I was kind of hype about this game, never played aow3/planetfall because the gameplay mechanics weren't good enough to make up for utterly shitbad artstyle. Honourable mention to pre-patch AoW2's draconian heroes with their flying. So, the game in the series with most racial diversity is still the very first entry, with its Lizardmen ruling the waves. Sure not all of the combinations are effective or synergistic, but when you're playing single player against dumb bots, trying weird shit is more fun than using effective shit. Playing vanguard celestian would feel quite different from playing assembly celestian, but also playing vanguard celestian would differ from a vanguard promethean or voidtech because you'd use unique upgrades from those tech trees to modify your units. In PF there were a lot more differences between different races, but also non-trivial differences between the same race picking a different starting tech. But there was a lot of difference between a dreadnought and a sorcerer or a druid or a warlord. In AoW3 there was next to 0 difference between picking, for example, human dreadnought or elf dreadnought or goblin dreadnought - past the initial part of the game all 3 would start spamming the dreadnought-specific units anyway and the only differences between these units would be the racial modifiers on the infantry units of the class.

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