Worst Moments!

[Argitoth]

Casting bone grinding 5 times in a single battle to find that every jotunheim unit goes berserk and regenerates the little 3 damage i cause.

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Having your immortal pretender Wind Rided out of his/her dominion (and die, of course).

Forgetting tu 'unsneak' part of your army and thus lose a major battle you should have won.

In Dominions 1 (this one is actually kinda funny):

I had recruited an excellent nature-4 Jade Amazon sorceress and loaded her with items, but just at the end of her first battle, she was killed by my own Prince of Death - the battle was already won, and for some reason he decided to cast Drain Life but no enemy was in range, and the poor sorceress bit it. Very in-character for a PoD, though.

[Wauthan]

Getting hit by a flood the first turn, an earthquake the second and hurricane on the third. Then vinemen invaded, wrecked my fort and killed of both prophet and pretender. Always run Luck 3 after that one.

Wreaking havoc with the best minimanaged band of assassins I ever made only to have them all flattened by T'ien Ch'i madman in a chariot.

Nearly beating R'lyeh when my Ancient Kraken routs after slipping on an invisible turtle, breaking the whole army morale and having the lot of them drowning on shore in their own fortress.

Investing thousands of goldpieces in PD only to have it all smashed by a rampaging scout. Bloody Jotuns!

Beating Ermor by the skin of my teeth only to find out that it was Marignon who cast all those global death spells that's been killing everyone.

Having a single raptor attack my Dagon pretender, clad completely in artifacts, which caused my flanking mages to turn around and let loose a devastating storm of their most powerful spells. A pair of smoking Dagon sized boots left in the crater.

[Pocus]

dom I newbie mistake : teleporting against an enemy capitol with only one mage and 60 summer lions, have the mage die from a stray arrow, then watching with horror all the lions dissolves.

being hit by surprise by a murdering winter (pearl harbor style declaration of war) against a province of mine containing 300 hoplites (yes, it was dom1!) and a hord of mages. Lost half of the hoplites, 2/3 of the mages, along with hammer of the forge lord and other artefacts worn by the mages. sigh...

[General Tacticus]

With Ulm, making a rainbow alchemist, 2 in every magic, sending him to search my first (non-capital) province, and having him find a disease spreading site. Discovering that he got a disease on turn 3, and would die long before I had any hope of reaching anything that could save him (gift of health, regen ring, anything), and thus lose 1 level in each magic path....

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Nagot Gick Fel:
Having your immortal pretender Wind Rided out of his/her dominion (and die, of course).

Hehe, that'll teach you to pick a pretender that is puny. Try the size-6 ones ...

[Tricon]

Losing about 40 heavy infantry and a fair leader trying to chase down a retreating hydra.(got stomped in a battle next round because I was missing my "absorbers")


In my first marignon game ... making a rainbow Baphomet ...(boy was that dum)