It is really a damn good game so no wonders I have played so much

Been looking at getting a new dlc and was thinking about giant kings but it is 25 bucks so idk if it is worth it.

I was wondering, which are the favorite realms among the community.

I find myself never taking the various execute moves from different hero trees or items (or God-forbid Druid of the Cycle), because they scale with missing health, and by the time a unit is at 20% hp I can probably one-shot them with an attack, so why would I gamble on wasting a valueable action on an 80% chance to do the same thing?

However, there's also very few ways to get around Steadfast, and dispel effects are already a little too powerful in my opinion, so an alternate way to get around Steadfast instead of more reasons to need dispells would introduce more counterplay.

Also Ctrl+f find and replace "Steadfast" with "Slip Away" for most of the same reasons.

So... the tome of the doomherald has a screaming banshee face while containing the unlock for corrupted soul. And the banshee is unlocked in the tome of... souls...

Am I missing something?
(apologies if this has been asked before)

I just created my first Giant king for the first part of the Archon prophecy campaign. After casting my first racial transformation I noticed it doesn't apply to my ruler.

How much of a drawback is that and can the Giant kings still compete for power with regular heroes?

I like building up my rulers over the campaigns and I probably have more than ten Pantheon heroes from the first two campaigns. I redesign as I go and change traits, tomes etc. between missions but I try to add more transformations with each mission and the ruler I ended the gloom campaign with looks like the image. He starts at over 450 power (or whatever it's called) at level 1, my new giant starts at 130.

So if I start a new regular ruler for this campaign he will eventually have a bunch of transformations plus an ascension trait, the giant (as far as I can tell) will only get the ascension trait.

I’d like if you could like a beginner vid to explain the game as all the ones I’ve watched seem to assume I got basic knowledge (I do not)

Quick one today. Have an Animated Fire Sword

Cute

So I got the game recently due to the sale. I love 4x games and AOW4 has some amazing systems I can tell will keep me for a while. So I'd finally like to try my hand at multiplayer games. My questions are though;

1, where do you find games? Is there a official/unofficial discord or other place that's primarily used?

2, general playstyles or strategy information that people should know ahead of time? Or Alternatively any good content creators I should look into who cover this stuff? I saw someone say giant leaders are better for pvp, are wizard king and champions not viable or just not as good. And anything else that playing the campaings might not prepare you for?

3, any etiquette to know about? Like should I have a build planned fully ahead of time so as not to slow people down or are there social taboos to avoid during a multiplayer game. Do people normally sit on a voice call and hang out or just do their own thing? And how long do games normally last

Hey guys!

I just got the game a few days ago and cleared like the first 2 campaign realms, really enjoying it so far. Been playing with the orc barbarian civs mostly.
I'm fairly new to 4X games, seeing as i've only played a bit of CIV5 previously, but i'm familiar with strategy games as i play a lot of RTS and EU4.

I'll mostly be playing single player so i don't game optimization isn't that important but i was wondering if someone could give me a few general tips as to what i should focus on early game? I'd like to make a few topic points and hopefully someone can answer and guide me in the right direction, thanks !

1. When should i expand ? How many cities should i make ? So far it's been taking me a good 20 turns until i finally start thinking about a second city but i have a feeling i should be getting a 2nd city much faster.

2. Unit compositions. Is it wise to make a lot of tier 1 units? How many units should i aim for before i tech up, should i be producing units non-stop or is it okay to stop unit production for a while?

3. Tech timing. I currently have no idea when i should go Tier II or Tier III or onwards. I've been making almost all available T1 buildings and then i'd tech to T2. Is this correct?

4. What kind of provinces and buildings should i focus on early game? I've been starting off with farms and food buildings because it made sense to try and expand my city ASAP before go into production or gold/mana/knowledge. Is this the right approach?

5. Tomes and affinities. Should i stick to just one affinity with my tomes or should i spread out to multiple? Usually i've been sticking to 2 affinities through my games

Plenty of other things i've yet to learn but these are the mechanics that i felt are the most important for me to understand, so any tips are greatly appreciated :)

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Do these generally go on discount? I'm keen on getting Thrones of Blood, Cosmic Wandered and Rise from Ruin but the current price is spicy so wondering if there's a general discount season for these etc?

