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Published on Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:09:08 +0200

Without going to deep into the strategy of any game, you are wrong in a few cases. Attacking a city CAN be beneficial, especially if the vassal (of your own race) is either evil/dont offer a quest/is very expansive to absorb, plus is easy to take, even without this exceptions, its normally not a VERY bad idea to take it by force. Getting a city from independent to your owned city can be a 10 (4+6) turn process. So, instead of counting like you did, count instead as your OWNED city, and not a vassal city, and the difference will be much smaller over a 10 turn period, and in a 50 turn game, you get the difference back in around turn 11-12, without being able to ask for favour, but having a higher income, building class upgrades and getting 100% instead of 60-80% income.

Btw, being of a different opinion just shows the multitude of strategies available in this amazing game.

Published on Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:20:27 +0200

Something that can be shared with everyone:
I think that attacking your own race is a VERY BAD idea!

I did it once recently and I said: "never again". You have almost nothing to gain from it:

-50 Race Happiness instead of +30 for Vassal and +50 for absorbing (http://age-of-wonders-3.wikia.com/wiki/Race_Happiness), so a net loss of 130, which is huge and translates into -100 morale for all your cities of that race and all your troops in later stages of the game because you won't reach Very Happy as fast (you'll need 3 more cities to balance it basically), so that's less income, less critical, less Lucky (Shooting Stars, Lucky Cloverfield...)

it takes 4 turns to Absorb a city of your own race, you can't Migrate it! So instead of getting a Quest around turn 5-8 and being able to vassal it around turn 9-15, you are going to waste 4 turns with NO INCOME to absorb it

you waste the free unit(s) you'll get from the Quest

The Quest usually arrives about 4 turns after you make contact. Quests are a very good way to get free units and keeping a vassal near you is a viable and more flexible (you can ask them a tribute at almost any point, if you suddenly get threatened by an attack by enemies) strategy in general.

Published on Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:05:50 +0200

It crashed while it was downloading, went black and I got this windows message "AoW3.exe has stopped working" I recorded my turn but the windows message is not in the recording because i record only from the game source, so the screen just goes black, but that would be easy to forge so no real proof I'm afraid. Might have something to do with me alt-tabbing to spotify while it was loading though, I recognized that the picture in my recording always freezes for the time I don't have the recorded program open, so maybe it actually did load, just that isn't shown in the recording because when i switched to spotify it froze. I'm afraid we'll never know but I could reload and play my turn normally so all should be fine.

Published on Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:55:55 +0200

Ok no problem Fluks! However it should not give you an Ironman warningÂ if it crashes during the download. Did it crash during loading screen AFTER the download? (if it did gives a warning because of crash during the download, might be worth reporting to devs)
Also, if you're interested to participate in PBEM tournaments, you might as well train for the "crash reporting".

In tournaments, we usually ask for a screenshot or similar proof of crash.

We don't have much pressure here, it's really a training so I don't think we need that, but it's good to take the habit if you plan to play more PBEM games. <smiletext0>

Published on Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:49:05 +0200

Reload

Hei all my game crashed while loading my turn. So I reloaded, guess you all will get a notification (-> because ironman mode?). Sorry for the inconvenience.