Age of Wonders II rus

Темный эльф это Меандор?

Random Events is another thing for the “if we have time” list or DLC.

If we do add them we’ll ensure to add a toggle. I think that these types of random events are coolest if they are -not- totally balanced and effect the entire map. This causes brief periods of excitement or dread during gameplay. An Eclipse causing a number of dead magic turns could be a great moment for low-magic players to make a push whilst world wide torrential rains could give all mechanized units a penalty.

I like bOrsuk’s astrology -like skill suggestion. We could add that class-less skill available to all players when Random Events are enabled.

Shadow Realm won’t come back in AoW3.

Actually just two weeks or so ago we made it possible to have units transform into other units, for example on reaching a gold medal.

We have already added this as skills for a number of classes.

For example the Rogue now has an ability called ‘Trained Killers’ (name not final): when researched, specific Tier 1 units become Assassins (Tier 2 or 3 units) as soon as they get a gold medal.

The plan is to also include this for some units outside classes as well, for example Baby Spiders transform into an adult Spider on gold medal, etc.

I’m very happy with this myself, I must admit ^^

- The combat shown in the trailer was *not* finished.
- Combat is not just 2-sided, up to 7 different players can be in a battle area, each with their own stack.
- We have already improved distances etc since the GDC trailer.
- There will be things like physical protection units that can shield other units from archers.

Like has been said in this thread artificial limits like a certain amount of slots per tier per stack is not the direction we want to go.

Let’s list all advantages of low tiers directly:

Low tier advantages over high tier:

- Low units have lower upkeep (by a significant margin)
- Low units cost less to produce (by a significant margin)
- Low units cost less turns to produce
- Low units get medals quicker

From this it should be about as easy to get and maintain 4 tier 1′s as it is to get 1 tier 4.

Game mechanics that benefit multiple units over single one:

- Action Points: 3 attacks at most per combat round, meaning that once exhausted, hitting that unit is safe.
- Flanking: surrounding and hitting from multiple sides is very effective. (Really, VERY effective)

So the only thing is that when you have many cities and an enormous wealth that you can crank out so many tier 4s that you can do the same surrounding with them. But, in all fairness, by that time you should be able to wrap up and win.

Also (mighty meek has been mentioned), there will be spells that benefit low tier units more, and also spells that are not really fantastic against low tier units (think high casting cost immobilization or so: you’re not going to waste it on a tier 1) but that shine versus tier 4′s to make them a lot more vulnerable/prone to surrounding them.

And then there’s the fact some tier 1′s will grow into tier 2-3 on getting gold medal. This obviously helps them in the later game if they have survived, although admittedly this is not a really big factor and is great just for flavor I still wanted to mention it

As is mentioned above, I think producing tier 1 archers to defend walled cities is very sensible, even in the late game.

Lore: you’ll see plenty of little tid bits like the blurb on the giants strewn about the game! Lots of blanks form the earlier games will be filled in.
Gore: The battles are quite violent with characters being beaten about and blood on impact. If time/ratings allow we’ll see about the pools. But it shouldn’t be comic amounts of blood.
Wizards Towers: they’ll reappear on the map, but perhaps not like you expect.
Leaders Respawns: There will options to respawn your leader regardless. The AoW1 iron man like approach was a bit too brutal for most tastes.
Heroes: Don’t worry, units are still able to roam the map without heroes or leaders.

These are the default mounts per race:
High Elves – Unicorn
Dwarves – Boar
Humans – Brown horse
Draconians – Raptor
Orcs – Black horse
Goblins – Warg

High Elves – Unicorn 

А про эту расу у нас где то пишут? Это будут действительно новая раса высших эльфов, или он просто лесных эльфов так назвали?