The Age of Wonders Series in Numbers

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Tombles in news

Forumite Tibbles has been so awesome to put together this infographic comparing the exact amount of content in each iteration of Age of Wonders.

We’ve seen some people asking why Age of Wonders 3 has so few races compared to the older games. This graphic shows that while the number of races is indeed lower, the number of units, spells and abilities in Age of Wonders 3 exceeds previous games by a wide margin, even when leaving out racial variations of class units. With the Golden Realms expansion, and the upcoming Eternal Lords expansion included, Age of Wonders 3 becomes by far the most expansive game we as a company have ever created. We hope you’ve enjoyed playing it as much as we’ve enjoyed making it!

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  • March 25, 2015 at 14:11 #172091

    Tibbles
    Member

    Link to bigger image:
    http://i.imgur.com/oArray9ArraywArraye.jpg

    How does Age of Wonders 3 compare to the older games? Looking pretty good in my opinion 😛

    March 25, 2015 at 14:17 #172095

    overlorddarkslash
    Member

    Lord Tibbles, did you make this yourself?

    yes, very nicely done.
    no, good find.

    March 25, 2015 at 14:20 #172098

    Tibbles
    Member
    overlorddarkslash wrote:

    Lord Tibbles, did you make this yourself?

    yes, very nicely done.<br>
    no, good find.

    Yes Lady Tibbles made this herself, I saw many people complain about the content in this latest iteration, so I did some research.

    March 25, 2015 at 14:25 #172102

    overlorddarkslash
    Member

    remember in my netherworld male or female, everyone is an lord.

    but you did an very nice job, now we have an weapon to annihilate all who are complaining about the lack of content.

    March 25, 2015 at 14:30 #172104

    Jolly Joker
    Member

    Nice work. 🙂

    March 25, 2015 at 15:19 #172138

    Nodor
    Member

    Your scenario count doesn’t appear to include the 42 scenarios available on the Steam Workshop for AoW 3.

    To be fair, I don’t know how many community created scenarios there were for the prior games, but I think that community created content will be fun for the next few years in addition to the base game.

    March 25, 2015 at 15:27 #172142

    Motasa
    Member

    Nice fact sheet.

    March 25, 2015 at 15:46 #172152

    Helgrind
    Member

    The facts speaks for themselves. Nicely done!

    March 25, 2015 at 15:59 #172159

    Mythabril
    Member

    So the only thing we need are around a dozen scenarios to top the predecessors. How about a few small and medium one off stories of less epic proportions than the main campaigns? Definitely something that could be put into a minor DLC.

    March 25, 2015 at 16:02 #172161

    Lennart Sas
    Keymaster

    We spent less time on standalone scenarios in favor of the RMG’s development and community made content.

    We should do a poll on how many people play the premade stand-alone scenarios compared the random maps and campaigns. We see very few posts scenario specific stuff.

    March 25, 2015 at 16:04 #172162

    NickV
    Moderator

    Nice factsheet Tibbles 🙂

    March 25, 2015 at 16:10 #172163

    Weltenreiter
    Member

    That’s a lot of stuff.

    March 25, 2015 at 16:13 #172165

    Tibbles
    Member

    Thanks for fixing it SikBok 🙂

    I’m glad everyone likes it, I’ve also posted it on the Steam forums.

    March 25, 2015 at 16:15 #172166

    JeanLucPicard
    Member
    Lennart Sas wrote:

    We spent less time on standalone scenarios in favor of the RMG’s development and community made content.

    I’ve had a complete reversal going from SM t AoW3. I never touched the rmg in SM and only played the scenarios and now it’s 99% rmg and the campaigns of course. Scenarios have really fallen of the radar for me.

    Tibbles wrote:

    Maybe someone can edit the other one out, I can’t edit it anymore <img

    If you’ve edited the OP before you can find the link in your history.

    March 25, 2015 at 16:16 #172168

    Charlatan
    Member
    Tibbles wrote:

    Maybe someone can edit the other one out, I can’t edit it anymore 🙁

    You can edit it by using

    http://ageofwonders.com/forums/topic/image-aowseries-in-numbers-content-data-from-all-entries/edit/

    or

    http://ageofwonders.com/forums/reply/172165/edit/

    or a mod can fix it 😛

    PS: Very nice to see how AOW slowly but amazingly escalated, thanks for taking the time.

    March 25, 2015 at 16:17 #172170

    Mythabril
    Member
    Lennart Sas wrote:

    We spent less time on standalone scenarios in favor of the RMG’s development and community made content.

    We should do a poll on how many people play the premade stand-alone scenarios compared the random maps and campaigns. We see very few posts scenario specific stuff.

    Right. The RMG. That’s infinite scenarios. Only needs a bit more work on the underground and it’s perfect.

    March 25, 2015 at 16:29 #172173

    Eomolch
    Member

    Nicely done, Tibbles! 🙂

    Lennart Sas wrote:

    We spent less time on standalone scenarios in favor of the RMG’s development and community made content.

    We should do a poll on how many people play the premade stand-alone scenarios compared the random maps and campaigns. We see very few posts scenario specific stuff.

