Your biggest Doh moment... - Page 2

bbz · #1 February 29th, 2012, 06:06 AM

I seriously hate you for that one!!!

parone · #2 February 29th, 2012, 09:03 AM

here's one that happened today.

i am a super newbie. i took a really good early game nation, and things were going really, really well. good diplo, some real sight searching luck, blah blah blah

one of my expansion armies marches into a province and is surprised by some indi death mages. we whoop em anyway. i notice that there is death sight that spawnes disease. i high tail it outta there so my expo force doesn't get sick...

but i gotta sight search cause i have a rainbow with D2, and i just KNOW there is a cool death sight there...

and there was. and i can even recruit indi mages there(found it on the search) who can diversify my woefully indiversified nation.

whee is the DOH? one turn in the province, and my rainbow, who is all that stands between me and magical poverty, is diseased.

poor dumb newbie...

Soyweiser · #3 February 29th, 2012, 01:02 PM

Site, not sight...

Soyweiser · #4 February 29th, 2012, 01:03 PM

Most of my Doh moments have to do with domes. Putting up a dome and teleporting in casters all in the same turn.

Forgetting to upload the turn is also always a big Doh.

shatner · #5 February 29th, 2012, 01:17 PM

In a SP game I had an expensively kitted Kitsune that I was planning on using to seduce enemy commanders. In one turn I ordered her to sneak into an adjacent province to start targeting the commanders of an enemy army. I then realized the enemy army was likely to move into her current location next turn so I canceled the sneak command with shift+d (like I do when I'm telling an indie commander to stay put).

My intuition had been right; next turn the enemy army moved into that province... where they met my defending Kitsune and promptly flattened her.

Shift+D = "defend" which is NOT the same as "hide".

Kobal2 · #6 March 1st, 2012, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Soyweiser

Forgetting to upload the turn is also always a big Doh.

Also uploading a turn, then realizing you made a really dumb mistake, or have a blaze of insight into your opponent's plans. So you change your orders in a hurry, and breathe a sigh of relief. Catastrophe averted !

Then you forget to upload the revised turn.
And the exact thing you had taken active steps to prevent happens.

earcaraxe · #7 March 13th, 2012, 06:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Soyweiser

Most of my Doh moments have to do with domes. Putting up a dome and teleporting in casters all in the same turn.

Forgetting to upload the turn is also always a big Doh.

In my first ever MP game i did exactly this. astral dome up, and teleported some silver order mages with useful randoms in. I remember when reading the message from the dome i was thinking it resisted an enemy spell "bwaha, u deserved it sucker, I knew u would try something". Later did i realize what happened when i was looking for my mage.

Excist · #8 March 13th, 2012, 01:34 PM

OK, I just stepped in a steaming pile of Doh!! Last night.

In one game I'm running an extreme bless strat with horrible scales and a consequently frugal budget and then I sent one of my armies with about a hundred sacreds into battle:

Couple of mages popping some gems for combat magic? Check
Battle formation setup well? Check
Bodyguards on mages to protect against the attack rear Zmeys? Check
H3 caster scripted to drop the divine bless? WTF??!!

Yup, accidentally deselected the divine blesser at the last castle. What should have been a fairly painless battle turns into a large scale massacre, with an embarrassingly large number of cap only sacreds in the mix.

rdonj · #9 March 13th, 2012, 09:25 PM

I can't tell you how many times I've prophetized the starting scout and forgot to make sure that it wasn't sneaking before I hit end turn with predictable results. Or just recently losing a 1,000 gold mage to a bunch of freespawn bats that were set to attack rear and not having any guards for my mage, so he got surrounded and toasted in one turn.

BewareTheBarnacleGoose · #10 March 15th, 2012, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by rdonj

I can't tell you how many times I've prophetized the starting scout and forgot to make sure that it wasn't sneaking before I hit end turn with predictable results. Or just recently losing a 1,000 gold mage to a bunch of freespawn bats that were set to attack rear and not having any guards for my mage, so he got surrounded and toasted in one turn.

Whoa, who gets a 1000 gold mage?