Age of Wonders 3 SG

[Bobchillingworth]

Le Rules:

* Play sets of 10 turns each.

* Report.

* Have fun.


Players (in play order):

Bobchillingworth

Bacchus

MJW

[Bacchus]

Is the game worth getting then?

This is also in a wrong forum, I guess.

[Bobchillingworth]

It's pretty good, yeah. I like it quite a lot so far.



Figured this forum was better for visibility- thread would be moved once the game started anyway. Doesn't seem like anyone else even owns it though.

[MJW (ya that one)]

I have a copy but I haven't played enough to play in a SG game.

[Serdoa]

Same for me. I own it, but actually stopped in the 2nd campaign-mission, because of work and somehow never picked it back up again.

[Bacchus]

I am interested in investigating the game, and would be up for playing an SG once I have enough understanding to at least reason about it.

[MJW (ya that one)]

We can do a "total-newbie" SG...

[Bobchillingworth]

I'm probably not a "total newbie", but I'm happy to take point and explain basic mechanics stuff in my reports. I'm hardly a pro either, I'm sure the strategies I've developed are terribly suboptimal.


3 players should be enough for a SG, 4 would be great.

[MJW (ya that one)]

I can join then...

[Bacchus]

I have played a little yesterday, and this is VERY similar to the previous installment, if not quite a remake in 3D. As such, I have a reasonable understanding of what's going on, albeit the details of all the development trees and the class system are new (skill research as such isn't). The major change to go along with the class system seems to be the absence of mana specialisms; previously nodes produced only a specific type, and if your wizard wasn't aligned with it, you had to "reconfigure" the node, losing its use for a while. The rest so far seems remarkably similar, if much better presented -- even most of the key icons are the same.