Oh, I have it. This has to be the most awful thing ever:
Take a crone. Dominion 1. No magic. Take all of the crappy scales.
Be Ermor. Take Ashen Empire. You have no death ranks, so you can never raise any more priests or elders. All of your people will die. You can't produce any normal units. You can't search for sites, because you start with no mages, can't produce any mages, and can't summon any. You're never going to get any national hero ones at misfortune 3. In fact, nothing good will ever happen to you. Your temple and lab will probably be burned down in a random event in a few turns due to turmoil + misfortune. You don't have any priests, so you can't produce a new temple. You don't have any mages, so you can't produce a new lab. On independent-9, your starting army probably won't even succeed in conquering a province.....and the only commander you'll ever have anyway is that starting Censor. At Dominion 1, you're not going to get very many undead spawning to join you.
Now try and win.
[ February 16, 2004, 00:22: Message edited by: Norfleet ]