Age of Wonders 4 - Overexplained - Beginners Guide - (Shadow/Necromancy) - Pt.2

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Age of Wonders 4 is a new magic based 4x game that has some elements of civilization as well as Master of Magic.
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[@Kerosiin]

Undead cats are absolutely terrifying. They constantly howl to be fed, yet no matter what you do they are never sated because they can never eat. Horrifying

[@xb4z1ng4]

You deliver this amazing game like no one else, I really appreciate what you re doing, been a huge civ fan of yours for a while now, now Im finding myself just waiting for your AoW4 vids every night for like a week now, keep it up I love your content, you re the one who got me hooked on grand strategy games and vids, love you Potato hope youre doing well! :)

[@mclovin4974]

is this a good game?

[@franzmann3744]

Yes

[@miraclemaker1418]

​@@mclovin4974one of the very few great at launch games of the recent times. Probably best 4x game released after civ6.

[@justinsinke2088]

I do quite enjoy videos like this. Personally, I find it more engaging to watch a player who can explain their thought process in playing a game in a way I can reasonably follow even if I don't play the game myself. It's just not as fun watching someone who's trying too hard to be "entertaining", engaging more in zany antics than actually playing the game or (seemingly) having absolutely no idea what they're doing and so either just doing things at random or jumping to wild assumptions about the game which they're wrong about, the viewers can see how and why they're wrong, and the entire video is spent with the player having no idea why they aren't effortlessly succeeding or why what they're doing isn't working the way they want it to. Bonus points if they skip a tutorial because "they don't need it" and then complain that the game never told them important information.

[@hansmuller8762]

+1

[@venisontron]

I think the devs would do well to make a few cosmetic changes to the game, mainly to make the underground look as visually interesting as the surface. As it stands now, it just looks a lot more dull imo. I understand it's supposed to be dank caves and such, but I feel like it turns it into a secondary location. It doesn't have to be bright and lush, but it bothers me that there isn't more to look at. I don't know if certain races can see better down there, but that could be a neat idea also.

[@roxxdudeplayswow]

This one speaks TRUE! I'd also love an in-game option to chose which minor unit enhancements have a visual effect. Kinda ruins my immersion when my angels go a deep shade of green or blue

[@0_Body]

The underground should have shinies. Rocks are not a monolith

[@norandomnumbers]

It's also weird how dull the underground looks but it's so intense for the graphics card. Must be all the lava.

[@Pixie1001.]

Yeah, i think the underground is a bit underwhelming in general honestly. It's ok to plop some vassal cities and outposts down there I guess, but there isn't really enough nodes or unique benefits to justify building a city there with all the expansion blocking bedrock, lake and lava provinces that cap your pop at like 10 provinces. It also doesn't connect up very well - I'm not sure if that's by design or not (maybe playtesters found armies bubbling up from the underground to appear in the middle of their throne city annoying?), but it means each underground passage tends to end up as its own isolated zone rather than a true secondary map layer that can allow you to interact with other empires. Plus, it often just isn't worth trying to explore it to look for other empires, since 9/10, you'll waste 10 turns embarking onto small rivers and digging excavating walls, only to realise the passage you entered from doesn't connect up with the city you wanted to invade.

[@venisontron]

@@Pixie1001. Yeah, this is one of the few things that turns me off about the game. It strikes me that playing an underground game just won't be as fun, and that shouldn't be the case. The game should be designed so the underground looks and feels super interesting and overpowered if you are playing an underground build.

[@owtfox]

One huge tip for playing necro that most people dont realise is that the Lost Tomb (or whichever Ancient Wonder that offers Lost Souls through RoL) generates a soul per turn (plus 2 mana & 2 knowledge) for each hero in the crypt. I was getting 50+ a turn by late game ^^

[@tarenflores]

24:30 potato annexes the Lost Queen's Crypt, which adds the Corrupt Soul to RoL plus soul, mana, and knowledge income for heroes in the crypt

[@owtfox]

@jorgborg I watched the same video my friend. I left the comment for people skipping through. Thanks for the timestamp.

[@VASM160689]

Your video series are a freaking masterclass in 4X economy. I'm amazed at your money, mana and imperium pools. Granted, the game gave you incredibly synergistic wonders for your playstyle, but damn you're good at leveraging that!

[@vhswrestler160]

I call the 3 am meowing fit a “meowathon”

[@jej3689]

Loving the series! Please stop sleeping immediately! Resign your fate to continuing posting this series until it finish! I must have more! haha :)

[@charstar2808]

The hero of schrodinger would be on-brand for this playthrough. (It is a cat that is simultaneously alive and dead.)

[@Dinner407]

Loving the content man, absolutely hyped to have nice walkthroughs - been struggling on how to optimize my gameplay so this is fantastic

[@insaeculasaeculorum]

The best part of the day! A new Potato video!!!

[@tarenflores]

Warm Laptop and 3AM Meowing Fit 🤣also rly enjoy this series it's interesting to hear you explain more regarding the macro / world gameboard-level decision making. plus awesome battle tactics!!! cant wait til the big undead transformation

[@ADVBCAT]

"Let's keep the discussion about Rampart" lmaooo I almost fell out of my chair.

[@DivineRetribution767]

Having a lot of fun listening to you explain your thinking this silly in depth but I'm looking forward to you doing a more serious one afterwards.

[@blueguitarthings4722]

Love this age of wonders content!

