Age of Wonders III

Age of Wonders III

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Ayalin Premium Necromancer Mod
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17 Jul, 2019 @ 1:41pm
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Ayalin Premium Necromancer Mod

Description
This mod is focused on improving the Necromancer Class game experience and contains:

-Since 2.0 update, a fully reworked skill tree for all Necromancer heroes, with new abilities and new visuals across the board- see complete change list here : https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/1807189966/3361398331719893526/

- One new brand Necromancer unit, the “Eldritch Lurker” (Tiers IV), which is an evolution of the “Bone Collector” that you can get thanks to a dedicated skill. It has 2 additional abilities, Spiked hide and Bones Blast.

- One new Strategic Spell, “Undead invasion” which invades targeted cities with hostile undead neutral units.

- Two new Empire upgrade, “Forgotten Archlich Arcane”, giving you access to 2 completely new abilities, “Archlich Aura” and “Soul Crush”. The other one, “Dark Melody” gives access to your incorporeal summoned units the ability “Inflict Melancholia”.

- One new building in Necromancer cities, the “Infamous Vault”, unlocked by Phylacter Skill, giving the undying ability to your support units.

- One new Battle Spell, “Touch of Melancoly”, which will inflict the new Melancholia statut to an enemy unit forever.

- Some balance changes, especially focused on reducing certain mana cost from strategic spell, some research cost decrease to make up for the new content, and a decent buff to the otherwise underwhelming skill “Phylacter” (see notes).

- Many skills were also reordered and made mandatory to create three distinct branches of tech progression (see picture above).

- All the new content is translated in English and French only.

- You can also get the complete Mod change list in a discussion topic I created here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/1807189966/1643168996825472428/

- Did you enjoy this mod? Feel free to play my other mods, compatibility is guaranteed! :)
Mod focused on Leader Specialisations:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1760070090
Mod focused on defensive Buildings:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1841456974
Mod focused on strategical Hero upgrades:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1864942809
Mod focused on Mystical upgrades and buildings :
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2814208650

Class Premium Mods:
Mod focused on the Rogue class:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1763432370
Mod focused on the Archdruid class:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1774260986
Mod focused on the Dreadnought class:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1789568568
Mod focused on the Sorcerer Class:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1849210970
Mod focused on the Warlord Class:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2818891793
Mod focused on the Theocrat Class:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2857139583

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I hope you will enjoy the mod and if you really like it don’t hesitate to give me feedback about it, what you like / dislike and I will try to improve it progressively.
Known issues: the new visual for the T4 unit is not visible in the unit panel info (it is rendered properly on the strategic map and in battle though). It shows the normal bone collector instead. And the new unit is also missing its new icon, expect an update as soon as I am able to properly fix it!
103 Comments
Mug 30 Oct, 2024 @ 8:27am 
Sounds great!
Ayalin  [author] 30 Oct, 2024 @ 1:38am 
It's kind of coming along in my head :
- Base spec related to tribes (Blood god & Conflux) will now allow to recruit tribe troops from the start of the game
- I will have to add the 4 other tribes as baseline spec- Miracle court, Kukulcan, Arachna, Wildkeepers
- Tribe units will require traditional military upgrades to be produced; this will help AI using them a bit more
- Big, big item rebalance & additions (full rework + many many new items, with a good chunk related to Tribes that you can get only by clearing a tribe set)
Dyna1One 29 Oct, 2024 @ 10:34pm 
I'm so glad to see you back Ayalin, really looking forward to what you have in store for us!
Mug 25 Oct, 2024 @ 4:35pm 
Sounds great! Looking forward to any new content from you!
Ayalin  [author] 24 Oct, 2024 @ 2:47am 
Great to hear Mug ! Yeah I am kinda back and would like to fix various stuff on current mods, bugs & some balancing iterations, and I also have some stuff in my pockets that I am preparing but I cannot say more for the moment ^^
Mug 24 Oct, 2024 @ 12:58am 
@Ayalin: Great to see an update yesterday- we actually thought the mod was dead. We are still playing it, now sending both AoW4 and "an Ayalin turn" PBEM-style to each other.

We did make a gentleman-rule that no human player heroes or leaders are allowed to take the Ghoul Curse ability, as it "produces" high level troops faster than all our cities can build them (see the old comments below). With this small correction all the 10 Ayalin-expansions combined makes for a valuable life extension of AoW3.

A continued big thank you for lots of fun gaming nights in that regard!
Mug 3 Nov, 2023 @ 5:21pm 
[quote] Fallen princes + Wraith hehe good combination; never thought about it myself. Sounds powerful but is it really game breaker? [/quote]

Sorry @Ayalin - missed your question from July :)
No - the Fallen Prince + Wraith is nice, but certainly no gamebreaker.

We are still playing without Necromancers though (restarting games where one of us randomly draws one), due to the power of Ghoul curse - see earlier dialogue, below..
Ayalin  [author] 3 Nov, 2023 @ 6:24am 
Actually I believe the hero gains no exp when metamorphosed (but it's worth testing I am not totally sure). The metamorphosis on the other hand can level up during the battle.
rizzoyuen 3 Nov, 2023 @ 6:00am 
@Ayalin
Incarnation of despair is super powerful.
But my concern is the metamorphosed hero can gain experience over the hero level limitation rule :steamfacepalm:
Ayalin  [author] 16 Jul, 2023 @ 6:33am 
Fallen princes + Wraith hehe good combination; never thought about it myself. Sounds powerful but is it really game breaker?