he end! No moral.
The moral: If your girlfriend picks the game, double-check that she didn't also pick loaded dice.
Edit to avoid double-post: Just had an amazing moment myself. Playing DoW II, campaign. Took on an optional mission to handle a Hive Tyrant. The mission intelligence commented on "enemy uses superior forces", a fact I stupidly ignored. I thought this'd be an easy mission.
So, we land on the planet, and spot a pair of Warriors in the ruins to the south. My Dreadnought makes an opening through the wall, and just as he's opening fire, a Carnifex approaches. Annoying, but no unexpected - the bloody things are
practically bosses, but that's what the Assault Cannon is for, right? Well, except the Dreadnought's already a little busy. So fine, I tell Tarkus to taunt, and start running away, hoping to play ring-around-the-rosie with a Carnifex.
Which would've worked fine, except in the process Tarkus found a
second Carnifex.
So, now I've got one half-health boss, one full-health boss, several very powerful Warriors, and a horde of lesser beasts, ripping me to shreds not 10 steps from the drop pod. Several stimulant kits, a couple of manual revives, two of my three Tarantula turrets, and at least 1 invulerability later, we're alive, but with almost all our resources used up. Damn. Okay, fine - let's see if we can finish this.
We start moving towards the Tyrant's position. Midway along, we find a bunch of Tyrranids (gee, what a surprise!). There's a building nearby, and since most of the beasts are melee, I order Avitus into the structure. That was a mistake - he's promptly focus-fired by a couple of Warriors. So, I order him to leave the building - and just as he does so, he dies. Unfortunately, he died
just as he was leaving, which means that his body fell smack dab in the centre of the structure, with no way to reach him to revive him. And, of course, he's the one with the Stimulant Kits, so there's no way to revive him remotely. I now have only 3 squads, no medkits. At about this point, I say, "Screw it, I've got a 0% chance of winning, so begin 'Operation Deal As Much Damage As We Can'". Off we go to the Hive Tyrant, fully expecting to die horribly.
So, we reach the beast himself. He opens the battle with an easily-dodged ranged attack. I think, "Well, this isn't so bad!" When his health reaches about 2/3rds remaining, he switches tactics to a shockwave attack instead... and summons reinforcements. Tarkus is caught out of position, so I order him to retreat. Then the Tyrant attacks the Dreadnought while he's trying to heal (why did I tell him to repair mid-battle, again?), and incapacitates him. I note on my HUD that Tarkus has recovered from his retreat and has got his squad back, so I order him to return to the battlefield, and continue to micro my leader. A minute later, Tarkus arrives... and he's brought another blasted Carnifex with him. Geez, Tarkus can't go anywhere without finding those things. I now have to deal with a full-health Carnifex and a half-health boss, I only have 3 squads, and the only one with a competent anti-Carnifex weapon is currently relaxing in the scrapheap.
Through some incredible circle-strafing, I successfully revive the Dreadnought (dodging both shockwave AoE attacks from the boss and the deadly melee of the Carnifex), and he
almost kills the beast when he goes down again. Tarkus is forced to retreat, and my squad leader (who is armed with a powerful-yet-currently-useless melee weapon) is about to be rushed by a horde of extra enemies that joined into the fray. And so, my Commander calls in an artillery strike on his own position and retreats at the last second, finishing off the Carnifex along with several melee squads.
After that, it was just a matter of circling around the boss until I could cut him down. Took me 33 minutes, and not a single squad remained standing the whole time... but wow. I was sure I was screwed from the very beginning. I'm still not entirely certain how I beat that mission.
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