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[quote who="Gravedancer" reply="80" id="2754114"] Quoting bortlings, reply 72 They did manage to get married though. I think the AI starts out married. At least that's my theory based upon the existence of "spouse units" in the CoreUnits.xml file and the fact that I've seen kids born within the very first few turns of the game. [/quote] You are correct. I tested this out on Wednesday night while working on my custome faction

[quote who="Werewindlefr" reply="78" id="2754109"]So, there's a lot of improvement, but there's still quite a lot to be done. Balance, for instance, isn't fully achieved yet: hammers are slightly too good, bows are terrible and too pricey. Lord of Ice is insanely overpowered: it's a low-mid level summon that's as strong as a whole army. It's a one-elemental panzer division. 68 attacks? Yeah... right. [/quote] Last night I played as an Empire for the first time. by the 20th turn o

Wait a minute are you telling me that I can no longer build my ocean city Atlantis? :)

[quote who="Tasunke" reply="183" id="2753697"]Once you get Fall From Heaven 2, there are a few add-ons you should try. Fall Further, Rise from Erebus (similar to the first) and Orbis there are others that are nice, but those 3 are a good start. Orbis kinda plays like Rise of Mankind (to an extent) If you're feeling lucky, and feel like playing Dangerous (or winning/balance isn't that i

[quote who="Tormy-" reply="168" id="2752476"] Quoting Bellack, reply 167 Quoting Mistwraithe, reply 121 Quoting Ellestar, reply 117 Birthright: Gorgon's Alliance is an old fantasy TBS with some optional RPG elements. It's a computer version of the Birthright setting for Dungeons and Dragons TRPG. I had the impression that Birthright was very buggy and unbalanced (rather like Elemental) and n

Too hard? Are you playing Elemental? I have not had this "problem" yet. But I wish I did. Seriously, you think this is hard or are you just being sarcastic?

[quote who="solidsmooky" reply="149" id="2751281"]So Dominions 3 came in the mail today and it owns. It owns so fucking hard. This game rules. Ugh.. why can't Elemental be like this. [/quote] So how is the learning curb?

[quote who="Mistwraithe" reply="121" id="2747697"] Quoting Ellestar, reply 117 Birthright: Gorgon's Alliance is an old fantasy TBS with some optional RPG elements. It's a computer version of the Birthright setting for Dungeons and Dragons TRPG. I had the impression that Birthright was very buggy and unbalanced (rather like Elemental) and never really got fixed (hopefully not like Elemental). A cursory play of something (a demo?) reinforced this con

[quote who="OliverFA" reply="102" id="2746481"] Quoting silverpaladin, reply 93 I agree with all of the posts here. My favorites of those listed are: Heroes of Might and Magic 3 - This is TBS perfection Well, not perfection, but definitely the most perfect that has ever been achieved in this kind of games. I think that was has been said about MoM also applies to Heroes III. It's a pitty that after 11 years it still has not be

[quote who="niteshade6" reply="97" id="2746271"] Quoting Das123, reply 96 Did they ever make a random map generator for Elven Legacy? I bought the original and one of the upgrades but without random maps I quickly lost interest. Seems like an odd game to have random maps, it's a campaign/story game rather then a sandbox 4x game. [/quote] That is why I stopped play Elven Legacy. There was no 'sandlot' mode. It was just a line

I play Age of Wonders: Shadow magic and Age of Wonders. I also play Star Trek Online when not playing Elemental

[quote who="-Sorgan-" reply="310" id="2739285"]Oh please, its been a very rough launch for the game.......even by Stardock's standards. But they also get patches out quicker than any other company I can think of. So soon enough this will all be in the past. Nuff' said. [/quote] That is true. And Stardock is one of those companies that will continue to work on their product (not all companies do this after maybe one or two patches.) However this trend in the g

