Crazy&Insane Stories!

[Zeldor]

IF there is a thread on that topic it must be buried very deep

Write here all your dominions stories that shouldn't have happened. Bizarred things [not bugs, not your mistakes], funny ones, instances of extreme luck etc etc.

My example is from today, the game pretty much finished so I staled a turn. But my Treelord was set to monthly awaken sleeper. Bad luck for him as Astral Corruption was up.

I check the news and "Oakstrong was suddenly attacked by Abomination of Desolation". And a bit later "Oakstrong was suddenly attacked by a Horror". I couldn't believe that! My Treelord, that also happened to be diseased and BLIND! won a battle against Doom Horror!

Battle looked like that - Treelord casts personal regen, false horrors attack. He kills them with branches. Abomination does the stuff but regen gives Treelord enough HP back every turn. After about 15-20 turn of Charm spam one spell goes through and tada, charmed Abomination of Desolation! Too bad you do not keep it after battlle...

[K]

I recently gained a lab from a random event and then had it promptly burn down in the next event message. Those were my only two events that turn.

[theenemy]

In a game I was MA Tien Chi. I fought a battle against a small army from Shinuyama. My archers(I had plenty) fired a round and one of the Shinuyama shortbow bandit lost an eye in the process. When my archers fired their next round, the same bandit got the affliction "lost the other eye as well". For some reason I thought it was hilarious.

[PvK]

Those are great stories!

In my first Dominions game (Dom 1), I had an ongoing war with an enemy who had a mounted horse archer commander who kept surviving battle after battle and coming back with more troops, but he also kept getting more and more injuries, and lost both eyes, but would still fire his bow in combat, randomly sending arrows around the battlefield. That was one of the many things that hooked me on this series, years ago...

[capnq]

I was impressed when my pretender managed to drop one of his Gifts from Heaven on top of Bogus.

[Lingchih]

Speaking of Bogus. Last night I was testing out LA Pythium. Bogus and his band had taken one of my provinces, and in a few turns about 50 barbarians joined him there.

Perfect battle for my sacred Hydras, I thought. I sent in a squad led by an air shielded Serpent Priest (so the Bogus archer could not take him out). The battle went as planned, hydras mowed through the barbarians (but lost a lot of heads), killed a couple of his cronies, and sent Bogus running.

Bogus was one square from exiting the battlefield, when my serpent priest hit him with a mind burn. It turned him berserk, he turned around, killed all my hydras, and then made a run for my serpent priest, chopping his head off in one blow. It was quite funny.

[lch]

LOL @ Lingchih, funny write-up.

[gowb]

I began a game with Bandar Log, planning on setting up a clam factory and then pumping out some Rudra SCs. The only problems were the dwarven hammers and the wraith swords I needed - the hammer to forge the clams and the swords for the Rudras. A severe lack of gems in my starting provinces made me lose a bit of hope. Then on turn ten, one of my subjects finds the tomb of an ancient hero with 100 gold, a dwarven hammer, and a wraith sword. Yoink!

Stuff like that amazes me. Took it as a sign from the Pantokrater that my plan would win me the world.

[HoneyBadger]

I was just about to post the graphics for my latest nation, when my wife accidentally knocks over my laptop. Even though it only fell a foot on to carpet, it smashed something vital-nearest I can figure, the motherboard.

I couldn't even blame it on her because she was just giving me a snuggle, and I'd set the laptop precariously on the coffee-table.

It made me crazy and insane. Does that count???

[MaxWilson]

Threads like this remind me of the time when I was defending my home province capital against an invading army with a bunch of thugs, including one particularly nasty one with Invulnerability and crazy defense from magical gear and Heroic Lightning Reflexes. Fortunately one of my Androphag Archers managed to hit him with a poison arrow, and that plus the vulnerability to poison from Invulnerability took him out. I still lost the castle and the province, though.

Even more ridiculous was the time when I sent a Melqart and some Rephaelites to take out an indy province. One of the enemy slingers hit the Melqart for 74 points of damage and killed him! Some craziness on the open-ended random numbers that day, I tell you. Of course the other Rephaelites routed and the province stayed free another day. It was unbelievable!

Okay, neither of those really happened in my games, I stole them from history and legend. Too bad Dominions doesn't have summonable wooden horses. Seriously, that's one thing I love about Dominions, is relating it to mythology.

-Max