I don't know if it's only the melee portion that counts as magical, but still, Ritualist or Warlock with a shotgun is kinda badass to imagine even if it might not be the most sensible loadout.
I know you were all worried so I'm pleased to report that chickensmasher's very, very lore friendly mod appears to be working swimmingly with the beta so far. Or working wadingly, I suppose.
I always seem to be toward the bottom in my playthroughs even when I'm oozing mana and binding Wonders with a Mystic culture with my research rate pumping out new spells every turn or two. What does the game use to judge it?
Seriously it's been at least 10-15 turns since I conquered and vassalized this town, in fact it just hit supreme vassal status but not so much as a palisade back up yet.
I don't want to annex it because I'm at my cap and it's not in a great location. Usually the AI seems to prioritize security but not here.
EDIT: They must have heard me yelling at them through the screen, a few turns after this they finally recovered their long lost "wall of pointy sticks" technology. Still it would be a nice QoL update to be able to do more prompting of this and other functions.
Age of Wonders 4 recently introduced a new unit type called the "Temptress." Units can be randomly combo'ed with various other aspects such as race, and one of the race types is rat people...
It was inevitable.
Even with Conqueror Nomads, binding the Leviathan was a pain in the ass with all of the glitches, but it ended up being my best path to victory since I wouldn't shake Symon's hand and he was way off in the corner. I had to squeeze one of my cities onto a small peninsula and do a water province binding because Merlin ended up having the Leviathan tail nearly surrounded (but nearly doesn't count!). You really ought to be able to at least set a bounty for binding on this scenario, it's frustrating feeling like you're the only ruler with your eye on the big, looming ball.
Mental note for the future, giant king and nomads is a clunky combo because your cultural healers can't move your giant with their healing windpull, and if they can't pull (even if you do the trick of being adjacent so the target doesn't move) the game just flat out won't let them heal.
A lot of people advise rushing the central red portal (the one revealed by activating the obelisks). I uncovered it around turn 30 but I got my arse thoroughly thrashed by the Avatar of the Cosmos guarding it. After a few tries where I was barely scuffing its paintjob while it was killing one or more of my units every turn including my ruler and my mythic, I gave up and decided to try returning later with more experience and equipment. I'm still not quite sure how to handle it, though, Lost Wizards are a cakewalk by comparison. Does it have any achilles heels to exploit or is it just a matter of luck and brute force?
My particular situation is Conqueror Nomads with a Storm Giant King. The battle preview says it's low risk but this is a lie bigger than the cake.
Apparently you can give your own cities your whispering stones and I have to join another chorus of "I've played so many hours and never knew--"
This is such a good feature for early game and/or maps with no free cities.
My vassal neighbor's governor, personifying half-a-dozen fetishes at once.
Side note, does anyone else with SotA feel like the "spider priestess" dress comes up an awful lot on random female heroes? Not complaining, especially here, but it feels like it's way more than 50% for me.
...unfortunately I'm not sure how to control it. The only way is for the unit orders to *not* be the lowest on the list on the right side, which only happens when there's a special "goblet" notification like seen in the screenshot. If that hasn't triggered or you click it away the game goes right back to not giving you a list again and just continually recentering on whatever unit is showing in the shortcut thumbnail.
So, still hoping there might be a mod or QoL update in the future.
There is a city ruin in the middle of the area and on mad whim I decided to rebuild it after clearing the fate seal. Some of the territory remains uninhabitable and most of the nodes seem to still be unrecoverable ruins but once the dungeon creep reached the Tower wonder I was able to restore the 2(!) mana nodes in its province. Also the dungeon entrance on the left is part of an inaccessible bedrock corridor but the one on the right let me expand up and out onto the surface -- good thing too because my choice on cleansing the Cataclysm caused a huge population boom! Oh and the lake in the northwest counted as enough water I was able to build a fish farm and a shipyard.
EDIT: I was able to bring the Arcanium Ore node back online! Guess the dungeon hadn't quite spread to that province yet.
You might or might not be aware that holding down the ALT key will allow you to directly target things you normally can't, like obstacles or friendlies. With the way Magelock Cannons work, though, you can sometimes use it to target the ground and catch something in the three-hex line that otherwise wouldn't be in range, such as the Sand Worm in these screenshots (apologies for the camera angle change, it's the same exact layout).
Don't worry, the shot will still sail above anything in-between until it "lands." Note it doesn't have to be directly in line with the cannon, either. So the next time the AI gets cute arranging its units to be just outside the direct fire limit, always check to see if you can still bounce a special delivery into their face.
As in the title, it's been occasionally annoying to me that I can't specifically select a unit further down the orders queue and watching another person play I saw them get an expanded choice of which one to select by clicking on this, the same way you would for notifications about city production, etc. I can go manually cycle through the armies or use the army panel but after issuing those orders I'm right back to the one "in the way" (for example I want to attack with them but not until the end of the turn). I don't want to use the wait one turn function in case I forget about them altogether (clarification that this is on the world map, not in combat).
But no matter what I've tried I can't seem to bring up what the other person was getting and they just shrugged at me and said it just works like that for them when they click it. For me it just keeps recentering and reselecting the boar (or whatever else is currently at the top of the queue). I've combed through the settings options and can't figure it out.
I hope it's clear enough what I'm talking about. I thought at first it was just a frustrating "feature" of the UI I'd have to live with but now I'm seeing a heavenly light of redemption that remains just out of reach...
I had to accept her offer of course, especially after she greeted me with a smooch. Human base with Demonkin major and Reveler's Heart/Scion of Flame minor transforms. Only thing missing is a forked tail.
I had one game where the new Wayfinder enchantment seemed to be working fine, I'd go into manual battle, retreat my scout, and they'd show up a few turns later at one of my cities.
I then finally got around to doing the second story realm of Archon Prophecy (Cliffs of Sorduun) and since I took Devious Watchers as a trait my scouts went were camouflaged and went unmolested for a long time. Just now though I had two in a row get found and attacked, and in both cases I retreated them right away before the opposition could cast a spell much less get someone dominated, but in both cases instead of successfully fleeing they got captured?
I guess the fine print of Wayfinder says they won't die, not that they can't be captured, but I'm not seeing any trait of the world or the enemies (one time with Merlin, one Calioth) that would cause this. I checked and neither scout is on the list of routed units so I don't think they're coming back, or now I'm also worried they're going to end up used against me?
What's happening?
I don't know if I just didn't notice before but the Age of Fashion mods (probably Vampire Vogue) at some point added a blood maggot in the "back" category as a shoulder accessory and it looks so perfect for topping off one's pirate-themed drip.
