What is your nastiest surprise ever in Dom III?

[Epaminondas]

What is the nastiest surprise you guys have ever encountered while playing Dom III.

I will relate my nastiest (and most hilarious) experience, which happened 5 minutes ago. So I am playing a long game with 15 AI opponents, and we are left with me (Arco) and one AI (Sauromatica).

Now I've kicked Sauromatica off most of the land provinces, so I am finally heading toward the AI's sea provinces. THe invasion will be a two-pronged one, with two absolutely massive, powerful armies (it was a long game with 15 AI opponents, as I said).

In one of the armies (I called these guys my "national army"), I have my Wind Rider prophet with godly equipment, and with over 200 hit points and at least level 10 in every magic path (he was buffed at least a dozen times with "Wish"). He is ably assisted by Pathos, who also has godly equipment and over 200 hit points and is at least level 10 in every magic path. Both my prophet and Pathos also have 5 Seraph body guard each! (It's too bad no puny Hunter of Heroes showed up, for he would have been licked!). Buttressing my prophet and Pathos are 2 Seraph commanders who were gifted with "Reason." Finally, in this army there were some dozen Oreids and Mystics each, most of them who have been multiple empowered and fully equipped. Together with the foot soldiers--composing mostly Myrmidons, this army is about 600 strong.

The other army is my "summoned" army. It had about a dozen Pretender gods who were "Wished" and gifted with "Reason." They too were all superbly equipped. It also had another dozen or so Ether Lords and their Ether Warrior retinue. There are fewer guys in this army, but with commanders and foot solders this strong, this army too was well-nigh invincible.

So I am going to administer the coup de grace--or so I thought. Wrong...

Here's what happened. Sauromatica had "Thetis' Blessing" on for almost the entire game. So I thought it was safe to attack their water provinces. I wasn't worried about "Thetis' Blessing" being bumped off by another global, because there were only 3 globals up, so Sauromatica had to cast 3 globals in order to even have a chance at bumping off "Thetis' Blessing."

You can imagine what happened. The first turn I enter two water provinces using those 2 massive armies, Sauromatica casts 3 globals and "Thetis' Blessing" is bumped off!!!

So my two cherished armies all drown!



Needless to say, I was surprised [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Envy.gif[/img]

[Epaminondas]

Now I am wondering if the AI did this deliberately to "drown" my armies, all was this a freak accident?

[Strages Sanctus]

massed mages with no script casting phoenix pyre on themselves and setting off an army destroying chain reaction... not once but twice. Two big armies and dozens of mages

[Gilded]

Summoning otherworldly beasties of the void with middle age R'lyeh using a Void Lord pretender god only to have him get feebleminded when summoning a single lesser otherness. You'd think that a powerful void being itself could sustain a little bit of unimaginable horror but guess not. :|

[Vicious Love]

Epaminondas said:
Here's what happened. Sauromatica had "Thetis' Blessing" on for almost the entire game.

Even if they hadn't cast those globals, weren't you worried about killing their pretender, or whoever cast the spell? It seems pretty likely you'd do that before taking their very last province.

[Epaminondas]

Vicious Love said:

Even if they hadn't cast those globals, weren't you worried about killing their pretender, or whoever cast the spell? It seems pretty likely you'd do that before taking their very last province.

1. I am a "newb."

2. I wasn't worried, as AI is fairly easy in this game (except perhaps on Impossible with many opponents), and I had such a massive, powerful military machine.

But in any case, I will be more careful about entering water provinces next time

[Endoperez]

Global spells end when the caster dies. That's what Vicious Love asked you about.

[solops]

Electrical power failure after 3 hours of play.

[Agrajag]

solops said:
Electrical power failure after 3 hours of play.

I suppose there's a big risk of none-electrical power failure when playing dom3

Playing Dom2, I got a really nasty surprise when I discovered that Bone Grinding insta-kills every skeletal undead on the battlefield :X (yes, every single one from that group of ~1000 storming that capital province's fortification)

[Reverend Zombie]

My nastiest surprise in Dom III was shelling out the 26 death gems to summon a Tomb King, then finding out they couldn't summon Tomb Wyrms!