Warlords III

[St Leo]

jeeesh but sometimes autocombat could defeate AI with superior force, which would have been impossible to human player.

Lol. I assure you that it's very possible. BTW, I've just reinstalled Warlords III because the following c.s.i.p.g.s crash-fixing message:

Add -wincurs to the shortcut....The target should look something like this
(your path may vary):

"C:\Program Files\Warlords III - Darklords Rising\Darklord.exe" -wincurs

I've also turned off the music....I run the WL3 mp3s from Battlecry 2's site
using Windows Media Player....better quality and no lockups...I did leave
sounds on...

[SnowFire]

Perhaps the AI in Heroes combat games isn't entirely brillant. It's true, I've mastered how it works and thus know exactly how to exploit its weaknesses. That said, Heroes has a wonderful scenario editor... use it! Smart Heroes maps will have you fairly badly outnumbered, so it will take all those tactical smarts to win. There's a lot of honor in valiantly winning a battle against all odds through careful unit positioning & spell use.

I almost never use Autocombat in pretty much any game, anyway.

[loinburger]

Autocombat is awful in pretty much every game with tactical combat. In Lords of the Realm a hundred spearmen and a hundred bowmen will always decimate armies of hundreds of peasants (so long as the units are correctly placed, of course), so long as the player controls the units. If autocombat is used, then hordes of peasants will always win, even against knights. Utter crap, especially since you can't fight a tactical battle against a human opponent.

IIRC, MoO2 is the exact same way.

[SnowFire]

Yup. The difference is that the Heroes system is insanely fun to win with, while using archers & chokepoints to murder your enemies in LOTR2 can get old after awhile (and I only played the demo!).

Kinda realistic, though (just look at the battle of Crecy).

I will say that from what little I've seen, AOw2's autocombat isn't too bad. AOW's was okay too, if you don't mind perfect usage of archers (they always fire first) & your heroes enjoying spell use way too much (I autoed this battle because it was easy, my hero! No need to great hail the goblin dog!)

[loinburger]

My biggest beef with LOTR2 was that you couldn't starve somebody out of their castle, nor could you sit back pounding it with trebuchets for several seasons before finally storming it. Also, I'd have liked to be able to build my own castle, rather than being limited to the types they provided you with. (Does the Siege Pack provide more castles, and/or the ability to create your own castles? Anybody know?)

Any idea how the tactical system is supposed to work in Warlords IV? I read that they're changing that part of the game, but I don't recall if they're making it real-time or turn-based or whatever have you.

[Urban Ranger]

Rex,

Darklords Rising fixes some bugs, adds new hero classes, and fixes some imbalances. It has also added some new campaigns and there is an editor.


loin,

Yeah, in LotR 2, I can kill every enemy stacks with archers, except bigger stacks of archers. I am not aware that they have a Warlords IV, or is working on one. At least there's nothing on the SSG website.

[yaroslav]

I played Reign of Heroes and like it too much. I haven't played Warlords I, II, and Darklord Rising. In fact, I think that Darklod Rising has not been published in Spain

Warlords III run smoothly on my computer, what is more that I can say now about some games...

As a sad history, the room where I have my computer and my games get burn, and I loose my original copy of Warlords III

Since then, I haven't played, so I don't remember quite well

[Urban Ranger]

That's bad. Sorry to hear it.

[loinburger]

I've seen it in a few bargain bins. With a bit of hunting you ought to be able to turn up a copy.

[Urban Ranger]

Drat. Are you sure you weren't looking at Warlords Battlecry?

[loinburger]

I've seen far more copies of Battlecry, but I do remember seeing at least one copy of Darklords Rising.

[yaroslav]

Well, in Spain is more difficult to hunt for a game, but I will try. Thank you, people

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by loinburger
I've seen far more copies of Battlecry, but I do remember seeing at least one copy of Darklords Rising.

Darklords Rising isn't Warlords IV though, just a standalone addon to The Reign of Heroes.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Darklords Rising isn't Warlords IV though, just a standalone addon to The Reign of Heroes.

Ah, I thought you were referring to my seeing Warlords III in the bargain bin. The article I read was definitely in reference to Warlords IV, not Battlecry or Darklords Rising. (Can't remember the magazine, might have been PC Gamer?)

[loinburger]

Here ya go, a Warlords IV preview of your very own.