AGE OF WONDERS 4 | 10 Early Game Tips (Beginner's Guide with Gameplay)

These 10 Early game tips for Age of Wonders 4 are intended to be useful for both players new to Age of Wonders games, and for players who have a lot of experience with them. The gameplay captured in this video was made using a free early access key from Paradox Interactive and Triumph Studios. Thank you again for sharing a key with little old me!

While I have been following the development of Age of Wonders 4 very closely, I haven't had that much time with the game itself. If you think my advice is not quite right, I would love to hear your feedback in the comments section below. If there are any other topics you would like to see me cover, feel free to let me know about that in the comments section too.

0:00 Intro
1:36 Tip 1: Build Cities Quickly
4:58 Tip 2: Build 2nd Stack of Units Early
6:20 Tip 3: Prioritize Imperium Income
10:51 Tip 4: Don't Underestimate Ranged Attacks
19:00 Tip 5: Take Advantage of the Action Point "Economy"
29:37 Tip 6: Prioritize clearing Ancient Wonders
32:04 Tip 7: Recruit Heroes up to your Hero Cap
35:14 Tip 8: Use Mounts for extra movement
38:14 Tip 9: Don’t Waste Banners
42:04 Tip 10: Don’t go below +15 Mana Income a turn

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[WinSlayaGaming]

I am streaming more of the story realm today at 9am pt if you want to join us :)

[whiteguy]

Gotta love Winslaya with his great tactical insights and infinitely lovable monotone voice

[jrrd]

Can you please explore the lore section of the encyclopedia? I only just found out it exists and it sounds like a possible satisfying replacement for missing flavor text/unit descriptions. Thanks!

[yoanstanev]

Keep up the age of wonders 4 content comming bro ! Love the format

[Tentacl]

It's really cool to see your channel blossoming with AoW4.

[Fishbaitz]

Hey! Ive been playing this game and loving it. Finally finished a game with my friend, 18v18 and he casted Disruption Wave. Removed all enchantments and buffs and my army that had higher CP then his crumbled. Is that spell OP? Any way to counter it? What about casting when your hero is dead?

[aries]

Thanks for the content drops. I used to watch some of your Planetfall videos. Looking forward to what you cook up on Age of Wonders 4 videos.

[PurplKingdom]

I have played Age of Wonders since I was young. I am going to play my first online AOE

[phantompie]

Love the content man been watching since pf came out. Glad you got early access, eager to get in game myself! Any word on how easy it is to recruit dwelling-like units like the naga or archons in aow3?

[-phenom-]

I know I'm a lil late to the game, but I kinda figured once I started playing I'd be hooked so I waited and then got lucky with a steam sale. Anyway, I almost didn't click on the video because of the length. Stupid. Because I don't like the "Tips" videos where the hosts are so rushed they blow thru the content and don't give any real insight into why they do certain moves. You have a nice chill/relaxed tone and do a great job of explaining the benefits of the decisions you make. Really helpful! Thank you!

[hihosilver]

Hey great video man, very articulate and easy to follow! Makes me want to play this on Xbox! But I think I'm gonna go with Planetfall just because I played a dozen or so hours of that years ago. It was pretty overwhelming at first ofc, but I definitely enjoyed my time with it.

[MrLeafy]

Fantastic stuff! I want to know more about why building cities earlier. Why the 3 province spread instead of finding more optimal areas w better provinces / wonders around it?

[FrozzenK]

Not sure if this is the best place to ask but is there any vampiric stuff in this game? I've looked at the main races and I know that sadly there isn't a vampire race, but I'm hoping maybe you could turn a race into vampire through the transformations and whatnot.

[Freelancer]

i literally cannot explore ancient wonders, no idea why. My ruler is in the party, but when i walk over it nothing happens.

[BorisKhasanov]

Cover multiplayer when you can, seems like no one has talked about it yet

[elite_sr]

Hell yeah the first of many uploads to come

[verse]

hello, youtube algorithm. nice to meet you 🙂

[josiekitter]

My suggestions for upcoming content:

Guide for each culture and good strategies to win with it

Guide for each affinity, mostly focused on the tomes for the affinity

[johnnybravo]

I really hope you post more of these tips/guides kinda like for Planetfall. I would really like to see different synergies and builds. Really enjoyed some of your Planetfall stuff like the Xenoplague one.

[Arthuranta]

love the insight, the format and the video at whole. keep it up!