I didn't get WC3 until good few years after it came out...
So the first time the super-gun got blown up I thought I was doing something seriously wrong, even though I had the game on easy (was more interested in story than anything else since was my first play-thru) and I reloaded a save and tried again.
And again.
And again - this time with the cheats on for infinite health and using the "instant-kill" cheat-key.
And yet again. (racking up like 2000 kills in one mission (not actual #... just IMHO felt like that))
Fianlly I went on the net and looked up hte mission and was like, "damn, you can NEVER save Behemoth?"
I had been so into the story that the old saying of "if something looks too good to be true then it probably isn't (true)" never even occured to me until that point.
I should explain - I didn't look up anything else plot-wise at that point ... didn't want to ruin the surprise. I was so worked up over the fact that I kept loosing the Behemoth that I had never given the gme a chance to play the next plot-scene. I had figured that if I hit "continue" rather than "load saved" that it would just show me the usual "earth blown up" type scene and then prompt for either "load saved" or "start new".
So I knew something was up the moment Paladin showed up and talked about a second long-range hail-mary plan. Even before they mention the Temblor or Kilrah's unstable w/quakes, I was like "well Kilrah's a highly unstable planet, lots of quakes from what I've heard, though no idea why its like that. Maybe they got some bomb that'll set its sun into nova or further distabilize the orbit or make a super-quake or something." (I've read a lot of sci-fi and have a fairly high IQ, so knew something was in the works; most likely with Blair fighting or dodging Prince Thrakhath while at it given the whole "Thrakhath killed Angel" bit right at game start ... lot like Ijuin said with the whole "Star Wars-like trench run)
So when the Temblor story appears I was like, ah, here we go, not much more now. (remembers changing disks right after Behemoth dies. Can't remember if its going from disk 2 to 3 or from 3 to 4). Mind you, at this point for me it was still my first play-thru and it was getting late at night, ON A SCHOOL NIGHT nonetheless and for me the tension was so thick, well, forget the butter-knife, you'd need a Behemoth just to put a dent in the tension.
Then you run into the whole "its not built yet, the guy who made it is missing" type thing, and Hobbes betrayal, and testing the prototype, and it being super-late at night...
So when I finally get the bomb and got to fly like the final bazillion mega-miless, I was all "Blair is never gonna survive this ... if the cat's don't get him the planet will, unless by some miracle the super-quake only renders the planet lifeless and doesn't actually make it explode, nd then maybe Blair can cloak and fly back to the hidden refueling bases to excape.
......................................... to be con't