Crazy&Insane Stories!

[Zeldor]

IF there is a thread on that topic it must be buried very deep

Write here all your dominions stories that shouldn't have happened. Bizarred things [not bugs, not your mistakes], funny ones, instances of extreme luck etc etc.

My example is from today, the game pretty much finished so I staled a turn. But my Treelord was set to monthly awaken sleeper. Bad luck for him as Astral Corruption was up.

I check the news and "Oakstrong was suddenly attacked by Abomination of Desolation". And a bit later "Oakstrong was suddenly attacked by a Horror". I couldn't believe that! My Treelord, that also happened to be diseased and BLIND! won a battle against Doom Horror!

Battle looked like that - Treelord casts personal regen, false horrors attack. He kills them with branches. Abomination does the stuff but regen gives Treelord enough HP back every turn. After about 15-20 turn of Charm spam one spell goes through and tada, charmed Abomination of Desolation! Too bad you do not keep it after battlle...

[K]

I recently gained a lab from a random event and then had it promptly burn down in the next event message. Those were my only two events that turn.

[theenemy]

In a game I was MA Tien Chi. I fought a battle against a small army from Shinuyama. My archers(I had plenty) fired a round and one of the Shinuyama shortbow bandit lost an eye in the process. When my archers fired their next round, the same bandit got the affliction "lost the other eye as well". For some reason I thought it was hilarious.

[PvK]

Those are great stories!

In my first Dominions game (Dom 1), I had an ongoing war with an enemy who had a mounted horse archer commander who kept surviving battle after battle and coming back with more troops, but he also kept getting more and more injuries, and lost both eyes, but would still fire his bow in combat, randomly sending arrows around the battlefield. That was one of the many things that hooked me on this series, years ago...

[capnq]

I was impressed when my pretender managed to drop one of his Gifts from Heaven on top of Bogus.

[Lingchih]

Speaking of Bogus. Last night I was testing out LA Pythium. Bogus and his band had taken one of my provinces, and in a few turns about 50 barbarians joined him there.

Perfect battle for my sacred Hydras, I thought. I sent in a squad led by an air shielded Serpent Priest (so the Bogus archer could not take him out). The battle went as planned, hydras mowed through the barbarians (but lost a lot of heads), killed a couple of his cronies, and sent Bogus running.

Bogus was one square from exiting the battlefield, when my serpent priest hit him with a mind burn. It turned him berserk, he turned around, killed all my hydras, and then made a run for my serpent priest, chopping his head off in one blow. It was quite funny.

[lch]

LOL @ Lingchih, funny write-up.

[gowb]

I began a game with Bandar Log, planning on setting up a clam factory and then pumping out some Rudra SCs. The only problems were the dwarven hammers and the wraith swords I needed - the hammer to forge the clams and the swords for the Rudras. A severe lack of gems in my starting provinces made me lose a bit of hope. Then on turn ten, one of my subjects finds the tomb of an ancient hero with 100 gold, a dwarven hammer, and a wraith sword. Yoink!

Stuff like that amazes me. Took it as a sign from the Pantokrater that my plan would win me the world.

[moderation]

Lingchih said:
Bogus was one square from exiting the battlefield, when my serpent priest hit him with a mind burn. It turned him berserk, he turned around, killed all my hydras, and then made a run for my serpent priest, chopping his head off in one blow. It was quite funny.

Hmm, I didn't know Mind Burn can berserk the target. What are the odds of this happening?

[JimMorrison]

It's because Bogus has berserking. So, any damage can cause it, it just happened to be the Mind Burn that got him.