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Masters of the Broken World (Eador 2)

Raghar

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About the original game:

How do you handle provinces that need to be explored in order to grow more?
Normally you scout only for locations, you don't have time to actually explore provinces to make them grow, with exception of capital. And ther are A LOT of juicy targets in capital.
Normally you have three heroes and two of them are exploring.

Do you have a secondary hero running around exploring them? It seems to slow down his growth.
If first hero found sword of insanity, or sword of imortals, and 5/5 armor, then the second hero is just destroying opponents in easy to medium locations with minimal help of units.
There is nothing wrong with scouting a bit, if main hero finds enemy, he can immediately attack them. No turns wasted.

Do you try to preemptively explore potentially high income provinces ?
I try preemptively conquer high income provinces.

Or do you just let unexplored provinces build up and maybe explore with a third hero or maybe never?
It of course depends if there would be a rebellion or if they are likely to be attacked by an opponent.
 

bavarian kid

Educated
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play the original game.

~Qwinn
... ideally you play the original Eador: Genesis with the latest New Horizons release 2.50c (English translation) http://eador.com/B2/viewtopic.php?p=253277#253277

Especially cool: castle units can be upgraded to more powerful versions with different graphics, additional races e.g. dark elves with beholders, gnolls, dwarves, halflings, centaurs, wood elves, races consisting of birds, rats ... . Mage towers have an additional level that allows to summon fantastic creatures, e.g. spellcasting dragons, archangles, ...

More stuff:
Here's a brief overview of all the features and improvements that have been created and implemented since its very first steps over 2 years ago:

- Unit promotions (all castle units, except for the T4 units have a chance to be upgraded to stronger and better ones, all the promotions are within one tier only)
- Tactical improvements, since there are a lot of new abilities, spells and units the AI will surprise you with new combinations of challenging enemies.
- All mercenaries are now T1.5 units (T1 promotions), so you have a choice to either buy a powerful and costly unit or an army of weaker ones.
- Balance changes to hero skills and hero class.
- 150+ new units (including castle units, all kinds of monsters and powerful bosses)
- 200+ new spells (including all kinds of blessings and curses, damaging spells, AoE spells and even instant kill spells if you are lucky enough to find them)
- 250+ new items (including weapons, armor, jewellery and artefacts to summon powerful monsters and contracts to hire new units)
- 20+ new item sets (giving all kinds of cool bonuses if you are able to obtain them )
- Various new races plus expanded and improved existing ones (no more Goblins and Orcs together, all of them have their own melee, spellcasting and ranged units)
- Various new buildings (including epic tier shops and a casino) and new rituals.
- Several hundred new encounters and events
- Hundreds of new images, graphics, sounds and visual improvements, including the models for all the hero subclasses.
- New music pack from the composer of the original Eador.
- Nearly a hundred new neutral armies, suited for different playing styles.
- Nearly every alliance quest reworked for consistency.
- Countless new combat abilities for units old and new.
- Numerous improvements to game balance.
- Huge amount of improvements to game lore and universe logic.
- Campaign balance and flow much improved.
 

pakoito

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New Horizons actually runs standalone, you don't need the game or anything.

:mrpresident:
 

Eyeball

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Uh, guys. I got a virus warning running this stuff.

Am I the only one ever so slightly suspicious of a new poster hocking a totally free game download of a commercial game?
 

flyingjohn

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If you are referring to the new horizon mod,i am running it without any problems and i scanned it with eset and found no threats.
If you are running avast or avg then they pretty much find everything to be a virus regardless.
 

Nevill

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Shadorwun: Hong Kong
Am I the only one ever so slightly suspicious of a new poster hocking a totally free game download of a commercial game?
It is the official game site. Dial down the paranoia and replace your AV program. :M

However, I don't see that it was released for free anywhere. A key is still required to play.
 
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Eyeball

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Download the mod. It's stand-alone. Didn't ask me for anything at all.
 

bavarian kid

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Uh, guys. I got a virus warning running this stuff.
The unmodded Eador Genesis seems to occasionally trigger false positives, too e.g. http://steamcommunity.com/app/235660/discussions/0/594821545177102248/

A key is still required to play [Eador Genesis].
I just retested the download for the base game. http://www.eador.com/eador1/downloads.html still contains download links for 1.04 demo /1.04 link for key purchase. However, if you install 1.04 and then overwrite it with the 1.05.1 patch offered for download on the same page you have a fully functional Eador Genesis without being prompted for any key. Please feel free to test it yourself. In case you don't understand the Russian menus you can run the English NH version side by side with the Russian original.

Additional NH info can be found here: http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/eador-genesis.78776/page-30
 

Nevill

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Shadorwun: Hong Kong
However, if you install 1.04 and then overwrite it with the 1.05.1 patch offered for download on the same page you have a fully functional Eador Genesis without being prompted for any key.
Is this a bug or a feature? If they ever announced this, perhaps GOG might be contacted and notified that the game they are selling is now free. Maybe something will come out of that.
 

bavarian kid

Educated
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Is this a bug or a feature? If they ever announced this, perhaps GOG might be contacted and notified that the game they are selling is now free. Maybe something will come out of that.
Based on reading GOG forums, devs seem to make legal agreements with predefined expiration dates with GOG as a distribution platform. Speculation in the eador community is that after the regular epiration date of these agreements are reached there will be an official freeware announcement. I have never seen the legal fine print of these agreements. In case they contain financial sanctions for "undermining" behaviour you may cause trouble for Alexey Bokulev (AB), the creator of Eador Genesis by contacting GOG directly.

If you are interested in the issue it may be smarter to contact AB directly via pm http://eador.com/B2/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2&sid=218276023ec42420e0d21eae47bda613. Info how to create an account on eador.com I have posted in the other thread.
 
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