![]() ![]() ![]() (Yes, I know I said "dreaded." But that was a joke. The Nourishing Meal doesn't even work on robots? Originally posted by Ashwind:Pardon the ignorance, but what's so scary about the Party Robot Prototype? I see it mentioned once or twice before but I don't see what's the fuss. And while pistolier eagles are nowhere near as good as Warlord eagles, they are still good enough at dealing with Dreadnaught issues with mobility. Well, Halfling Ponies are dirt cheap and laugh at elemental damage when happy, stacking their high resistance with Luck, allowing for a direct counter. It's why Halfling Monster Hunters are so good.ģ) Dreadnaughts are weak against Sorcerers until Cannon. Fireworks are amazing on something that doesn't die in one hit. Spamming the food ability every battle also makes Robots the fastest leveling machines, so they get to fireworks much more reliably than other Golems get defender. 15 extra hp and a happiness boost + healing between turns really makes the difference in keeping Engineers alive and reaching Gold, which in turn keeps the Robots healthy. ![]() The Party Robot + Engineer combo is the best solution of any Dreadnaught. Engineers in particular are difficult to keep alive. Sucking for 50 turns before getting good is functionally identical to just sucking.Ģ) Dreadnaughts have problems healing both biological and machine units. Warlords have to wait much longer to get their happiness boost, which doesn't apply to cities, and Halfling Necromancers have to spend a ridiculously long time unhappy until racial governance which Necros are also weak at, tick up. Dreadnaughts get Suppress Nature very early to solve that problem. They also hate almost all climates, restricting both their units and their cities. Any units in adjacent hexes also get to take part in the battle though, meaning that things quickly scale up from these skirmishes to full on town sieges and magic-slinging grudge-matches when leaders cross paths.There's always room for debate, but with Halflings, Dreadnaught is the standout.ġ) Halflings are bad at melee and weak against all physical unless happy. ![]() Armies (stacks) only hold a miserly six units each, including heroes, making initial fights somewhat disappointing scraps. The iron pricelistĪll of this is in the service of the tactical battles though, and those are far more interesting-at least, after the first few and up to the end of the mid-game. While Age of Wonders III isn't remotely trying to be Civ 5 and its pace and your ability to roll with the punches is to its credit, this can leave a couple of its four Xs feeling overly clipped. Buildings and upgrades come just as fast, making Rome feel lazy for not being built in a day. If you want a new unit, chances are it's going arrive about as quickly as if it were ordered from Amazon, or quicker, with Prime. Taking to the sea, for instance, needs just one turn's research into Seafaring, at which point any armies just magically turn into a ship on water. The short build/research times can also impact some of the minute-by-minute decisions simply by making them less of a project. Cities just pour into and draw from big pots, specialised by their owner's race more than commander's needs, in a way that can make some of the bigger decisions seem oddly inconsequential. This works really well for the most part, though Age of Wonders III looks so much like Civ 5 that the economics of war and scope of empire building can come across as a little slight. It's a game of battles, and a game of war-the building of armies and leveling-up of heroes in a fantasy world liberally sprinkled with quests and treasure and potential allies, played out over two campaigns, several scenarios, and a random map generator. To get the gist of Age of Wonders, imagine Civilisation stripped down to its conquest breeches, its armies as devoted to making the tactical game interesting as the cities make the strategy, and a big dollop of RPG elements like heroes and magic gluing it all together and offering bursts of power and game-changing abilities. They were killer penguins." If this game had brought us nothing more than that quote, the wait would have been well worth it. "These were no men," declares the in-game tome. Dedicated to evil, and summonable to join the armies of goblins and dragons and elves and magic. But really, it doesn't get better than the penguins. There's always been much to like about Age of Wonders, a fantastical fusion of strategy and tactics last seen back in 2002's Shadow Magic. ![]()
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