How to Get Better (Advanced Tips) at Age of Wonders 4

Age of Wonders 4 launches on May 2nd, and with it you'll be able to dive in on a ton of new mechanics. In this guide, I help bring you from Noob to Pro by breaking down a lot of the more dense mechanics for beginners and veterans of AoW alike!

0:00 Intro & Summary
1:00 Choosing Your Difficulty
2:33 Queue up Your Buildings
3:27 Magic Materials
4:53 Free Cities & Vassals
6:13 Rally of Lieges
8:08 Outposts & Annex Range
9:18 Claims, Grievances, & War
12:10 Special Province Improvements
13:43 Heroes Limits
14:46 Affinities & How They Work
17:34 Honorable Mention: The Pantheon
18:39 Conclusion

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[italianspartacus]

Man, I'm so excited for you guys to play on the 2nd THAT MY TEETH ITCH!! Thanks so much for watching my bros!

[jgoody]

First I got into XCOM, then I got into Civ, then I got into Warhammer. Now I have all 3 in one game.

[xavierroyer]

I appreciate that sometimes my options in this game are limited. Theres a bunch of crap happening but only giving me a few research options or a few units at a time and trickling in more choice as the game goes along.

"Where do want to eat?" Vs "Which of these places do you want to eat"

Def a preference thing but taking a bunch off the cognitive load without going full auro pilot is great for me.

[ephemispriest]

I learned a lot while waiting for the launch to start. Thank you very much.

[LucaBlight_]

First age of wonders I played was planetfall and I fell in love with it. Gonna give this one a try as well

[WolfHead]

Love this series! Great job on the vid man, hope this game gets a really long lifespan.

[garrick]

It's great that you're covering this game. I've played all the Age of Wonders games and I really like them. TBH, the campaigns are usually not as good as a custom game, but I agree that playing the campaign is the way to learn. I don't think they're as good as Total War Warhammer, but they usually have interesting RPG mechanics where you can explore dungeons with heroes in a way that's more engaging than TWW. They are certainly more casual, which is a good thing if that's what you're in the mood for.

[eGregiousGames]

Age of Wonders isn't my favourite series, but I love the ideas and the sheer freedom of basically making your own Faction/Species.

[dominiclacroix]

i wish i would have seen your video before lol! Im pretty new to 4x games. I was a huge player of HoMM but never got into CIV or Europa. I decided to give this game a chance. Started with the ''initiation realm'' and god i was lost lol. I grew so much with your video, doing the campaign and sticking with pre-made race. I also got my first win yesterday with a custom race (orc, chaos and nature) in the initiation realm since i knew now a bit more how to play, my first real win by myself in a 4x game, yay!

[MordredMorghul]

You do not need an iron or gold special resource node to build quarries or mines, just as you don't need pastures to build farms. In Planetfall, these resource nodes would grant a bonus if you did build the corresponding province type. However, in AoW 4, any province will get the bonus. For example, if you have a gold resource node, and you build a farm on it, you still get +10 gold income. No mine required. Prioritizing expanding to these provinces is what is most important, not necessarily what you build on them.

[snowdawn]

Very good video bro. I just bought the game last night on Gog. I was playing Aow3 and Aow Planetfall few months to get ready for Aow4. Looking forward to playing the game tomorrow I am more playing singleplayer but good that Aow4 has multiplayer if I ever wanted to play coop. Will check out your channel and I hope you continue to cover AoW4. :)

[Quesar]

I've loved this series since the first game.

[TheRealMrWolf]

Thank you Sparty for another amazing video. You're THE guy we, the unwashed masses, turn to when it comes to conquering a new kingdom and leaving a lasting legacy of Icy Demon-Hobbits with fire glaives. Thank you so much! 🤗
Can't wait for the release! 😍

[tjmoorhouse]

Love these games and am very hyped for 4! My biggest struggle is usually on deciding when to expand and building enough armies. I can consistently have good early games, but have fun piddling around and tunnel vision on one stack and just kinda fall behind.

[monkeyddizze]

Bro these AOW4 Vid´s are super well done insta like

[Tetley]

Great vid, looking forward to more. A deep dive Into the times would be awesome.

[ashwinnmyburgh]

Recently started Stellaris and absolutely ADORE Crusader Kings, so now I see that there is a paradox fantasy game!!!??? How have I never heard of Age of Wonders!

[Nunya_Argo]

I have no idea what this game is, but It popped up in my feed and I wanted to support and check it out. I'm definitely, somewhat interested now.

[SkillaWillits]

You have taught me Crusader Kings 3 and now I have learnt Age of Wonders 4. I didn’t know I could select multiple units in the rally and a lot of the diplomatic features.

Just one thing, what is your advice on DLC, should complete the story realms before I get into the DLC?

[crushcommando]

Sorry if I missed it, but what about good vs evil races? How does that affect gameplay? I think I saw in a rimmy video Evil factions don't care about public order or something like that?