Basic question on the expansions

[Cicdolfin]

Really basic question here... I have the basic age of wonders III game and read great reviews for the expansion External Lords so was interested in purchasing. However how will this limit my experience as I don't have the first expansion?

Thanks

[Old Atrocity]

I think,
on their own the expansions are a little underwhelming in terms of new content,
so I would buy both together.

The two expansions combined add a lot to the game.

Though,
Eternal Lords is probably my favourite of the two,
Necromancer is a really cool class

[Morphic]

The first expansion; Golden Realms, gives you the Halfling playable Race, Halfling Campaign and adds a few custom Leader cosmetics(I think) and the Magic City Upgrades and structures. Basically the biggest deal with Golden Realms is the Magic City Upgrades and Halflings. The City upgrades provide buildable structures that give you bonuses based on the Treasure Sites within a city's domain. For example, having the crystal/magic tree site in your domain lets you build the Enchanted Armory which gives Armored Units produced extra Defense or Resistence or something.

Eternal Lords on the other hand gives you a new Class; Necromancer, an arguable better campaign than vanilla campaigns, cosmetics, the Tigran playable Race, extra Treasure Sites with their own rewards(they also mix with Magic City) the Racial Governance system and a few other things I can't remember off-hand.

Basically you aren't missing anything aside from Magic City upgrades and Halfling Race if you skip the Golden Realms expansion. Personally, I grabbed Golden Realms for the Magic City Upgrade system. I couldn't care less about Halflings(always hated the tiny jerks) but the City Upgrades were what drove me to it because I really liked the concept and extra diversity.

[Black Hammer]

Eternal Lords also adds the Frostling Race.

[Minionslayer [Tibbles]]

Golden Realms:

Halfling race
Halfling Campaign and 2 scenarios
Wild Magic and Partisan specialisations
New victory condition with capturing Seals
Defensive city upgrades
Empire Quests
Mystical city upgrades
Naga Dwelling
Bunch of new units, treasure sites, and leader customisation

Eternal Lords:

Frostling and Tigran race
Necromancer class
Necro campaign and scenarios
3 specialisation based on alignment (good, evil, neutral)
Cosmic Happenings
Race Governance
New victory condition Unifier
Merfolk Dwelling
Bunch of new units, treasure sites, and leader customisation

[Terrkas]

I haven´t checked it yet, but is there a option, to deactivate DLCs for the case someone just wants to play the basic game?

[Gloweye]

Originally posted by Terrkas:

I haven´t checked it yet, but is there a option, to deactivate DLCs for the case someone just wants to play the basic game?

yeah, but I'm not 100% sure how..you'd have to make an Ini yourself. Maybe a Dev could tell what should be in there...

Or you can turn them off in Steam.

[StarFishon]

eternal lords looks more worth then first expansion, i want to buy it too but wait for sale.

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Originally posted by Terrkas:

I haven´t checked it yet, but is there a option, to deactivate DLCs for the case someone just wants to play the basic game?

Just tested it.
You can go into your steam liberary(make sure it is detailed view)
Select age of wonders 3 and you shoud see a box with all the dlc currently active.
Disable those you dont want to use.
Update the game.
Dlc are now disable.
Want to reable them.
Reactive the dlc.
Update the game.
And the dlc are now enabled.

Originally posted by StarFish:

eternal lords looks more worth then first expansion, i want to buy it too but wait for sale.

Intel: golden realms was release to keep us pleased while they where working on eternal lords.
So it is more of a mini expention.

@thriump studio's.
Hurry up and tell us what and when the next expention will be:
Chanting: we want new content, we want new content, we want new content(pretty please?)

[Terrkas]

Thanks, I will try that. I wonder how eternal lords feels without golden realms.

[StarFishon]

i hope we will see a good sale for eternal lords in the close future... really want to get it...

[Gloweye]

Originally posted by StarFish:

i hope we will see a good sale for eternal lords in the close future... really want to get it...

Trust me, it's worth the full price. Why wait?

[StarFishon]

Originally posted by jaccovandorpGloweye:

Originally posted by StarFish:

i hope we will see a good sale for eternal lords in the close future... really want to get it...

Trust me, it's worth the full price. Why wait?

the real reason is coming from other thing... its because of heroes7 that i think to buy, but after the BETA its seems that the game status is half baked.

so i thought maybe i will delay my purchase with heroes7 ,and invest in AOW3:EL.

my wife will kill me if i buy H7 and AOW3:EL, but if AOW3:EL will get good sale like 50%~ its will be more reasonable for me to buy both of them...
**(i think in the end i will go with AOW3:EL because he is great and his develop team are very listening to their community)

[Leto]

you still have faith in the heroes franchise?
so sweet..

[StarFishon]

i played all the games in the series 1-6 and hundreds hours, but 6 was very casual, and 7 beta had to much problems to enjoy on release day..

what i am really like in AOW3 that he have 0 bugs for me, never crash never stuck or something like that, and his RMG is the best ever created.

[sikbok]

*does a 'we have 0 bugs' dance*