Age of Wonders 4: Maxing Gold and Research - 8K gold a turn, 13K research - 40 Turn Magic Victory

In this episode, Syndrome presents a change to his strategy, resulting in a turn 40 victory over his 8 allied AI opponents on Brutal difficulty. The video is a highlight reel of a number of impactful turns in this 40 turn match.

Racial Traits:
Body - Spider Mounts
Mind - Sneaky

Culture - High

Society Traits:
Adept Settlers
Scions of Evil

The engine for winning comes from the Shadow and Order trees. Your goals are to execute a basic vassal farming strategy utilizing Knowledge Extraction, focusing on researching each of the first 6 Order Tomes. At that point, you should have unlocked the Benevolent Conquerors Empire Development trait, which will reduce the time to release a city as a vassal by 1 turn, making it an instant ability for our low population farming vassals. This will allow you to farm a single vassal city a huge number of times, limited only by your movement points.

By utilizing an all-hero stack with resurgence, you can farm a single city a huge number of times in a turn. By adding in additional scout units to trigger battles, there is no hard limit to how high you can push this.

[Fracture.Gaming]

Hey! I tried to leave this comment earlier but youtube deleted it and idk why. So attempt number 2: I came up with this strategy on my own & searched around to see if anybody else had done it and found your amazing videos on it!

Would you mind if I included a screenshot of your homepage and mentioned your channel in my video? You pushed the strategy way further than I did when I tried it and I feel like people should see its full potential... If not just let me know! I probably won't finish editing my video until tonight, or more likely tomorrow.

[juliecantin]

This is amazing! Love your sense of humor, too.

[lordviego]

The real reason for turn timers in multiplayer!! Hah

[nellychingo]

I have been watching your video trying to perfect this strategy, but I have trouble even buying so many hero unit like you and beating vassal heroes that are Level 3 or 5 with tier three units by turn 11. What buildings do you push for in this build? also do you build any units? or just save the gold to buy heroes and summon units with mana?

[serhayden]

What if you add Chaos perk, that gives you unit after winning a fight? New unit have full movement for the turn, so by using him you can fight again, win, get new unit, start new fight win endlessly. I am thinking about trying this out, so I don't know how real is it, but if it is real then you can farm infinite amount of recourses, heros, equipment + tier 1/2 units.

[CreagerX]

I tried this, and after the 1st round of killing releasing etc. the repopulated army was stacked with tier 3s.

[chickenmcnastyy]

I assume that this 5 turn wait for declaring war on a vassal city is their fix to this

[yo-yoshine]

I’m new to this game how did you get 6 heroes? I though you only have one per city. I see that you have 4 but had 6 heroes. I know that you can go over it but starts to become more expensive.

[DemiGod..]

I don't find spider mounts OP as the web gets resisted alot due to the ai buffing their resists.

[yeeterbohlen]

Omg I just learned how you can pick signature skills after 50+ hours of playtime☠️🗿

[Epig]

GROW YOUR EMPIRE IN 5 EASY STEPS! (GODIRS HATE HIM!)

[urstaxfetish]

Was kinda looking for a real knowledge build.. all i get are exploits.