age of wonders 3 balance mod without reskins

There's an alignment mod that makes the alignment of leaders based more on their starting specialisations (giving each a good, evil or neutral rating) than on their actions, so necromancers and characters with destruction specialisations tend to stay evil, and leaders with Creation and Keeper of the Peace skills will tend to stay good. I use it to make both my own custom leader and custom AI leaders to play against who have more than the usual number of specialisations. There are a tonne of other good ones e.g Deluxe Specialisation Combination lets you have two or four specialisations per slot - or even dual class leaders (they only get to recruit the units of their first class, but if you add a second they can research the spells and empire upgrades of the second class). On single player i always use a small mod that removes all end game magic too - because those spells are so overpowered that whichever player researches the top level strategic spell for their class first has won the game. It also adds some sub-class skills for every type of leader and hero. And some new locations to explore and new mystical city upgrades.Įmpire Building mod also adds racial hero and leader skills so that e.g all elf characters of any class can choose racial skills like Archery Training, Charisma, precise shooting, Total Awareness and Vigilance (all archers defend after firing) when they get enough skill points from levelling, while all Draconians can get extra fire resistance etc.

They add a lot more variety to the unit types you can recruit. They're all pretty well balanced other than The Spider's gift which has some that will not be balanced for multiplayer, but are still a lot of fun in single player random maps.

Empire Building Mod, Racial Heritage, More Supports and The Spiders' Gift Army Mod all add new units for every race.

Age of wonders 3 balance mod without reskins