Age of Wonders III Advanced Strategy, Episode 2-1: A Fresh Start
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ก.ย. 2024
- Welcome to the first episode in my second Age of Wonders III Advanced Strategy series!
This series will feature a free-for-all playthrough of Age of Wonders III, with a special emphasis placed on the deeper strategic elements of the game. It is designed to help intermediate players further develop their skills, but I also welcome suggestions for improving my own gameplay as well. I hope that this series will be a useful resource for everyone in the Age of Wonders community, so please feel free to share your thoughts and questions in the comments section!
In this episode, I focus on how to manage units efficiently in the early game (especially the first turn). I also pick on the Halflings...a lot.
Best AoW3 TH-camr BY FAR. Thanks for these series, really learning a lot
Thank you so much, man! That really does mean a lot! Glad you are enjoying my videos, I look forward to making many more!
@@BlackArrowGaming yeah me to
I think you are cool
@@teamplayers7991 Well thanks but I'm just a guy who enjoys playing AOW like most of the other people on here. Although I suppose it couldn't hurt to pass that message along to Jake and Dan from my co-op series, haha! :)
Vault of knowledge would be pretty cool on flamers since it would open up a third channel of damage. Longbows don't get any new damage types once you have arcane arrows; they just get a buff to the damage they already do.
Of course you'll have plenty of shock damage as a sorcerer but if you were, say, a Draconian warlord (whose mounted archers do physical/fire damage too), that would be pretty amazing.
Also, you save 35 gold per city, but that often means you save a turn of production too. If you didn't have that vault of knowledge, I think picking the military option would be pretty bad since your apprentices do everything a flamer does only better.
I still like vault of knowledge a lot for longbows because fire arcane arrows is actually an entirely separate ability from fire longbow. It replaces most of the physical arrow damage with shock damage. In most cases, it seems to me that it is better to use regular arows with the little bit of additional shock damage that comes from the Vault of Knowledge. Fire arcane arrows is usually only worth it agains enemies with low resistance and high defense (like orcs) or enemies weak to shock damage.
Dang though, Draconian mounted archers with physical/fire/shock damage sound amazing, haha. Draconian Warlord could be a fun class to try out in one of our games sometime.
Yeah, I didnt use flamers a whole lot in the mid-late game so the economic bonus might have been just about as useful for me. I've just never liked those building discounts much since you only build them once per city. For some reason, I almost always prefer to go with the military patron bonuses. Once exception to this is the dwarves, since their crossbowman are so inferior to most other range units that I typically don't even bother making them al all. Dwarves also gave a much more useful Patron economic upgrade imo.
My issue with draconian warlords is they have sooo much fire stuff. Like their monster hunters do fire spit instead of a light crossbow. Half my units do fire damage, why do I want more? Flyers with martial arts is pretty cool though. Almost makes up for their lack of a tier 3 mounted unit.
Actually I'm looking at the draconian page again and it looks like it's just the melee hit from their mounted archer that does fire damage. I think they just shoot a regular bow, so nevermind haha.
I guess that's part of the reason why an Elf Sorcerer doesn't appeal to me - too much focus on shock damage.
just find this youtuber, a great one ! Keep up the good work man, i love your work on this game.
Thank you so much! I've got hundreds of videos up and community of other players who are pretty active in the comments, so I hope you'll stick around :)
Black Arrow Gaming of course. I have to watch every AOW séries.
@@seed6S Haha great that is good to hear, should keep you busy for awhile :p
I just started watching this again, and as you said,healing with a sorc in between battles kinda sucks.I have made it a habit to make an Item Forge fairly early in game,to make me the following items for all my heroes:Sword of Lifedrain,a bag of heal(you can make an item with heal,gives you in battle heal like druids/theocrats,the +side is,that it heals outside of battle as well),and a longbow or gun.I have a city dedicated to make these items,so that i have the items ready whenever i get a new hero.
Just a thought,
That's probably not a bad idea, as I often reach a point where I have more cities than I know what to do with. In the early game I'd probably still rather have gold and units as fast as I can get them. but in the mid-late game that could be useful. (Up until this game I had never actually used the item forge before, haha.)
It begins anew! Can't wait.
I know - I'm excited to see how this turns out as well!
nice
Also dude, when you get the option to do so, research the combat spell star blades. It isn't too expensive to research and only costs 5 mana/CP when your leader is present. For that price it is insanely strong. You can make your flyers practically demigods with the amount of damage it gives them, it's ridiculous
Ooh, that would combine very well with Draconian flyers. I have a ton of things that I want to research right now, but I will add that to the list!
Bit late on this, but yeah, Star Blades is a fantastic spell for it's low price.
