Your experiences with random events?

[PimpyMicPimp]

I just had one that made a permanent -1 Hammer to a Coal Mine I didn't even get any options, it just took the hammer away

 

[Zetetic Apparat]

They sometimes seem a little repetitive: in my current game, the poor Khmer (well, they're in the top 3 with me and, until recently what with the invasion and all, Asoka) seem to have their 'infrastructure wiped out' by storms quite often throughout the game. I assume it's geographically linked but still; without any defence, it seems a bit nasty.

Also 'twisters' and 'prairie dogs' irritate me. I want English (United Kingdom as a language option...

 

[Rusty Edge]

I started on the corner of a continent, and was preparing to give Louis the ax, when I got a quest--

-Build a dozen swordsmen before anybody else and before the next era.-

So, with only a pair of axes I switched production . I didn't know if I'd make it... Meanwhile I get a - We have discovered balanced handles for axes - all axmen recieve shock promotions -. COOL! -No! FECES! If I had only stuck to axemen.... However, I built all of the swordsmen in time and they each got an additional CR promotion. So I took out Louis and Ragnar.