Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Age of Wonders 4
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Age of Wonders 4 has just launched and maybe you're struggling to beat your first campaign, maybe you're looking for some beginner tips to help you out, well look no further! In this Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Age of Wonders 4, I'll be guiding you through all of the basics in the game for those just starting out!
0:00 Intro & Summary
1:04 Starting Difficulty
2:59 UI Breakdown
15:04 City Management
22:57 Tomes & How They Work
32:28 Army Management
42:09 Empire Development
44:04 Rally of the Lieges
47:34 Free Cities & Vassals
53:39 Importance of Claims
57:57 Diplomacy & Wars
1:09:29 Siege Projects
01:13:35 Combat Breakdown
01:29:44 Conclusion
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@manuelitowhiskey9560
Жыл бұрын
Quick question: if your own City is under siege and the Walls are broken down, but you win the fight. How do you repair the City because you loose the ability to build anything?
@Tgruss
Жыл бұрын
Can you change the gender of the units in the armies? male or female archers. That sort of thing?
@fovarberma752
Жыл бұрын
Are all multiplayer savegames ironman on the game server/clouds? When a bug happened, ruined a few games of Planetfall, and it is the thing that will have me buy or not.
@Nickramsdale
Жыл бұрын
I got a message to inbox you. Cant figure out how to do that!
@doomedrpgproject4473
Жыл бұрын
@@Nickramsdale It's just an internet scam that fakes the profile of the KZreadr to steal your money. As opposed to a KZreadr's Patron, which is a legitimate scam where the real KZread personality steals your money.
Finally someone that explains things in a new player, friendly way. Found this super helpful and really appreciate the time and effort you have put into this. You have a new subscriber. Thank you.
@italianspartacus
Жыл бұрын
Thank you man, very high praise! Welcome to the family :)
@MrTalyn3
Жыл бұрын
@@italianspartacus Is there any way to trade a province between my cities or to place an outpost and have the resource count for a certain city? I have a city that needs 2 foresters. However, there are no forests to claim. Also, I have 5 teleporters set up. Is there any way to tell where it will take me before clicking on a location. Right now, I have to make several jumps just to finally go where I wanted to in the first place. Awesome video, thank you.
@lougowan7008
Жыл бұрын
UTB!
@anthonystewart1936
Жыл бұрын
@@lougowan7008 UTB!!
So cool seeing this game get so much attention
@torgrim123
Жыл бұрын
What do you mean? this is not a small studio making it.
@ItsTheIceIceBaeBae
Жыл бұрын
I've never heard or played a game like this besides maybe on a mobile device and I'm about to drop 50 bucks on it because I'm so intrigued, I've gone as far as to think all these small youtubers are paid by Paradox and their devs are leaving these helpful little comments, but it's also because this game is special in the sense you can generate so many outcomes and there's just so much depth. But not much goes on during the gameplay its like one of those you just gotta jump in and see but 50$ is a tall task. But I'm gonna do it. I'll wait for Dead Island and Jedi Survior to go on sale.
@NileJoye
Жыл бұрын
It’s an amazing game!
@NileJoye
Жыл бұрын
@@ItsTheIceIceBaeBae and I’m not paid by anybody!
@omarsabeur9039
Жыл бұрын
@@ItsTheIceIceBaeBae some of them might be paid , but the game is fun , I'm very skeptical but I bought the game because of its customization and wide variety of races. It's great if you have friends into D&D or table top .
This is another game I would’ve never touched if it weren’t for your in-depth videos-CK3 being another prime example. Thank you!
@Mikodemuz11
Жыл бұрын
same here :)
This is my first 4x/strategy game ever, and this has helped immensely! My first blind game was a mess
Hands down the best beginner guide for Age of Wonders 4. No doubt it might be longer than other shorter guides but many have missing bits here and there. This is the one video you need that gives you all the comprehensive information you need, and elaborates further on the UI and mechanics of each phase, that might not be evident on first sight (especially for newcomers) but I find myself returning back to this video for refreshers and am amazed that the parts where I needed help was still being covered (despite forgetting about it on first viewing. Thank you ItalianSpartacus for making this. It is really extremely helpful! You have a great ability at explaining the various nuances that is missing from the standard tutorial in-game from a newcomer's perspective.
So grateful for your guide! You're the only KZreadr that really touched on the nuances of the game that I needed confirmation on. This is my first 4X game so it's pretty overwhelming but you pretty much simplified everything for me. Easy sub!
Also remember: Boosts are applied retroactively. So if you queue that town hall so it starts getting built around the time your city hits 5 pops, that's an investment refund for you. Edit: The shuffle also lets you lock in a tech to be available after your current research finishes; useful if you roll two techs you've been waiting for for a bit.
