Send Them Running With This Busted Age Of Wonders 4 Build

In this Age of Wonders 4 guide we take a look at the most op race and tomb setup for the game that I have been able to find so far. This build makes the best use of the most broken race transformations and enchants.

Rule a fantasy realm of your own design! Explore new magical realms in Age of Wonders’ signature blend of 4X strategy and turn-based tactical combat. Control a faction that grows and changes as you expand your empire with each turn! ~Steam Store

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𝐈ғ ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ʟᴏᴏᴋɪɴɢ ғᴏʀ ᴀɴ ᴇ𝐱ᴄᴇʟʟᴇɴᴛ ᴄᴜꜱᴛᴏᴍ ꜱᴇʀᴠᴇʀ ʜᴏꜱᴛ ᴄʜᴇᴄᴋ ᴏᴜᴛ 𝐆-𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐥
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♫ 𝙊𝙪𝙩𝙧𝙤 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘: Spark of Excellence
By The Talented @xXasdfMAN12Xx AKA: Sean Wolf

[Butch]

Worth noting that undead hard counter this build as they are immune to morale effects, IE any factions that picks Wightborn as their major race transformation. I think this could also have be improved further by taking nightmare mounts with dark culture for earlier access to intimidating aura via scouts and dark knights. PS you should try out scout spamming with spider mounts. Their web attacks are brutal.

[WilhalmBrion]

I made a build last night and it was almost tome for tome this. Doomherald definitely being slept on.

[zacharyeisenman]

I'd like to request a dark necromancer build please. I have been trying to make it work, but just keep getting stomped. The idea of being a necromancer just desolating the surroundings then raising them has always been the coolest thing to me since I did it in d&d. plus i just found out you can get freaking Bone Dragons from Rally the Lieges! So the desire to make it work is at an all time high.

[HappyAspid]

Tome of revelry is one of my favorites. Especially revelers heart upgrade.

[cemarz]

Wow. I basically did this build randomly when I role played Dr. Evil. I imagined that he was constantly insulting the entire enemy army.

[jmewall]

This works better with Dark imo. It also gets more flavour from Revelry ^^

[ECSizemore]

Thanks for the tips! Just started playing AOW4 and it’s my new obsession. Cheers !

[Alexander-wkgl]

Ive been doing a cannibal barbarian froglok build. All nature and chaos just about. Spam heals and mindcontrol to just completely slaughter my enemies.
My favorite is to mindcontrol their calvary to kill their back line, then have my berserkers eat the corpses as they cut their way through. Been winning battles I am at a huge disadvantage for (1500 vs 3000).

Ive been using tome of the horde, tome of fertility, (theres one more tome with a mindcontrol unit i cant remember the name of), and mostly nature tombs after that. The druid unit that can revive fallen allies and instantly kill other units is a good edition to my armies as well.
I am not looking forward to facing this army in successive playthroughs.

[schlimble]

Throw the demonkin away and get angels so they become faithful with the buff for your hero so they start with +20 moral at the start

[Peanuthamperlives]

Think moral build would work better with feudal or dark with nightmare mounts for free intim aura on your knights,

[BeastlyGoldfish]

Love the vids, thanks for dropping all the great content.

[Spinexus]

Do not use this on an undead map. Whole build becomes useless! xD
I learned it the hard way.

[skarnexonline]

Loved the guide and learned a lot - subbed - would love to see - more detail in build order from building side and also - maybe some ways to counter these boys in PvP as seems not extremely fun to play againt. Lime there’s the anti morale damage perks for race but those kinda gimp you I guess - then there’s the anti range damage vs those op archer builds so then you just anti building for what might be :))

[keenanmccracken]

My first build was built around doomherald. Such a cool tome

[pupa]

Nice build. Is there a reason for the keen sighted trait beside that barbarian skirmisher's are good with it, or would the nightmare mount for the -moral aura be a viable option too?

[jacobbriggs]

the last build i had was awesome nature and chaos mixed with magic addicts and teleportation you have so much mana and world spells you can literally summon armies with awaken the forest and golden horde right on the enemies throne cities and then you attack iwth your main army to brng the AI to you and divide them. and you use storm elemtantal (45 mana) to scout deep into enemy territory and summon a 3 stack in one turn and teleport your main hero on the stack. you can literally stop any other faction from acheiving victory by blowing up there provinces whenever they create a pillar etc (because the map shows you where they are )

[Daafiejj]

With the tier V Nature tome, you can get an additional 20% crit hit chance if ya take Force of Nature.

[blitzhacker]

Any specific Hero traits? Archer? Melee? Caster? does it matter?

[paeppafpaefpafepa]

would be great to have a cheat sheet to refer back to as we build the civ

[dsinemoimouton]

Tome of the Herald is indeed very strong, but only against non morale immune enemies.
So I would say it's situational (even if AI is often not morale immune). It's not as reliable as let's say combat summons (imo)