So if you have 5 Archon cities and 1 Undead city, you can force yourself to stay Pure Evil by migrating all your Archon cities and then canceling it immediately?

Not sure - starting a migration away from human immediately gave me a human malus, but I don't know if it's per city or if it happens only once.

Hi guys. Me and my friend did not play in this game for ages and now we want to play. Is still anybody playing in this game? Who wanna play?)
p/s AOW shadow magic version 1.30.0.2616
p/s 2: if you are still playing, where it is? GoG AOW or steam version?

There are two ways of playing: PBEM and live games. With PBEM you play your turn, it gets automatically emailed to the next guy, they play it sometime in the next few days, and it gets emailed to the next guy, and so on. It is slow, but very convenient.

For live games, I think you will have better luck finding players on the steam forum or the discord server https://discord.gg/SjRR8K

http://aow2.heavengames.com/downloads/showfile.php?fileid=661
The unofficial 1.4 patch is much better than the original 1.3 patch

aow2net.azurewebsites.net/MPE/
The MPE mod is also very good and lets you mod the game very easily yourself.

I don't think it matters whether you have the Steam or AoW version, except maybe if you're having trouble getting it to work.

Wow, thanks for the quick answer! How does it translate by the simple words "PBEM"? Am i right that it is a function in start menu when u choose the way how to play in multiplayer type as LAN, INTERNET, EMAIL? And email games = PBEM? Anyway, thanks for the links. Email battle reminds me about one game "sea battle". It seems like the game would be endless :D.
Should i install both patches (unofficial 1.4 patch and MPE mod) to the game folder? Or it has a special way how to install this? Thank you.

Ja, PBEM = Play By Email and they can take a long time. Patches are just installed onto the game folder.

Going to restart this PBEM with threekings instead of thereunto, I just noticed thereunto saying we shoild mosey on without him.

All battles between players use auto-combat, so you have to factor that in when making your strategic decisions.

If so, that sucks. Doesn't provide enough game atmosphere. But who am i to judge this. IMHO live games much funest

Since only one player is active at a time, it is generally fairest to have the AI handle both sides in player versus player combat. You can choose whether to use tactical combat or auto combat when you are fighting against non-player forces, though.

PBEM does take significantly longer to get through a game, but it also allows players that don't have large blocks of time at the same time to play together, which becomes especially important when you have players from different continents in the same game. :)

Would be nice to have a feature to meet and play battles in tactical though. Best of both worlds...

Prince Stefanus, day 1

The tyrant needs to fall!

I call to all the peoples of Ertria: raise and let us be free from the yoke of these Archon fundamentalists! Never again shall a boat of a different race be forbidden from navigating the rivers of our land!

Lady Godiva, Day 1

Ahhh, the power that comes from knowledge, from knowing all the angles and pulling all the right strings. From our home in the Underdark, we move silently, swiftly, deadly. We conserve our strength. Let the Emperor and his family sort their squabbles, we shall wait in the shadows and bide our time. We shall grow slowly, but steadily, until the caverns can no longer contain our darkness, until we no longer need the puppets. Then, the flies shall find themselves wrapped securely, with no escape. Then shall we feast.

TS

Orc/Goblin Empire Day 1

Um, that was a less than ideal start to my campaign of conquest. Such are the vagaries of ruling the small, weak, and numerous. Many, many, many lives were lost due to stupidity. Maybe you guys should try standing behind the shields next time instead of in front of them? Idiots.

TS

ooc: File received from James and sent to Three Kings? Could someone put the turn order down somewhere we can all find it? Like maybe edit the beginning of this thread?

Would like to know what the turnorder is now so I can edit it into the OP

The turn order is the same as the names in the files, IRC the same as the map standard: emperor, Stefanus, Godiva, Ohma, Obryn.

Edit: my bad, the turn order is:
Emperor Purius
Prince Stefanus
Omah Krimhogde
Lady Godiva
Obrynn the wise