[@norandomnumbers]

As soon as you said Rampart I thought of the AmA, then you made the reference! Feels good man.

[@simdoughnut659]

Loving this series. It's funny, I'm actually in the process of playing a Dark Necromancer game myself. It's the Lich King vs Sylvanas, Thrall, Anduin, Tyrande, Magni, and Lor'themar. It's a battle for Azeroth in AoW4. :)

[@linkatronic]

Really enjoying this over-explained series! Do you have any plans to do an Underground map race at some point?

[@Cryten0]

It would be nice if you explained strategies for province improvement placement and location strategies. Especially tieing into special improvements from tomes.

[@snoober6690]

been watching your civ content for awhile, happened to pick up AoW4 the other day and what do you know you are making content for that game too. very much enjoying it 👍

[@denyskofanov688]

I'm on my 2 hour sleep looks exactly like your cats after transformation to undead

[@johngillan4475]

Thank you for your video

[@Kabeloko11]

Love this AoW4 content, you beautiful man.

[@kronrir]

Thank you sir, very informative very interesting and such learnable for Ireland accent 😊 This is good way for me to study English. Thank you again. Please more AoW4

[@Alex_Gron]

Waaaaa second video hell ye ive been waiting

[@rush0312]

You can give your whispering stones to your cities to boost stability

[@venisontron]

heeeeeey spuddies potato mcwhiskey here and welcome back...to age of whiskey 4

[@christopher2866]

"Now we've got pick of the litter" lul

[@zebrs99]

Thank potato, I’m liking the game but wasn’t sure what to do when.

[@Miiro55]

Would be cool if materium path could allow you to create items like you mentioned

[@feartherain]

HYPED

[@t.jp.s8173]

Potential City names: Foot of bed, Top Shelf, House Plant, Under the Bed, Bathtub Edge, The Sink, Windowsill, Headboard, Armpit - Just to name a few.. Thanks for the Content. Love it

[@Xalnc]

the only thing that I can focus on in this video is the name: Darth MeowMeow

[@Jacob-fz5ho]

re-name darkspire to scratching post

[@vitaliilukin2505]

You don’t need a unit to raize the province, though the ai can cancel the action if you leave it empty and it has units nearby

[@ryltair]

Holy shit, Amplify Arrows is NASTY

[@Enderlinkpawnu]

So fun fact about razing cities. When I played a dark culture, I was just running around burning the ai to the ground for funzies and souls (to fuel my reaper even harder). Turns out if there isn’t any other enemy units nearby, your units only need to be there to initiate the raizing. They can actually leave after you confirm you want to burn the city down and support the rest of your army in future battles assuming your stack doesn’t have any other buisness there. Of course you need to ensure the ai isn’t going to swoop in and save the burning city, but if you are burning a free city than you can definately just let it burn.

[@GlenishDsilva]

Yay!

[@blackleon1708]

Yea, thats what i want

[@T0tenkampf]

next city should be Zoomington

[@geezgod465]

arcane research should show the casting cost

[@sirrubio958]

Quick question: Can Vassal cities annex Wonders? And if so, do you get their bonuses?

[@davidmaxwell4696]

As far as I'm aware, no. When an Ancient Wonder is cleared, the player that cleared it has a soft claim on the province that only another player can usurp

[@poilboiler]

The highest level of shadow affinity gives you map hack? Very powerful indeed.

[@Medusa_plays]

♥

[@SirCorrino]

30:00, you don't need to keep a unit there for razing or vassalizing a city. Only reason to keep one army there is to prevent another AI from capturing it while you raze/vassalize.

[@samdanmas]

Let's focus on Rampart, please

[@scottchadwick1247]

Underground city: Under the Couch?

[@Qbe.]

I'm here to comment about Rampart

[@johnstadler7751]

Well... now I've spent my bourbon money on this game. #thxpotato

[@scottchadwick1247]

May I suggest a name change for Darkspire if possible: Floofspire, Carpetspire?

[@dawsonleding7051]

Does the company pay you to rep this game? Honest question. I Just bought the premium edition.

[@dawsonleding7051]

Obviously you got a free copy thats expected and should be given to content creators.

[@PotatoMcWhiskey]

I was paid for pre-launch coverage, do you think you could pay me enough for this kind of coverage? I've turned down $30,000 deals for shitty mobile games. If you think my integrity can be bought you're off the wall

[@dawsonleding7051]

@PotatoMcWhiskey thanks for the reply. Was just curious loving the AoW content and they should pay you for it 😄. Got me to buy the game.

[@TPKPatchy]

Should we be worried that you made your cat undead?

[@zacharylucas4005]

What does AOE mean?

[@aaronsirkman8375]

Area of Effect.

[@user-uy7bc4dp4y]

I think it's a bad idea to pillage improvements of a city, that you ll vassalize In my games they never repair their improvements

[@christopher2866]

Unless you plan on integrating the vassal later, then it's gold positive

[@user-uy7bc4dp4y]

@@christopher2866 in the end he raised a city to rebuild with souls lol

[@john0constantine]

1:30 lolwut you need to build the Wizard Tower for the Imperium income. At least 1 or maybe 2 levels. That is way more important than a lot of the buildings you built.

[@john0constantine]

Respectfully, but you need more experience with this game for an overexplained video.

[@sundeepbath1703]

I saw lots of mistakes just glossed over and not explained at all, not normal for the Overexplained series!