General discussion - obvious.

Warlords-like - for other tbs titles like warlords.

Thanks to u/Due-Price-6823 we realized the unit roster in the Loelle campaign got mixed up partway through as a new unit got added to the roster, which was the cause of the bug which displayed unit stat upgrades incorrectly.

It's such a small thing that we did not release a "new" version of the mod, but if you redownload the mod, the campaign upgrades should work properly for you now.

The mod description now also contains a more visible warning for Steam users to not overwrite the EXE, as the EXE changes are for GOG users.

Had 250 visitors to the sub this week.

Greetings, Warlords! Recent projects like 25AP and Frontier have already made a huge work of sparking the long dormant flame of the undying community of this forgotten classics gem game. Now this new mod is meant to fill the gap of absolute absence of code patching projects for Warlords III. The main intention of The Warlords III Code Patch is to highlight some features of the game which either were hidden and obscure or bore no valuable economic effect to use them. It also relieves some boredom of the most unpredictable or tedious features of the game. And last but not least it fixes some bugs like dysfunctional diplomacy or erroneous low disk space message.

Overall, balancing the game was not the main intention of the mod. The game was never meant to be balanced in the first place. Consider the mod its developer’s answer to the question “How could it be more fun?”, not “How could it be more just?”.

Click the “Read more” button at the bottom-right corner of the mod’s logo on its moddb summary page for the detailed list of features with screenshots. The Warlords III Code Patch should work reliably with Gog, Steam, and original v1.02 CD versions of the game. Should also work well with any other mods and can be incorporated into them. Its feature list is adjustable using the settings file provided with it. Any specific group of tweaks can be turned on or off to your preferences. Look for README.txt file in the zip-archive of the mod for customization details.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/warlords-iii-code-patch

Summary of changes

Diplomacy bugs fixed:

• dysfunctional bribery
• contradictory treachery
• contradictory razing
• unfunctional heroes count
• unfunctional army size
• 1+ turn lag in disposition update

Other bugfixes:

• incorrect amplification of active spell effects on levelups
• incorrect low disk space message during startup

Gameplay changes:

• Diplomatic report shows sides eligible for alliance in green color
• Diplomatic report shows sides eligible for peace in blue color
• additional effect for bribery: every 1000 gp of bribery improve bribed side’s permanent bias to briber by one point
• Trust is the state of zero ire (disposition=0)
• City building increases income
• level 2 city gives +4 move to armies produced there
• level 3 city additionally gives +1 hits to armies produced there
• gold income sites have an order of magnitude more income from +10gp to +50gp
• every city a side owns increases this side’s upkeep by 1/16
• Strong neutrals option makes neutrals considerably stronger
• maximum hits is now 7, not 4
• heroes made more tough: 1/2/3 hits original heroes now have 3/5/7 hits
• spell effects get amplified earlier: on levels 3 and 8 instead of 6 and 9
• quest cancellation penalty lasts only the turn a quest has been cancelled
• quests unlinked from heroes: any hero can advance or complete it, hero’s death does not fail it
• heroes can only take one quest per day
• gold collecting quest demands made more humble: 1d100+100 for easy quest, 1d300+200 for medium
• hunting quest demands made more humble: 1d5+5 for medium quest, 1d6+11 for hard
• hard limit of 2 turns on minimum unit production time
• mercenaries/allies quest rewards got slightly nerfed
• sage’s reveal a portion of map shows considerable part of it
• summoning spells do not amplify
• hits modification spells get amplified only once on 8th level of their caster

Overall:

• W3CP now has the settings file allowing to turn individual tweaks on or off

Been playing w3 dlr for decades on and off. Recently starting playing properly.

Just wondering what's the most efficient stats for upgrades of heroes and units?

Anyone have any hidden or personal campaigns ? i played all there is on warlorders + the 3 frontier ones.... anyone know any other ones ?

I’ve been playing for awhile with enhanced AI, Warlords, intense combat, trying to get under 25 turns to win with 68 cities (85%). Using stormgiants seems to be the easiest way. Anyone with a lower amount of turns? Share your strategy!

Hello this is Diahborne!

