In this thread we talk about some of the worst, most frustrating Dominions games/situations we've been in.
I'll start.
So I'm playing as the Tuatha in a SP game. About 15 turns in Lugh shows up (luck 3/turmoil 3
) while I'm fighting off Vanheim. The war's hard-fought because halfway through a bunch of Vaniir slip past my armies and wind up conquering the territories on my peninsula at about the same rate I'm conquering provinces in his territory. So I recruit Balor who takes my frantically assembled Sidhe and slowly pushes the offensive back. Lugh takes my enemy's capital and everything's good. The god, a Cyclops who happened to take Turmoil 1 and Misfortune 3, is hiding out in a province just north of his capital. Immediately about 10 or so soldiers go back to siege the capital. Having about 80 soldiers, and a Holy 5 prophet, I feel pretty good breaking the siege. Halfway through Lugh (who's got an arrow ward of 20%) gets knocked off by a stray arrow. Understandably I'm irritated. So I march Balor up there and attack the province the Cyclops is hiding out in. The reports say the Cyclops is by himself, so I figured at most he had a couple Van soldiers hiding out with him. No such luck. Balor's army of 50 Sidhe soldiers goes up against 90-something soldiers, most of which are human. My second in command dies along with all the soldiers under him. That same turn, in the capital that I paid so dearly for, an earthquake knocks off my temple and a fire my laboratory. And a barbarian horde conquers the territory Balor came in from. This same fate happens to 3 other provinces of mine in the course of 3 turns. One of them actually gets hit with the same fate twice on the same turn. During this time the god of Tien Chi, who conveniently had the same name as the Cyclops, casts two global spells. Finally, when the Cyclops sieges his lost capital and I conquer the territory he was hiding out in, I catch him with a far-superior army. But, as if knowing that it would rob me of the satisfaction of finally ending him, he decides to retreat into enemy territory. The few provinces he has left are all being held by about 100 independent-recruited soldiers, and Marverni just broke into the side of my dominion.
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