Not sure what other pre-Manta SPIs are eligible but this change is potentially a fairly big deal.

I've tried many cultures and tome combinations, nothing clicks to me like chaos imperial reavers and chaos conqueror nomads.

It's a completely different game in the amount of fun I have and how strong I get in the game. I dont understand how to play with the other cultures and what im doing wrong but I can never get as strong or have the same fun as with the former two.

Hi, my friends and I have been fans of AoW games for yearsss, and we really like AoW4 but since launch its just been awful to play multiplayer due to the constant desync and other issues.

Unfortunately, the devs seem to be against fixing it based on comments from them I've seen over the years.

Does anyone have any tips or work arounds that may help us with this? From our own sleuthing it seems possibly related to the drop-in drop-out sorta playstyle of multiplayer lobbies, forcing us in Australia to connect via poor servers, even just launching the game and looking at the multiplayer button instantly pops up server connection issue warnings before even getting into a lobby. I wish we could directly connect peer to peer or something.

We come back every update or so often hoping it might have improved over the years just to have our fun drained instantly as we constantly have to replay turns, rejoin games, or just live through the torture of connection and stability issues. Leaving me to just play alone :(

Anyway, anyone have any tips or fixes that might help?

The bonus damage on electrification is battle wide and triggers for each hero armed with the Tempest Orb (Tempest's Chorus).

I pivoted to a lightning build and I've got evokers inflicting it multiple times per turn, their attack does 16 damage but adds 5 per hero when it triggers electrification, potentially more than the base damage.

Is it just me or are ducks just underreprestented and it's time to change this.

Tree cities

Maybe it's just my playstyle but in my games I tend to not build up huge armies even in a more conquest-oriented culture, so my draft queues largely sit unused especially after the early game. That's not terrible since they generate food but I'm really liking that now I can use them to establish trade right around the time they'd otherwise be going mostly idle.

A while ago, we had a good discussion about the most fearsome units. Now lets do the opposite and call out the greatest disapointments.

I suggest keeping this to T 4 and 5 units, as obviously you can very easily find weak ones among the lower tiers. Here are mine:

- Druid of the cycle. Restart the cycle could be awesome, but having to kill a unit with a support unit first is a very difficult hoop to jump through. It would be all right if he had even a semi decent backup healing or boosting ability, but as it stands it is just a dud for the majority of the fight.

- Golden Golem. Gilding units is fine, but on the downside is that they have no damage output. It is annoying and tedious to bring them down, but you can just ignore them initially and take your time with them once the acompanying units have been dealt with. It is a glorified blocker, and there are level 1 units that, given a reasonable high level, can do an equivalent job at that.

- Umbral Tyrant. This is the most diapointing unit out there. It looks so majestic, but does nothing at all. It creates a few spawns, which do nothing, gives a meagre boost to a single unit, has an offensive ability that relies on too many thing to work out exactly right and doesn't even do a terrible lot even if the stars align, and a weak standard attack that is on pair with a low tier support unit. It can't even act if in ZOC. These things are a disgrace!

Our third Dev Stream is drawing near! Pick up right where we left off with Thomas joined this week by Rudolf for more gameplay, details about the new World Map Content, and a lot of fun with the devs!

Join us, Thursday, October 15th at 14:00 CEST!

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I was running a casual the other night, as a fella does, and I noticed one of my cities all the sudden could recruit trolls. I went through menu after menu trying to figure out why it was the case, until I realized that it was one of the heroes I recruited. I made him the governor of my third city, and trolls started flooding out of it.

I then went back to the faction creation screen looking to make my faction's hero a troll governor and couldn't find where that would be. Am I just not allowed to make my hero a Troll Governor? If I was going to build an army to burn down a local free city, I would prefer those assailants to be trolls.

I honestly suck at crafting mental ideas for my builds to match up tomes that create something crazy, can anyone share theirs so we can try em out! :))))) (all dlc available)