Well that was interesting.
I hope I managed to stir up some trouble at least before I went down.
Apologies to nations X, Y and Z for possibly depriving them of some provinces or getting them into war with my conquerors I hope?
To nation X, seeing my scout (quite regular) capture a province with 30 troops in it, given half set to retreat, but still, was the funniest and weirdest battle I have ever seen in Dominions.
I watched it over and over again, it was ridiculous. Now the reason I did that is because that was originally my province before the barbarians took over and I was forced to abandon it due to, well war. So don't hold a grudge.
To my main enemy, it is my firm belief that had you attack just two turns later you would have lost. Indeed I planned to attack you 2-3 turns after you started your attack on me, but by the time I managed to pull my forces together one fort had already fallen and I lost my archer backup and one part of my army sadly.
Perhaps I should have anticipated that with a large army on my border for several turns but it was only turn 12 or so.
Second, I curse the bastard who stole my merc army just before the main clash with my invader, they were a very important part of the army! BTW, you must have had crazy money to overbid on them.
Third, regarding that big battle, it worked out much better with my missing part of the army and my mages casting harm on someone that could actually be affected. (I won it in my test battles, go figure)
I'll just add that to luck, well misfortune rather.
And I was torn on whether I should have confronted you on a winner takes all in my lands, or make a move toward your cap while you chase me back. Wrong decision I guess with my army being weakened and getting attacked by another nation.
All in all, even with luck 3 I have never had such bad luck in a game, with 3 indie attacks, famines, migrations in my cap, constant unrest events and gold losing event and all other crap by turn 20.
The only positive thing I got out of luck 3 were gems, which proved to be unusable in the end due to lack of research, and mages...sigh
Heh, and it's quite funny when you pull all your remaining cash into PD, well rather alchemize ALL gems since you can't use them, to about 60-70 PD if I remember and than "the people suddenly revolt" and you lose that province. That, heh, that was nice...
Well good luck to the rest of you.
Also, Calahan is still the main admin and his word is the word of God for this game, however should he become unreachable for some reason I'm still here to sort out trouble, grant delays, look for subs, etc...
Cheers all.
BTW, OP updated.