Unforgettable Moments

[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.

[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by Taqwus:
Oh, regarding the infamous Bogus the Troll --
In one recent game, I used Wind Ride and brought Bogus to one of my castles.

That's strange. I once noticed Bogus and company (the Griffon rider was missing though) in a faraway province, used WR to snatch and charm them, and I got all of them save Bogus. Apparently he was immune to Wind Ride, at least in Dominions 1.

[PvK]

Nice stories. And, that's a great trick with the summoned troll!

I've written about other great moments on other threads. E.g. the time I set my own mummified hero on fire via an oversight, thus losing a major battle, since he was the only one leading the huge army of undead and demons which was supposed to wipe out miasmatic C'tis. I'd started him out in the middle of my devil brigade... oops. Or, the time Henric my cursed priest won the arena deathmatch, to go on to become a heroic melee combattant.

Just tonight, I had a memorable moment against Pythium. They kept casting Wrath of God even after I dispelled it, and the Last casting resisted my dispel so it must be rather strong, and I was having to live with it. While battling their armies on two fronts and having to suffer constant losses from lightning strikes, I sent my magic-item bedecked succubus Fanelle hunting for the caster. She eventually snuck her way to Pythium, and finally, tonight, she found Coriolanus the Arch Theurg Prophet, who wasn't at all interested in her dream games. He was a serious wizard with Fire 1, Air 4, Water 4, Astral 6, Holy 5, Quarterstaff, HP 24, Strength 21, Attack 21, Defense 21, MR 23, precision 19. He cast quickness. Fanelle swooped in and he staved her off (repel staff bonk for a bruise) and then smote her, destroying her magic shield, crippling her arm, and taking her from health 30 to 4. Then she gutted him with her magic sword and he exploded in a huge bath of holy flames... which fortunately didn't snuff her out. Whew! Nice job, Fanelle! The lightning is over!

PvK

[Endoperez]

This just happened in Dominions 1 with Pangaea:

I had been attacked by a monstrous Manticore, which had 5 Astral, 4 Earth and 2 Air. It started battle by casting Invulnerability, followed by either Body Ethereal or Luck. I had driven it away, and thought it had retreated into capital of Arcoschepale just a small fight to the west. So I collceted my Cross-bred forces, gave them all the Maenads I had to spare and went after Arcos. It wasn't until I had their capital besieged that their pretender was a Master druid. Then I remembered that the Manticore had been pretender of Vanheim, and that he must have died in the retreat.

Now I started to finish Arcoschepale. I managed to lose my army of poison spitting crossbred, including 3 basilisks, because Arco had only 3 commanders and handful of poison-immune Mandragoras. They slaughtered my Minotaurs, and my starving spider-thingies decided to run away. I'm not very proud of that battle. After pondering a little, I decided I would change tactics. Taking some summoned wolves and remaining spidermen, together with 3 Dracolions and 2 Cockatrices, and just letting them all to slaughter the three mages forming the army of Arco (mandragoras had all been destroyed the turn before). Orokestes the Eunuch and the pretender Master Druid died in the first round to the bites of angry wolves, and the remaining native mage second turn. Astrologer's Body Ethereal could not save him from the mouths of crippled, badly hurt Dracolions. All three had cast Ritual of Returning on themselves, but that was of no help.

Now I should mention that I had given Soul Contract to a Pandemoniac the turn before. As excepted, a devil had appeared to my citadel in Pangaea. But what kind of a devil! First, it was a commander. I checked, no, there was no devil in the garrison, so this had to be a gift from the Infernal Lord. Now I checked the devil. Imagine my surprise when I saw Orokestes the Devil before me! Orokestes, with all his magics (FAEW2S3H) and both items he had died with! (enhchanted pike, endless wineskin) Not a bad gift, eh?

( I have no idea about why this happened, check the thread "Strange Bug in Dom1", it might have some answers. )

[ February 14, 2004, 15:38: Message edited by: Endoperez ]

[Gandalf Parker]

Alot of my favorite stories involve Wind Ride in combo with some charming spell such as HellBind. Gaining 2 or 3 prophets at the same time is fun. Snatching an enemy commander who had fantastic leadership ability and a ton of nice equipment is great. Attacking the province he was in and watching a huge army rout for lack of leadership is a giggle fest. Doing it with just a lone scout is roll-on-the-floor hilarious.
heehee "Hey leaderless troops.... BOO!"

[ February 14, 2004, 18:52: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]