Age of Wonders : Shadow Magic

[Traianvs]

You're pretty vague there, what's going on in that scenario (it's been a while since I last played it), but anyways 100 turns is a LOT!

I play the game on hard (enemy wizards are emperors instead of puny squires etc ) and I finish a big map in about 50-80 turns depending on the map. Spending more time on 1 turn, but using less turns is more effective btw


Anyway I finally finished the SP campaign today, and what a great campaign it was, with great and original maps and events etc though it was still a bit too easy . Too bad the standard scenarios are always just symmetric maps that are rather predictable, and without the great athmosphere from the campaign...

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Jules
Now why did I forget you could rebuild razed cities with a Pioneer? For only a modest investment you can end up with a fully developed city. I could be a lot further along by now.

The devil is in the details.

[Traianvs]

Actually I never raze cities at all. It's better that way because even if you can only build a few archers there they can hurt a bigger enemy army that has no flyers or creatures that can scale walls. Also the more cities the enemy has the more he has to divide his army over all those cities. Very often sacrificing a city can open up a nice route to other cities.

In SM there's often razed cities on the map already though, but in a lot of cases you need to build them up from scratch again (they don't have many upgrades to start with)