Like others have said, I really appreciate the way you walked through and carefully and "clearly" explained how things work. Awesome!, hard to find good videos like this one. Keep em coming!
Best beginner guide creator for 4X content, always watch these when starting a new one.
👏👏👏 all the the other ‘basics’ videos from other creators went over my head.. sub
@italianspartacus
9 ай бұрын
Welcome aboard!
The perfect tutorial video!! Very well explained, detailed and with the perfect voice rhythm. Many thanks from my THRONE city :)
@italianspartacus
Жыл бұрын
Hahahaha MY CROWN CAPITAL! Thanks for watching brother :)
Thank you for making such a thorough tutorial! One minor topic suggestion that seems to be missing is seafaring, embarking, and nautical combat! Liked and subscribed!
I like how fast you talk, i can't wait to get back in the game and you not only speaking fast but getting straight to the meat and potatoes, is gonna get me there quicker, and you earn a sub for that
@stylishsteamy8197
Жыл бұрын
I like meat and potatoes
Video completo, qui c'è tutto quello che c'è da sapere per comprendere a pieno questo splendido videogioco, grazie ❤
I really appreciate your coverage of this. I've followed you & Turin for Warhammer for a long time but I'm an oldschool HOMM fan at heart & this scratches that itch. I've been hyped since announcement & was so stoked to see you doing videos on it. Paradox really nailed this game. I love the create a race & other features that make playthroughs feel more "personal" so there's more RPG vibes as opposed to purely trying to min max insane difficulty runs on a mechanical level like Civilization etc.
@itsyaboiherman
Жыл бұрын
Hmmm how is warhammer 3?🤔🤔 I'm thinking of trying it
@kylekarich
Жыл бұрын
@@itsyaboiherman I like it a lot. I mainly focus on the tactical map 4x gameplay. I know that most people like the tactical battles a lot but it has balance issues etc. in multiplayer. If you want a fantasy themed "grand strategy" with civs that feel pretty different, & not as many systems as something like Crusader Kings (it's more approachable than that), it's worth checking out.
@itsyaboiherman
Жыл бұрын
@Kyle Karich oh ok awesome, ya I also heard of crusader kings, I just build my first gaming pc so now I have a whole new world of games to try and AOW came across my steam dashboard and it looked cool so now I'm doing research on what other good games are in the genre that I plan on trying😀
The best guide I've watched in a very long time. Thank you for doing this.
Great Tutorial! Thanks @ItalianSpartacus. Your Tome and Faction guide are also really useful and very well done.
@italianspartacus
Жыл бұрын
Dejin! Thank you so much man, extremely generous of you!! Glad it helped out :)
Best AoW4 tutorial video I've seen so far. Thanks!
@italianspartacus
Жыл бұрын
Thanks brother!!
this video is so good, the tutorial of the game doesn't explain so many thing, and I was so confused playing. thanks alot
I am fairly new to this franchise so your guide has been super helpful. I had no idea on some of these things.
Well worth the hour and a half watch/listen. Thanks man.
I was waiting for this. Thanks a ton, Spart!
@italianspartacus
Жыл бұрын
I'm here for you brother!
Very helpful! I'm diving into this game tomorrow!
So helpful..unbelievably well organized and concise!
Thanks Spartacus really helpful! They definitely need to add an option to prevent that territory boundary flash though after you pointed it out I couldn't not fixate on it.
As always, excellent guide
thank you. great to have another game where sparty teaches me how to play. love to play along with your tutorials be it this, vicky3, ck3, warhammer etc.!!
Excellent tutorial! , needed to be extensive. many thanks !
Just got into this game. Played AOW3 and planetfall but this video helped a lot! Loving this game so far.
Very comprehensive guide - thanks!!
I just started playing stellaris and now I’m loving this type of genre
really good guide , best one i find in youtube
Stoked to see you're doing videos for AOW4. Your Bannerlord videos have been great, so looking forward to your content for this game.
Great guide, thank you!
Thank you so much. I was about to uninstall the game because it's so overwhelming. I never played 4x games before. With this video I have a much better understanding of the game!
@italianspartacus
Жыл бұрын
YESSS I LVOE THAT D UDE!
Very helpful and informative video, thanks!
Great guide. Thank you.
First time playing a game like this, found this video super helpful
excellent tutorial video...thanks for that👌
Thank you for these tips!
Hell yeah dude thanks, I'm not really into fantasy settings but this game has me absolutely hooked!
@seanmeyer2068
Жыл бұрын
Id look at The age of wonders Planet Fall Has more to it and not buggy like this one.
Thx been playing for a while now but missed so much.
Great video mate, very useful
Brilliant guide thanks bro
You're the man, Spartacus!
