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The third installment is objectively the best.

Actually, I also think the fifth game is good, but... Compared to the third, it has two fundamental problems: battles and a rather dull AI. The warfare is incredibly monotonous and encourages a lot of micromanagement, although it looks prettier. Overall, there seems to be a little more tactics, but much less strategy. The fifth game has the advantage that other ways to win are better expressed, but for me, it still looks worse. In the third game, there was a literal conquest; not a single piece of the map remained unclaimed, while here, even on medium-sized maps, there is always a lot of unexplored land. Also, I subjectively liked the eras and civilization-specific features more in the third game.
In essence, the fifth game is probably better for multiplayer, while the third is better for single-player. But even with that, there's a problem: it's too old, and I played it a lot last year.

By the way, if we're being serious, I would play tournament duels in the fifth game or some other games, but if you think about it, all sorts of problems still arise. For a normal connection, it's best to play on a licensed copy, but if there aren't any, then there are Hamachi, GameRanger, etc., but, honestly, in 2018, I don't even want to touch that, lol.

Spring doesn't have these kinds of problems. And for "Horn of the Abyss," the developers seem to have either created or are planning to create a special multiplayer client.

Genuine copies for real players, while Hamachi is for losers and games that aren't on Steam.

Nowadays, everyone has Steam and owns licensed copies of the game, after all, it's 2018.

There are no legitimate copies.

There are a lot of licensed copies, but they aren't the most multiplayer-focused games, for the most part.

For a stable connection, it's best to play the licensed version.

Forget about that. In Heroes of Might and Magic III, there was initially nothing but local multiplayer, and in Heroes of Might and Magic V, the Ubisoft servers have long been shut down.

And I used to buy legitimate copies.

Coliseum + random + abominations?

I used to play a browser game called "Gladiators," and it sounds very similar. Abominations sometimes appeared there if a mounted gladiator lagged, and there was plenty of coliseum and randomness.

And the developers seem to have made or are planning to make a special multiplayer client for "Horn of the Abyss."

I think they already did, and there's also some kind of lobby for SoD (with the HD mod). I don't play myself, and I rarely catch the beginning of streams, so I might be wrong.

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But everyone has Steam and licensed copies, after all, we're living in 2018.

I have about 5 licensed games on Steam, and they're not even the most popular ones.

In the third game, there was initially nothing but local multiplayer, and in the fifth, Ubisoft's servers have long been shut down (I'm talking about Heroes).

Conclusion: Ubisoft sucks.

There are definitely some good and interesting games out there besides Civilization.

There are only about one and a half decent games per thousand, so I don't know...

There are definitely some good and interesting games out there, so there's no point in playing Civ.

Fixed.

It seems like there's a special discount on Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic on Steam.

We could play a third game too. But I wouldn't mind playing the second part either. Just please, don't "practice against the computer" beforehand. Otherwise, you'll play too much and then say you don't want to play anymore.