[Tricon]

In one of my first games I was playing a very expansionistic Arco.(edit: ahem... it was as Pythium, of course... mixed up my early games) Concentrating with my best leaders on a very bothersome Pangea, I failed to give an appearently medium sized abysian army (around turn 25, about 50 units strong) its due respect. One battle later I had a viscious Lava Warrior dominant battlegroup in my very weak backwater provinces. My nearest army was 2 provinces away, and during the next 4 turns the bastards were merilly blitzing my provinces and ruining my economy (back then I didn't know the importance of strong dominion, or strong province defense....).Sometimes the AI has an uncanny ability to avoid my forces ....
Anyway, in the next turn the battlegroup attacked another fairly weak defended province(defence of about 10, and 5-10 additional light infantry units with stndard indi leader). Again, I was helplessly watching the lava warriors butcher the infantry and my - as usual - incompetent slingers. My infantry breaks and flees, the slinger stoicly fire (and miss) away, when the sole abysian leader all of a sudden actually gets hit and killed(!!) by a sling bullet. A rout followed, and the army was destroyed (no province to retreat to)
I was wooting like I madman. Especially since the leader killed was Rago the Ragelord (a national hero) - an almost mathematic imposibility to kill with a slinger.

I lost the game anyway, since I made too many NEWB mistakes, but it was the first adrenaline rush that the game gave me....

[ February 14, 2004, 04:00: Message edited by: Tricon ]