My God died.

[Forrest]

Now I feel stupid for not saving the game.

I had thought it was the massive negative hit points that did it at the time. He had 10 or 12 horror marks due to 2 battles right before it happened. His hit points were so massively negative I thought it was a computer glitch at first.

I jumped to the conclusion that he had been damaged past recall and did not read the end game message very well. I did not mind loosing him much. But I was mad because I would have won without him as he was pretty useless.

I think I had a prophet and I am not sure if I had more than the starting temple. I usualy build a couple for cheap extra priests. I just don't remember. It was one of my first games when I got the disk.

There were no province battles that round.

[thejeff]

Are you sure you lost?

Maybe you dominion killed your opponent?

If you just skimmed the message, having just seen your god die, could you have misread it?

[Tortanick]

I think thejeff is right. It makes more sense here to assume you actually won. You wouldn't need to take his castle either, just his dominion.

[Forrest]

Now I realy feel like a idiot.

You might be right. It was late, I was tired and I was so disgusted I just quit. Then erased it the next day.

Having read these forums for the last few days I can understand what you are saying. I had never heard of winning by dominion at that time.

You reasoning makes total sense. It was the first game I had played to the end. I could see me making such a error.

[thejeff]

At least you can be happy you won.