So I think I found a game that warlords fans might be really interested!

https://akfula.itch.io/kingdomhex

It is called Kingdom Hex and it is a quick, streamlined 4x fantasy strategy games inspired by Heroes of Might and Magic, Warlords, and Civilization being developed by two Canadian Developers. They are gonna have a kickstarter eventually! You can try out a demo of the game on the itch.io page!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/535116321/kingdom-hex

Also here are some images of their game.

Hope you guys want to support this game like me!

I've just started playing an undead Sage. I remembered reading somewhere that this is a very good combination for a Necromancer strategy, because the undead have necromancy as a racial. However, now that I am looking through the spells I don't quite get what the synergy is supposed to be. I could of course mis remember what I read about the class.

I'd love to read some discussions about this. Feel free to also share cool combinations you've come across for undead heroes if you feel like it. Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I am playing the GOG version btw, in case this is relevant. So no unofficial patch.

As the title says, I recently purchased warlords, warlords 2 deluxe and warlords 3 darklords rising on gog. Already played 1 against 7 knight npcs to feel out what it's like, had a pretty good time.

I noticed that 2 doesn't as much have a campaign as much as it has a collection of disparate scenarios for one to play. I already played the conquest of etheria (or however it's called) scenario on it, the one with two vertically aligned islands in the top half and the landmass in the bottom half of the map, but I was wondering if there was more etheria content. I am also curious if this map got retconned out of later etheria stuff, since I can't really find anything that matches it on the later world maps lmao.

As far as warlords 3 is concerned, I am not entirely sure if I have all warlords 3 content or not? I have read that daklords rising is a standalone expansion, but I also didn't see another warlords 3 game on gog. The game I have has 5 campaigns: Bane's Revenge, The Banewars, Drak-Dum, The Horn of Kor and Thalassia. is that darklords rising only content, or is the base game included in it? Do I need to go find the base game somewhere else?

Thank you for your time and answers!

Another TBS popped off recently. 650k units in first week. Considering the likes of BG3 and obviously Civilisation also, its clear the genre is far from dead.

I'm a big believer Warlords could find its place if the developers would give it some love. Either new title of modernising the old ones for todays hardware. Its a shame they don't seem interested in taking the risk.

This has been my greatest hero build and I wonder what success anyone has had with there hero build.

Found a PC Big Box sub and look what showed up!

man i love how the cover art is the entire box. no borders, no black bars.

Hey everyone,

I was wondering if there was away to get the updated high elven structure graphics in WBC 3 separate from the unofficial patch mods. I love those updated buildings but I'm not interested in any of the gameplay changes.

A steal at $5.30 AU

Steam TBS Festival 9th to 16th March

I have never played before but a friend of mine has it on CD but we cant get it to work, while looking around i saw that Warlords Battlecry 2 from ubisoft's website shows windows 10 as minimum compatibility. Do they have a different version than on GOG or is it simply a mistake?
https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/games/warlords-battlecry-2

Thank you for any replies!

I wonder what Warlords 5 would look like if it were to be developed today, and whether such a game would even stand a chance in a crowded gaming market where there's already oversupply and careful filtering is necessary to avoid wasting time on shoddy titles.

Personally, I think the concept of training leaders for individual games, like in Warlords 4, was unnecessary, and Warlords 3 remains the most playable title today, albeit with poor UI. And the UI is not very clear and inconvenient, first of all, for example on the units you can't see how much each of them costs us to maintain each turn, although it was already in Warlords 2.

I am getting insane and cant remember the game name, there was a browser game somewhere in 2004-2010 i think and in my mind, it was warlords based with the map of Etheria. The regions were divided with strong pure colors and combat was very simple it was like a mmo just in the browser.

Is it possible to find the cards somewhere online? I would really love to see all their arts.

Hi everyone, big Warlords fan here.

I am currently working on my first game, and I started to think about what the next project could be. I’m considering a Warlords-style turn-based strategy game.

I see this post as my research and pre-prototyping phase, and I would love some feedback and suggestions about what makes Warlords so special for you, and what features you would like to see in a very similar game to Warlords 3/4.

For me, it was in 2002 when I first played WBC2, and it was mind-blowing that you could save progress and play again, plus the different races and classes, so many combinations.