#Age of wonders iii specializations full

Neutral leaders can still use them if they're careful, but leaders of opposed alignments will need to use some really tricky maneuvering to keep them from deserting. In practice what this means is that they suffer morale penalties when recruited by leaders who don't match their alignment.

Although averted with the playable races this time around, it's played straight with some units, which can be 'Dedicated To Evil' or 'Dedicated to Good'.

One of these skills attaches the aforementioned 'Dedicated to Evil' trait to every unit in your army, including ones normally Dedicated to Good!

Also played straight with the Shadowborn specialization introduced in Eternal Lords, due to having skills that are inherently evil in nature, and providing bonuses for having an evil alignment.

On the evil side, this is creatures like Kobolds, Hellhounds, Archon Revenants and most other kinds of Undead, many kinds of monsters like Cockatrices and Dire Penguins, and Obsidian Dragons. The Seeker Enchantment combat spell in the Air specialization can be used to grant this ability to any ranged attacker in an army.

#Age of wonders iii specializations full

Always Accurate Attack: Goblin swarm darters fire living 'mosquito darts' that ignore penalties from line-of-sight or long range, meaning they'll always deal their full (if modest) damage.

Actually Four Mooks: A stack is composed of one to six creatures, with the strongest creature in the stack (or the most senior Hero Unit if present) representing the whole group on the strategic map.

Units are also more explicitly categorized as Infanty, Archers, Cavalry, etc, with each group having innate abilities and weaknesses (Cavalry is weak to pikemen but can Charge, Infantry can climb walls, etc).Īge of Wonders 3 provides examples of the following tropes: New to the series, units in combat are vulnerable to flank attacks weaker units earn their place on the battlefield by being distractions, setting up attacks to be delivered by your bruisers. Wizards (or rather 'Leaders') are back to being frontline units (casting from outside the battle costs twice as much), but are much safer from sudden death and empire failure. The gameplay of AoW3 mixes many aspects of the prior installments. Really, it was inevitable considering the type of game this is. Set many years after the events of Shadow Magic, the world is going haywire again as the traditional, tree-hugging Elven Court and industrious Commonwealth head to war. The third official installment of the Age of Wonders series, Age of Wonders 3 is a turn-based strategy game released by Triumph Studios on March 31, 2014.