First, if you want to rush the Sage bonus, your best bet is to just relentlessly research Casting Point upgrades. And I don't care if that's an 'industry trend' - it makes the game a lot worse.Īs for the game, I've a few more discoveries to share.

There's a lot of DRM-type shit going on here, considering they removed LAN only games too.

Here they're requiring you to peg your serial not to your game but to a single online account (which also keeps track of your saves and shit, I think) and that's just ugly. The only requirement was that you logged in from a verified copy somewhere. Back when Blizzard did Warcraft 3, Battle.NET allowed you to make as many accounts as you please. They're adding an online PBEM system in the next major patch I hear, but you have to log in through the Triumph multiplayer shit and that crap requires you to bind your serial key to a single account name from what I can tell and I just dislike that. Looking around the forums, it seems that multiplayer is where it's at. At the moment, it's recommended that you just disable Allied Victory to prevent this shit. Huh, they mentioned back in May that they were working on fixing that shit. Think I'll just take a step back and wait to see if future patches/expacs bring things up to snuff.Ĭan anyone elaborate on why exactly AoW1/2 are better? If it's simply because there's more variety and 'muh soul' I'm not too sure I'd want to invest the time - really looking for a game that learning its in and outs is actually rewarding. So strange since I recall spending dozens of hours studying Civ 4 to get good enough just to win games on King there, where as AoW3 has me resorting to that difficulty after a couple of short matches. I feel like I would have to intentionally not accept surrenders and impose other self limitations, or crank the difficulty up to the highest/second highest.

The next 10 turns were spent meeting the other two civs, and having them ally with me since I was so overwhelmingly powerful, then the game drawing to another hugbox circlejerk. Killed her closest town, then she surrendered - which gave me yet another capital and 3 more heroes for my army. Basically, I allied with some orc fag, then the next NPC I met DoW'd me. That second game I was talking about in my other post has drawn to its conclusion.

Age of wonders 3 necromancer build