Draconian rogues and elf rogues play COMPLETELY differently. Races are similar at first glance, but digging into their benefits has massively changed the multiplayer metagame, and there's really alot to it. Speaking as someone who has won entire maps before turn 30 on higher difficulties, this game can be anything but slow once you get into it. Classes on your heroes mean a ton, and there is a VERY notable gap in playstyle between a sorceror, a rogue, and a dreadnought hero. Heroes aren't the most unique visually/lore/powerwise, but they are balanced and there's alot you can do with them. PvP in something like HoMM can often degrade into placement taking up more time than combat. Regardless, if you ask me, it's actually good for the game, as it favors massing tactics more, when high end units are very powerful.īattle placement I can very much understand, but it does speed the game up immensly. Units being damages and still fighting at full strength has been discussed to death, revived, rekilled, and had its horse beaten until the horse made its way through the earth to china. One's light cav that teleports about while shooting flank shots with no fear of reprisal, and the other is heavy cav that charges and uses its guns as an opening strike. You really notice the difference between elven dreadnought cavalry and human dreadnought cavalry for example. Racial traits have been expanded upon alot however. Largely because said differences aren't readily apparent. Unit diversity is better than people give it credit for. I haven't heard, but yeah, not the best I've ever heard. If you ask me, alot of this is because the game doesn't make its depth as readily apparent. I have no desire to really play it again. Overall I just found myself to be disappointed. The city management was bad - producing 1 structure or 1 unit at a time is boring and out-dated. They all have identical prototype units: calvalry, pikemen, flyers, etc. Most spells - especially siege spells are basically useless.Įvery race feels the same.

The focus on hero spells has been completely removed. The placement in the battle mode is really bad. For example, unit stacks that have been severely injured (you know how a group starts with 6 guys, then 5 of them die after taking damage) still do full damage. The attention to detail and fine tuning that I come to expect from AoW games is gone. First, the music wasnt nearly as epic as the Aow1&2 games.

When a game is bad, it's hard to simply sum-up why it was bad.

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