Thanks for this, I finally get it now! Stealth has been quite tough to understand in this game for me, but this was a very clear explanation.

Is it still viable post-Tiger patch?

ı play vanilla to years. space age is this is fcing legend game. ı forgot eating (real life )

I've watched quite a number of your videos, but it needed this lucky/happy confusion for me to realize that you are not a native speaker. Really well done! 👍

your vids are rather good you should cut them into sections

year late but you can also get goblins to ask to stay if you can not be at war with them. The only way I've found for that to happen is if your civilization is on an island without goblins, therefor they are unreachable and unknown to them, so not at war with them.

The key thing is to create positive food flow across your settlements so high you can support all the npc towns or they will all eventually dwindle in population. This means like +100,000 or more food so that your traders keep every settlement from starving. After that, get a mithril camp, adamantite camp, diamond camp, amethist camp, and iron camp. Collect a bunch of skulls and make runes of power. Gonna need at least 10 camps to keep the world fed and keep the mithril and adamantite flowing into runes. Get 40 construction, 44 hunting, 30 leadership and getting 7 sets of rune of power gear will take a while.

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I had a pawn give birth to twins and another one give birth to triplets shortly after 😅

Enjoying your builds. I do have a recommendation. You might consider creating your builds using the Faction Builder on the Age of Wonders 4 Database website. This would allow you to paste a link to it in the video description, giving viewers the ability to see the full build in one place. I've followed a few of your builds now and it's a pain to jump around in the video looking for the spellbooks when it is time to select a new one.

Ok, that was not expected. How this compares to other cultures f.e. Mystic in terms of Necromancy?

Love the pronunciation of Vulcanus

Creative build.

Haven't played Primal before. Do they automatically terraform their lands or do you have cast spells like "X-land adaptation" trait lets you?

12:00 my first spaceship I took to vulcanus managed to get to the planet but didn't plan it right and actually lost it before I could get a rocket silo up to reinforce it (bad ship design) but the point is I actually had to remake (a better) ship from vulcanus... it's definitely doable. one of the things that helps tremendously is as long as you can keep a supply of repair packs and foundations going, any asteroid of any size will eventually die by running into ship pieces, regardless of it's hp. basically each hit slows it down, and once it's speed goes to 0 it dies. this means as long as you are able to replace the lost sections you can easily make a ship there. but I do still agree, it's much better not having to deal with constantly replacing parts of your ship by building on nauvis.

I tend to go back to Primal builds all the time, just because they are just the most fun to me, especially when you want to manual every battle. Summoning animals and crushing your opponents with them is unmatched !

This is brilliant

About wood blocking fire. That realistic. Wood is one of better thermal insulation coming from nature.

Okay its a beginner gudr but this iron farm is bad ,create a machine where ur need to kickstart it only 1 time

Thanks for this! Really enjoy watching your builds. Have you considered revisiting a Dark Culture Morale build?

Great tips, thank you

question, since there been atleast one new update, any chance you will come back to this game?

I've always wondered what having Ultron explain AoW4 builds would be like. Now I know.

I'm trying to find the best way to power my coal generators.... or at least get things started. I fail to see the need for a secondary source of power to run a coal power factory. Even the water pumps need power.

Looks good for all the blind synergy but what if you have to compete on tier 4/5 units in a longer game? e.g. maybe switch later materium for nature & gold (blinds)/prosperity dragons?

Great vid as always love your content bro

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I love your videos and AoW4 builds, but surely not every build is OP 😂 Must be an algorithm thing.

What ruler origin is this build??

I just started replacing my melee troops with monk and the problem is that I need more units that apply mark. Did You use overseers for that?

easy mode is getting the Crow zone hidden armor set and inner technique for wich you need the key from Ice Loch with the black serpents and leveling sneak and geomancy and stealing everything and poisoning everyone its broken with the set they cant detect you at all so u can just go to them and poison them

Thank you for this!

`cleanowned scattered x` don't mark items for dump. any ideas why?

Don't use balancers on your bus. All that does is spread your resources out so nothing after the first product gets a full lane of resources. Instead, use splitters to push resources to one side of the bud. If you always extract from the same side of the bus (and you should), then you only need that lane to be fully saturated. Use a diagonal row of splitters with their outputs prioritised towards the lane you want saturated. In this way you'll keep your production arrays fully fed for as long as possibly, and you can see at a glance how much is left on the bus by the number of empty lanes on the opposite side from your saturated lane.