    Apart from the campaigns (which I also touched rather late) I also play 95% RMG games and only very rarely scenarios. The problem I have with the scenarios is that almost all of them have too big starting armies for my taste. If it was possible to open and edit them in the editor I would play them a lot more. After all, despite the great RMG you can still tell the difference to a hand-crafted map 😉

    March 25, 2015 at 16:57 #172203

    Weltenreiter
    Member

    Campaigns are imo the best way to play, replayability hamstrung by not including the cool state of the art of expansion features currently.

    Scenarios would be next best, but most are either super-symmetric for multiplayer (just about all), or story/thematically extremely asymmetric (Khan, Return). More of nice looking crafted maps that are neither of the above and just provide an otherwise nice “normal” development experience but without RMG wonkiness and cooler underworlds (Resurgence) would probably be a sweet spot.

    Failing those, RMG is what I do. Not a huge problem after some getting used to, my main objection (compared to crafted maps) would be that all the medium-grade structures with the interesting Golden Realms buildings seem super rare and mostly to be found in backwater underworld nooks and crannies, but I guess that’s just me not knowing how to handle RMG setup.

    March 25, 2015 at 17:02 #172207

    Khelle
    Member

    So, since start of the game players got:
    +55% units
    +38% locations
    +22% spells
    +12% abilities

    quite nice numbers 🙂

    March 25, 2015 at 17:08 #172210

    Gyor
    Member

    Its very interesting and perfect timing as I was wondering how many dufferent units there are in the game just yesterday.

    March 25, 2015 at 17:31 #172230

    Gorgoh
    Member

    Great work Tibbles! I love it!

    Would make a great poster 😀

    March 25, 2015 at 17:41 #172235

    Gloweye
    Member

    Love it!

    March 25, 2015 at 19:15 #172292

    LordTheRon
    Member

    Great factsheet there, very fun to compare those numbers.

    March 25, 2015 at 19:35 #172299

    AwesomeLion
    Member

    “We hope you’ve enjoyed playing it as much as we’ve enjoyed making it!”

    Bwah, I don’t like how that makes it sound like it might be the end haha. This game is to awesome to end XD

    Awesome overview Tibbles ! This should really end the discussion on content amount *thumbs up*

    March 25, 2015 at 20:53 #172341

    TheInternetJanitor
    Member

    Very impressive!

    As for campaign vs RMG I think even the people that exclusively play single player can only play a pre-made campaign or scenario a limited amount of times before it becomes stale, while the RMG allows for nearly infinite replayability.

    They each have their place, since you can have interesting gimmicks and events in handcrafted maps, but the bulk of play is going to be on RMG for anyone that plays for very long.

    In theory competitive multiplayer would benefit greatly from handcrafted maps, but mapmakers on the workshop seems to focus entirely on coop or themes copying famous sources (tolkien, g.r.r.martin, warhammer,etc). This is probably due less to maps and more to the state of multiplayer though.

    March 25, 2015 at 21:15 #172352

    hlsmith
    Member

    Oh this is so good! Even though I never had a doubt of the qualitative/quantitative value of AoW3 it is great to see it in numbers, and I feel it will really stand out as one of my all time favourite games when Eternal Lords is released. I sincerely hope that this series has given Triumph Studio employees a good income over the years, and continues to do so for at least a little while longer (another expansion wink wink nudge nudge). In fact give all of your wondrous selves a payrise 😛 you deserve it! <3

    P.S. And thank you Tibbles for this Comparison of Wonders 🙂

    March 25, 2015 at 21:19 #172354

    vota dc
    Member

    Not sure about scenario numbers

    In Aow 1
    4 first race (assassination + flowershire + 2 common for both sides)
    4 Lizardmen
    4 Dwarves
    4 Orcs
    4 Dark Elves
    4 Elves
    3 High Men
    3 Undead
    1 Common between Undead and High Men
    1 Final scenario

    So this is 32 scenarios.

    For AOW 3 is 15 scenarios (the final torchbearer is the same)

    March 25, 2015 at 21:28 #172360

    Tibbles
    Member

    Those are campaign maps, not scenario maps

    March 25, 2015 at 22:27 #172391

    joey1776
    Member

    Firstly let me say great work! Interesting read and well presented 🙂

    Can I ask, in the AOW3 unit numbers did you include each class unit * the number of races, or did each class unit get counted only once irrespective of race?

    I’m wondering as (while technically different races) functionally the same class units from different races don’t feel all that different from one another and I wouldn’t consider a class unit as 6/7/9 (depending on number of races) units, rather it is one unit.

    March 25, 2015 at 22:32 #172392

    LoQueSeaLoco
    Member
    Mythabril wrote:

    Right. The RMG. That’s infinite scenarios. Only needs a bit more work on the underground and it’s perfect.

    My feelings too.

    TheInternetJanitor wrote:

    As for campaign vs RMG I think even the people that exclusively play single player can only play a pre-made campaign or scenario a limited amount of times before it becomes stale, while the RMG allows for nearly infinite replayability.

    I enjoy the replayability part of the game probably the most.

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