Which game do you like more?

Which game do you like more?

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Which game do you like more?

Do the cult of storms missions all take place concurrently with the keepers ones?
Presumably only the last cult one is non canon as they are mutually exclusive outcomes.

What about the Lizard men when they do not get canonically chosen?
Do they still win their respective missions without Charname?

Is there any mod that puts all the missions together in order for both teams and lizard men with another hero?
Or is there a way to extract the lizard missions and have a level 1 leader instead?

Separate to the above, are they any like balance patches? Flying ranged units being OP etc.

So I've been experimenting with AOW II, I really like the UI of the original, I find the expansions UI is very difficult to read.

Is there a way to mod the original UI into Shadow magic?

I'm at work thinking of this, but I feel looking into it will be difficult too.

Anyone have leads on modding , or know is they is easily done ?

Thanks in advance

Which game do you like more?

Hello hello! Me and a friend are doing themed builds this time around! He's playing Soul Reapers and I'm playing Quincy. I kinda wanted to go the traditional Quincy route rather than the newer ones so I was kinda thinking something along the lines of astral/order with mostly ranged units and spellblades to fit the theme most? Though I have 0 clue which tomes would fit. I started with abjuration and warding for blut vene and the rp of absorbing energy(or status effects lol) to heal or bolster myself. But from here, I'm kinda lost lol Any help would be appreciated.

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"For ages, the Ancient Forest stood untouched, guarded by the immortal children of nature. Beneath the mountains, the Dwarves forged their kingdoms of stone, while the forgotten depths belonged to the cunning Goblins. But the arrival of new powers has shattered the balance of this ancient land."

"From the Iron Mountains, the young Warlord Gromkar Ironmaw leads his Horde into Aeloria, seeking glory and conquest. His Goblin allies spread corruption beneath the earth, while the Dwarven kingdoms prepare for a war of extermination against the creatures they consider a plague."

"Across the western shores, the armies of the Valerian Empire arrive to claim the continent in the name of civilization. Yet another human power comes not for conquest, but for knowledge, as the young mage Lord Alaric Ravenshade seeks the secrets hidden within Aeloria's forgotten ruins."

"Now the ancient races and the newcomers stand upon the edge of war. Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Goblins, and Men must decide the fate of this enchanted continent. Will Aeloria remain a sanctuary of ancient magic, or will it become the foundation of a new empire?"

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Gameplay:

Unit recruitment in cities is limited to Tier II.
Building new cities is not permitted.
Limited resources. Balanced yet asymmetrical power.
Heroes are unique, and each hero and leader possesses a unique artifact.
Everyone has the ability to resurrect heroes.

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Advantages:

Queen Elyndra(elf) - Isolated, strategic watchtowers
Gromkar Ironmaw(Orc) and Skragg Rotmaw(Goblin) - Aliance
Thorgrim Stoneh(Dwarf) - Strong start and income
Marcus Valerius and Lord Alaric VI(Humans) - Strategic position and start with a transport ship

The name of the game mode is empire

You will need at least 4 with a max of six add bots if you want

Discuss amongst who you are playing with if they allow Eldritch sovereign or elder vampire as it might be annoying to deal with

One player every 10 turns is elected emperor/ empress

You cannot vote for yourself you must vote for someone else

As emperor you can set one edict which includes

Forcing a end to trade deals between players

Force a war against a bot or player

Stop a players expansion

Force a disband of a army

Make some rules between your play group of actions that are not allowed

The emperor gets 20% of other players gold income until the next election

Any culture is allowed and optionaly all players could be the same culture

The win condition is expansion

You cannot declare war on other players without a edict from the emperor

This was fun when me and my friends did it thought I would share

Hope y'all enjoy

Never was much into cav, always preferred slow trains of ballistas and archers.

But now I play Rivers of Life scenario, you start with upgraded Level 2 city. So after building an elephant or two, I installed Azrac Rider.

With their 40 speed, I can catch other stacks. And then, both in FC and TC, I get first attack. In TC specifically, I can attack from a long distance, giving my cav ability to pick and choose target, ever if enemies are spread out. With stack of 8 cavs, I can usually at least halve enemy stack, significantly reducing enemy retaliation.

And thanks to their speed on map, I can often catch smaller enemy reinforcements and destroy them in a single turn without casualties, and retreat before enemy stack can catch me.

Only shame that Djinn and Beholders aren't real flyers and can't cross walls.

Longtime AoW player, have gone back recently and am making maps for the family in AoW 2.

It can be run with multiple players, so it's fun for us. I was looking at getting AoW4, never played it. I don't have a PC capable of running AoW4, but I am wondering about the Xbox version. Is a keyboard compatible with that version with Xbox? How does it run in general?

Any feed back and opinions on AoW 4 would be helpful , as well is the dlc worth it?

If so, how well does it run?

Can anyone create a server ?

Let's play

It's my favorite strategy game ever

I decided to do a run on Heartwood Forest as Halflings using the default leader and not customizing leaders as I normally do.

The Gobbos were last and tucked away in the caves somewhere, and by the time I finally tracked them down, I had them absolutely surrounded with my leader coming in with wall climbing to finish it off the next turn.

Never have I so completely surrounded an enemy before, I had over 30 units there. Barely half of them could even come into the battle lol. Just a cool shot I wanted to share.

If anyone wants to talk about what cool strategies they run feel free to jump in. Once I heard someone mention the "halfling pony rush" I couldn't do anything else on the halfling class lol. Also if running customisation, spending 20 pts on lightning strike and cold strike leads to often permastunning enemies with decent attack. I usually rock that and just have fun steam rolling everything lol.

I tried playing several versions of the AoW series - AoW3, AoW1, AoW:SM and I feel like something is missing in my understanding.

I have come from a long history of HoMM3 and I feel like in HoMM games I can do fine, but with AoW I feel completely lost. One of the few things I learned was to create multiple heroes with armies and attack together so I can have better outcomes, but trying a single player random map game was OK for a while, until I find the enemy CPU (Squire) and he is just sitting in town with an army I cannot defeat.

This was on AoW3 and at this point I felt very disillusioned because I spent so much time building an army and trying to defeat him only to find out all my efforts were for nothing.

What are some tips I can use to get better at the game? I feel like the easiest difficulty for me is too difficult, but it's not because the game is wrong, I think it's because I'm not playing it properly. Right now I want to focus to learn AoW:SM.