

Looking around the forums, it seems that multiplayer is where it's at. At the moment, it's recommended that you just disable Allied Victory to prevent this shit. Huh, they mentioned back in May that they were working on fixing that shit. Think I'll just take a step back and wait to see if future patches/expacs bring things up to snuff.Ĭan anyone elaborate on why exactly AoW1/2 are better? If it's simply because there's more variety and "muh soul" I'm not too sure I'd want to invest the time - really looking for a game that learning its in and outs is actually rewarding. So strange since I recall spending dozens of hours studying Civ 4 to get good enough just to win games on King there, where as AoW3 has me resorting to that difficulty after a couple of short matches. I feel like I would have to intentionally not accept surrenders and impose other self limitations, or crank the difficulty up to the highest/second highest.

The next 10 turns were spent meeting the other two civs, and having them ally with me since I was so overwhelmingly powerful, then the game drawing to another hugbox circlejerk. Killed her closest town, then she surrendered - which gave me yet another capital and 3 more heroes for my army. Basically, I allied with some orc fag, then the next NPC I met DoW'd me. That second game I was talking about in my other post has drawn to its conclusion.
