My goodness... yes, I've been playing a lot of HOMM III lately, throwing off my timing, and I've been off the zone for ages, only playing RoR w/ friends on the LAN (no more than 3 or 4 games a week). Still, w/ several hours to waste before I had to make an appearance at the Easter gala, I decided to see how bad I'd gotten, & popped into Quirinal.
3v3 Huge Narrows, 50 pop. I picked Egypt. I could go into all the details, but suffice it to say just about everything detailed in the "have you ever done anything this stupid" thread managed to appear in my game (save deleting TC's).
Terrible start - food placed miles n' miles apart. Docked by an area that had only two fish anywhere near it. Set up a forward base w/o proper scouting, & was almost immediately destroyed. No walling until way too late for any results.
Furthermore, I had nowhere near enough gold to make priests & Iron at the same time, and I Ironed VERY late (don't recall when).
My apology to my teammates Zmiller and ESPECIALLY A_Hannibal, who managed to single-handedly hold our adversaries at bay, all the while screaming for help which I couldn't provide. My troops arrived at the largest battle just as A_Hannibal resigned in frustration. W/ Zmiller's help, I managed to push back the first few tides, but it was soon over.
So if you bump into him, tell him I'd be happy to let him spank me in a 1v1 by way of apology for my unbelievably pathetic play.
In the meantime, I'll be in the basement, pounding nails into my flesh.
Sincerely-
armarookie