Talk:Age of Wonders

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This page really needs expanding on, especially multiplayer and community side of things - Alphax 15:23, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Proposed sections 2 Infobox 3 Maybe I'm nuts 4 AoW gods.

[edit] Proposed sections

Here are my thoughts:

• Plot outline (no spoilers)
• Methods of gameplay - scenarios, campaigns
• Community interaction - tournaments, mods etc.

Comments? - Alphax (Talk) 07:45, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)

Sounds good, go for it. :) Krupo 00:18, Sep 28, 2004 (UTC)

I'll get as many people from AoWH to work on it as possible. - Alphax 04:36, Sep 29, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox

Now moved to article - all previous versions available in history. Alphax (t) (c) (e) 01:50, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Maybe I'm nuts

but having played this game, how is it related to master of magic? If anything, from what I can tell it plays just like the Heroes of Might and Magic series, not master of magic.

Ways in which it is like Master of Magic include the fact that your faction is led by a single powerful wizard, your wizard's ability to learn spells is determined by which areas you choose to focus on at the start of the game (spheres in Age of Wonders versus books in Master of Magic), and the fact that new spells are researched over time during the course of the game similar to the way that technologies are researched in games like Civilization and Master of Orion. In contrast Heroes of Might and Magic only has 'faction leaders' if a scenario plot-line requires them (and those faction leaders are ordinary hero units), the spells your heroes can learn are determined by skills that the individual heroes learn during the game (only in the more recent versions of HoMM - the earlier versions didn't have skills), and spells in HoMM are learned by constructing the appropriate building with your cities. There's a lot more, but it's been so long since I last played MoM that I don't trust myself to list everything properly. From what I recall of MoM, AoW is similar enough that you could pass it off fairly easily as MoM 2. --Junior612 21:31, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] AoW gods.

Should we list Age of Wonders gods? Because I am a big fan of Age of Wonders and there happen to be gods in the storyline. So should we add in a section or list on the AoW gods? Anker99 08:36, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Hm... the only god I recall being named AoW1 is Yaka. AoW2 and SM disposed with gods at all, calling them wizards instead. Can you please tell what could go in such a list? By the way, note that this is the article about AoW1 - AoW2 has its own. -- int19h 12:03, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

To me Yaka seemed like the Supreme Being in Age of Wonders1 up until I played AoW2 and AoW: SM. But In the AoW1 The Spider Queens were referred to as "goddess" and were worshipped by the Dark elves. I can't recall any other gods(If the Titans counts as one in AoW1) But from my knowledge the only ones referred to as gods and goddess was Yaka and the Spider Queen. Anker99 23:43, 4 March 2007 (UTC)