I just started this game today. Old time Civ veteran, also big CK3 amd Stellaris fan. Looking forward to learning about it
That was the best Beginner's Guide ever! 10x
Thanks man, just picked up
Thank you for this video. I am learning a lot of things from this. I was hoping to see you talk about when to build second city. I gave up several early games, because I was too slow on spreading out. I had vessel developed before I even had a second city.
@italianspartacus
Жыл бұрын
Integrate one as quick as you can I'd say! Or make an outpost into a city fast :)
@thetwistedoak1
Жыл бұрын
The part about barbarian scouts can make outpost, I didn't know. Just build 2 at the start and set them to auto. Missed out on a lot there.
holy crap 1.30hs? Saving it to watch it later. Thanks bro.
You always have the best intro videos to 4X games man
@italianspartacus
Жыл бұрын
Hahaha thanks dude! I love breaking down mechanics
Thanks this was very helpful. I need to figure out how to actually build an outpost now - that wasn't obvious in my last play-through and I didn't expand.
nice deep dive thank you
Thanks for the video
As a fan of Ratfolk from Pathfinder (the PnP version, OwlCat still makes a joke out of what was a core race), the bit about distant claims allowing Underground Acclimated or Isolationist empires to summon units above ground/into the midst of occupied space just prior to cashing in multiple grievances and declaring war.
Ty for the ultimate guide
edddaaaiii che figoo che ci sono Italiani che ci giocano
Oh my god ur my new fav KZreadr
@italianspartacus
2 ай бұрын
FUCK YES
@noctemaeternam8376
2 ай бұрын
@@italianspartacus WOOOO!!! lol .. ^.^ ur responding, just solidified this. thank you! ^.^ have a great day as I sit here trying to teach myself this game haha
About to play this not played a strategic game in 15 years, I've truly effed it havent I
Awesome video! Thank u for taking the time. With that said, I'm completely new to this style game, and it still feels way too daunting to get into 😢
@Maedra
Жыл бұрын
I’m not new to this style and it still feels daunting to me too! I have hundreds of hours in AoW3 and other civ type games. You’ll get there! Just keep playing. 🎉❤
this video has been a boon for me! thank you i played the original age of wonders a long time ago and saw AoW4 brought it and was imediately confused lol. still i got some fun made a halfling called "Frodo Baggins" made the halflings evil AF and loading up the game i was greeted with "Greetings Dark Lord Frodo Baggins,........" i swear i burst out laughing. i got to about 2 hours into the game all the while confused as to what i was doing then it crashed lol. i guess tolkein saw what i did and used his godlike power to prevent the greatest threat ever known......... an evil frodo who was corrupted by the one ring, turning the halflings into an evil hellish race of unstoppable migits XD. thats when i decided i needed help and thank god your video was at the top of the list. also i cant remember what thing did it but when creating frodo baggins the armour set had that complete mordor vibe and it kinda made go into the evil frodo tangeant lol. Edit: the back story i had in my mind was that Frodo finally became seduced by the one ring stabbing sam in the back and tossed Golom into the lava lake of mount doom to which shortly after he wore the one ring and proceeded to kill sauron, claiming the throne of Mordor for himself. in the midst of all this gandalf felt a great disturbance falling to his knees and said "Frodo no, what have you become! im afraid we are all now doomed for a new Dark Lord has risen, one more powerful and more terrible than sauron ever was."
Love this channel
@italianspartacus
Жыл бұрын
Dude thank you so much!! Very kind of you
This is a great game, I've been having a blast with it still. The updates have smoothed out a few initial issues, but I've heard the mulitplayer is still a little rough. I exclusively play single player, and I can't get enough. The customization of worlds, heroes, and races makes for endless replayability. I can't say enough good things about it. It just scratches a unique itch, haha.
my god this game got me good for the weekend LOL
Always my favorite strategy game channel and this video is another excellent example of why. Really informative and I learned a ton watching this. I'm fairly familiar with Civ games and AoE feels like a great fantasy take on that formula and with more advanced combat. I'd still love to see a full combat guide for total noobs like me but this beginner's guide was fantastic.
Liking this game so far. Lots of customization, deep systems, interesting maps. I do find myself a bit put off by the extreme reliance on status effects, buffs and debuffs in combat. You HAVE to be very aware of the buffs, debuffs and effects that both your army and the enemy work with to be effective. It can be tiring for someone used to Civ or even XCOM style turn-based combat.
Thanks. This explains why all my cities hated me. 😂
Thanks for the vid. I made indoustrious orcs but ironically i don't know how to manage the industry of my city's.
cheers mate.
Definitely NOT THE WORST. Nice video.
