Hall of Doh!

[Edratman2]

I had a new one on Saturday.


For the first time in about a hundred games I decided to blindly attack a province on the opening turn with my starting army because I'm playing my own mod with a decent starter set. Managed to pick a province with 3 zillion knights and get thumped. At the same time, probably because I went with bad scales, got a barbarian invasion attack (only 2 zillion barbarians) on my capital. All I could do was read my messages and look a total military force of a mage (gotta have a mage, don't want to lose your lab to an earthquake in the first turn), some double blessable sacreds (if I had someone to bless them)and a scout in an adjacent province.

I came up with a fairly clever solution; "start new game".

[Szumo]

You could have prophetized that mage

[Edratman2]

Szumo said:
You could have prophetized that mage

Didn't think of that. Was too busy going "DOH"!

[Endoperez]

This wasn't a real Doh, but I don't know where else to post this.


I was testing how well Luck scale is, once again. I start a game, choose a random nation, put in Oracle, full luck and turmoil, go on... Well, my test was at the "turn 50" phase. I has chosen Silent Seas, so the AI had found me, conquered provinces around me and was trying to get through the wall of PD 95 and 400 militia and other random units. Now, I was wondering why I get so many of this one spesific event. It's not even good - cursed units, got some witch's gems, blablabla... Then I realized it's not that event. It's the other event. The Baleful Star event.



The AI is spamming Baleful Star at my capital!

[Wrana]

My personal favorite is, of course, attacking with 2 armies and forgetting to change "sneak" into "move" for one of them... Unfortunately, hadn't got anything like this in current MPs...
Well, now remember one! Got an agreement with other player than I'll make him Dwarven Hammer... got gems, etc. And found out that last turn I've sent the only E3 mage in laboratory to bash some independents!

[Zeldor]

Yeah, finding useful mages in strange places far from lab when you need to summon/forge smth NOW happens quite often. Too often.

I also forget about trades. But got lucky on it once, other player sent me gems, I forgot about it. But then he declared war on me so I didn't feel like sending that gems later

[Herode]

Wrana said:
My personal favorite is, of course, attacking with 2 armies and forgetting to change "sneak" into "move" for one of them... Unfortunately, hadn't got anything like this in current MPs...

I had one of these on the King of the Island game. I was playing C'tis (without much efficiency I confess...) and was planning to attack Machaka. I move several stealth armies (mainly shades & shadows) on the provinces I wanted to seize and where my scouts reported no or very few DP... and I forgot to make them move instead of sneak. The turn after, I attacked at least. but the time was over : the main province and 2 other had received armies, the main province had also a beatiful fort built, just under my nose

Of course, bad times were only to begin since Machaka was one of the power nations of the game, while I was one of the poorest ones

[DonCorazon]

how about all those times you turn up the tax on turn 1 and then forget to turn it down?

in one of my first MP games it wasn't until around turn 40 when a spy arrived in my capital and was caught that i realized i had huge unrest and that was what had caused my queue to stop producing. doh!!!

the player who sent the spy, saw the unrest in my capital and asked me after he was defeated if i was at war with someone (assuming someone else must have been sending spies to my capital and that person might have made a good ally).

i had to confess no -i created all that unrest by myself.