Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Looks like I’ll need to boot up both of these games now. :)
You stupid jerks just made me buy the last AOW expansion.
Hope you’re happy. ;)
Now installing those two mods…
Oh man, the second expansion is well worth your money. Tigrans are the best race ever.
Man, Goblins are the best. Swarm Darters, so OP :D :D :D
Emperor 2v2 is so far putting up a stiffer challenge. I got a little REX-happy and lost a couple outposts, a builder, and a fortress. But Stack Zwei is fully operational, and with Crusaders popping out of my capital every turn I think I’ll be okay.
Hotfreak
2025
I’m thinking of grabbing an expansion (only have the base game right now). What would you all recommend?
Probably Eternal Lords, since you get both new races and a new class (Necromancer). Both are amazing though, and my real advice is if you are going to drop $12 on Eternal Lords and spend time digging into the game, just get both expansions for $20 and dive all the way in.
Agree with Scott. They’re both excellent.
One thing that’s non-obvious with Golden Realms is how it adds a ton of new lairs (with new monster loadouts) to the map, in addition to Halflings. This is a huge boon to variety as you fight a ton of lairs in the early game.
In other news, I might have to go to FFA. Just got a surrender on turn 25 in this Emperor 2v2 game (with an AI buddy), so that’s a victory.
Swarm Darters are so strooooooooong.
Wow, yeah, the AI still wayyyyyyyy overbuilds. I rolled over his leader stack and a 2nd hero stack with little trouble, and his capital that I just got in the surrender has damn near everything:
- Third-level class building (expensive! Really mostly pointless for Rogues!)
- Racial T3 building (so expensive! So pointless if you can build your class T3 there!)
- Master’s Guild (just time-consuming to build. This is a hard “boom” play unless you’re a Dreadnought)
So yeah, in 20 turns he could totally have built some sweet T3s…if he had the econ to support them. As it was, a single Succubus and a buncha garbage didn’t do much against my alpha stack.
jpinard
2029
Wow I love that little chart. Looks amazing!
Would love to play, but Triumph’s silly requirement to register with them has me locked out of my game after buying the Eternal Lords expansion. Apparently it’s not showing on their side, so it’s registering as an invalid installation, and now I’m waiting on their tech support to fix it.
Thanks, @Scotch_Lufkin and @inactive_user, I took the plunge. Suggestions for a good starter race/class combo?
tomchick
2032
Stop bumping this thread, jerks. Especially @inactive_user with his tantalizing comments about that mod.
-Tom
Sorcerer and Arch Druid (who is particularly summon heavy) are fairly traditional roles in this kind of game, with Rogue being maybe a little more “advanced” once you know the way the game works a bit better. Otherwise, really just play whatever strikes your fancy!
@tomchick If it helps, this thread being bumped won’t ever be any cool official AoW3 news. :(
Hey guys, since the Triumph folks appear to not have the foggiest how to fix my problem right now, can someone with both expansions installed do me a favor?
When you start the game, you’re taken to that account login/launcher thing, right?
If you click “Register Key/DLC/Account Settings”, is “Necro Expansion” the same thing as the Eternal Lords expansion?
I show three Registered Products:
Age of Wonders III
Golden Realms Expansion
Necro Expansion
Piemax2
2037
A very in depth and thoughtful one at that, many thanks for pointing this out! It will make it easier for me to put Civ 6 aside until it gets more polished.
I was over on Trumph’s Twitter account and they had favorite’d this excellent little clip from someone’s stream.
Ha I remember beta testing lucky. Got some uber lucky Haflings, great trolling fun :).
Skipper
2040
Every time I see halflings in a game like this I have flashbacks of Master of Magic from Microprose. Still an excellent game in my mind. But the game had Halfling slingers, an easily built ranged troop. Upgraded and built for elite status, you could group a stack of them and they were like a train of destruction that could take down near anything, most things with one hit. Unbalanced as all hell but man it was fun to play with them.
