Age of Wonders III

[lordician]

Release date
Autumn 2013 (subject to change)

Trailer - Gallery - Game Information
About the game
Age of Wonders III is a fantasy strategy based game, with a mix of strategy and RPG elements.
It is being developed by the Dutch company "Triumph Studios", which might also be known for the game series "Overlord".
It is the sequel to Age of Wonders II (originally released in 2002, rereleased on Steam in 2010) from some years ago.

Brought to my attention by a tweet from Notch (Markus Person):

And this was confirmed by Triumph Studios.
So Notch helped fund the development of Age of Wonders III.
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Personal thoughts
Yes, all my yes! And secretly my babies too!

I have been a fan of this series ever since i got my hands on a demo of Age of Wonders II.
It was a dark time, i had an okay computer (hey, i could play games with it, that's cool), but no internet.
But then i found/got the collection of CD's that my father got from some computer magazines.
There were loads of games with them, but AoW2 was one of the games that really stood out.
It was quite the fun game, even for a demo!
You only had access to the tutorial and one scenario level with only access to the spells in your spellbook (instead of also skills).

I wanted to buy it eventually, but i could never find a copy, because it was already quite some time after the initial release.
So i had to do with a demo.
After some years passed, i noticed it on Steam and almost instantly bought it.
And i loved it.

But now, noticing the tweet of Notch, i couldn't believe my very own eyes...
Age of Wonders III
I am so excited right now! :DD

You are free to discuss this game and other games from the Age of Wonders serie here.
Maybe i'll make this a Age of Wonders Megathread later.
But first, celebrate the news of AoW3! :D

[Ad Bot]

[Cybersix]

As long as it has these magnificent bastards, I'll be happy

[lordician]

As long as it has these magnificent bastards, I'll be happy

You should check out the trailer.
Instead of picking a wizard, you pick a sort of class.

The races aren't bound to evil nor good too. :)

[lordician]

Bump.
Is there really no interest for this game? D:

[Cybersix]

They better add my Thunder Lizards

[Chrono]

You should check out the trailer.
Instead of picking a wizard, you pick a sort of class.

The races aren't bound to evil nor good too. :)

Races shmaces.
I've allied with every single player in a 12 player match, 9 of them being AI.
(except orcs, we killed them)

Then I got killed by a wandering neutral hero when I was running around throwing global spells at random stuff.

[lordician]

Races shmaces.
I've allied with every single player in a 12 player match, 9 of them being AI.
(except orcs, we killed them)

Then I got killed by a wandering neutral hero when I was running around throwing global spells at random stuff.

Wandering neutral heros can be a bitch, yeah.

They better add my Thunder Lizards

I figure the races of AoW2 are going to be in there (maybe not the dark elves as they do not bind any race with a dark or light side).
So the lizardmen might be in there.
We just have to wait until they show more of the races.

[Pengie]

I'd be more interested if I knew what it was about.

Care to explain what you do in this to someone who's never seen this in her life?

[Chrono]

I'd be more interested if I knew what it was about.

Care to explain what you do in this to someone who's never seen this in her life?

RTS with RPG elements, like leveling up your heroes, giving them stats, and learning new spells and stuff.

If it's anything like the first one (never played the second one), once you get into actual combat, it becomes turn based strategy.

[TeslaCoil]

you know, I've always

WONDERED

About this game ahuehuehuehue

[Chrono]

you know, I've always

WONDERED

About this game ahuehuehuehue

sometimes on minecraft's main menu it will say age of wonders is better

[lordician]

RTS with RPG elements, like leveling up your heroes, giving them stats, and learning new spells and stuff.

If it's anything like the first one (never played the second one), once you get into actual combat, it becomes turn based strategy.

Indeed.
Chrono really just described this game in a nutshell. :)
If you don't like turn based games, chances are big you won't like this game, unless you really like the fantasy style and the RPG elements (levelling heroes, learning spells and/or giving them stats with these level ups, not to mention the spells you can do with your main hero/wizard).

sometimes on minecraft's main menu it will say age of wonders is better

Indeed it does, so the fact that Notch helped fund this game is not so strange. :)

you know, I've always

WONDERED

About this game ahuehuehuehue

You're so punny. :)

But yeah, if you're interested, pick up any of the games on Steam or GOG or whatever you use that has the older games.
I only played AoW2, but i instantly fell in love with this series.

[Chrono]

At least it didn't do what KuF did.
RTS > RTS/Action(button mashing) hybrid > RPG/Action(button mashing)

[Clone v.117]

My friend was telling me about this today, was gonna check it out later.

[lordician]

My friend was telling me about this today, was gonna check it out later.

be sure to do so, if you like it, you can always buy one of the originals to try it.
Shouldn't be too expensive.

And if you really want we could look into a multiplayer match. :D