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What size map are you playing on? It seems like it shouldn't matter, but I notice that this seems to happen to me more on smaller maps.

Several approaches work. Here is one. I always research the entire first tier in Civilization first, then get the one out of Magic that lets me harvest shards. After that it varies, but I usually switch to Military for a while. Design your own version of the Militia; that'll get you by until you have researched enough Military to make designing more units worthwhile. Use the upgrade symbol instead of the weapon or armor so yo

I haven't played them all so there are some things I don't know. Here are the answers I can give you: Asha's Quendar, which means she starts with 50 Fire and -50 Cold. She gets no additional bonuses. There is no new particle effect in the sovereign builder. General Tarth comes equipped with bracers that are unavailable without the DLC. Misandry gives +20 Crit against Male opponents. There is no corresponding trait to do extra dam

I am excited! But the time conversions don't seem right: 3pm Pacific time is 6pm Eastern, not noon, and midnight CET, not 9pm, isn't it?

There has never been a hard cap on cities in Warlock II; it has always been a soft cap. Also, it does absolutely nothing to address city/settler spam; in fact, since the specialist cities occupy much less space, you actually build far more cities in this version to cover the same space. This does create interesting choices, and I actually like the change, but the reasons I keep hearing (less city spam, less micromanagement) don't hold up to actual gameplay. It sure looks

Hi I misread something and then replied. Nothing to see.

LH has already been sold as low as $10. Probably will hit that again in the Steam Summer Sale if nothing else.

I disagreed with your premise but it was at least coherent until the end. AoW III, of which you haven't played a single minute, is laughable and dumbed down because of the number of factions? That's utter nonsense. You praise Sword of Aragon, X-COM, and Centurion, all of which I have played and liked, and each of which had one playable faction. As to your basic assertion, it is partly rose-colored glasses and partly missing the point. Games are made to

To be clear, it's not a bug; if you started casting the Spell of Making then you are immobilized for ten turns while you cast it. That's intentional.

One neat thing about Warriors with Wanderlust swords is that you can easily have three counter-attacks by mid-game (2 from the Fending Blade, 1 from Warrior trait.) As a Warrior you will have a high Attack, so ignoring Armor is often not needed, but being able to smack up to four units a turn is almost always nice. Combine with Air Magic so you can teleport into the middle of their pack and you will scythe through melee-heavy enemies such as rock spiders, skaths, umberdroth, and c

Razza, if you haven't already checked out The Third Age mod for Medieval II, you definitely should.

I have played Rome II quite a bit. It is 75% one of the greatest games ever made, and 25% complete mess, somewhat analogous to Elemental, I suppose. The developers are patching at a furious pace but at present it's not even the second-best Total War title. That said, while we agree on the lack of documentation or tutorial for the stats and political system, and the skill trees for agents and generals are extremely poorly presented, I think the new UI is a great improveme

I would adore (and was frankly a little surprised to not get) some sort of Hall of Fame, even if it were just a simple list of faction leader's name and score like we had in the venerable Master of Magic. Of course, the ability to click on each entry in the HoF and see more details would be welcome. I'm not willing to ask for a ton of work here; improving the end screens doesn't add anything to gameplay and could only be appreciated at relatively rare intervals, but a

As I understand these things: 4. Spells use Spell Mastery vs Spell Resistance to determine whether the spell hits (some spells do minimal damage even if resisted). The spell's modified damage is then applied against the appropriate elemental resist (e.g, Fire vs Fireball) to determine damage done. So Spell Resist helps you get hit less, and Fire Resist helps you take less damage vs Fire spells that do hit you. 5. In the case of Wizards with fire wan

Perhaps. There are a couple of pylons flanking a mountain pass to the east of his easternmost city. Go through there (should be stuff to fight/loot) and then head north.

The key to a melee sovereign is Air magic; when you teleport to the middle of their formation with an AoE lightning strike and nobody else is within attack range, the AI will come at you. I do agree that caster is a much better choice, though. I've only actually won a couple of times and am no expert on this game, but by far the strongest sovereign I had was a caster. There simply aren't any weapons that compare to casting Fireball every turn. The default uni

There is an option (under "Advanced Options") to zoom in to your mouse cursor, rather than the center of the screen. I don't remember the default but maybe this is why zoom isn't acting the way you'd expect.

Step one is to eliminate Kraxis. You will get messages with directions from there.

Save/reload seems to fix this for me.

I found the scroll out/scroll in method accidentally, and am using it with no real problems, but I agree that this was the first thing I tried to do when an enemy moved out of sight. Edge scrolling is more intuitive, I think.