#AGE OF WONDERS 3 MAP EDITOR HOW TO#
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#AGE OF WONDERS 3 MAP EDITOR HOW TO#

There's some (un-)balance mod that messes with many units' stats that makes it more enjoyable imho, though the last time I checked it the author tried to make frostlings lose HP outside of snow terrain and it made that race unplayable (something about them always losing HP each turn and then possibly regenerating the lost part, but it was a death sentence to wounded units and especially the AI had no idea how to keep these units alive).

#AGE OF WONDERS 3 MAP EDITOR MODS#

You also can easily add music from AoW1 and KoDP to AoW2.ĪoW3 lacks soul, has mods adding lots of construction options in cities, more map resources/buildings that add bonuses to the city they're in (Civ-like city ranges) and some units to make it more interesting/varied if you're into that, and disgustingly homogenous indep stacks.

There's also a map pack for it with the converted vanilla maps because it's not compatible with normal AoW2 ones (most intended-for-AoW2 maps you can still just open in the editor and resave, even a few heavily-scripted scenario ones - the not working ones will freeze the map generation/loading after the scenario setup part - but it's easier to just grab the ready archive). The only ugly part are some of the leader portraits because the author took them from all corners of the internet.

It replaces all units, changes most of them into army stacks, makes low-tier ones useful, races more unique, shifts balance in regards to some immunities, flying units, some ranged units now lack melee attack, etc.

#AGE OF WONDERS 3 MAP EDITOR PATCH#

with this walls HP patch to make walls and gates sturdier to counter stat changes in units: The best AoW2 mod is the Glorantha one, especially if you get bored with the vanilla game or dislike single-unit units: Very pretty maps too (as long as the map maker doesn't ruin that with big, empty, homogenous spaces in the name of balance in case of custom maps). In both you can make uber heroes but at least in AoW 2 you can just limit the max level to mitigate it. Both are heavily leaning towards combat and the simple economy part is about making more units to have said combat. Which of the two is the funnier and closer experience to MoM? Or perhaps I should avoid both, lest I'd experience, once again, the frustration of not really be playing MoM?ĪoW, and to a lesser degree AoW2 too, have this charm/soul/whatever factor that makes you want to come back to them, imho. Fewer global spells, no strategic level unit enchants (but why?!). Which is interesting but at the same time I'm wary of mods that add too much, insert mismatched graphics (disgusting!) in the game and all that.ĪoW3 apparently improves on these aspects somewhat thanks to the two large DLCs, but remains inferior to AoW: SoM for instance in magic. I guess the world also misses features like Nightshade, special ores, stuff like that.īUT, in AoW: SoM some of that can be regained through mods, right? Overall it seems I'd have to stomach the simplified strategic layer: cities are more homogeneous, structures are rather homogeneous as well and so on.

So the consensus seems to be that they're very fine games despite NOT being quite fine as MoM was. Huge difference in price obviously but I'm more concerned about the time investment since I have very, VERY little too spare.

I'm tempted to buy AoW3 during the sale, or go 'classic' with AoW: Shadow of Magic. Hi guys, seeking advice from players of this game.

Age of wonders 3 map editor