Post Your "Oh Dear" Moments

[unmerged(157840)]

You know the feeling. You're playing the game, and something pops up, and you instinctively say 'oh, crap.' Getting hit by a big nation, getting into a PU, whatever.

In my most recent Brandenburg game, I got any German minor's biggest nightmare.

105,000 man army. Thankfully, I had a Regency Council at the time, which ended 4 months after the French king died. So nothing lost, really. Poor Danes, though...

 

[EUROO7]

Here I am playing Venice, have all of northern italy, and decide to DoW Styria, whom I have a core on. They are guaranteed by Austria, but the Habsburgs are a rump of what they once were.

So I march into Steirmark and destroy the 5k army they have, only to notice a 30K Austrian army heading toward me. I try to flee, but they are too fast. My army of 18K retreats to Karnten, only to be followed by the Austrian stack. Fully out of morale, my troops evaporate before my eyes and I get ~15 DoWs from my vassals and every single neighbour, including France and Hungary.

Yay...

 

[blitzkerig0]

That would be 45 regiments, about 3/4 of my invasion force, getting defeated by 1000 men. I would have considered it normal, but only two of the 15k stacks had retreated from a lost battle, with the final 15k stack coming from Budjak, where they had been succesfully suppressing rebels

 

[Viking]

What The F#CK?!?!

I'm flabbergasted.

 

[Shiggs]

wow. I had one where 20k died to 2k but wow, not that bad. with the general and everything, there should be something hardcoded to never let that happen.

 

[Darkrenown]

That would be 45 regiments, about 3/4 of my invasion force, getting defeated by 1000 men. I would have considered it normal, but only two of the 15k stacks had retreated from a lost battle, with the final 15k stack coming from Budjak, where they had been succesfully suppressing rebels

Yeah, there seems to be a fairly rare bug where if an army arrives exactly when another army loses it's lumped into the losses/retreat.

 

[Chamboozer]

I enter a war with HRE Austria confident that my 60k stack will lead me to victory as byzantium, and it is destroyed within 3 months by waves of austrian 35k stacks o

 

[Black_Shade]

That would be 45 regiments, about 3/4 of my invasion force, getting defeated by 1000 men. I would have considered it normal, but only two of the 15k stacks had retreated from a lost battle, with the final 15k stack coming from Budjak, where they had been succesfully suppressing rebels

You win the thread.

 

[unmerged(174602)]

Well this one had me saying "ah crap...", i'm sure most will agree.

 

[quetzilla]

I didn't save this with the popup, but the screen is relatively self explanatory:

Portugal just became Emperor of a rather gigantic HRE.

 

[unmerged(146885)]

I didn't save this with the popup, but the screen is relatively self explanatory:

Portugal just became Emperor of a rather gigantic HRE.

A few more provinces and they 'll form the EU.:rofl:

 

[unmerged(185404)]

[France] being at war with most of the Western HRE states, badboy overload follows and I get warned by the UK. Greeaaat.

Then, Sweden, Tyrone, Brittany, Portugal, Denmark...

Mind you this is rather early, so I wasn't prepared for this. Damn my nubbliness.

 

[Kamelot]

Enacting the second last reform in the HRE-reforms as Austria. Then getting into a war with the entire HRE a day later with infamy going up to 40.1...

 

[Boenga]

I was playing burgundy, while trying out HTTT for the first time. I managed to get emperor and enact the reforms ( which is quite easy if you win every defensive war your member states drag you into), and became the major player in europa. Didn't read the part about having to much BB when you try to vassalize the HRR. Having war with every member state at the same time...Ouch.

 

[unmerged(157840)]

That would be 45 regiments, about 3/4 of my invasion force, getting defeated by 1000 men. I would have considered it normal, but only two of the 15k stacks had retreated from a lost battle, with the final 15k stack coming from Budjak, where they had been succesfully suppressing rebels

You, my poor man, have won this thread.

 

[unmerged(148296)]

when playing as france, really early in the game, I was attacked in 4 wars by Castille, Aragon, Portugal, Britian, Naples and Provence, and Burgandy.

 

[Avisian]

I waited 36 years with a Brandenburg start for Jobst 1 (king of Luxemburg) to die (moved centralization 3 times - never got pretenders). My new king had 8-9-7 stats, but his heir 3-3-3. The king ruled for about a year and then I got a regency consul with 4-4-3 stats. 14 more years of waiting for the heir to grow up... I am seriously reconsidering a fresh start.

 

[Serio]

That would be 45 regiments, about 3/4 of my invasion force, getting defeated by 1000 men. I would have considered it normal, but only two of the 15k stacks had retreated from a lost battle, with the final 15k stack coming from Budjak, where they had been succesfully suppressing rebels

I can just imagine the general bashing his head repeatedly into his desk, screaming "WHY! WHY!"

 

[OrangeYoshi]

That would be 45 regiments, about 3/4 of my invasion force, getting defeated by 1000 men. I would have considered it normal, but only two of the 15k stacks had retreated from a lost battle, with the final 15k stack coming from Budjak, where they had been succesfully suppressing rebels

Is that seriously not faked? And if not, why didn't you get any WE from getting your entire army wiped?

 

[Maginor]

Is that seriously not faked? And if not, why didn't you get any WE from getting your entire army wiped?

It happens in httt when an army with zero morale retreats into any other army.