Head to head Stories

sansanjuan · #1 May 23rd, 2010, 11:49 PM

I noticed in a recent game that a water elemental (from a bottle of living water) opened a can of whoop@ss on an earth elemental arriving via earth attack (living water seems to be a fine anti-assassin equip). I guess the outcome makes sense given the high Def of the water elemental against a single attacker (outcome perhaps only a surprise to me) but it got me to thinking what other ah-ha's the community has seen from other one on one battles. Apologies if this topic has been beat to death before.
-ssj

Slightly off topic - but I just remembered a battle where I took the last castle from an opponent. The next turn he/she set his last scout on attack and it proceeded to single handedly kill my (MA Ulm's) 3 PD force in another prov. The scout's name is carved in Ulm's Hall of Heros.

aaminoff · #2 May 24th, 2010, 10:13 PM

My favorite so far has to be the massive capital assault in Vicious Circle 3. I'm Helheim, attacking Tir na Nog's capital. I don't even remember what all happened, troops on both sides dying in droves, massive battle spells going on, etc. Finally, both sides' mages are mostly fatigued out, and my 2 or 3 remaining Vanjarl thugs are working their way forward. The last couple of TNN mages then totally turn the tide of battle with Frozen Heart.

Oh, one other story from that game. So TNN's pretender is a Forest Lord. He is all kitted out in equipment and regenerates a lot. Big battle, finally we rout them. Forest Lord is knocked down to not too many hp, a couple of my faster guys land a couple blows every turn as he moves towards the map edge. Finally, one of the hits generates an affliction. Which one? Limp. This slows him enough that the rest of my units catch up and mob him down.

sansanjuan · #3 May 24th, 2010, 11:51 PM

I like the Forest Lord story.

I find the battles are more fun when after you get the trn file you dream up a scenario for the upcoming battle(s) as they unfold (if you didn't cheat and look at the summary first..) Sometimes its two SCs dressed to kill with gate cleavers taking huge chunks out of each other and other times a crazy scout with a dagger taking down a pair of infantry that are way out of his league.
-ssj

Fantomen · #4 May 26th, 2010, 06:26 PM

One of my favourite battles was in one of my first MP games years ago. I was atlantis and I used a a2w1 Ancient kraken. It was pretty early game. What I did was to take a random province on the coast with my kraken (who had amulet of the fish), built a lab there, then cloud trapezed him across the map on Arcocephales capital. Which was loaded full of elephants in preparation for a trample rush against Agartha.

Ever had 48 elephants killed by an unexpected octopus falling from the sky?

The ultimate irony was: After I won Arcos capital, it so happened that I was able produce elephants there. And promptly used them to crush Agartha myself.

sansanjuan · #5 May 26th, 2010, 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Fantomen

One of my favourite battles was in one of my first MP games years ago. I was atlantis and I used a a2w1 Ancient kraken. It was pretty early game. What I did was to take a random province on the coast with my kraken (who had amulet of the fish), built a lab there, then cloud trapezed him across the map on Arcocephales capital. Which was loaded full of elephants in preparation for a trample rush against Agartha.

Ever had 48 elephants killed by an unexpected octopus falling from the sky?

The ultimate irony was: After I won Arcos capital, it so happened that I was able produce elephants there. And promptly used them to crush Agartha myself.

The one made me laugh out loud...
-ssj

DonCorazon · #6 May 26th, 2010, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Fantomen

One of my favourite battles was in one of my first MP games years ago. I was atlantis and I used a a2w1 Ancient kraken. It was pretty early game. What I did was to take a random province on the coast with my kraken (who had amulet of the fish), built a lab there, then cloud trapezed him across the map on Arcocephales capital. Which was loaded full of elephants in preparation for a trample rush against Agartha.

Ever had 48 elephants killed by an unexpected octopus falling from the sky?

That is just brutal...

brxbrx · #7 May 27th, 2010, 01:51 AM

Only in dominions can you get such fantastically awesome stories.

I love (hate) when one of my sc's gets taken out by a horror. They just beat at each other over and over again until finally one gets fatigued or they get a lucky hit. And all the while my bodyguards are waltzing across the field trying to catch up to the horror. That's why I've started equipping moonblades and commanding arcane bolts.

Oh, and here's another horror story showdown. I was using Kokabel to summon Doom Horrors with wish. I decided that he wasn't making enough progress with recruitment, so I made him cast som ubermindcontrol spell in combat to salvage failed summons. He complied, maxed out his fatigue on the first turn, and was killed. Sheer idiocy on my part. Luckily I had the blood slaves to bring him back.

Calahan · #8 May 27th, 2010, 03:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Fantomen

One of my favourite battles was in one of my first MP games years ago. I was atlantis and I used a a2w1 Ancient kraken. It was pretty early game. What I did was to take a random province on the coast with my kraken (who had amulet of the fish), built a lab there, then cloud trapezed him across the map on Arcocephales capital. Which was loaded full of elephants in preparation for a trample rush against Agartha.

Ever had 48 elephants killed by an unexpected octopus falling from the sky?

The ultimate irony was: After I won Arcos capital, it so happened that I was able produce elephants there. And promptly used them to crush Agartha myself.

In my experience, it is only a woman who could possibly dream up such a cruel novelty

RadicalTurnip · #9 May 27th, 2010, 09:10 AM

I've been playing around with Abysia, and I find that often my starting assasin gets the "mute" trait. I don't mind it at all, and I love the flair.

DonCorazon · #10 May 27th, 2010, 01:19 PM

There are some great / humorous stories in the Kingmaker thread which I was just skimming trying to find one of my own battles that, while not an epic clash, was still an astonishing tale of heroism:

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Originally Posted by DonCorazon

Utgard's "Employee of the Month" award goes to Sigmund, the PD1 commander (a 12 HP Herse) who fought off some Atlantean raiders in one of those battles that are so unlikely they fall into the ridiculous category.

He first withstood a Bladewind, then while fighting 3 guys at the same time - killed a merman and chased off an Atlantian militia and Shambler, then dodged a cold bolt from a 2 star Mage of the Deep from 2 squares a way, ran up to the mage who, was then at Protection 26 (after invulnerability), and smote him down with 2 blows.

Sigmund's family will be receiving a free turkey for his efforts.