Why are tier 1 skeleniggas so expensive to raise in this shit game
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Anonymous09/26/25(Fri)15:15:29
This game truly is disappointing. Easily the worst of the AoW series.
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Anonymous09/26/25(Fri)16:16:18
This game truly is amazing. Easily the best of the AoW series.
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Anonymous09/26/25(Fri)16:21:18
>>2154626(OP) Super early game skellies aren't great, but once you have a basic souls economy rolling they become pretty spammable. The only limits are huw much mana you've got for upkeep and how many souls you want to save up for lategame shenanigans. But the best thing about skelies is how you can replenish them on the go without needing to waste time and mana on summoning spells. Once you get some good enchants on them (like Mighty Meek) they become quite good troops. And most likely the skellies you raise are not going to be of your own race because you're raising enemy corpses, so if you're going for a full skelly spam build that means you can pretty much ignore transformations until you get Wightborn.
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Anonymous09/26/25(Fri)16:31:05
>>2154626(OP) This game truly is mid as fuck. Not great, not bad either, nothing special.
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Anonymous09/26/25(Fri)17:59:21
the ONE (1) thing this game does better than its predecessor is damage reduction based on the number of models, I'll give it that
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Anonymous09/28/25(Sun)13:02:53
>>2154626(OP) didn't like at all the fact they tried to implement that stupid faggot gay ass gender thingie and make it functional over THE KARMA SYSTEM, which is not working at all, is proof of their hate towards what the previous titles and the game itself they also destroyed the concept of race and relationships, instead of making one race, lets say elves, and only making them to have a path of accession or transformation into an unique higher race for them, they did it for everyone. making transformation pretty much just another bland spell... SOULLESS
>>2154630 Is it worse than AoW 3 spam high tier units the game?
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Anonymous11/02/25(Sun)17:50:06
>>2198267 yes, because now it's aow4 spam high tier-1 units the game
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Anonymous11/02/25(Sun)22:00:08
>>2193964 There is a mod that sort of allows it, "Culture Unit Makeover" but it is a bit janky.
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Anonymous11/02/25(Sun)22:03:47
>>2154630 That's quite an achievement, considering how abysmal 3 was
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Anonymous11/02/25(Sun)22:05:42
>>2168302 >be me >play aow1 >play aow2 >try aow3 and it's shit >but get players to try out aow2 >don't play aow4 at all, because i have still the same regulars to play aow2 with feels even better, man
I am miffed that some mods are only on the paradox plaza, because of Steam bullshit and some mods are only on the Steam Workshop because of people being lazy. How do I manage with shit like that?
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Anonymous11/22/25(Sat)05:21:20
>>2249808 Albert Einstein would download from both places.
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Anonymous11/22/25(Sat)19:37:44
Is this the general for AoW4? Why do you monkeys always fuck up the OP?
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Anonymous11/22/25(Sat)19:40:37
>>2156524 I'd say the system in AoW4 is more SOVL because it enables you to do a lot of RP stuff. Its only gay and stupid when you are dealing with min/maxers who take whatever tomes and transformations are the most powerful or busted.
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Anonymous11/23/25(Sun)07:25:52
What's a good first culture type to learn the game with?
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Anonymous11/23/25(Sun)09:38:16
>>2256167 Feudal Monarchy is the default for a reason
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Anonymous11/23/25(Sun)09:55:09
>>2255205 Nah, this is a leftover thread that was posted when the general was still active and which somehow never dropped off the catalog.
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Anonymous11/23/25(Sun)16:39:10
>>2255205 People just make a thread when they want to bitch or there's new content coming The real general if anything, I'd say is on /civ4x/ on /vg/. I noticed the AoW4 posting there increased a fair bit once the actually active thread on /vst/ died The free weekend was probably also a reason
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Anonymous11/23/25(Sun)23:25:40
Any general tips for a shitter? It feels like I never have enough of anything when playing these games.
>>2257676 In general, two things you do in this game are acquire resources to get bigger/better units to acquire more resources.
