No matter what i do, no configuration option or no compatibility mode is letting me play this game

what is the big difference between AoW The wizard's throne and this one?

I have a curious case of migration failure. I wanted to migrate Syrons into my dwarfen city because the city is on shadow ground and I want crops, but, I cannot migrate them in since I have no syrons in my empire, EXCEPT, I did precisely this on the same turn of another save file! I am allied to Oneron. so, it was my understanding, that this meant I could migrate Syrons in, and I started doing so, only to load the auto-save to avoid hiring a single wolf to save 15 gold plus upkeep for a total of 21, it mat...

Hi all. I ran into an issue with my game where if I played with a very high resolution it caused the text to become gibberish. Everything else worked fine but on my 2256x1504 resolution screen I couldn't read any of the text. I had found suggestions that I just reduce the resolution and play like that. I looked into the library files for fonts and found that the largest scale font library is missing the M and W, which shifts all other letters. Capitals are first in the library so everything between M...

I tried with 1.4 and 1.5 and same thing. I've looked at old threads going back years. Any tricks I might have missed?