#Age of wonders 3 specializations guide full#

The game also autosaves every turn and makes a new save file when you win in the campaign, which is also handy since there isn't much of an option to replay missions otherwise.

Even so, it's better to save beforehand anyway. Since the Computer is pretty bad at resolving a lot of fights, it's definitely nice to have.

Anti-Frustration Features: There is an advanced option to give heroes the Ressurgence effect (revive at the end of the battle if you win) for all battles or only when you let the Computer fight for you, and by default it's set to the latter.

Ancient Conspiracy: The Shadowborn, the primary antagonists of the campaign, is a secret organization responsible for flaring up tensions between the Commonwealth and Elven Court in order to weaken both nations so they won't stand a chance against the forces sealed in the Shadow Realm once the last shadow gate opens.

One of these skills attaches the aforementioned 'Dedicated to Good' trait to every unit in your army, including ones normally Dedicated to Evil!

Also played straight with the Keeper of the Peace specialization introduced in Eternal Lords, due to having skills that are inherently good in nature, and providing bonuses for having a good alignment.

On the good side, this is mostly creatures like Felhorses, Unicorns, Nymphs, Phoenixes, and Golden Dragons.

Neutral leaders can still use them if they're careful, but leaders of opposed alignments will need to use some really tricky maneuvering to keep them from deserting. In practice what this means is that they suffer morale penalties when recruited by leaders who don't match their alignment.

Although averted with the playable races this time around, it's played straight with some units, which can be 'Dedicated To Evil' or 'Dedicated to Good'.

One of these skills attaches the aforementioned 'Dedicated to Evil' trait to every unit in your army, including ones normally Dedicated to Good!

Also played straight with the Shadowborn specialization introduced in Eternal Lords, due to having skills that are inherently evil in nature, and providing bonuses for having an evil alignment.

On the evil side, this is creatures like Kobolds, Hellhounds, Archon Revenants and most other kinds of Undead, many kinds of monsters like Cockatrices and Dire Penguins, and Obsidian Dragons. The Seeker Enchantment combat spell in the Air specialization can be used to grant this ability to any ranged attacker in an army.

#Age of wonders 3 specializations guide full#

Always Accurate Attack: Goblin swarm darters fire living 'mosquito darts' that ignore penalties from line-of-sight or long range, meaning they'll always deal their full (if modest) damage.

On the game map the current strongest creature in the squad or a hero unit if that's the case, is the only member visible and represents the whole.

Actually Four Mooks: A stack is composed of one to six creatures.

Units are also more explicitly categorized as Infanty, Archers, Cavalry, etc, with each group having innate abilities and weaknesses (Cavalry is weak to pikemen but can Charge, Infantry can climb walls, etc).ДЄge of Wonders 3 provides examples of the following tropes: New to the series, units in combat are vulnerable to flank attacks weaker units earn their place on the battlefield by being distractions, setting up attacks to be delivered by your bruisers. Wizards (or rather 'Leaders') are back to being frontline units (casting from outside the battle costs twice as much), but are much safer from sudden death and empire failure. The gameplay of AoW3 mixes many aspects of the prior installments. Really, it was inevitable considering the type of game this is. Set many years after the events of Shadow Magic, the world is going haywire again as the traditional, tree-hugging Elven Court and industrious Commonwealth head to war. The third official installment of the Age of Wonders series, Age of Wonders 3 is a turn-based strategy game released by Triumph Studios on March 31, 2014.