I like to use it to buff all my melee if the enemy units are sitting on defense. Can make T1 units output T3 unit dmg, pretty awesome for 5 mana.
No kidding - it might be the cheapest combat spell in the game. Or one of the cheapest.
Like your videos, you could do a challenge playthrough someday, for example: make the max level of every hero 1, or make it so that there would be more units guarding building, or crank up the strength of roaming monsters.
Those are some good ideas! I probably won't limit hero levels because leveling up heroes is one of the most fun parts of the game for me, but the stronger defenders and roaming armies might be fun. I will keep this in mind, thanks!
No problem, i just thought that since the games are so dependant on heroes that it could be interesting to try a game where they're almost worthless
Playing on a slower game speed makes the game quite different too.
It affects research time and city growth time, but nothing else. So you can still build units as normal. Means you have to rely on your racial troops more in the early - mid game as your class troops are slower to research.
I found limiting heroes to just 1-2 plus your leader also quite interesting. They become that much more important and you have to think about where on the map you need them most.
Just a couple of ideas for a possible future game ^
I've never tried that on this game, but I did a few games like that in Civ V. It slowed the game down a bit too much for my taste, but made waging war more interesting since units didn't get outdated as quickly
hey Bob, love the new series too. Great commentary! How often do you plan to release an episode?
The current plan is to release once or twice per week, but I haven't settled on which days. It will probably vary based on what else I've got going on. I'd love to release videos more often, but I work a full-time job and play a lot of other games with my friends online, so time can be a bit of an issue.
that's true
Ok I have a question that I could never quite figure out. You gave your army "charged army" which increases their melee attack by 1 electric damage. Yet (and I'm just using this as a random example), at 38:50 your dwarf hero does 4 electric damage on his melee attack. How did that happen?
This has to do with a number of factors for how the game calculates damage. My Dwarf has 1 point of electric attack strength, but that does not necessarily mean it would only do 1 damage. Defense, shcok resistance, and overall resistance are also all factored in. Other bonuses (like charge and war cray) may also boost the damage output as well.
If you've every played pokemon, think of it like that. Just because a move like earthquake has an attack power of 100, that doesn't mean it will always do 100 damage. the enemy's defense and type advantages/disadvantages are also taken into account, which change the overall amount of damage dealt in terms of HP.
If you want some specifics...
The default formula is "Strength - defense + 10". In the case of elemental damage, replace defense with resistance.
The Orc Impaler has 8 Resistance. Since Charged Army grants 1 shock strength, that means the base damage of Charged Army vs an Orc Impaler is "1 - 8 +10 = 3"
Finally, there's a damage range of +/- 20%, rounded to nearest whole number, meaning that the 3 damage can hit for either 2, 3, or 4 damage. In this case it rolled high and we got 4 damage.
There are a couple other factors, like the Pike Square ability of the Impaler which grants him +3 Defense against mounted units, but since Shock is an elemental attack it doesn't get affected by the extra defense at all.
Very useful info and very well explained, thanks!
Thank you! This is excellent info.
I noticed you have 4 installed DLC's. May I ask what they are, because on steam I only see 3? Which I own all 3. On my game it only shows 3 circle icons where it says 'installed DLC:'
One of those is for the preorder bonus. I honestly don't remember for sure what it does, but I think it had something to do with the singleplayer campaign, which I never played, haha :p
Thanks lol
You, my friend, are a real strategist. I bet my money you use it alot irl.
Thanks! Glad you seem to enjoy my videos. I do really enjoy strategy games, but have to give a lot of credit to my viewers for helping me learn some of the finer details of this one. The AOW community is pretty awesome!
My real-life job does require me to do quite a bit of planning ahead, and I have to keep track of a lot of little details, but don't worry - I'm not in charge of an army or anything! Haha :)
"Not in charge of an Army" u lost me there LuL
Dovah the kin I can't stop laughing my ass off my god. HAHAHHAHAH
Glad I could be of service with my bad puns XD
this is more interesting - right at the start and already it seems you have passed another stage in your development as a tactition
There was a long time between this advanced strategy series and my last one because I has a co-op series with my friend in between. I learned a lot during that series, mostly because I made a lot of mistakes, lol :p
At last I managed to find another good LPers of this game, damn that's a rarity.
Thank you
Thanks! I'm sure there's a ton of great players out there, but perhaps not all on TH-cam unfortunately. I've learned a lot from my subscribers though :)
Yeah I'm sure there are a lot of good player, but not on TH-cam :(
You could always check out my friend's channel here:
th-cam.com/channels/G-RMRjj3E-nN_xZTD52MvQ.html
He has excellent commentary on our co-op game, and has at least one other video about how the "luck" mechanic works in the game. He's really good with numbers, and does a great job explaining how the math of the game works.