[quote who="_PawelS_" reply="20" id="2751173"]It's true that Civ5 doesn't have tactical battles, but I think the combat will be much more interesting than in the previous Civ games because of the 1 unit per hex rule - no more stacks of doom, and the terrain will be more important in warfare. I think the entire map will work as something like one big tactical combat. I love AoWSM, but sometimes it's good to play other games to "extend your horizons". Seems we're getting offtopi

[quote who="_PawelS_" reply="12" id="2748994"] Quoting Magog_AoW, reply 9 Quoting _PawelS_, reply 7 Is it intentional that the Azracs have no special abilities? No... I'll fix it. Just have to get rid of an annoying jetlag. When you have some time, I think you should also create custom sovereigns (AoWSM wizards) and make them the leaders of these custom factions (not sure who should lead the Liza

[quote who="Flinke" reply="8" id="2750517"]You must go back to the Dungeon were you started the Questline to finish it. [/quote] This game is in desperate need of a better Quest management system. I will at certain points have a lot of quest but don't remember which hut or place to go back to to finish them. And active and completed quest need to be seperated.

[quote who="Wexmajor" reply="79" id="2744651"] This will be a pretty substantial change. In particular, character creation, magic (think, shared mana pools), This sounds both unexpected and cool, I hadn't even considered shared mana pools. [/quote] I really don't want shared mana pools. But everything else sounds good

[quote who="Tridus" reply="8" id="2750213"]Agree with OP's points, totally 100% agree in the case of #1. That's the single biggest problem with the game right now. The system is so wildly unpredictable that any reasonable attempt at strategy or balance just doesn't work. Make a bunch of guys with maces and you destroy everything. And if they die? Just make more. Champions are much harder to build up, more fragile, and far harder to replace. What I'd add to the lis

What they should do in combat is run it like D&D. When you attack you roll a d20 then you add what your attack bonus is to that roll. This is then compared to the defenders Armor Class which is not a roll. Then if your score equals or exceeds the Armor Class you hit and then roll damage. Now in Elemental what you could do is run the attack roll just like I described above. But the Defense could be done in two ways: 1) Have a set number which is affecte

Hey Raven I have two questions: 1. Did you ever play AOW:SM? 2. And if so did you ever make a DL mod for it. They did have Draconians in the game and all the other races that would be needed for DL. Just curious because if so then I wouldn't mind looking it up and downloading it.

Good work Team DragonLance. DL is also my Favorite fantasy trilogy and funny enough LOTR trilogy which open the door for me as far as Fantasy goes paved the way for DL. I have played all the DL modules in D&D and still have them in storage. Can't wait for this mod to come out. By the way there was one decent DL TBS game from a long time ago. It was SSL War of the Lance. Use to play that game for hours. It is of corse dated now.

[quote who="Vladesch" reply="24" id="2747901"]They should have just copied the master of magic system. Armor counted for a lot in that, against weaker units. (waits for the inevitable"but this isnt MOM" response) [/quote] Or the AOW:SM system which was similar MOM but a little better.

[quote who="Akka" reply="20" id="2746727"] Quoting Spyndel, reply 17 Addressed above. Few other tactical games do this, for good reason, IMO. Damn, sorry. I parsed through the thread to see if the point had been already made, but obviously missed it. Doh, and I hate when others do it :-/ That being said, after reading your reply, I really don't agree with your point. I don't see how not using the "attack and retaliation

I like the initutive idea. And I would like to see Heros give some Leadership bonuses to the stack they are attached too. But I would not want it where that each army must have a hero leader. A hero leader should give bonuses to the troops in the stack based on Charisma and any special abilities that mught apply.

I'm still playing AOW1 and AOW:SM (Lets face it AOW2 just had to many problems) as well as playing Elemental. I am still hoping that Elemental will replace AOW:SM as my main fantasy TBS. I think it will be many months before it gets to that point but the game is still fun to play. And I like the fact that it is easier to mod than AOW:SM.

Well I hope you find it because I would like to do the opposite. I like City spamming so to be able to have the option to increase or decrease would be great. I just wish this would have been in the Game Options.