Been Wondering 4 Ages (Age of Wonders 4 Thread)

[Eldan]

Hm. Maybe I'll play another game. I must admit I was kinda bored after winning once with each... what are they called? Axis? Element? ALignment? Energy?

[Sloanzilla]

It is less replayable than AOW3 for some reason, though certainly a better game. Just seems to bog down now and then.

[Zevox]

Don't know if anyone is still playing this, besides me, but there's a major update that solves most of the game's problems.
The computer is kept a little in check now in terms of overproducing units. Magic Victories are now very hard (so hard, in fact, that I think it probably is an overcorrection). There's an advanced logistics so that movement is a little less awful. Entrances to the underworld are clearly marked. Spell research is slowed down, so you can't get flaming/frost/poison/electrical arrows in the same way now.

Replayed last night and it is a lot better.

I still don't like the siege mechanics, though I get why they did them the way they did. But if I've got an army of teleporting flying units, I should have to wait 13 turns to slowly wear down your walls, or whatever.

Eh, I don't know. That update happened in the middle of a game I was playing, and I wasn't thrilled with how much slower research suddenly was personally. It also sabotaged my "use all the Elementals" theme by making it require a minimum of 3 affinity points to pick up tier 3 tomes, so I couldn't get the tome you get the full-size Frost Elemental from without grabbing two additional Shadow tomes I had no other use for. The markers on Underworld entrances were nice I guess though.

[Sloanzilla]

Mixed feeling on the research. I kind of feel like the original intent was "you can specialize in one affinity and dabble in others" not "you can have T1 archers get +4 damage to every single element pretty quickly."

[Artanis]

Mixed feeling on the research. I kind of feel like the original intent was "you can specialize in one affinity and dabble in others" not "you can have T1 archers get +4 damage to every single element pretty quickly."

Oh yeah. As much as I love archers in general in these kinds of games, that was pretty ridiculous.