Age of Wonders II rus

Yes we do feature the underworld, but Shadow World won’t be in AoW3, maybe more layers will be added in expansions.

Movement systems remain mostly unchanged. We did change the way transports work as I outlined in the AI thread, and currently we have fliers landing in Combat in between rounds to avoid exploits – seems to work neatly so far.

Next to wizards, we also feature other classes in AoWIII so no longer each village in the land will have an Orthanc looming over it. The new domains have more functionality than spell casting alone; e.g. they impact diplomacy (open borders, etc) and provide resources. Of course there are plenty of upgrades in cities, some of which affect magical skills.

yup, AI is always the hardest thing to do in a game like AOW with its large amount of game systems, spells, structures and unit abilities. We are attacking this challenge as follows:

In 10 years CPU power has increased a lot and the AI now uses multi-threading so at the core the AI is able run through a lot more and a lot more complex scenarios to make its decisions. With the older titles’ original target platforms this wouldn’t have been possible without having AI movement becoming an unacceptable slow-down.

We’ve made some structural changes to help the AI and the AI programmers. Auto combat AI now uses the same AI routines as the one used in the regular tactical battles, so our efforts can be concentrated. A cool side effect is that auto combat replays (for PBEM) for example can be played back in with the full tactical battlefield visualization – sort of like Gratuitous Space Battles.

We also removed bottlenecks such as sea combat and transports. In the past it was easy to grief high level embarked AI armies trapped in transports. In AoW3 every unit gets its own ship when embarking, and is able to use most of its (ranged) abilities during naval combat.

You start the game by choosing a starting race + class + specialization and customizing appearance if you want.

Your core military units come from your city’s race and town upgrades, then higher level units unlock from your class by researching empire skills. Then there’s summons and special locations.

Yes we do feature the underworld, but Shadow World won’t be in AoW3, maybe more layers will be added in expansions.

Movement systems remain mostly unchanged. We did change the way transports work as I outlined in the AI thread, and currently we have fliers landing in Combat in between rounds to avoid exploits – seems to work neatly so far.

Next to wizards, we also feature other classes in AoWIII so no longer each village in the land will have an Orthanc looming over it. The new domains have more functionality than spell casting alone; e.g. they impact diplomacy (open borders, etc) and provide resources. Of course there are plenty of upgrades in cities, some of which affect magical skills.

yup, AI is always the hardest thing to do in a game like AOW with its large amount of game systems, spells, structures and unit abilities. We are attacking this challenge as follows:

In 10 years CPU power has increased a lot and the AI now uses multi-threading so at the core the AI is able run through a lot more and a lot more complex scenarios to make its decisions. With the older titles’ original target platforms this wouldn’t have been possible without having AI movement becoming an unacceptable slow-down.

We’ve made some structural changes to help the AI and the AI programmers. Auto combat AI now uses the same AI routines as the one used in the regular tactical battles, so our efforts can be concentrated. A cool side effect is that auto combat replays (for PBEM) for example can be played back in with the full tactical battlefield visualization – sort of like Gratuitous Space Battles.

We also removed bottlenecks such as sea combat and transports. In the past it was easy to grief high level embarked AI armies trapped in transports. In AoW3 every unit gets its own ship when embarking, and is able to use most of its (ranged) abilities during naval combat.

You start the game by choosing a starting race + class + specialization and customizing appearance if you want.

Your core military units come from your city’s race and town upgrades, then higher level units unlock from your class by researching empire skills. Then there’s summons and special locations.

Movement systems remain mostly unchanged. We did change the way transports work as I outlined in the AI thread, and currently we have fliers landing in Combat in between rounds to avoid exploits – seems to work neatly so far.

The Archons suffered an ironic fate: what they fought, they have become.

'If a unit dies in a regiment, can you refill his position?'.
I'm wondering how that would interact with a Healing spell or Resurrection, for example.

This used to work in a simple-but-effective way in Master of Magic. You could neither split the unit nor target different enemies, but healing replaced dead figures. However, TS might have devised something that is not like MoM.

Yes this is how it also works in Age of Wonders 3. They only difference between a "regiment" unit and a normal one is that that the regiment unit has multiple figures.

Это значит, что архоны стали нежитью? , а то переводчик фигню выдает.

The camera angle on the world map is fixed with slight curve on zoom level and some pans on transitions. During battles you can use a classic overhead view, or look around in a similar fashion to Total War – which I think is great for immersion. As the game is turn based, you can take a relaxed peek around and see detail on your units and their actions, or zoom in between the ranks of garrison defending a city wall for example. Totally agree that camera rotation should never be required in order to perform regular gameplay actions though!

P.S. Сорри, Некрон, я сейчас абсолютно не в кондиции для размышлений над переводом)