EnergyZ said:

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What's this about the elf? I watched but nothing but the picture of the closed Beta is seen.

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Maurice said:

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Avonu said:

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Play Age of Wonders for example as next and see how it can be fixed.

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Their system is indeed very good. Units there have 3 action points each turn. Once attacking, all remaining action points are used up and most standard attacks trigger once for each action point that was available then. With 3 action points available, they attack 3 times in a row. Movement is separated in 3 zones (green, yellow, orange); movement within green keeps 3 action points, movements in yellow has 1 less and in orange only 1 action point remains.

In that system, retaliation attacks consume action points of the unit in the turn to come; so if your unit retaliated to three attacks, it will likely start the next turn without action points and without movement points. Trying to move through tiles directly surrounding an enemy unit while it is facing those tiles will evoke an attack of opportunity, which also takes an action point just like retaliation strikes. As such, each unit gets 3 such attacks of opportunity per turn, but only for tiles from which they can't be flanked. Tiles behind the unit can be freely traversed, without risking an attack of opportunity.

Of course, exceptions are present as well. Some units have "Tireless" which means they have an infinite number of retaliations and attacks of opportunity, without it costing action points. Some units have omni-directional awareness, so it can't be flanked and all enemies passing through tiles adjacent to it will suffer attacks of opportunity. And the reverse is also present: some units have a charge ability, which nullifies attacks of opportunity as they charge past those units.

In Age of Wonders 3, you can change the facing of your units long as you have action points remaining. Unfortunately, you can't tell a unit to ignore a certain enemy unit, so whenever a unit gets attacked - regardless of how much damage the attack does - it will turn to face the attacker. The enemy can abuse that by alternating attacks from either side of the unit, since turns are per player and not per creature stack. Players are free to select the combat order in which their units act.

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Avirosb said:

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I'd rather prefer HoMM to not be another AoW but whatever.

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Hermes said:

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Edit:

In regards to flanking, I think its a good feature. Just imagine when fighting enemy hero with 7-8 troops each - it's not going to be easy to find a spot to flank. And more opportunities to protect your stacks too.

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kiryu133 said:

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most of the Ui problems will likely be fixed, especially missing information. I can't stretch how much of a non-issue that is.

EDIT: you can see hero specialties in heroes 5 by right-clicking their portraits. same in h6 (though i'm not certain about that one)

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Petiknight said:

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I read this forum since two years -almost daily- and finally I wanted to post something as might your eyes skipped in the beta. In the video around 1:03:48 you can see some elf unit.

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Petiknight said:

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Generally you can feel the low-budget in every aspects of the game. I still have hope that the game will be amasing. But in 2015 i wanted to have something more... Respect to All

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the_green_drag said:

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It's a shame they don't throw in small hints or reveal a unit when they do streams. People have been asking for slyvan so why not toss a creature in the background and just don't acknowledge it. Like a where's Waldo type deal

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the_green_drag said:

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It's a shame they don't throw in small hints or reveal a unit when they do streams. People have been asking for slyvan so why not toss a creature in the background and just don't acknowledge it. Like a where's Waldo type deal

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Galaad said:

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the_green_drag said:

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It's a shame they don't throw in small hints or reveal a unit when they do streams. People have been asking for slyvan so why not toss a creature in the background and just don't acknowledge it. Like a where's Waldo type deal

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But it probably doesn't look as good as the CE's box and awesome figurine!

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girinula said:

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You build a building, then it will stay in the same page, when you go back to the town screen, the building is already there. It is difficult to figure out what i have just built sometimes.

This is a very awkward feeling. I guess they want to show you the new town level and new buildings unlocked, but please make it like after you've close the construction page, the buildings appear like they used do in the previous games.

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