working their way forward. The last couple of TNN mages then totally turn the tide of battle with Frozen Heart.

Oh, one other story from that game. So TNN's pretender is a Forest Lord. He is all kitted out in equipment and regenerates a lot. Big battle, finally we rout them. Forest Lord is knocked down to not too many hp, a couple of my faster guys land a couple blows every turn as he moves towards the map edge. Finally, one of the hits generates an affliction. Which one? Limp. This slows him enough that the rest of my units catch up and mob him down.

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I like the Forest Lord story.

I find the battles are more fun when after you get the trn file you dream up a scenario for the upcoming battle(s) as they unfold (if you didn't cheat and look at the summary first..) Sometimes its two SCs dressed to kill with gate cleavers taking huge chunks out of each other and other times a crazy scout with a dagger taking down a pair of infantry that are way out of his league.
-ssj

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One of my favourite battles was in one of my first MP games years ago. I was atlantis and I used a a2w1 Ancient kraken. It was pretty early game. What I did was to take a random province on the coast with my kraken (who had amulet of the fish), built a lab there, then cloud trapezed him across the map on Arcocephales capital. Which was loaded full of elephants in preparation for a trample rush against Agartha.

Ever had 48 elephants killed by an unexpected octopus falling from the sky?

The ultimate irony was: After I won Arcos capital, it so happened that I was able produce elephants there. And promptly used them to crush Agartha myself.

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The one made me laugh out loud...
-ssj

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That is just brutal...

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Only in dominions can you get such fantastically awesome stories.

I love (hate) when one of my sc's gets taken out by a horror. They just beat at each other over and over again until finally one gets fatigued or they get a lucky hit. And all the while my bodyguards are waltzing across the field trying to catch up to the horror. That's why I've started equipping moonblades and commanding arcane bolts.

Oh, and here's another horror story showdown. I was using Kokabel to summon Doom Horrors with wish. I decided that he wasn't making enough progress with recruitment, so I made him cast som ubermindcontrol spell in combat to salvage failed summons. He complied, maxed out his fatigue on the first turn, and was killed. Sheer idiocy on my part. Luckily I had the blood slaves to bring him back.

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In my experience, it is only a woman who could possibly dream up such a cruel novelty ;)

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I've been playing around with Abysia, and I find that often my starting assasin gets the "mute" trait. I don't mind it at all, and I love the flair.

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There are some great / humorous stories in the Kingmaker thread which I was just skimming trying to find one of my own battles that, while not an epic clash, was still an astonishing tale of heroism:

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That is crazy indeed.
-ssj

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Lesse. I was playing commander battles, (You have commanders only, 5 PD, summons, no units), playing Agartha against Helheim. Agartha has a bit of an edge here, just because Smite is an incredible spell in commander battles, and my god was a A3S2 Awakened Wyrm, intended as an early SC. Fairly early in the game, my god got in a bottleneck with an enemy cyclops, and neither of us really wanted to attack eachother. I attacked a nearby water province, then pulled back in, but the Cyclops attacked with about a dozen Vanherse.

In an incredibly improbable fight, the 5 PD backup (who should have been completely worthless) managed to successfully rush and kill several vans. The Cyclops rushed my Wyrm, and this was before I had research to where it was supposed to be for the Wyrm Cyclops fight (The original plan involved Mistform and Body Ethereal, then winning a war of attrition due to poison. Helheim lacks the nature to resist poison well). The Wyrm then takes down the Cyclops and the other 9 vans in melee, largely due to poison, without any spells.

The best part? When the cyclops was resurrected, it came with an affliction. Lost an eye. Its still fairly early in the game, and now that I have the research I need, I can march on the capital.

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Back in Dom2 days, in my first MP game (I played Aby), I started a war with Stray Sax who was a good player (he played Machaka), and he attacked me with Cyclops and teleported Al-Khazim on my unguarded sages province (I had about 25 of them there, they produced most of my research). I was pretty unfamiliar with game mechanics and forged several eth crossbows as their 999 damage seemed like an ultimate weapon for me. I don't remember now, but probably Stray had no MR gear on Cyclops, because he was killed with the second shot by some heroic Hoburg champion :) who guarded that province supported only by pd, and Al-Khazim was duelled by one of the sages (I think third or fourth), that weren't scripted at all. I was able to more or less drive him back after that.