Most anoying moments - Page 2

HoneyBadger · #11 July 24th, 2007, 08:37 PM

Joining my very first MP game (Perpetuality), getting the nation I wanted (Niefelheim) out of 60+ in a random draw, and then having my closest neighbor be Ashen Empire-the one nation out of all of them that I was least prepaired to fight, who was fielding a Ghost King which destroyed my best army-by causing them to run away from fear after I captured and successfully held one of Ermor's 3 castles. Then, having held Ermor off from my capital for about a year, killing said Ghost King in the process and doing serious damage to some of his best armies, getting sold down the river by Pangaea.

But I'm not bitter.

...bastards

lch · #12 July 24th, 2007, 08:46 PM

still laughing about that one...

Kristoffer O · #13 July 24th, 2007, 09:01 PM

Sugar rush assassins. First they are ever so quick. Then they get fatter

Lazy_Perfectionist · #14 July 25th, 2007, 02:26 PM

Having your leaders killed by mind hunt, and not knowing who was killed because it was 30 something hours since your last turn, and the name means nothing to you. WHen they live, they get an icon, at least telling you what they looked like/type. When they die, you just get a question mark. No clue where it happened either. Front line? Capital? All I know is it hurts... *weeps* Mommy.... please take R'lyeh's astral pearls away from them, pwease?

Meanwhile, R'lyeh wins a battle. The only one of my commanders who die? My pretender, who was doing much better than the wyrm until a lucky Gift from Heaven actually hit something. And against 60 Star Children, a Lead Shield doesn't help much against paralyzing mind blasts. Every other commander survives the battle just fine. Bah.

NTJedi · #15 July 25th, 2007, 03:11 PM

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Lazy_Perfectionist said:
Having your leaders killed by mind hunt, and not knowing who was killed because it was 30 something hours since your last turn, and the name means nothing to you. WHen they live, they get an icon, at least telling you what they looked like/type. When they die, you just get a question mark. No clue where it happened either. Front line? Capital? All I know is it hurts...

I feel your pain... and have been thru those moments. What I've done for my important mages/SCs/commanders is give them a name which helps me identify them if such a death occurs. A name such as SC_WaterQ... it's not very creative, but at least I know who's died.

MaxWilson · #16 July 25th, 2007, 03:33 PM

Depends on the game, but often my SCs and my prophet are the only ones who *have* normal names. "Polyphonius the Prophet" and "Graveskull," etc. Although I did keep an indy priest named "Ruprecht" in my current game because of the movie /Dirty Rotten Scoundrels/.

-Max

Tyrant · #17 July 25th, 2007, 03:39 PM

Teleporting my Kraken pretender onto the land- but forgetting to have him put his Amulet of the Fish on. Visualize...

Getting a fully armored Knight of the Stone killed by a single lucky shot from a goll-derned slinger on the very first turn of a battle.

Chacal · #18 July 25th, 2007, 05:38 PM

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Tyrant said:
Teleporting my Kraken pretender onto the land- but forgetting to have him put his Amulet of the Fish on. Visualize...

Have done it with te Kraken too, however for my part I get him Amulet of Fish, then removed it for playing a bit with magic items but didn't put it on before the end of the turn... Next turn my great mighty Kraken has just vanished... I imagine they find it, put salt on it and have enough eat for a year or two.... Grrrrr

PvK · #19 July 25th, 2007, 11:08 PM

This wasn't my frustration, but I just saw something pretty hilarious. Bandar Log storms an Ermorian castle, leading the way with a bunch of elephants, who charge through the gates, wreak some havoc, and then end up blocking their own troops behind them for a bit, then the elephants panic... and rout back out through the gate, smashing tons of their own men, who naturally had pig-piled at the gate, making a huge number of their own troops all lined up exactly where the lenghty column of panicked elephants comes charging back... trample city. I've never seen so many squashed apes!

Wick · #20 July 25th, 2007, 11:42 PM

My scout found Solaris, my starting army went well out of its way to conquer him, and I gave all his stuff (and a lucky pendent) to a knight. After a couple of brief skirmishes the knight was participating in storming Jotunheim's castle and one shortbow arrow from the castle killed him. ONE DINKY ARROW!