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Gonna have to say negative. by Mischief Maker 02/27/2012, 8:49pm PST
Same problem you had with HOMM5, fucking HORDES of independent units roaming the map, decapping your income tiles, chewing your (very expensive) troops down to nothing. Maybe the AI is really competent, I wouldn't know, they're constantly killed by the independents, too, so I'm not losing simply out of incompetence. Turtling up and building your forces before taking on independent strongholds is not an option because the independent units grow in strength over time.

But besides that, the maps are completely random so you may very well have no useful resource tiles near your starting town, and a hostile independent manticore one tile away. My games were either effortless steamrolls or FUCKING BULLSHIT not my mistake losses. The only faction I can do well consistently with is the Troll King because he doesn't get permanent status ailments from unlucky combat rolls and the Troll Mum's "Awaken the old forest" ability is pretty ridiculously overpowered.

Worse, the game doesn't capitalize on the amazing variety and customizability of Dominons 3. You get a set selection of units per and your spells are randomly chosen. A very few wizard units can level up a single tier for a random selection of higher level spells. Forget creating supercombatants, you can't forge magic items, you can only find random items in tiles that will cost half your army to conquer.

It looks uglier than Dominons 3, the music is synthesized, and I don't feel like I have any real control over whether I win the game or not. It sounds great on paper but I'm going to have to give this a thumbs down.

And fuck you for recommending I spend my money on this, Fabio! We're more than even now.
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Your new assignment, MM by fabio 02/17/2012, 9:58am PST NEW
    Re: Your new assignment, MM by Lurker 56498 02/17/2012, 12:03pm PST NEW
        Re: Your new assignment, MM by Souffle of Pain 02/17/2012, 7:24pm PST NEW
    Re: Your new assignment, MM by Mischief Maker 02/17/2012, 8:15pm PST NEW
    Word on the street is a single player oriented variant of Dominons 3 by Mischief Maker 02/18/2012, 1:46pm PST NEW
    Gonna have to say negative. by Mischief Maker 02/27/2012, 8:49pm PST NEW
        See you in court! by fabio 02/27/2012, 10:59pm PST NEW
            Here's another new rule for game designers by Mischief Maker 02/28/2012, 11:58am PST NEW
                Ultra-aggressive "deers" by Arbit 03/13/2012, 11:07am PDT NEW
                Also, I must admit I'm enjoying the couple hours I have spent so far by Arbit 03/13/2012, 3:32pm PDT NEW
                    Now I'm mass polymorphing goblins into pigs and then charming them NT by PigForce 5 03/14/2012, 3:35pm PDT NEW
                        CoE3, like Dwarf Fortress and Europa Universalis, falls into a genre I call: by Mischief Maker 03/21/2012, 8:25pm PDT NEW
                    Re: Also, I must admit I'm enjoying the couple hours I have spent so far by Bananadine 03/26/2012, 10:08am PDT NEW
        Re: Gonna have to say negative. by Bananadine 03/26/2012, 9:40am PDT NEW
            Re: Gonna have to say negative. by Arbit 04/20/2012, 7:59pm PDT NEW
    In case anyone was wondering, the Voice of El faction they added by Arbit 10/28/2012, 8:17pm PDT NEW
 
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