Gutted

[monkian]

So I'd just held my triumph at Rome for my gold chevron general who had conquered 90% of Carthage and shipped him over to Spain with a brand new legion for him when it happens.

A sodding great Earth kills him, 90% of the new legion plus the 12 stack army with its 3 family members who were busy subjucating the Spanish.

Will of God ? No happy

Great game though, Im busy avenging his death by pulling down all their temples

[Gaivs]

Cough, Reload. If its an act of god...Surely you as the player are a god, so dont feel guilty about manipulating time and space ;).

[Strategos Alexandros]

What if pulling down their temples offends their gods and causes another earthquake?

[LorDBulA]

I cheer your decision to stick it out and not load the save game.
This is the time that will test your will.
Personally I extremely seldom reload games.
It makes game much more interesting although sometimes when your best general is assassinated or drown in naval battle its really hard to resist temptation.

[blacksnail]

That's absolutely awesome.

[Hooahguy]

could this have been the disaster bug? anyhow, heres a balloon for your pain-

[Redmeth]

could this have been the disaster bug? anyhow, heres a balloon for your pain-

The disaster bug would've destroyed all and left an invisible army behind... so I don't think it is.. still tough luck..

[bovi]

The disaster fix makes the max intensity 90%. Lucky Monkian got the jackpot .

[Midnj]

I once lost a 8 star general and 4 well-developed governors plus a large number of freshly recruited reinforcements on the boat ride from Kart-Hadast to Mastia. A weaker pirate fleet won a ridiculous auto-calc naval battle and sunk my boats.

I didn't reload. I decided to man up and take the loss. I grabbed a new set of governors from the homeland, stripped another front of its developed military commander and recruited fresh reinforcements and put them all on a stronger fleet this time.

Naturally, Rome declared war on me one turn out to sea attacked my fleet - fortunately the fleet didn't sink. Unfortunately it retreated even closer to enemy territory than to my territory. Rather than tempt fate I did move_character on the fleet to my Iberian port, only because I could have walked them all the way to Lixus then made the short hop across to Gader but I was too lazy. Lesson learned.

Now all recruits, FMs and agents bound for Iberia from the homelands get to go on a year-long marching tour of North Africa.

[LorDBulA]

Nice story Midnj.

I think my worse loss was when I was playing Epeiros.
I just conquered whole Greece with my army and planed to let Rhodos be.
But they assassinated my best general after they lost last city.

I was pissed and hell bend on destroying them.
So I send my fleet to check out defence on Rhodos.
It was all good, no strong fleets so I just went for it and try to ship my elite army to this island.
Of course I was attacked in the middle by pirates and lost 80% of my elite silver chevron army ( other 20%, cavalry was retraining ).

It really pissed me of, but I didnt reload.
Of course later I made not so hasty invasion and slaughter the town.

It felt good.

[Cyclops]

Similar story with Baktria. My first youngster matured into a fine young general, I think he had 3 influence and a scroll or two of management, all the right sttributes to be a significant governor or general. he was a lad with a bright future you could just tell.

I put him in command of a nice stack of 10-12 (nothing too flash but it was what I could afford) and sent him off towards Kophen to conquer India.

First turn out there was a massive earthquake and the entire stack was wiped and the general gone. Worst of all the paltry fellow I allowed my daughter to marry a few turns earlier and who wasn't worth sending remained inside Baktra unharmed.

Its all good.

[Kολοσσός]

How do I hold a triumph for a general?

[Gaivs]

How do I hold a triumph for a general?

Have you managed to turn the script on yet?

[monkian]

Thanks for the baloons !

My last save was hours ago and the auto save was from the turn before anyway

I've played on and sent new stacks and about 8 family members to avenge his death, Spain is turning red in more ways than one

[Digby Tatham Warter]

I must be weaker than many of you because if an earthquake or similar killed off my best General/Governer I would reload, I know I would, if he was superb. The main thing for me is the sheer amount of work it creates, partic if long distances are involved, so I must be lazy!

I usually spend ages grooming family members, including keeping weak family members in fort/camps, so they don't collect traits, because they are useful for swoping entire trait sets about, or just to collect special traits at ful movement speeds over long distances, infact their more like the pony express. It puts me in a bad mood to see so much work unfairly?? undone.

I let it stand when I loose one in a battle though, I have to except the loss, it's my fault, but at least it's rare, partic with a well groomed General and elite body guard.

[konny]

Having lossed Hamilcar Barcas jun. short before he became faction leader by a Volcano made me once this upset that I ended a Karthgain campaign and start new. Unfortuantly, this time he turned out to be a complete military idiot and of no political meaning...

[bigmilt16]

I got a sob story for ya...

It's 173, and my reformer had just taken over as principes and retired from censorship. He was 60 and had an illustrious career as the man who brought the Macedonians and Greeks to their knees. He had 7 stars, 9 pillars, and I had just sated his bloodlust for Greek women and children.

He decides that he wants to control a province so I send him on one of my finest ships to Salt-rich Africa, where he would be Emperor of Africa Vetus.

He is washed away by pirates. So I reload...

then he dies of old age once he gets off the boat in Karthago.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

I had no reformer and it was now 172. I had everything ready for my legions.

My Iberian front collapsed a few months later.

[Sdragon]

As the Romans trying to take North East Italy I lost a full elite army with my 5 star general and another 3 star guy along with a good governor who was due to command the city. Reformed and tried again, another earthquake as my next best army is destroyed along with my new best general (just 2 stars). Third time I had a more minor earthquake and lost 1/3 of my army and the 0 star general survived. I pressed on and finally took the city. I was close to accepting the gods didn't want me taking that place.