Age of Wonders
Age of Wonders (Eng. age of miracles, usually abbreviated AoW ) is a turn-based fantasy strategy game series of the Dutch game developer Triumph Studios. It is regarded as the successor to Master of Magic.
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Compare with Heroes of Might and Magic
Compared to the very popular Heroes of Might and Magic Age of Wonders tactically and strategically much deeper (more units, more heroic, larger battles, larger terrain influence on battles, more people, less micro-management in the form of a lack of scouring of resource points in a game week, etc.. ), while beginner friendly, but only a smaller audience known. This is, inter alia, that Heroes of Might and Magic has been released with a fifth part plus several add- ons already on the market since 1990 and 2006. A further boost in popularity received Heroes of Might and Magic from use as a LAN tournament game in the United States. However, the Age of Wonders series has benefited from the fact that the last two parts in HoMM fans arrived not as good as some of the third part.
Related games are warlords, Disciples and Master of Magic.
Age of Wonders
The fantasy strategy game with RPG elements surprised in 1999 ( already in autumn 1997 in the U.S.) with beautiful graphics and a complex set of rules. It is about to be played and in addition to the single-player campaign LAN as well as e -mail game support. The game can be in addition to the traditional (classical) game mode played in another simultaneous mode in which players can move their units at the same time. It should be noted that both modes are turn-based.
Age of Wonders II: The Circle of the Magician
Age of Wonders II appeared in German on 27 June 2002 and runs on all Windows operating systems.
Game background
The focus is on the fantasy world of " blessed continent " on the elves, dark elves (evil elves ), dwarves, orcs, halflings ( hobbits ), goblins, frost -forms (living in the ice goblins ), Undead, Archonier, Tigraner ( Cat People ), Draconians (dragon people ) and of course people live who are led by their respective wizards.
The player assumes the role of one of these magicians and needs to upgrade its cities, conquer new cities or create, explore new spells, recruit heroes and armies, with these, the map ( upper and lower world) investigate, negotiate diplomatically with the other wizards or they make war.
Action
The age of the elves was over, and the age of the people should start. But the transition has been a disaster and brought the young man to the brink of extinction.
In order to save the people, collected Julia, the daughter of the perished in the transition Supreme Elfs, troops of the light to fight against her brother Meandor and their undead father, who had gathered around an army of evil. After Julia had triumphed over powerful wizards took the power and plunged the world into a state of chaos.
The people who fled before the wizards gathered around Merlin (whose role you take on in the campaigns ), which was chosen by the Guardian of Magic, Gabriel to help humanity to power. But the other wizards want to prevent this at all costs.
Special
A special feature of Age of Wonders II is the division made up of hexagons of the cards. This allows you to move from one in each of the six adjacent fields.
In contrast to similarly structured strategy games like Civilization, the battles do not consist simply of a automatically calculated and animated meeting of unit symbols, but from battles of up to 56 units. This gives the game a special tactical depth.
There are twelve nations with over 130 different units and 100 Incantations from seven different regions ( spheres ). The campaign includes 20 scenarios and countless extra cards.
The game is also a user-friendly editor is supplied with which one his very own card or heroes to create (or modify already existing ) can that are immediately playable.
The online game is coordinated internationally through Gamespy.
Age of Wonders is still on sale (2007), which is why there is still no solid sales figures.
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic
Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic ( short AoW: SM ) was originally planned as an add -on to the second part, as a single executable version was published in 2003 but.
Special
Shadow Magic offers with the nomads, shadow demons and Syron three other people in addition to those known from Part 1.
The game features a world on three different levels, the upper world, the underworld and the world of shadows. Some scenarios may, as the underworld and the world of shadows are optional only the upper world.
Is Unofficially and the game (2005) by the international fan base through an update ( V.1.4) has been further developed.
Age of Wonders 3
After ten years of another sequel of Age of Wonders was announced for the first quarter of 2014 on February 6, 2013. The game was released on March 31, 2014.