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honestly can't remember the last time ive enjoyed a game like this. i cant stop playing! when i tried it about 6 ish months ago it felt clunky and i couldnt figure out what to do without geting frustrated. so i refunded it after an hour on steam.

thought id give it another shot since it was on sale and it had some updates. not sure what they changed, but the gameplay from someone new to this genre felt really intuitive.

Hey everyone

​So I’ve been deep down a rabbit hole lately trying to translate Warhammer Fantasy factions into Age of Wonders 4. The theorycrafting in this game is half the fun, and honestly, the mechanics map onto the Old World lore shockingly well.

​My favourite build so far has been The Empire, specifically led by Volkmar the Grim instead of Karl Franz, I went with Reaver culture to try and capture the Empire's guns and artillery focus. To get that true Empire feel, I paired the Reaver mechanics with fanatical Order tomes.

​I'm having a blast playtesting this one, but I'm looking to draft up a few more, i do have Dark Elves, High Elves, Wood Elves, Dwarfs and Orkz drafted up so far.

​Have any of you tried doing similar builds? If you were going to tackle something like the Skaven, Tomb Kings, or what culture and tome combos would you consider?

How would 1 go about making an holy necromancer build? Culture tomes etc. I am very curious. Thanks in advance

Hey I finished my first playthrough. I played huge map with 8 players on slow phase, hardest difficulty.

The issue was it wasn't really challenging. I could not have many cities, but the AI also didn't build much and most of them got eliminated so fast, that 70% of map was just empty. I didn't even get a 5 tier unit.

How should I setup my next huge map? Just conquest winning condition, or something?

Edit: I used to play planetfall, I am not a newbie to AoW.

Hi all,

I've recently really gotten hooked on this game and I have been going through all of the DLC stories, I just finished up the Thrones of Blood story.

I now have a bunch of rulers in the pantheon, I currently have them set to "none" as I feel they would be really OP once I start playing custom games?

What do you set them as being?

First time trying out Fedual Aristocracy, I notice that aspiration knights are quite squishy, especially in auto combat, so it's hard to evolve many of them to become knights. Is there any effective strategy? Also any other tips to play fedual aristocracy effectively would be welcome!

Thanks!!

... so that their "hidden-ness" (the state of the transformation visuals not appearing) remains in future game sessions (including those played by the AI).

For example, I play as a dragon/giant/eldritch/vampire ruler and during my last game session with that ruler that resulted in its (re-)ascension I transformed my main race into wights and deactivated the visuals of that transformation. As the game currently works, in the next game session featuring this ruler (played by myself or the AI) the hidding of the wight transformation should not be recalled by the game (like it does for champion and wizard rulers – to whom racial transformations personally apply) and therefore when the wight transformation gets applied in that new session the visuals of that transformation stand visible. And so what I'm proposing here is to get the game to remember the hidden-ness of the wight transformation for ALL ruler types, so that in future game sessions with the ruler the visuals of the wight transformation are deactivated by default. Ensuring that the vision the player had for the race persists even when that race is played by the AI.

Got about 400 hours in the game so im decent. Just reinstalled cuz of the update and made some owl mystics. I have been able to steam roll as every other culture but I have ONE victory as mystics.

Magic early on is WAY weaker than just brute force also ya gotta spend mana to use spells. I keep running into order affinity enemies and they just endless stack bolster and strength then suddenly their lvl 4 hero is doing 100+ damage attack and since all their units are magic resistant now I do like 7 damage MAX! The mystics have 0 front line or ability to lock down enemies.

Current match im on turn 30 and had a war with an order high culture and hes got paladins and shit and im still rocking tier 2s because the mystics have NO economy to speak of! I get the idea of a slow start but god fucking DAMN this is just not fun!

I don't feel like a magical empire of esoteric geniuses I feel like an anemic army of discount party clowns queefing glitter at roided up space marines lol.

The Secrets of the Archmages/No Stone left unturned quest/achievement is annoying me. First time through was a normal enough win on Hard. I may have been able to delay it a bit longer, but given how many of the things are in enemy territory I figured I would just do a nice easy stroll around the map on Easy in a 2nd game.

Yeah Merlin was having none of that. I only had one more left to reach and explore and he ups and wins the game. I even went with the Tome of Winds so that I could Favorable Winds my way around the map. That wasn't quick enough, though it may have been if Symon didn't make me stop and bat him around. I was not expecting an easy AI to do that much damage to my stacks, nor for him to focus so much on my guys. And his hounding me meant he was doing nothing to Merlin.

Well I managed to clear some other achievements that I hadn't done yet for some reason such as the Tier 4 Nomad city one. So at least that game wasn't a complete waste of time. Maybe I need to do it on the middle difficulty so that Merlin can't just steamroll the map by himself.

Does this make Brutal difficulty easier?

In one of the community's weekly to monthly ask for a water rework/expansion, I saw a suggestion for a crab themed transformation.

Just wanted to throw out the idea of referencing carcinization (the process of unrelated species, independently, evolving into crabs) with the transformation.

Something like the transformation growing stronger the more races in the realm are affected by it.

Perhaps something like +5 health and +1 armour for every race transformed by this spell, stacking up to 3 times? Or perhaps just the health stacking infinitely and an armour boost once you reach a specific number of transformed races.

I love what they did with elementalist. I love Ritualist pre-warlock divorce.

I know spellblade works greatly with Dragons/GK, but I want to RP this class with my mortal Rulers and tbh it isnt feel as good as it should be, and this class feels so outdated.

I know a magical + melee hero class could work, just look at Death Knight and Battlesaint.

Ritualist on the other hand.. Idk where to even start. They butchered my boy. Now if I want a support hero class I have to go warlock or battlesaint even when my Faction fantasy is plant based.

All DLC owned. Really want to give Architects another go after a failed attempt, so looking for tome advise, race and society traits for this set up:

Race: Lupine

Leader: ??

Faction: Architect Dark alignment

Specialisation: Cryomancy

Alignment goal: Neutral

Must have Trait: Astrological Diviners, second ??

Biography: High above the clouds, where only snow, stone, and starlight endure, dwell the White Lupines of the Celestial Clans. Sheltered within the frozen citadels of Skjalfell Observatory, they have spent countless generations studying the heavens, convinced that every comet, eclipse, and wandering star carries a fragment of the realms greater design. While younger races wage endless wars across the valleys below, the white Lupines build great halls of ice and granite, preserving ancient knowledge and charting the celestial dance that guides the turning of the ages.

The Wihte Lupines seek neither empire nor glory, they ask only to be left beneath the stars. Yet should the balance of the heavens be threatened, they descend from their mountain homes like an avalanche, swift and howling and as merciless as winter itself.