So at the start of the game you want your starting army with your faction leader to go fight those little independent armies sitting on top of resource points. This gives you lebensraum, your leader experience, and your city an injection of whatever resource that point represented. You want to reinforce your starting army with units recruited from your city or summoned, a lot of tier 1 tomes start you off with a summon able unit. Ideally, you take fight after fight with either few losses, or enough healing in between so that there's no downtime, you're constantly beating up independents and collecting more stuff.
You'll get to recruit a second hero like 10 turns in. Make sure to give them an army too and go kill more independents.
Pay attention to the what province improvements are 'boosters' for city buildings, which cut the construction time and cost in half. The game wants you to have a 'balance' of provinces, but you can change these later. Being able to construct buildings quickly is another part of the snowball.
You start the game with only 1 city, but a city cap of 3. You should try to settle your next 2 cities as soon as you can, your second hero can help with that. More cities = more resources to feed your army.
>>2258079 What are some of he better culture to learn the game with? Is the samurai one any decent or do I just stick with feudal?
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Anonymous11/24/25(Mon)07:42:11
>>2258217 I would say feudal and barbarian are the most newbie friendly cultures. Oathsworn aren't exactly complicated but they require you to play in certain ways to maximize their bonus' which can be quite limiting when you are exploring the game.
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Anonymous11/24/25(Mon)15:21:07
>>2258105 No one? Only I appreciate spanking a villainess? Hm.
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Anonymous11/24/25(Mon)19:00:16
>>2258217 Feudal Monarch is straight forward. Barbarians and their scouts can build outposts. Mystic - Summoning with a focus on animals is funny, your summoned animals from the spell count as magic origins.
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Anonymous11/25/25(Tue)00:09:09
>>2258217 Any of the base game cultures should work just fine, honestly. Personally I learned the game with Mystics. The DLC cultures all have some quirks which make them not ideal for learning. The more important thing IMO would be to pick one affinity and go all in on that. The base game tomes for each individual affinity are generally designed to synergize with each other and make a well rounded build, and having a lot of one affinity means you'll be able to reach the good nodes on the empire tree faster and gives you a good chance of succeeding affinity checks.
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Anonymous11/26/25(Wed)06:45:06
Does CreamAPI still work for AoW4? I'm seeing conflicting information online.
>>2156660 because it reminds you of a superior character
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Anonymous12/01/25(Mon)02:32:10
Is there anything worth crafting in the Item Forge? By the time I have a forge built and enough disenchant currency all my heroes are pretty much decked out anyway. Seems marginal.
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Anonymous12/01/25(Mon)03:21:00
>>2272472 Dragon claws and eldritch orbs are pretty rare, so the item forge is your best way to upgrade your dragon or ES. Also applies if you want a specific kind of normal weapon like a greatsword or a magelock. Sometimes you also just get shit rolls for loot and you have like ten bows and zero ranged heroes. With the item forge being moved down to requiring only the tower base, you could also potentially give your ruler a tier IV weapon super early on in the game, though it requires you to have found some high level shit to disenchant. Otherwise, you can craft trinkets with useful effects without having to rely on finding them, like umbral malady immunity on umbral abyss maps, or siege master for your main siege armies.
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Anonymous12/04/25(Thu)23:16:27
>>2154715 It's missing the Planetfall empire mode to be an amazing game.
>>2280182 i don't even know what that is becuase planetfall was so offputting in aesthetics that i skipped it, but i think what the possibly-related thing the game is missing is actual campaigns like what aow1 had
>>2154715 Fuck off avoxel. >>2154724 >Might Meek Dogshit in 4, go get your ass mangled online. Zero clue how bad shit is.
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Anonymous12/16/25(Tue)21:15:32
>>2156524 OG Triumph development team left after the Paradox acquisition while Planetfall was half done, which is why that game feels off. 4 is almost exclusively new devices or shitter interns now in higher positions despite having a severe lack of knowledge of the Creator Engine, which is why features and functions from previous games are straight up depreciated, because they don't even know how to do it.
Topping it all off, they are quoted saying that they do not focus on the strategic aspect of the game, instead ai.ing for casual approachability, aka barby dressup.
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Anonymous12/20/25(Sat)07:04:40
>>2299306 Oh, I see. I wonder where are the guys that made AoW1, 2 and SM.