Unforgettable Moments

[Arryn]

This is an excellent thread! Thanks for sharing!

[Tricon]

In one of my first games I was playing a very expansionistic Arco.(edit: ahem... it was as Pythium, of course... mixed up my early games) Concentrating with my best leaders on a very bothersome Pangea, I failed to give an appearently medium sized abysian army (around turn 25, about 50 units strong) its due respect. One battle later I had a viscious Lava Warrior dominant battlegroup in my very weak backwater provinces. My nearest army was 2 provinces away, and during the next 4 turns the bastards were merilly blitzing my provinces and ruining my economy (back then I didn't know the importance of strong dominion, or strong province defense....).Sometimes the AI has an uncanny ability to avoid my forces ....
Anyway, in the next turn the battlegroup attacked another fairly weak defended province(defence of about 10, and 5-10 additional light infantry units with stndard indi leader). Again, I was helplessly watching the lava warriors butcher the infantry and my - as usual - incompetent slingers. My infantry breaks and flees, the slinger stoicly fire (and miss) away, when the sole abysian leader all of a sudden actually gets hit and killed(!!) by a sling bullet. A rout followed, and the army was destroyed (no province to retreat to)
I was wooting like I madman. Especially since the leader killed was Rago the Ragelord (a national hero) - an almost mathematic imposibility to kill with a slinger.

I lost the game anyway, since I made too many NEWB mistakes, but it was the first adrenaline rush that the game gave me....

[ February 14, 2004, 04:00: Message edited by: Tricon ]

[condors]

i built some flying dwarven thugs (i thought they were umber after watching them for a few battles)
next thing i know i go to have them conquer the next place in line and i see the independants won the battle??? i bring up the Messages and there was this group of trolls(carry precious) and they tore up my 6 dwarves and had them for dinner

also i was getting overconfident with my flying thugs again when i went to kill this group of whimpy mages they were the ones that turn into spiders and the pretender was actually a dragon...i didn't need those 23 master smiths all equiped with iteams that much i guess

1 red dragon pretender and 8 sorcerers > 23 master smiths (it was mostly the dragon though)

[Taqwus]

Lazily playing the Ashen Empire in SP, rolling a 1000+ undead into a castle storming battle, and losing them all because the doorway was blocked with Crushers, the leaders eventually auto-routed and the undead dissolved was a harsh lesson: bring something to deal with the tough units.
Playing R'lyeh and watching as my single Vastness (the only one I got in that game, actually; and my summoner eventually reached 60+) was Controlled by an Arco Mystic on the mystic's first cast was also pretty harsh. The Vastness promptly routed the rest of my army.
Once in Dom I, I put together an Iron Dragon Squadron -- 24 Iron Dragons, led by a Gift-of-Reasoned Iron Dragon. Incredibly expensive, highly vulnerable to anti-magical-creature tactics, but rather comical to behold in battle -- 25 high-prot high-hp size-6 flying tramplers.

[Taqwus]

Oh, regarding the infamous Bogus the Troll --
In one recent game, I used Wind Ride and brought Bogus to one of my castles. Irritatingly but not all that surprisingly, he beat the province defense. However, I then realized that since he wasn't going anywhere, and my air mage was still safely inside, I could stage a tournament of my own by wind-riding enemy commanders who would then be forced to fight Bogus in one-on-one duels , and the enemy AI wouldn't necessarily even know who did the Wind Ride since it wasn't my army they'd fight, but an independent. Weird.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Taqwus:
Once in Dom I, I put together an Iron Dragon Squadron -- 24 Iron Dragons, led by a Gift-of-Reasoned Iron Dragon. Incredibly expensive, highly vulnerable to anti-magical-creature tactics, but rather comical to behold in battle -- 25 high-prot high-hp size-6 flying tramplers.

One game I put together an entire battalion of the damn things: 155 IDs led by my pretender.

The racket was absolutely horrendous! Every round there was a good several seconds of metallic clanking and rattling. It sounded like a sack pots and pans being kicked down the stairs! It was great! SQUISHY-SQUISHY-SQUISH!

It was also incredibly hamfisted, as a I probably chose the worst target for tramplation: Soul Gate Ermor's hordes, and each of those little ghosties required repeated squishings just to kill.

But when you're willing to go with a level of excessive force that's so ridiculously overwhelming, who cares if it's efficient? It was *COOL*, and that's what really counts.

[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.