If you can find the affinity points to do it. The trait that makes summoning spells cheaper is very nice for calamity dragons

Op ALL THE DRAGONS BUILD and u dont use dragon RULER? gg

Can fishing get you really cool loot? Or is it just for food

I only have one question, can someone explain autoresolve to me? Just played a game against ai, where I went Dwarves industrial, tome of enchantment, tome of warding I think it was called, a dark tome, tome of glade, a tome for steel skin, tome of the dreadnaught and the tome for the gold golem. Each of my armies had an army power of like 1500 plus, two bastions, steel shaper, gladerunner, and dreadnaught plus hero. Fought an autoresolve against the ai where I had like 6,000 army strength vs 1700 and I got completely wiped. There is just something I’m not understanding here but of course I am coming from total war warhammer.

I really liked the idea of a Ways of War Dragon build so I used your video as an inspiration for the build I played today. I went a slightly different build though becaue I wanted either all Dragons or everthing either flying or mounted on a dragon. It went something like this: Racial Traits: Adaptive, Blessed Dragon Mounts, Elusive Society: Oathsworn -Harmony (So I could get the Tier 3 Archer Unit on Blessed Dragons) Cultural Traits: Runesmiths, Prolific Swarmers (for faster city growth) Ruler: Order Dragon Tomes: Tome of Evolution, Tome of Discipline, Tome of Glades, Tome of Shades, Tome of Subjugation, Tome of Dragons, Tome of Prosperity, Tome of Oblivion (for Fog of Madness), Tome of Crucible, Tome of the Goddess of Nature. I was going for an Expansion Victory type, with a Goodie Good Playstyle. I played on the new WoW map but added the Unbound Tomes map trait. It was a ton of fun watching the enemies beat themselves to death before my armies full of dragons set them all on fire. Most of the Tomes I used for their unit enchantments. Have Fun :)!

Oh, the platform width influencing its speed is because of aerodynamics. It makes perfect sense. 🙈

Just use rate calculator mod, impossible to play without, u just select area it tells what is produced and consumed and diff and more... Best quality of life mod

I do miss using a staff for one my dudes but I do like the update. There is one issue and that is when you recruit a new lord, it's shuffle rng for one you want. I'm talking about class wise. I went through 15 rounds to try to get a guardian class. That's way to many rounds, and I never did get that hero

I am already testing Industrious and I try to do sth with a problem of basically non damage except physical. I chose tome of Fey Mists, just to try those crazy skirmisher and mists, not sure if it work great, but really fun. I suppose Tome of Fey Mists would fit this build as well.

take right side of restore next and craft a t4 staff with support - regeneration and support - status resistance. conjure wildgrowth gives 2 times the support effects, so you get 10 hp, 3 regen, 2 bolst def, 2 bolst resist and 2 status protection every cast. cast this first turn, turn your bolstered buffs into 4 strengthend and 3 fortune with your industrious buff spell at the start of turn 2 and cast another conjure wildgrowth. now you have a completely offensive buffed stack with 5 regen, 2 bolst def, 2 bolst resist and 8 status resistance at the start of turn 2. nothing but spellbreakers can stop you while you blow through their lines. ritualists are generally broken but completely busted with industrious.

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You have a very pleasant style. Don't know how much work it us, but would like to see, from you, heavily edited let's plays- down to ? 2-3h sessions.

This helped me a lot. I really struggled to find a succinct, accurate depiction of how this very aspect of the game works. This vid is terrific. Complete, brief without glossing over things, and it gave me a solid place to start. I launched my first space age rocket yesterday and I feel so much more well-prepared to move forward now. Great job!

What do you think about tome of warding? Gives all support abilities bolster resistance (2x synergies well with the industrius supports)

I tend to dislike tome of the beacon, unless playing with some tools to lower enemy's status res.... So, what if we were to take #veryoriginal tome of glades as our first t2 instead? Given that we are high culture, glades alone would sond like a decent "hold the line until dragons arrive" tempo tome, even if we do not invest tooo much into archers latter. I belive it also somewhat works out in affinity department.

I understand that you craft these builds purely with optimization in mind, and I don't mind that. However, could you consider bringing some of more thematic builds? I have noticed a lot of your builds are a mish-mash of all the alignments, and I was spending some time trying to tweak them to fit into a more defined theme. Not that im complaining, just putting out the idea. This might also be beneficial for you since, as you mentioned, the alignments got more strict with the new patch.