30-07-2002 22:03									#1
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Me?? I came across Age of Wonders [1] in the close-out bin for a mere $4.95. It's the best $4.95 I ever spent.

For those who haven't played AoW, it's obviously inspired by Masters of Magic, but it's even better! Your wizard/king can leave his tower and ride around the map. The dragons are called dragons (and not drakes) and look like dragons.

Every once and a while the AI does something stupid (like sending 25 units to attack one of my walled cities, but including no battering ram ). However, I understand that problem has been corrected (and maybe even overly corrected) in AoW2.

	30-07-2002 22:05									#2
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Personally i think its got too less CityManagment

	30-07-2002 22:05									#3
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Yeah, I heard the AoW2 AI is significantly better, maybe even too much so

I could take a walled city with no ram I generally did not use rams, they are so slow.

	30-07-2002 22:41									#4
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I'm just playing Civ3 by means of the demogame. Probably won't get another game until I can afford IWD2.

	30-07-2002 23:12									#5
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In a week I will be able to play Dark Age of Camelot...

	30-07-2002 23:27									#6
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SMAC

	30-07-2002 23:34									#7
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im just playing civ 3, and starting to get into civ 2 again.

	31-07-2002 02:34									#8
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Bastards... it will be another 4 days, 12 hours, 22 minutes until I fly home and I can actually play something. But I get home late, so it won't be until next morning that I play

	31-07-2002 03:10									#9
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WWIIOL (World War Two Online)
Civ2
you guys have me playing SC3000 again
and Microsoft Combat Flight Sim

	31-07-2002 03:23									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Andemagne SMAC

_o/

	31-07-2002 03:33									#11
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huh? is that supposed to be a person raising thier hand?

	31-07-2002 03:52									#12
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I'm playing Morrowind and Serious Sam 2 (when Morrowind crashes). I also have AoWII and Heroes of might and Magic IV that I might start playing later. =)

	31-07-2002 04:19									#13
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Tennis Master Series and SimGolf

	31-07-2002 04:25									#14
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Arcanum

	31-07-2002 06:05									#15
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Im playing a great game:
Graph Theory and Combinatorics

and one very crappy one
Public Speaking

	31-07-2002 06:26									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Space05us huh? is that supposed to be a person raising thier hand?

*fails to 'type' a person nodding*

	31-07-2002 08:32									#17
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What? You don't need to have battering rams, catapults or giants to attack walled cities in AoW2?

Actually flying units and heroes with wall climbing work too.

In Aow the computer sometimes send in huge mob with just one battering ram to attack my cities. All I need to do is to concentrate on the ram to take it out before it breaches the wall. That's great fun watching a huge mob wandering around outside unable to attack your small garrison

	31-07-2002 08:42									#18
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Still playing Grand theft auto 3, mostly. Trying to complete it 100%.

	31-07-2002 09:11									#19
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golden tee

	31-07-2002 15:00									#20
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Recently I have played:

SMAC/SMAX
MOO2
One Must Fall 2097
Colonization
RailRoad Tycoon deluxe
Warlords 2
Tetris
Bards Tale 1 (from the 80's)
Wizard's Crown (from the 80's)
Tie Fighter

	31-07-2002 16:08									#21
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[quote[What? You don't need to have battering rams, catapults or giants to attack walled cities in AoW2?

Actually flying units and heroes with wall climbing work too.[/quote]

-All my heroes in AoW had wall climbing sooner or later, and i built forces with lots of ranged units and wall climbing and flying ones. The ranged units could fire over the wall to soften up the defenders, the hero and flying units would finish the job. Heroes could also just use high level magic to achieve the job.

In Aow the computer sometimes send in huge mob with just one battering ram to attack my cities. All I need to do is to concentrate on the ram to take it out before it breaches the wall. That's great fun watching a huge mob wandering around outside unable to attack your small garrison

	31-07-2002 16:15									#22
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Oh my, how could I forget my favourite, Master of Magic from my list...

	31-07-2002 16:30									#23
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My AoW strategy involved a lot of fast and/or flying units and guerrila tactics.

	31-07-2002 20:23									#24
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I found AoW2 very hard to get into. It has "improved" in ways I don't like so its hit the back of the shelf while I concentrate on NWN.

	31-07-2002 21:35									#25
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Lessee here... Civ3, Morrowind, HoMMIV, My SNES emulator, and a few others off and on.

(in no particular order)

	01-08-2002 07:36									#26
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quote: Originally posted by Grumbold I found AoW2 very hard to get into. It has "improved" in ways I don't like so its hit the back of the shelf while I concentrate on NWN.

'Zackly what didn't you like about it??

	01-08-2002 15:44									#27
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- Only one campaign and it seems to be leading you through the magic skills in a set order. Not as flexible as AoW where you could not only be good or evil but take different skills/magic each time.

- Movement rates are now so high and hexes less easy to judge thanks to the 3d effects that you can't tell whether you are in range of an enemy force or where A will intersect B.

- I found the city management and combat less intuitive at first glance.

- The first scenario map was full of bizarre teleporters.

Like I say these were observations formed after only a couple of hours play. When I decide to go back to it and get past the first scenario I may revise my opinions.

	01-08-2002 18:39									#28
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Teleporters are bad... high movement can be either good or bad, depending on sight radius. It might complicate my guerilla warfare strategy or it might simplify it.

	01-08-2002 20:08									#29
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Civ3
SMAC (always)
FIFA 2002 World Cup (nice graphics, that's all)
Grand Prix 3
Outcast

and I'm planning to reinstall SC3000...

	01-08-2002 20:38									#30
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SMAC/SMAX
CtP
then sometimes a RPG of some kind or another... started to replay Chrono Cross but then realized I was too tired to really appreciate the story so I'll be starting over probably... but who knows.

Would like to get some more games for my GBA too... *wishes had more money.*