Hey, just getting back into this game after a while. Some of the updates look pretty good. But I notice now that the new Stonemason retort is essentially required. The starting own has 4 citizens, with 1 garrisoned unit. With this you have to typically put 3 citizens on farming and you have one rebe...

Someone posted that they had treaties with the rival wizards. I've never seen that. I'm playing on Max difficulty, except I'm using 11 picks instead of 10, because I consider 11 books the standard from Classic and many strategies rely on having 1 1 picks to work with. For me, with everything on max ...

Yeah, Draconians aren't supposed to get the Mechanicians Guild either, but they do in this game. They can also make Catapults, which they shouldn't be able to do.

I'm not sure about how Earth to Mud works. I noticed the same thing, but I interpreted it as applying a one-time de-buff instead of making mud on the ground. It looked like all units in the area got a debuff that lasted into the following turns.

The AI does still build ships, but not like in Classic. And also they seem not to build Warships, so if you make a stack of 3-4 Warships you can win every naval battle. I'm surprised about the Lizardmen though. What settings do you use? I use max difficulty on everything, except I give myself 11 boo...

13) The crazy starting lineup of units, almost always with ranged units in the front and melee units in the back. Also in cities with ranged units blocking the door and melee units on the edges difficult to maneuver toward the gate.

I agree mostly, but... In Classic I never build naval units unless its some really bizarre scenario. In this game naval units are a little more worthwhile, mainly right now because there are so many Lizardmen everywhere. With 2 or 3 Warships you can intercept many of these Lizardmen armies and deal ...

I've noticed that when you kill a hero with artifacts and win the battle you don't get the artifacts like you did in classic. But worse, the opponent actually retains the artifact! How can this be? This needs to be fixed.

I'll also add Lizardmen gone crazy. IN every game the map ends up getting filled with crappy huge Lizardmen towns. The you are forced to either take a -5 Fame penalty for razing these stink holes or fill your empire with crappy Lizard towns that take forever to do anything. For sure the cost of Liza...

Actually I would add that Gallies should have Scouting I and Warships should have Scouting II.

Maybe this can be a thread for all of the annoying things that should be fixed/changed. 1) Lack of diplomacy. Having all the AIs declare war immediately all the time is highly annoying and leads to many other problems. 2) Control of nodes. This is related to #1. Since all of the AIs declare war imme...

It always annoyed me that they didn't have Scouting in the first game. Of course Warships should have scouting, this was a primary function of sailing ships and with the crow's nest of course they can see long distances. Indeed I would give them Scouting II.

This really needs to be addressed. I'm casting full strength Counter Magic and it does nothing, yet when the enemy uses it it blocks like 75% of my spells. And on top of that it seems like every wizard has Counter Magic, so this is a real problem. What is going on? How does Counter magic work? Is th...

#1 I don't like the towers. I really enjoy the strategy of how capital attacks worked in Classic better. I like trying to take out a couple of wizards very early and then the challenging battles of the later game when wizards fill their capitals with high level fantastic units. I find actually defea...

I've played through all of the pure schools and here are some observations. Sorcery: I'd say that Sorcery is stronger now than ever. The early game of Sorcery seems much stronger than in classic relative to the others now. There are so many weak neutral towns that it makes grabbing them with Magic S...

Depends on for what exactly. With these damned towers, the most important thing is either Regeneration or Magic Immunity. But other than attacking capitals I've long thought that about the best general army in Classic is 4 Doom Drakes with 5 Air Ships. In this version I'd say maybe 2 Doom Drakes and...

The re-centering in battle is highly annoying. Instead, can the screen remain as it it unless the unit being focused is off the screen, and then only move the screen enough to show the unit, don't re-center the screen entirely. I think this would be a huge improvement.

I've also seen some weird stuff going the other way. I've had single figure units with like 10 attack do 20+ damage, at least that's what is shown on the screen.

Flame Strike seems to have been improved with the latest patch. FIX AreaSpellDmg - spells are attacks (like fireball) attack only first figure I've tried it and it does seem better, but still not like the original. As for other stuff, none of those single target spells really help as much as Flame S...

Just to have it here:. From the 1.06 update: FIX Trait Artificer negate starting spells for AI - now AI gets spells normally FIX Dispel on hero during battle - remove from unit enchantments dispelled in battle FIX Mithril + Adamantium - checking resources in order of importance FIX Chaos Rift spell ...