Age of Wonders III MP Party

[bob48]

^Although I haven't played AoW anywhere as much as Warlock 1 and 2, I think you are right about that.

[JasonPratt]

The strat map in AoW:SM could be played in simultaneous real-time between players, and I thought I saw that as an option when piddling with the tutorial in AoW3, too.

So that's one advantage in its favor of many other MP games.

[MetalDog]

Yes.  Your turns are simultaneous.  However, if one person enters a tactical battle, the other player(s) are locked out of doing anything until the battle is over.  And it may be as 'geek said earlier, you may have to watch the battle if it occurs in an area that you can see.  Not sure if that is true, but, it seems plausible.  I haven't delved in to all the nuts and bolts options available yet, so, there may be a way around being locked up during someone elses battle, but I doubt it.

[MetalDog]

Got in a session with W8taminute tonight.  Played for a couple of hours.  Started the session with 6 cities, now I have ten.  And a Settler on the way for an eleventh.  I have Orc, Draconian, Elf, Human and Giant cities.  I am a High Elf Sorcerer.  That's a lot different than a Draconian Warlord.  I keep wondering where the hell my gold and my ass kickers are!  Getting things moving now though.  The Giants are going to be SUPER handy.  And I dropped a couple of Eldritch Horrors on the board, too.  One is already Elite :)

[W8taminute]

In terms of cities I've right behind MD with 7, one of which is a Dwarf city.  My other cities are all human.  Purge the xenos! 

I don't have any beastly units of the kind that MD has but I've assembled a few strike groups which are capturing some AI cities right now.  I should be at MDs border soon.  We'll see what happens next.   8)

[Nefaro]

Got in a session with W8taminute tonight.  Played for a couple of hours.  Started the session with 6 cities, now I have ten.  And a Settler on the way for an eleventh.  I have Orc, Draconian, Elf, Human and Giant cities.  I am a High Elf Sorcerer.  That's a lot different than a Draconian Warlord.  I keep wondering where the hell my gold and my ass kickers are!  Getting things moving now though.  The Giants are going to be SUPER handy.  And I dropped a couple of Eldritch Horrors on the board, too.  One is already Elite :)

Giants are excellent troops to have.  As long as the game doesn't get a supply model in the future that forces you to keep them fed.  :)

[MetalDog]

Giants, I am told, like to eat human meat.  Guess we'll find out ;)

[Nefaro]

Giants, I am told, like to eat human meat.  Guess we'll find out ;)

My Fire and Hill Giants eat through just about anything.  Including fortress gates.   ^-^

[BanzaiCat]

This thread has taken a disturbing turn into euphemisms for dirty talk.

[Martok]

Sigh.  Yet another game I haven't spent enough time with. 

AoW3...FE:LH...WoM...it's a good time to be a fantasy 4x gamer! 

This thread has taken the usual turn into euphemisms for dirty talk.

FTFY  :P 

[Nefaro]

This thread has taken a disturbing turn into euphemisms for dirty talk.

I didn't say those fortress gates were hairy, although sometimes they can be.

[MetalDog]

You'll have to excuse B_C.  He took a nasty knock to the head and his filter is slightly askew.  EVERYTHING is a dirty euphemism to him now.

[BanzaiCat]

No, there's no excuse for me. Besides, disturbing is perfectly acceptable.

Plus, adding  ^-^  to pretty much anything makes it dirty.

[W8taminute]

That's funny.  The first thought that popped into my head about Giants eating human meat was an image of bolter fire tearing through carapace armour and meat ala any of the WH40K Horus Heresy series.  Those books tend to be quite descriptive of the effects of Space Marine weapons on human or xenos bodies. 

[MetalDog]

An hour with W8 tonight.  Preparing the last bit of expansion before I come up against hard borders.  It'll top me out at 14 cities.  A good mix of races and magic.  And some surprises for my enemies.