What is your nastiest surprise ever in Dom III?

[Epaminondas]

Dhaeron said:
SP: Playing MA C'Tis and fighting a two front war against Caelum and Arcos, trading land for time and slowly wearing down their several hundred strong armies. (lots of elephants from Arcos)
When on my third front Ulm starts invading with a 2k+ army.
First SP game i lost since the early days of Dom2.
Annoyed me especially since i had a lot of spies in Ulm and so could tell that this invasion army consisted of about 90% of all his troops. If the dastard had tried that in multiplayer he'd have been eviscerated by the other nations that bordered him. But the AIs there left him alone for at least a dozen turns which was when i gave up, having no more land to use for attrition tactics. Especially since by then Ulm had recruited another thousand or so troops ready to reinforce the remainders of the first army.
On the plus side, i found a lot of nasty tricks to pull off to inflict disruption and casualites on national armies with minimal losses. (except the provinces of course)

What was the AI difficulty level? 2000 units is a lot of units!

[Baalz]

Getting hit by the random event that "Faith is decreasing but crops are growing faster"....on the second turn....while playing Mictlan. Doh! Fortunately that was a SP game and obviously I hadn't invested much time in it yet. Still, pretty funny.

[Manuk]

I was playing a 4-player-blitz (my second that day).

First thing I did when I saw where quantum mechanic were, was to attack him. I thought I could get fast to his capitol but he was really prepared to repel me. So It became a bloody war, specially when his pretender showed up. (I was massing a really big amount of crappy units there).

Then, in between turns i thought "they are taking too long to make their turns, Im going to rest for 5 minutes and then continue playing".
But when I woke up it was about 9 am in the morning. They sure must have wait for long for me to play.

Mental note: if you are too tired don´t play a blitz.

[quantum_mechani]

Manuk said:
I was playing a 4-player-blitz (my second that day).

First thing I did when I saw where quantum mechanic were, was to attack him. I thought I could get fast to his capitol but he was really prepared to repel me. So It became a bloody war, specially when his pretender showed up. (I was massing a really big amount of crappy units there).

Then, in between turns i thought "they are taking too long to make their turns, Im going to rest for 5 minutes and then continue playing".
But when I woke up it was about 9 am in the morning. They sure must have wait for long for me to play.

Mental note: if you are too tired don´t play a blitz.

Ah, so that's what happened.

[alexti]

My nastiest surprise in Dom3: Ghost King casting few buffs including stoneskin.

[HoneyBadger]

My nastiest surprise was maybe when, in an early game, I flew my fully equipped, very powerful master lich into a province that had negative Dom, without fully understanding the way the game works. Needless to say, I lost him and all his equipment. I also lost a couple of nations from lack of Dom, before I figured out why, and I discovered that water-breathers can't participate in the Arena.

[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