What is your nastiest surprise ever in Dom III?

[PvK]

Mine may have been when playing MP as Vanheim, and finding out the hard way that frost giants completely trumped all my men with their wall of frost, no matter how skilled, and that I had no magic to protect against the cold. That surprise was soon topped when I was thinking I might be turning the situation around, and then having my dominion vanish.

[PvK]

Mmmn, there was also the time my killer pretender got killed by an independent hoburg with a magic sword...

[Uh-Nu-Buh]

Seems pretty tame compared to these, but:

I have a mage with boots of the planes (teleport) and the Chalice. He teleports around to different armies and reduces afflictions. This is necessary as all my mages are ancient and keep getting more and more afflictions, and mages are the basis of my armies.

Anyways, one turn he just disappears. Can't find him. Overview doesn't list him. Can't remake the chalice or the boots, so I am pretty sure he is out there somewhere. No idea what is going on. Except my extended armies are falling apart, and my mass of researchers/caster in the capital are dying off quickly now.

[Endoperez]

Uh-Nu-Buh said:
Seems pretty tame compared to these, but:

I have a mage with boots of the planes (teleport) and the Chalice. He teleports around to different armies and reduces afflictions. This is necessary as all my mages are ancient and keep getting more and more afflictions, and mages are the basis of my armies.

Anyways, one turn he just disappears. Can't find him. Overview doesn't list him. Can't remake the chalice or the boots, so I am pretty sure he is out there somewhere. No idea what is going on. Except my extended armies are falling apart, and my mass of researchers/caster in the capital are dying off quickly now.

Lost in Space and Time, perhaps?

[Shovah32]

Yea, the boots can cause that to happen iirc.

[Uh-Nu-Buh]

That sounds like a good guess to me. Darn it.

[Saxon]

Bogus. Many times in many ways. He is also great when he hits the other guy, he saved my empire once.

I wish he was stronger in Dom III.

[QXel]

Last evening.

Five skilled Abysia Fire Mages (lvl 3 to 5) sieging a Tien C'hi Fortress.

All stacked just behind my massive troops to cast again and again Falling Fire (or Fireball, Conflagration, whatever doing big amount of damage to lots of units at one time), and well protected by 5 Lava Warriors each (just in case).

Tien C'hi army was slaughtered, routed, just ONE unit left on the battlefield, running for his life ...

My lazy mages, having nothing more interresting to do, have all cast Phoenix Pyre at this time.

You guess :
one of them was killed by a tower's arrow, and ...

BOOM -> BOOM -> BOOM !!!

3 deads, the two lucky survivors crippled, and 2/3 of bodyguards destroyed.

I have to replay three times the battle to undestands what happened.

I was angry, but then, I think of this thread (and this one too), and laught a lot !

[NTJedi]

My nastiest surprise was experiencing the hunter of heroes bug... not fun.

[Ironhawk]

The pricetag!! Heheheh