I just bought Age of Wonders and Age of Wonders Shadow Magic. Shadow Magic downloaded, installed, and ran fine.

It works.  It's probably not supposed to be there yet, but it works.

I just purchased Age of Wonders - Shadow Magic [http://impulsedriven.com/aowsm].

It's now inevitable that it will be available as a package in the future...

I just hope that when I get home that I don't see both this and the 1.08 patch for Elemental available.  That's going to be a terrible dilemma.

I just bought Age of Wonders Trilogy Pack [http://www.impulsedriven.com/products/ESD-IMP-W701].

All 3 games work great.

I picked up the first AoW and it crashes after the video...

Seriously?!  Only took 2 hours after I made the purchase to find out it's available as a package.  I so knew that was going to happen. 

I understand wanting to spread out the announcements, but would have been nice to offer the Trilogy as an option right away.

So...  for anyone who has purchased an individual AoW game, can we send an email to Stardock support to get a refund if we purchase the Trilogy?

I completely missed age of wonders somehow... pretty surprised I did as well.  If I'm new to the series, should I just start with 2 for the best experience?

oh its on GOG too.

They dont have you sign on to play

I missed it as well.  I was probably sucked into some MMO completely oblivious to other games at the time it came out. /shrug

From what I gather, if you were to choose one, it should be AoW:Shadow Magic.  It sounds like AoW2 was a step back.  Like you, I don't have previous experience with any, that's just what I gather from what I've read.

Shadow Magic is really the only one that holds up at all, and then you need the fan-patch mod (on http://aow2.heavengames.com)

AOW1 has charm and nice music (which is in that mod), but gameplay aged horribly.

The AI is terribad also, it's a good MP game though.

I have no idea how I ever missed this game, but I did.

So, bought it on Impulse tonight, started playing, then 15 minutes in the game just closes completely. Try to reload and it goes about 5 secs into the loading screen and crashes again. Can't get it working. Restart my computer and it's fine for a bit then crashes, and I can't get it back up

Is anyone else having this problem or have any idea about it?

thanks

DL and tried SM last night. Awesome, I don't know how I missed it the first time around.

Does anyone know more about what the fan-made patch does for SM and whether it's compatible with the Impulse version?

Sounds like shadow magic is the one to get.  I'll prob pick that up this weekend.  Thanks for the feedback.

Would be quite interesting indeed. I bought the first part of the series yesterday (couldn't find the other parts on impulse yet). I would buy AOW:SM too and I don't think a fan-based patch will be applied for purchase.

It should be compatible I guess [..but I am not sure]. + I guess you are talking about the 3in1 modpack [..because it combines the best mods available for SM like Dwiggs & CoMA].

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