# Anyone playing HOMM V yet or playing Age of Wonders?

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**Created:** [July 13, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-homm-v-yet-or-playing-age-of-wonders/364383 "2006-07-13T21:13:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-homm-v-yet-or-playing-age-of-wonders/364383/1 "2006-07-13T21:13:07Z")

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I am just curious as to how Turn base strategy game players like the new Heroes of Might & Magic V and if anyone else is playing Age of Wonders.  
I exhausted HOMM IV and I have been playing AOW II: Shadow Magic.

Jim

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**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-homm-v-yet-or-playing-age-of-wonders/364383/2 "2006-07-13T21:43:32Z")

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Meh. I stuck with HOMM3.

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-homm-v-yet-or-playing-age-of-wonders/364383/3 "2006-07-14T05:08:11Z")

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HOMMV is good, but brutally hard, and the missions take for_ever_. I’m on (I think) the last mission of the demon campaign (during which, for some reason, you use elf-cities almost exclusively.) But, it’s very cool none-the-less.

I haven’t played AOWII in a long time. IIRC, there was one mission I could never get past. Cool game, though.

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**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-homm-v-yet-or-playing-age-of-wonders/364383/4 "2006-07-14T05:55:39Z")

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I haven’t played the new HOMM game yet, but I much prefer AOW and AOW II to the older HOMM games. Disciples II was an excellent game also.

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**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-playing-homm-v-yet-or-playing-age-of-wonders/364383/5 "2006-07-14T10:42:54Z")

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I tried HoMMV shortly. My assessment is that its just the same as HoMM3, but with different graphics. And I actually liked the old graphics better, you had a better overview.

Still better than that atrocity of HoMM4 though.