We also think the walls should give a significant advantage to the defenders Did you notice that archers, who are very weak and miss often, when protected by walls are really dangerous?

About the archers - they miss often unless firing from very close, so it may seem that they have too low ATT value of ranged attacks, but in the game they usually attack from a close range indeed, also there might be another "cheat" in fast combat - they probably don't get any ATT penalties for range.



Which brings us to (IMO) the biggest disadvantage of AoW - the nightmare which is the fast (aka automatic) combat As probably most people know, fast combat uses completely different rules than tactical combat, here are the most absurd features of it:

Every unit can attack someone in every turn - there is no movement, cover, tactical moves etc.

Walls always have low HP and are destroyed quickly, often in the first turn, so they have little significance (unless only a few units participate in combat).

There is no limit to melee attacks a unit can receive - in tactical combat there can be no more than 6 of them (the number of hexes around the unit), except some special cases like killing an attacker by retaliation, or using the Winds of Fury spell. In fast combat it can be dozens of attacks per turn.

All of this and other fast combat features make it a real nightmare



About the units that replace machines for races that don't have them - partially it's already the case, for example the Demons have such unit , it's possible that other races will have them too.

Thanks

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There is a new temporary download source, the old one was blocked by DropBox due to too high traffic, see the top post for a new link (I can't tell you how long it will be active).

The mod is updated, download the patch here:

http://aow2.heavengames.com/downloads/showfile.php?fileid=1130

(Jaszmiej should update the main post soon and put this link there.)

The map is also updated, it's strongly recommended to use the latest version because it fixes some problems with events, and is generally more balanced.

[This message has been edited by PawelS (edited 01-01-2013 @ 04:49 PM).]

Can somebody reupload the mod? Download seems to be broken since 2 years according to the last post here.

New download link

(You still need the patch and updated map from the main post.)

[This message has been edited by PawelS (edited 02-01-2018 @ 01:05 PM).]

Oh, is it already 3 weeks since I checked this thread the last time. Thank you. Installation worked. Title screen so blue.

Time flies when you're having fun