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Looking for players for my newly opened Beginners PBEM game. 
 
https://www.the-battlefield.com/aow3/index.php?page=bfmgames&listid=722

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Looking for players for my newly opened Beginners Team PBEM game. Open to game setting suggestions. Please come, dear BEGINNERS/Non-Veterans! (:

HERE: https://www.the-battlefield.c... />

I started a report on my 1st PBEM if you are interested drop by and comment

http://aow.triumph.net/forums/topic/spoilers-yell0ws-1st-pbem-report

Ah, cool, I had no idea. How do I add the conditions and where do I find them?
Where do I find the KD (or more precisely WL) ratio?

A new player opened a duel: My 1st PBEM
So if another player who is also still not so experienced wants to play vs him, please join.

@Zytozid: welcome too to host that "non Veteran" game and see who joins it. You can also add a requirement for the win ratio, or number of games, or whatever you want, to avoid having players that are too good joining and destroying everyone else. 

if you do a 2v2 it should even itself out. And there is several more, so should be able to create a 3v3/4v4 and then the individual skill is even less apparent. 

Just my thoughts, though i would love to play against Sauna in another game

I'd be interested too but I think all of the aforementioned are way better than I am...

Still no-one to create a game for non-Veterans? Based on recent activity on the BF, it seems clear such a game would fill relatively fast. Sauna or Badok or Fluksen or Imperium?

== Balance ==
An article was published for the release (on the beta branch for now) of v1.22: PBEM and Single Player Balance Mod v1.22 released and available in 3 languages!
I just edited it to add a key information: v1.22 should be released on the main branch of the balance mod around the end of October. More precisely, it will be released as soon as round 5 of the PBEM 2vs2 Tournament ends (so that there is no version change during the ongoing matches).

A discussion about "making rarely used units more useful" was started more than 5 months ago and it's time to integrate some of changes suggested during that discussion in the balance mod. The consensus on the best changes is very limited though, so it would be good to get more opinions to filter the best proposals. The proposals are listed in a format "a.1/ xxxx", "a.2/ xxxx", etc. in the three posts below:
http://aow.triumph.net/forums/topic/making-currently-rarely-used-units-more-useful/page/3/#post-253326
http://aow.triumph.net/forums/topic/making-currently-rarely-used-units-more-useful/page/4/#post-253654 (at the bottom)
http://aow.triumph.net/forums/topic/making-currently-rarely-used-units-more-useful/page/6/#post-257408
It is not necessary (though surely useful) to read the whole 6 pages of the thread, you can just read the list in these 3 specific messages. Then please post your opinion on the official forum. Thanks for those who will provide feedback!

== Misc ==
The number of votes on the 2 ongoing polls is still limited, please remember to vote if you haven't yet, I don't think it will take you more than 30s and 3min respectively:
Would you be willing to donate some money to cover the cost of the purchase of 4 models for the Shadow Demon units of the Shadow Realm Community Expansion?
How user-friendly and effective do you think each of these sections of the Battlefield website are?

@Skuns: regarding Ghoul Yeti's Regeneration, see https://steamcommunity.com/ap... As far as I know, it has always been like that.
Regarding High Elf Manticore Riders, they have Inflict Stun, and Inflict Stun works only when a hit is given by the Manticore Rider TO another unit. When it's frozen, it doesn't hit anyone so no trigger of Inflict Stun. I guess it's the same for the other abilities you're mentioning.

And why some units lose their default abilities when they are in entagling/freeze/etc. state? E.g. High Elf Manticore rider has a shocking ability by default but they lose it in freeze state. I didn't notice such behaviour earlier

Can someone explain why did the unique ability of Yeti Regeneration stop working for Ghoul Yeti since new update (as I think)? Because I see a difference between usual regenerate ability for all living units and unique Yeti ability Regeneration (which quite close to Regrowth ability).

Looks like we have several non-Veteran players happy to join games recently, so maybe time for someone to host a "non-Veteran" game (i.e. for players who never exceeded 1000 ranking points and have only 1 star in the ranking: https://www.the-battlefield.c... />
A new poll has been launched to get feedback on the BF and help prioritize changes, if any is needed: How user-friendly and effective do you think each of these sections of the Battlefield website are? Thanks for your feedback! You can drop a line in the chat or post in the forum (there is a link in the poll) if you want to provide more detailed feedback.

Please also don't forget the previous poll: Would you be willing to donate some money to cover the cost of the purchase of 4 models for the Shadow Demon units of the Shadow Realm Community Expansion? There are only 9 respondents so far, I'm sure more people could vote (even to say they don't want to or can't give money, that will be useful for the Shadow Realm development team to know).

Finally, if you can only spend 60 minutes in a row in AoW3 but you're still interested to play manual battles vs other humans, come try the Arena game mode! Join the Arena Pool! We're already on v1.04 of the Arena and it's mostly working smoothly. As soon as we get sufficient feedback, we'll make a stable and easy to use version, with 1 file to download to install it all.

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As you probably all know, a team of volunteers is designing the Shadow Realm Community Expansion. We are planning to bring back the Shadow Demons but we do not have a 3D artist to design their models (the two we had left). So we are planning to buy the models. The models will be used for the 4 units which will come back: Lord, Harvester, Bombard and Larva. Currently the models which made consensus are the following:


You can check out all the models that were considered and say on the chat which ones are your favourites, which may help to change the current choices (as we want models that people like and want to play with):
Lord: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0c7...
Bombard: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fg6...
Harvester: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fob...
Larvae: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cbs... />
The models cost about $100 in total. Considering that the expansion will probably be played by 1000-4000 players or more, that is relatively cheap and if each player gave $0.10, we would be able to buy them. Obviously, all players won't contribute, so we need a few motivated players to contribute more. For instance 10 players donating $10 each, or 20 donating $5 each.
In order to assess the interest and donation capacity of the community, this poll has been launched: Would you be willing to donate some money to cover the cost of the purchase of 4 models for the Shadow Demon units of the Shadow Realm Community Expansion? Please cast your vote (including if you can't or don't want to donate anything, there is an option for that) so that we can get a good idea of how much money could be collected.
The money collected for the Shadow Realm expansion would be used ONLY for the models and nothing else.

One idea to collect the money is to organize a tournament and let people donate money for it, then all the money in excess of $100 is used for prizes for the tournament's winner + a lucky prize randomly given to one or a few lucky participants.
Paypal would probably be used for donations (which means a small fee paid to Paypal for each donation, but outside bank transfers, we would always have such fees).

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For those interested by manual tactical battles between human players, but who do not want to spends hours playing a full live MP games, please check out the Arena Pool! We're developing a new game mode with short preparation phase and then big battles, for a total of about 30-60 min per session.

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