Ordre du tour recommandée en fonction des temps de jeu:

Hi friends.
In this session one of us is unavailable to play for a long time as I know. If anybody wants to play team session where is present real team spirit and where your teammate and you can support each other not only by resources, then you must be a participant in this session.    
Everyone (not only veterans) can join. 

P.S. Hiliadan, if you're reading this then I have to ask you - don't change the status of this session to Open again.    Otherwise DarkRider will join us again and the circle will close on its own.   I understand he wishes to play such big games. But other players don't have to wait him for a lo-o-ong time. Especially when he behaves like a ghost  - doing something not good and then disappears   

Hi everyone. One of us is unavailable now in this session. This session didn't start yet. So if you interest in such kind of game then you are welcome to join

The description of my new game session you can find HERE

Hi everyone. I've just created a new team game session. Anybody can join 

A new article was published yesterday on the Battlefield: The AoW3 community more active than ever! Tournaments, AoW3 Veterans, polls
It presents and discusses the results of the last 4 polls run on the BF, praise our 31 Veteran players and 3 Masters of AoW3 and gives a quick overview of the latest activity on the BF.

You may also be interested to read the brief analysis I did of the results of the 2017 PBEM Duel Tournament up to last week: 2017 PBEM Duel Tournament – stats and results. Discussions of my analysis more than welcome on that topic on the official forum!

SeeR is organizing duels, 2vs2 and 4 players FFA. Join his pool and post a comment to say what you're interested in here: Tavern Games Pbem Lounge

It looks like some players are also interested in duel (especially to train for the Duel Tournament) so don't hesitate to create some games on the BF if you are also looking for duels!

Hi. I've organized 1vs1 duel game. Anybody can join.

Last day to vote in the poll: How best to balance all heroes and their abilities and also make them more interesting?

One game opened by Marcus, as he advertized earlier today: 1v1 Tournament settings
chiveicrook is also starting a series of duels with tournament settings, he'll probably open new ones on the site later as 1 already filled.

The videos of last week's live chat even are available on YouTube:
1st part:
– the leader creation
– the Shadow Realm layer
– the Shadow Elf racial units
– the (living) Archon units
– other great content from Decodence


2nd part:
– 3 new sites: Raven’s Home, Sword of the Ashen Rose, Flame of Grauth
– the Archon units in tactical battle
– the Dark Elf Dwelling




3rd part:
– The Arena Battle Mode, a new mode to play AoW3, focusing on tactical battles
– The 4 mods of the Shadow Realm Community Expansion (or even more)
– Advanced strategies and tactics video: Marcuspers and Hiliadan’s channels, the advanced tutorial playlist
– The Wiki and the excellent guides it contains about the campaigns and tactics and strategies
– Best mods for AoW3



DISCLAIMER: at the time of the videos, the expansion is still in very early stage and not even in alpha stage. Many content will change and be improved.


The videos of the new mode for AoW3 (in addition to Single Player RMG, Single Player Campaign, PBEM, live MP), the Arena Battle mode, which is purely focused on player vs player tactical combat (so no empire building and strategic map management), will be released shortly. A non-edited version is already available on Marcus' YouTube channel.

Game hosted!

Tournament practice game, dont mind keeping the game unreported to avoid disclosing information for round 4 of the tournament, but can also be reported but after turn 4 of tournament is started. 

There is currently a live PvP battle being streamed and commented: https://gaming.youtube.com/wa... />
It's AbedNego vs Nemesis Zero, commented by Marcuspers.

In about 30min, there should be a final live stream from myself about the Shadow Realm and other very good content from the AoW3 community: https://gaming.youtube.com/us... />
Come watch!!
Also join on the chat: https://www.the-battlefield.c...

The date for the big AoW3 event about the Shadow Realm Community Expansion has been chosen, it will be Saturday 24 June, from 13:00 to 16:00 Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, etc. time (GMT+2 due to summer time) on the chat of The Battlefield (https://www.the-battlefield.com/aow3/index.php?page=community)

Please check this video teaser of the event for some preview of what we will see during the event + there is a video explanation on how to join the chat:


The event will involve:
– a live chat with the team of volunteers developing the Shadow Realm expansion (Gloweye, Draxynic, Dr_K, Bob, lordoflinks, Bagas, Hiliadan, HousePet + vfxrob, Charlatan)
– live stream of gameplay with Q&A to showcase the current status of the expansion
– PvP tactical battles on the Arena map (players battling each other include Nemesis Zero and Marcuspers will comment live)
– release of PvE training videos against high level sites, links to existing videos, guides, etc.

To show how many people are interested, please fill the following Doodle: http://doodle.com/poll/ibanatgmtq33pncs if you are interested and think you’ll be able to join.
You can also check what time it will be in your timezone in the Doodle link.

