OT, Stardock's MOM influenced game news

Twan · #1 March 3rd, 2008, 12:05 PM

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Beorne said:
btw, someone heard something about this turn based fantasy game: "Fantasy Wars"?
http://www.fantasywars-thegame.com/index_uk.html

It's a poor 3d remake of Fantagy General (90% of the rules are a copy, the only differences are : you control far smaller armies in FW but each troop can gain chosen particular skills when they level and mages have access to more spells).

(be aware : FW in publicities is announced with "epic battles of more than 500 units on screen" and "a map editor", and these two things are totally absent)

Fantasy General you can get on any abandonware site has a campaign 3 or 4 times longer than the total FW content, with a research system you don't have in FW, more diversity of troops and terrains and a far better system for customized battles.

Even Wesnoth, freeware inspired by fantasy general, is far richer than FW (with lots of user made campaigns and a more interesting tactic system with a choice between several attacks for each unit).

ps : I discovered dominions 2 on the masterofmagic2.com site too.

Beorne · #2 March 3rd, 2008, 03:35 PM

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Twan said:

Fantasy General you can get on any abandonware site has a campaign 3 or 4 times longer than the total FW content, with a research system you don't have in FW, more diversity of troops and terrains and a far better system for customized battles.

I had it, I played it up to a couple of scenarios to the end. It was mind burning, like chess, and It had a very nice atmosphere, mostly due to the wonderful soundtrak (that I have found lately

). Very good game.

Beorne · #3 March 3rd, 2008, 04:42 PM

I agree that AoW and its sequel were boring in the middle-long run, but saying I like unblanced games because the color is better is wrong.
Dom3 is very difficult to fine balance, but it is easy to adjust the big unbalances. And much is beng done.
But I'm playing a five player late map and we are four allied against Ermor ... and he is bashing us all ...

Kristoffer O · #4 March 3rd, 2008, 04:43 PM

Sounds like you need the patch

Ermor population death was ridicously low.
This is fixed now.

Dedas · #5 March 3rd, 2008, 06:48 PM

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Kristoffer O said:
Sounds like you need the patch

Ermor population death was ridicously low.
This is fixed now.

Great! Now release the bomb!

iceboy · #6 March 3rd, 2008, 10:41 PM

You guys should try AOWSM with the new Dwiggs Mod 5.0. Its like a whole new game now really cool!

B0rsuk · #7 March 4th, 2008, 02:42 AM

So now that Ermor is getting fixed (population death), only R'lyeh needs to be ganged on by default ?

WraithLord · #8 March 4th, 2008, 07:01 AM

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iceboy said:
You guys should try AOWSM with the new Dwiggs Mod 5.0. Its like a whole new game now really cool!

For some reason I can't make AOWSM work with any of Dwiggs mods (including 5.0). What happens is that the game crashes when starting a scenario. If its a known issue and you know how to resolve it I'd really appreciate it if you can PM me (don't want to deviate to much from this already OT thread)

Beorne · #9 March 4th, 2008, 05:22 AM

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Kristoffer O said:
Sounds like you need the patch

Ermor population death was ridicously low.
This is fixed now.

I think haven't undertood ... in next patch the Ermor pop death rate caused by its dominion willl be higher? Higher than now?

Endoperez · #10 March 4th, 2008, 06:32 AM

Yeah. The popdeath effect is currently about 10% of what it used to be and what it should be. This means that Ermor is going to have major problems getting any money, as it used to be, making castles, labs and temples much harder to come by, which in turn makes it harder for Ermor to get anything besides the crappiest soulless, or to widen it's magic.