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Network lag during a couple of lans with some friends of mine years ago spawned two similar legendary tales:

A multiplayer game of KKND2: Krossfire got so laggy that somehow the three of us playing ended up playing essentially different games as the network code never resolved any conflict between clients & the server. Issues such as player 1 units not visible on player 2 computer yet player 2's own units being destroyed by this invisible force

A similar occasion in a Total Annihilation 4v4 (human vs ai) game led to a situation where for some reason each real player could only target one or two ai players so leading to some very complex strategies and micromanagement to provide adequate defence/offence mixes

My friends reaction during an early 8 way game of Rise of Nations during one of our hard-working free periods at school. Namely, when I realised that the Missile Shield stops you dropping nukes on enemy territory, not your own. So I promptly switch to scorched earth. Much cheaper than maintaining border defences.

Another one from the 'Krynn' games. Our party faces a party of dragons, and while we eventually won, it was a lot harder than we expected.
So we go over the battle history and realize that 'Um-every single one of our characters has a Dragonlance, right? And they're really good at killing dragons, right'? 'Yes?'-'Um-so why didn't we use them?'