Battles - Conquest of EO vs AOW4?!?

[JDPUK]

To me this is a tough call, the battlefields in COE, IMO, may be a bit better, more variety and overall more realistic looking, though this is tough call, overall, what do you think?

[James_C]

I have Conquest of Eo and I have to be honest, I prefer AoW. Which is really depressing because I was REALLY looking forward to a 4x game set in the world of Spellforce and Spellforce 3 did a fantastic job of giving me a taste of what that COULD look like. However, I find it rather infuriating that I can hardly establish a wide military. The only reason I can not pull it off is the decay of resources. Some are static which helps, but most aren't.

[Oubley]

Originally posted by JDPUK:

To me this is a tough call, the battlefields in COE, IMO, may be a bit better, more variety and overall more realistic looking, though this is tough call, overall, what do you think?

Conquest of EO got a little repetitive for me. I'm going to try it again as only did about dozen hours but AoW4 I think will have better replay value.

Both are better then the master of magic.

[Black Hammer]

I forgot about Conquest of Eo, I need to pick that up some time.

[theothertom]

The combat in spellforce is hands down better imo. No rng on ranged attacks, damage feels super impactful, units can level up and get perks, equipment, etc.

The strategic map is way better in spellforce in terms of story events and feeling "alive".

AoW wins on faction customization and custom realms, obviously.

I hope someone makes a mod making AoW play like spellforce because it's not a million miles away but I just can't get into AoW yet. Everything feels kinda dead..

[JDPUK]

Originally posted by James_C:

I have Conquest of Eo and I have to be honest, I prefer AoW. Which is really depressing because I was REALLY looking forward to a 4x game set in the world of Spellforce and Spellforce 3 did a fantastic job of giving me a taste of what that COULD look like. However, I find it rather infuriating that I can hardly establish a wide military. The only reason I can not pull it off is the decay of resources. Some are static which helps, but most aren't.

I usually use one army to go around the map and do nothing but mine and harvest, then sell those items to feed my overall military, works well for me.

[JDPUK]

Originally posted by Black Hammer:

I forgot about Conquest of Eo, I need to pick that up some time.

It's damn good!

[LaskaMan]

Originally posted by theothertom:

The strategic map is way better in spellforce in terms of story events and feeling "alive".

AoW wins on faction customization and custom realms, obviously.

I hope someone makes a mod making AoW play like spellforce because it's not a million miles away but I just can't get into AoW yet. Everything feels kinda dead..

Only thing with EO, while the map takes time to get to know there is only one map in the entire game. Which eventually becomes stale.

This game is great on it's own but I like your idea about making a mod with EO characteristics for even more fun :)

[Malaficus Shaikan]

I will insult aow4 for many things.
But it is better the Conquest of EO on everything front.

[JDPUK]

Originally posted by theothertom:

The combat in spellforce is hands down better imo. No rng on ranged attacks, damage feels super impactful, units can level up and get perks, equipment, etc.

The strategic map is way better in spellforce in terms of story events and feeling "alive".

AoW wins on faction customization and custom realms, obviously.

I hope someone makes a mod making AoW play like spellforce because it's not a million miles away but I just can't get into AoW yet. Everything feels kinda dead..

This is kind of where I'm at though the tombs and items found throughout the game can radically change the combat, maybe more so than COE. Just takes a bit to get some interesting stuff to play with.

[JDPUK]

Originally posted by LaskaMan:

Originally posted by theothertom:

The strategic map is way better in spellforce in terms of story events and feeling "alive".

AoW wins on faction customization and custom realms, obviously.

I hope someone makes a mod making AoW play like spellforce because it's not a million miles away but I just can't get into AoW yet. Everything feels kinda dead..

Only thing with EO, while the map takes time to get to know there is only one map in the entire game. Which eventually becomes stale.

This game is great on it's own but I like your idea about making a mod with EO characteristics for even more fun :)

That's easily my biggest issue, the one map, definitely gets old after 40 hours or so.

[JDPUK]

Originally posted by Malaficus Shaikan:

I will insult aow4 for many things.
But it is better the Conquest of EO on everything front.

I agree for the most part, though COE has it's own charm and the battles and units are pretty damn good, IMO.

[Saica-Fox]

conquest of EO biggest failure is its one map that after a few hours can be easily remembered and the lack of random map hurts its long term playablity

[VDmitry]

I cannot say which one is better in combat. More or less comparable.

However, there are other features where SF:CoE does clearly better. Particularly Magic Research.

[theothertom]

Magic research, storyline based heroes, actually being able to upgrade units individually in really impactful ways.

I personally prefer slightly more manageable fights with 6-10 units per side but really impactful damage rather than 6-20+ units in AOW, where I personally just give up and autoresolve.

I need to spend more time with AOW to fully get a sense of it, though.

[Dreepa]

Conquest of Eo has no multiplayer, so that's a real killer for me, as I play AOW with friends mainly.