Unforgettable Moments

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Dominions 1 memories:

One of my first PBEMs, I was R'lyeh, at war with Ermor (played by Wendigo), and attacked him with 2 Starspawn mages, some fodder and 3 Iron Dragons, while he had only a Dusk Elder leading a weak army. As it turned out, his DE had astral-1 and one of his first moves was to etherealize a nearby ghoul. The enemy force was quickly dispatched, save the DE and this damn ghoul. My IDs hopelessly tried to crush it for eons, while the DE was laughing and sprinkling them with Decay from behind. Eventually my army had to rout and my purple-glowing and affliction-laden Dragons dissolved. Ghoul: 1 - Iron Dragons: 0. At least I learned that etherealness is very effective effective defense vs tramplers.

Another PBEM a bit later, still impersonating R'lyeh. For the first time ever I had a chance to cast Master Enslave, and since the spell description reads 'MR negates easily' I decided to be generous with it - so I had 3 (maybe even 4?) mages cast it in the same battle. As it turned out it was unnecessary, as about half the opposing Ulmish force (300+ strong, 1/2 Guardians and BKs) was subdued after the first casting. So after the 2nd battle round nearly all the enemy army was mine. The fun part is I didn't take these huge reinforcements into account and was hit by huge starvation (I think about half my army was diseased because of it). Even more fun: Ulm was just 1 province away, and was eventually stormed by its own troops.