Age of Wonders III coming later this year!

[Tuna]

Weak as well... I might have to ask my 15 year old if he wants to go halvesies

[Gusington]

I'll ask my 8 year old.

[PanzersEast]

I have now conquered 1/4 of the map.... kneel before me you weak independent nations and I will spare you.

So far I am enjoying it, I have conquered one other rival and myself and Merlin are at war, however we are busy with independents. 

Ranged units can be deadly if used correctly and teleporting units are fun to flank enemies.


PE

[Gusington]

^Should we call you Zod? Is there no one in AoWIII to even challenge you?

[skeptical.platypus]

Heck, I'll bow down to Zod! I can't even beat myself at this game. I was surprised to discover that one of my custom-created leader characters was auto selected as an AI opponent. Unfortunately, she's a sorceress hottie, and has clearly conspired with evil powers to gain forbidden and high level sorcery beyond my ken.

She wiped my II & III-tier stack with a couple of IV's, and I'm still pleading with her to be nice to me.

[PanzersEast]

I had some Orcs make me a t-shirt for all my subjects I conquer....


@skeptical.platypus
What difficulty are you currently playing at?

PE

[Nefaro]

[Gusington]

Sounds like the game is quite fun...haven't seen much negative info. My resilience as usual is slowly weakening.

[tgb]

Heck, I'll bow down to Zod! I can't even beat myself at this game. I was surprised to discover that one of my custom-created leader characters was auto selected as an AI opponent. Unfortunately, she's a sorceress hottie, and has clearly conspired with evil powers to gain forbidden and high level sorcery beyond my ken.

She wiped my II & III-tier stack with a couple of IV's, and I'm still pleading with her to be nice to me.

Are you saying that if you create a character and save it, it may be chosen as a random opponent on a random map?  That's freaking AWESOME!!!!

[PanzersEast]

Heck, I'll bow down to Zod! I can't even beat myself at this game. I was surprised to discover that one of my custom-created leader characters was auto selected as an AI opponent. Unfortunately, she's a sorceress hottie, and has clearly conspired with evil powers to gain forbidden and high level sorcery beyond my ken.

She wiped my II & III-tier stack with a couple of IV's, and I'm still pleading with her to be nice to me.

Are you saying that if you create a character and save it, it may be chosen as a random opponent on a random map?  That's freaking AWESOME!!!!

Yep, the computer will choose a random opponent including those you have created in the past.  Allow myself to introduce myself...


PE

[skeptical.platypus]

Heck, I'll bow down to Zod! I can't even beat myself at this game. I was surprised to discover that one of my custom-created leader characters was auto selected as an AI opponent. Unfortunately, she's a sorceress hottie, and has clearly conspired with evil powers to gain forbidden and high level sorcery beyond my ken.

She wiped my II & III-tier stack with a couple of IV's, and I'm still pleading with her to be nice to me.

Are you saying that if you create a character and save it, it may be chosen as a random opponent on a random map?  That's freaking AWESOME!!!!

Agreed ten times over. It was a completely accidental discovery for me, but a very ZOMG moment.

Oh, did I forget to mention -- she also got chain lightning? There's something mildly ironic about getting your stack handed to you by AI traits you selected and agonized over abandoning in lieu of the traits that you just lost with. (Grogzak the Voluminous went fire mastery and expansion over air mastery and light water sports.)

[Nefaro]

Sounds like the game is quite fun...haven't seen much negative info. My resilience as usual is slowly weakening.

It's enjoyable but I keep feeling that it's rather thin on content, even compared to previous versions.  I've not played terribly far into a game yet, so I can't say for sure.  I'm judging mainly by the amount of races, the variety of troop types, etc. 

The random campaign options/setup and the map exploration is it's strength IMO.  Everything is pretty compact on the map so it doesn't have a bunch of open dead space as other games which similarly use action point movement on the campaign map.  I like that there is always something new close by.

I'm sure we'll be critted by a wall of DLC that will add other races & such so it may eventually get filled out more to my liking on the content end.  I'm just wondering how much it will end up costing to get there.

 

[skeptical.platypus]

I find unity variety thin, too. Diplomacy isn't going to get anyone excited. Variety of stuff to discover while exploration is on par with Fallen Enchantress. It becomes choreish too quickly in both games.

In AoW, Independents will only come off their Camps to attack you. This facilitates exploration, but the vast majority of them aren't particularly challenging past the early game.

I'd also agree that pursuit of Tier Four, Fast, and Furious is too easy and too successful. My friend was able to smack me pretty good by spamming me with tier 1 and 2 units early, but I think that had more to do with my poor play.

[PanzersEast]

Just to chime in here, AOW 3 has a lot of potential... especially with mods.  If they are on par with the last games, we are in good hands.


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[bbmike]

Are you saying that if you create a character and save it, it may be chosen as a random opponent on a random map?  That's freaking AWESOME!!!!

I'm not quite as thrilled. In fact I would love to see that made optional.