Heroes, on the other hand, are very important: those units can equip found items, gain experience points, level up and gain powerful abilities.
Diplomacy is used to integrate neutral factions into the empire, but overall this plays a minor role. Regarding city management, the player has a few options (mostly by constructing buildings) to influence which of three resources - noble metal (basically money), mana (used for global magic) or knowledge (used to research new technologies and spells) - is produced (of course influenced by what the nearby terrain offers) and how satisfied the population is.
Here the goal is to explore, extending the reach of influence by conquering/founding cities, finding treasures, solving side quests and generally ensuring the safety against attacks. The first is the overworld (on many maps accompanied with a full underworld) where the player moves the squads (up to six units each) around. Additionally there are scenarios, free play with randomly generated maps and a map editor. Each faction has a story campaign with six missions each. The background story is a war between the progressive Commonwealth Empire, this faction is lead by the humans which increases their reach with methods similar to the Roman Empire, and the conservative Elven Court which oppose the Commonewealth's expansion. Also, the idea about provinces is pretty good ).Age of Wonders III is a turn-based strategy game and is mechanically similar to Master of Magic. Well, HOMM3 editor is completely fine, it can easily be used to make Game of Thrones scenario. You could probably even treat the surface as an overworld map and dedicate certain layers to certain providences/sub-regions/super-city districts/expansive dungeons/etc. Supposedly, you can do a bunch of 'depths' layers in AoW3 as well, so you could really get creative with custom layers/planes as well if you really wanted to. Not sure how that's supported with AoW3 it was quite robust in AoW2/SM. Renaming units and changing stats of normal units would probably require custom resources/a mod though. If you wanted to and had the time to dedicate to, I imagine a Game of Thrones scenario would be entirely possible.
That said, you can create your very own custom items, heroes, and script in some interesting triggers/events. Originally posted by Szeron:I'd say the AoW 1&2/SM editors were/are a bit more like the HOMM3 editor than the Starcraft ones.
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