TBS Okay what's the best fantasy TBS?

[luj1]

See poll

For franchises where I couldn't determine the best game, I just wrote "- series"

 

[Lone Wolf]

No TW:WH 2?

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

AoW for me, no contest.

 

[laclongquan]

Heroes 3 has the quality of "just one more turn" all night long~ No tired, and sleep is for the weak~!

 

[catfood]

MoM
AoW
Warlords

Everything else is irrelevant.

 

[Zboj Lamignat]

Eh, KB and Etherlords are not strategy games and some other games on that list have very simplistic "barely there" strategy layers (Disciples, for example).

Anyway:

For strategy - still MoM, EL probably as a notable runner up.
Tactics - AoW wins easily.
Overall ease of use, accessibility and pure mp/hot seat fun factor - HoMM.

 

[luj1]

No Warlords?

I added Warlords to the poll, also with the ability to change your vote.

Currently MoM and HoMM III are tied.

 

[I'm Big Into Anal]

which AOW should i buy, the first one?

 

[The Brazilian Slaughter]

which AOW should i buy, the first one?

All of them are pretty good, 2 is the weakest, the only thing worthwhile of it are the campaigns.

3 was kinda weak at first but now is pretty good.

I feel 1 is the best one at presentation, story and campaign, Shadow Magic is the prettiest one and AOW3 has the best combate mechanicsand plays a bit more like a 4X.

 

[Citizen]

I love them all for different reasons, fantasy/scifi 4x is my personal favourite genre of videogames

Still there's only one correct answer...

Spoiler

BIRTHRIGHT: GORGON'S ALLIANCE

 

[Falksi]

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[Andhaira]

Master of Magic, absolutely no doubt about it.

Still don't understand why they don't make a sequel; just make it exactly the same but add multiplayer. Would be great to have some codex matches.

 

[Galdred]

Master of Magic, absolutely no doubt about it.

Still don't understand why they don't make a sequel; just make it exactly the same but add multiplayer. Would be great to have some codex matches.

Doesn't Dominions 5 more or less fill the MP need for MoM It is a bit more fiddlly, but it has a lot of depth.?
I think the (lack of) SP balance is a part of what makes MoM great. I am not sure it would work well in MP (in MOO2 MP, several perks were forbidden in MP, and everyone was more or less doing the same early game).

If I could vote for several, I would go:
1) MoM
2) AoW
3) Dominions

 

[mondblut]

Dominions

Anyone who voted HoMMo is a bit gay.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

Master of Magic is still the undisputed queen of strategy games. She is absolutely unrivaled, one of the best games ever and still a joy to play to this day.

 

[Stone Dog]

Dominions hands down. Even putting aside the esthetic factor, the depth of play and counterplay it offers is unmatched. Too bad the AI is 100% shit.

By the way, what is the best way of playing MoM nowadays? Any ports or mods I should be aware of?

 

[Comte]

For me I would say MoM then Heroes III at second.

 

[Magitex]

Dominions hands down. Even putting aside the esthetic factor, the depth of play and counterplay it offers is unmatched. Too bad the AI is 100% shit.

By the way, what is the best way of playing MoM nowadays? Any ports or mods I should be aware of?

I seem to recall there was a mostly finished Java remake of MoM with multiplayer support: https://sourceforge.net/projects/momime/
Your mileage may vary.

My vote would go to Dominions also, but the AI really lets the game down; so I'd probably just roll with Age of Wonders. Things like Warlords 2 are really tempting to vote for, but I can't say how much nostalgia is playing into it, it was a simple but addictive game with no fluff.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/232050/Eador_Masters_of_the_Broken_World/ Eador probably best option that no one ever played, myself included.

 

[Citizen]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/232050/Eador_Masters_of_the_Broken_World/ Eador probably best option that no one ever played, myself included.

Eador is great, but not the cashgrab sequels. Eador Genesis + NH mod is what you are looking for!

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

I would vote for Fantasy General, though it does have different focus compared to games that are in the poll.
I got no opinion whatsoever about recent "sequel".

Still don't understand why they don't make a sequel; just make it exactly the same but add multiplayer. Would be great to have some codex matches.

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.p...cquires-master-of-magic-ip-from-atari.129022/

 

[belated]

By the way, what is the best way of playing MoM nowadays? Any ports or mods I should be aware of?

I guess https://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=7954 is the way to go now?

 

[coldcrow]

Dominions, MoM, Fantasy General / Fantasy Wars / Elven Legacy

 

[rvm1975]

Fantasy General / Fantasy Wars / Elven Legacy

no strategy in continuous tactics battles

and endless legend is not in list, as well as series from stardock ... played like 150+ hours in sorcerer kings

 

[HeatEXTEND]

Dom is the only correct answer. MoM after. HoMM 3 third.

 

[BING XI LAO]

I no longer like HoMM because of infinite unit stacking, no unit maintenance, and no fog of war (only visible vs unexplored). Those things feel really dumb to come back to after playing the other games.

Eador - Good, but ultimately the hero grinding is not to my taste.

MoM is great, but no MP, so I don't play it.

AoW I play a lot at the GoG forum, and I even make maps for it. It has the best scouting/killing enemy scouts dynamic, ie vision game, of the games in this post. And it has a few little things like fire immune units walking on lava, ethereal units killing any number of troops if they have only mundane weapons, flying ranged attackers killing any number of walking melee troops, walled cities being uncaptureable unless you brought something that can break walls or climb/fly over them, and so on. You can make a three-layer map (two cave levels) with one-way teleporters and crazy stuff like that. Or if an enemy army is crossing a river of frozen ice and you fire a Fire Storm onto it, they drown. I didn't get bored of this game when I got into Dominions 5.

Dominions - totally btfos all the other games, even MoM, on mechanics. MP is good, lore is good. Relatively weak on aesthetic (mind blast sfx reeeeeeeee) but I still like its sprites and music anyway.

So for me it's a toss-up between Dominions and AoW.