Age of Wonders 4 - Overexplained - Beginners Guide - (Shadow/Necromancy) - Pt.1

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

[zhshsG]

Potato, you should know that if you start constructing a building and you boost it afterwards (eg by making a forester), the discounted gold gets refunded to you. So you get both the production and the gold discount, even if you are in the middle of production.

[rdp]

I really appreciate a beginners guide, that is actually a beginners guide, which also contains tips relevant to experienced players, without wasting any time bragging or hyping in the intro.

I swear, over half the videos that show up for this game have the same level of thought put into them as network television.

[Nota-Skaven]

Necromancy is always really fun conceptually but it always seems to be completely broken or useless with nothing in-between, I like the use of souls to check its power without making the abilities useless

[manwithabasicprofilepic]

An overexplained series? YES! I’ve listened to your Civ ones multiple times and always learn something new so I’m excited to see what you teach us in AoW!

[darksilver]

you won +1 sub at 1:20 when you said "darth Meow Meow" that one got me to the core lol. going to smile over that for a week.

[JManRox]

It's very appropriate that the evil necromancer faction you're playing as are cats. My cats love raising armies of the undead.

[harjutapa]

Of note: you didn't need to wait on the production of the Storehouse. Boosts are retroactive-ish, in that they subtract the full 30% even if you've already partially constructed the building. I've had boosts complete structures from that mechanic before.

[justinsinke]

"We are a nation that gets up in peoples faces, and then eats their faces."

I am getting more and more convinced to just buy this game the more I see of it. I like playing Stellaris in part because of the different combinations of ways you can build your empire, but Age of Wonders 4 just feels like it somehow has exponentially more customization minutia right off the bat.

[muse]

One thing you can do for additional souls/knowledge is immediately go to war with your first vassal city. This allows you to get a large amount of knowledge from killing heros with the first shadow affinity tree skill as well as begin snowballing your soul income earlier. You can still vassalize and absorb them after you've taken them out. Helps with negative alignment as well. I strongly suggest you do this if you're playing dark into the necro tree.

[WinSlayaGaming]

Thanks for the shoutout Potato! Watching your videos has helped me understand the game a lot too, and l'm loving your longer videos like this one

[Alorand]

8:15 - It's not necessary to produce merchandise. You can start building an un-boosted building, and if you get the boost later it updates to the lower cost and even refunds you any excess production.

[Ben_D.]

This is my favorite 4X game. Absolutely loving it, but some of the mechanics are over my head. I appreciate this series.

[Krishnath.Dragon]

Speaking of Tomes, my favorite tome by far is a third tier Materialist book, it allows you to level mountains and turn it into rocky terrain. It's a nice way to make additional space for your city to annex. Of course, you can only place a quarry there as a base improvement unless you terraform it further (such as with the nature spell Raise Forest), but you can put any special improvement on it afterwards. I recently had my starting city spawn next to a massive mountain complex, which made it easy for me to build the third tier magic focus next to it after shattering the mountain, thus making it really easy to defend. Good stuff.

Also, the tier IV and V ranked units are insane, and if you go the nature route, you can actually get the tier IV units earlier than your opponents with one of the nature branch skills. Specifically the one that spawns a random animal when you annex an area. I've regularly gotten tier IV units from that. Usually Spider Matriarchs, but sometimes tier IV wolves, or if the area is at sea, Krakens.

[Avilacjf]

Soothing, educational, and entertaining. What a great channel you got here!

[harjutapa]

I was super looking forward to you doing an Overexplained for this game. I've got a pretty good grasp of most of the mechanics, but I always learn something new in these videos.

[kingsuperbus]

dude im loving this game, it has everything i want. mind you im in my 50's and a little bit slower in fps games these days

[Checkingthetap]

As a new AOW4 player this guide has been great. I'm still playing on easy mode. This video explains so much

[seanp]

Thank goodness! I bought this last night after watching some of your recent series and I was definitely feeling overwhelmed. I'm so glad to see this I'm sure I'll be watching it a few times.

[SeanGomesPortfolio]

Ohhhh yes. Overexplained here we go!
I must admit, I kinda bounced off of AoW4, but this will likely get me right back into it.
Thank you!

[al_wombat]

11:00 Combat Tactics (basic) — so incredibly helpful for me starting out! Thanks!