Do you consider using the forge a waste of money or just kind of cheesy?
To be honest, I've never bothered with it simply because I've never felt it was that important. Normally by the time I have the time and money to spend building items at a forge, my heroes already have more items than I know what to do with. That being said, since I've never messed around with it, I don't know much about it. Maybe it is more useful than I'm giving it credit for, haha.
Just wondering because sorcerers cannot get the heal skill, but you can get that item from the arcane forge. Also bringer of goodwill to reduce cost of troops in a heroes army.
I always just build one for the empire quest, and then I forge an item with the Dominate ability. It has a 13 spirit check, which is really high, and can be used multiple times per battle. Really great ability for a hero, although since you're a sorcerer, your tier IV units will already have it.
+rondolf scott you also get a free item (epic I think) as an empire quest reward. computers never build them forges.
All good ideas, thanks guys! Once I've got a city built up pretty well, I will try this.
atleast someone who plays smart
I'm sure there are others too, but thanks :)
DOVAH THE KHIIN! like Dovakin from Skyrim :))
Indeed, haha. I'm a big Skyrim fan, in case you couldn't tell :)
its already bin an hour? holy shit that went quick. I wish i could get some info out of this but its hard to fill a full cup as they say.
Time to get a bigger cup XD
No mana node AND you're a sorc...... #balls. Tough break right off the bat. Slightly balanced by getting a free builders hall!
Yeah I know, unfortunate luck there but at least the sorcerer's "Magical Structures" empire upgrade will hopefully help to make up for it.
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I see that your channel name is much like mine, haha :)
finally :D
Why would you need phantams warriors when you can just summon hell hounds instead, and they're already researched. Hell Hounds will combine with your Hellfire, Skin of Oil and Draconian Supports greatly, while Phantams Warriors won't.
Hell Hounds do combine nicely with some of my other abilities, but I wanted Phantasm Warriors quite badly for three reasons:
First, phantasm warriors make a nice, defensive front-line infantry unit to hide my more fragile support units behind. They have shields and physical resistance, which make them great at tanking most types of damage. The Draconians don't have any armored or shielded units, so Phantasm Warriors also fill that gap nicely.
Second, Phantasm Warriors do a little bit of shock damage. I already have plenty of fire units to go around (plus fire magic), so diversifying my damage output seems like a good idea. As an added bonus, they have inflict shocking, which can make other units more vulnerable to the inflict stun effect that I will soon have on all of my support units.
Third, one of my shadowborn abilities (I think it is called "embrace darkness") gives all of my infantry units life stealing. Phantasm Warriors are infantry, so they get it too, which makes them even better :)
You forgot to put them in one team =)
This series was intended to be a free-for-all. No way I can take on five emperor AI by myself, haha - at least not yet! My next series will be me alone vs. three emperor enemies, and that one will be a team game. Should be challenging :)
Well, I've won against 3 and it wasn't too hard. As usual you should just be aggressive enough and try to attack unexpectedly (try to make them don't see you the turn before attacking the city). But I was playing draconians, they are probably too easy race for that challenge.
My goel is to try to take at least one of them out very quickly. Emperor AI enemies build so many units, it's easy to get overwhelmed if the game drags on for too long. Good advice, thanks!
IA knows the position of every unit you have. You can`t hide. I`m not sure about concealment and invisibility.
I don't know for sure about concealment and invisibility either. I have an idea, but I don't have any evidence to support it, lol.
wish i was as good as you i suck so bad you make it seem so easy u must of tons of hours in the game
I've got quite a few - over 800 at this point. All it takes is practice to get better though - don't sell yourself short! That's kinda the whole point of these videos - I'm trying to help other people learn how to improve, but in the process, I've actually learned quite a bit from my viewers too :)
Cool profile pic, btw.
thanks, any recommendations for starting race or set up for a new player that is learning?
Whatever you are interested in :) Certain races do combine well with certain classes (for example, Orcs make good Theocrats because their Crusaders get the Tireless ability). However, there are virtually endless combinations of race/class/specializations that you can experiment with. I would say it is best not to worry about picking the best class - just pick something that sounds like fun to you!
The Tome of Wonders is a useful resource for race/class/specialization information if you want to use it. In order to do so, you need to start a game and then click the book in the top left. Under "game concepts," search for "race." To see different class and specialization information, look under "skills" and use the drop-down menus.
If you want a good all-around race, I would suggest starting with humans. They are pretty basic and have no real strengths or weaknesses (at least in terms of elemental resistance and general stats), so they can kinda do a little bit of everything.
ok thanks alot for the help
No problem!