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Andro
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I'm looking for some opinions on the Age of Wonders series. I'm considering picking up Shadow Magic when it's released shortly to fill the void before Lionheart and TToEE. From what I can glean it's in the same vein as the Warlords series? Which would certainly be no bad thing
Post Thu Jul 24, 2003 6:39 pm
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EverythingXen
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Age of Wonders is a great turn based strategy game, like Warlords. The first one was very hero-centric... it gets to the point where you're building troops for city defense, but using your main hero/champion (who can increase in level and pick up new powers) to take out entire cities.

The second one downplays that aspect somewhat... heros are no longer the god units they were.
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Post Fri Jul 25, 2003 2:21 pm
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Hexy
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Pretty similar to Warlords, but MORE simliar to the Heroes of Might and Magic games, ESPECIALLY numbah 4. In AoW 1 you have many different teams/races and such, but no real differance in build-orders and unit-strengths. There are also a bit too few units in each team (6 or something, I think).
Battles are pretty nicely made, with many small but cool features, like sight and such. Age of Wonders 2 has some more units and a bit bigger diversity between teams, and is not a bad TBS.
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Post Fri Jul 25, 2003 3:08 pm
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It is a very nice game. Liked it much more than Heroes IV so far. In my mind this one is the best turn-based strategy of the year (well, maybe it even was somewhere ). And with the latest expansion - Shadow Magic it should become even better.

A must play. Absolutely.
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Post Fri Jul 25, 2003 9:48 pm
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The Age of Wonders series is the best turn based strategy series since Master of Magic, IMO. I think I preferred the original AoW though, because it had more of an RPG feel, and it let you retain the same spells and heroes throughout the whole campaign, rather than forcing you to start from scratch every few missions. I'll be interested to find out if Shadow Magic fixes this problem.
Post Sat Jul 26, 2003 1:53 am
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Andro
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Thanks for the input. Looks like I'll be picking this one up
Post Mon Jul 28, 2003 7:16 pm
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the mighty stamar
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Ya its the best game of its sort.

Better than heroes of might and magic or warlords or the two other off brand ones that came out recently.

edit disciples 2 and empire of magic./edit
Post Mon Jul 28, 2003 8:58 pm
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hoyp
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The shadow magic thing is a basically just AOW2 on steroids, and I have no problem with that as it is an excellent TBS game*.
Post Tue Jul 29, 2003 7:52 pm
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RuySan
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AoW2 is fantastic. AoW1 is crap...for two really annoying reasons:
-the heroes get exp points per turn. You can have fights every turn, or guarding your capital and you get the same exp points
-City walls can only be overtaken with Battery Rams...and battery rams are really slow unists, so travelling in the map with them is a pain in the ass. In AoW2 any unit can break walls, but the units with the Wall Crushing ability (like battering rams) do double damage.
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