GrumpyKing quitted!

All games have been filled! Probably time to open some new ones!

Only 11 people voted in the poll How best to balance all heroes and their abilities and also make them more interesting? Please vote, including if you think heroes are fine, there is an option for that in the poll! Multiple answers possible!

A big event to present the Shadow Realm community expansion, promote all the good content done by the community for AoW3 (mods, maps, videos, guides) and provide some exciting live stream of tactical battle is planned on the Battlefield's chat soon. In order to choose the date (21, 24 or 25 June) and show how many people are interested, please fill the following Doodle: http://doodle.com/poll/ibanatgmtq33pncs
There are only 3 options available and I'll then choose the date and time in about 72 hours or less.

A new poll has been launched to get a better understanding of what the community wants to "Make all heroes and their abilities more interesting (e.g. boost Dreadnought’s late game abilities)". That option indeed came on top in the previous poll What direction should the Balance Mod take in the coming months?, as you can see in the picture below. We have been working on it in the past few weeks and several proposals were made for v1.22 but there was no clear consensus on most of them so now, we're exploring different options and your opinion will be very useful to shape v1.23 and future versions of the balance mod.
How best to balance all heroes and their abilities and also make them more interesting? (multiple answers possible)


I opened a new game: Academy game for non-Veterans
We need 4 more non-Veteran players who want to learn strategies and tactics for AoW3 PBEM. We already have 2 "trainees" and DreadReapr and me as "trainers". The game should start around mid-June.

Also, for those interested, here is a video of the clearing of a Lost City on turn 8 in my latest Duel Tournament game vs DarkRider: https://youtu.be/TqvmJevRwbs<... />
As always, welcome everyone to open more games: link to create a new game.

Saunatonttu joined !!

Skrolk quitted!

2 games still open:
- FFA 4 Beginners No MC: 2 slots available, Imperium and chiveicrook already there. To limit mind-control early snowballing, the game restricts class to Warlord, Sorcerer, Dreadnought. I think the game is open to all non-Veteran players, time to join!
- Favoured Mods 3v3 1.8: this game hosted by SeeR is still looking for 2 players

Please note that the beta branch of the balance mod should be updated in about 2 weeks with v1.22 (if Zaskow has time to mod the changes). v1.22 should then be released to the main branch in about 60 days.

By the way, I encourage all hosts to consider using the Hero Development Mod in their new games as it brings new very interesting options for hero development and its model of 3 sub-classes for each of the main class is being considered for the balance mod as it could solve the issue of hero becoming too strong too fast, and could make hero progression interesting and balanced even if the max hero level is 20. The mod is here: http://steamcommunity.com/sha...

Since the Beginners FFA is going its own sweet rythm now (and it is ok for me), I have opened a new similar game with a twist : no Mind Control !

Find all the details here : FFA 4 Beginners No MC

3 slots are available for the interested players.

@all: one game still open and needing 2 players:
Favoured Mods 3v3 1.8 hosted by SeeR with 11 mods to boost the AoW3 experience

@Skuns: I'm not sure we understand the poll the same way? The poll is about the difficulties you have when you PLAY Necromancer, not the advantages of Necro over other classes. If I understand correctly what you say, you are saying that Necro can Plunder or Hasty Plunder living cities but living classes can only Raze, and not Plunder or Hasty Plunder undead cities, right? Well, that's not a difficulty you face when you play Necro.
Also, the options for the poll were determined after 2 weeks of discussion open to everyone on the Steam forum: https://steamcommunity.com/ap... and I believe I linked this discussion either on the Player Pools or on the chat. So if any option is missing, that's because nobody thought about it during the discussion on the Steam forum.
I agree that it is a disadvantage for living class fighting Necro not to be able to Plunder. I suggest you post it on the discussion about the balance mod on the forum so that we don't forget about it: http://aow.triumph.net/forums... />
@AlX: thanks for reporting the issue with Builders and fortress on water, Zaskow fixed it quickly after your report.

Hi.
I'm interesting why in this poll there is no a propose like that: "Plundering of the undead cities gives some gold\mana in addition to -150 morale"?
I understand that it concerns more about cities economy when you're playing against Necro. But also it maybe the session like 1vs1vs1 where 2 of 3 players are Necro. And they can plunder alive cities with gold\mana bonus. But 3-rd player can plunder undead cities without such bonus.
I agree that in the sessions like 1vs1 tourney ones it may be not much important. But already in 2vs2 sessions it can influence on the result

I was impatient, and joined too many games considering the time frame of those, other games, and when new games are to be started (and the 10 game limit...).

I hosted a duel challenge using hero development plus the balance mod. This should be doable within a month.