What's missing here is a bit of a breakdown of the different builds one can go through starting from the faction creation part. Because obviously I'd guess that some starting builds are better for certain things, and to better pursue a certain type of victory (if this is anything like civ and the like), which as a beginner I have no idea about. So I could pick something that looks cool to me but just isn't very good for how I would want to play once I learn a bit about things.
Thanks!
@italianspartacus
Жыл бұрын
Just saw this dude!! thank you so much that's so kind of you!
@OkapiHerder
Жыл бұрын
@@italianspartacus no worries man, thanks for making good content
For anyone still having graphics driver related crashes, switching from borderless to windowed display mode is worth a try. I went from a crash every couple of minutes to no crash in a hour of play.
Fantastic guide for starting out! I found it incredibly helpful. Question: How do you get those diplomacy stones. I know you start with one but how do you earn more? Comment: CRITICAL COMBAT INFORMATION CLARIFICATION - Line of Sight. You mentioned that if there are any intervening units, it will lower your chance to hit your targe. There is a HUGE exception. Your own units that are directly next to your ranged unit do not count. This is absolutely critical because it allows you to strategically position your archers directly behind your defenders. They will benefit from any defensive bonuses and they are really hard to get to without the ability to pass through other units. SUPER effective and very obviously intended to be used that way. I know this is in the tool tip and you did not have time to go over every little detail, but I thought that this was important enough to point out as it affects the usage and effectiveness of all ranged units in the game.
So basically total war but more buildings focused than battles, started playing today and I enjoy the development of my empire and also the lord item customization.
Just a quick correction-- Wizard king can be chosen in story made after the first level. Outside of the first story level you always have access to both, if im not mistaken
@italianspartacus
Жыл бұрын
Perfect thank you! Great correction :)
@tylerchesney7395
Жыл бұрын
@ItalianSpartacus Thank you for the great content, you were the deciding factor on me buying this!
@italianspartacus
Жыл бұрын
YESSS! I love hearing that!!
this rules. Thank you.
These tips are helpful for understanding how things are supposed to be working, unfortunatley I haven't goptten to really explore much in the game doing the story scenarios however. I'm playing on normal and every story has been completed in like 40 turns, simply by just sending 2-3 6 stacks of mainly t1 units to wherever the enemy is and just auto-resolving any battles on the way to their cities and then their city without stopping. I guess i need to up the difficulty but I'm worried that the little details in the game are just going to be overlooked due to vastly incompetant AI :/
thx
Is the Quick Start the Beginner Scenario? Im finding it a good way to learn and I'm having a good time.
Thank you... very informative. Are there any other Spartacuses except Italian?
Great video tutorial!! But something odd keep happening to me when selecting "Affinity Checks" or Choices in ancestral locations. So, if you have a certain amount of affinity required you may choose a special option when entering certain ancestral places and it says the % of success. However, no matter how high the success probability is it always fails. Am i Missing something or may it be a bug? Thanks in advance :)
Pretty sure if you increase the mouse deadzone setting, you'll have an easier time getting to the tooltip box before it disappears.
@italianspartacus
Жыл бұрын
Let's give it a try!
What's fastest way to get lev5 tome? 2 tomes of lev 4 of the same affinity as that lev 5 tome that we want or can I just research one tom4 and then Tom5 after that?
Have a question, what happens if you a province with both gold and Iron. Does the 1 mine effect benefit them. Great breakdown I've learned a lot.
Just youtube this video wanna get back into strategic games
I didn't sleep last night because of this game.
@TheZackski04
4 ай бұрын
Same, now I'm at work
how do you create another city outside your boundary ? with scouts ?
Finally got my canablistic hobbits to the pantheon so hopefully this video helps me out with my frostborne orcs and humans (all 3 i mentioned are barbarians by the way) EDIT: while i had the AI on Easy because of the Volcanic Daemon Realm i made and how i still am trying to learn some thing (still combined houndmasters with shamans to win), it wasn't exactly easy especially when you have regenerating infestations on
The other scenarios have turn limits for the end game? I am a beginner and the first games I have played I lost because I wasn’t aware or the turn limits( plus i suck but having fun)
First of all: great tutorial. It is very helpful and i appreciate your effort to make it easy to understand for all of us that are beginning to play this game. I have one question, tho: in the combat, at 1:16:04 you said that if you use "Healing Sap" that has the cost of an Ability Point you cannot move and that you have to decide to use the ability or move. But if the cost is just one Ability Point, shouldn't it possible to use anyway, since the movements take at max two ability points? Maybe i misunderstood that part.
@italianspartacus
Жыл бұрын
You can move and use it OR only use it unfortunately :( even with full action points, using an ability, unless it's a shaded in blip, will result in the end of that units turn
If i have a unit in an amry that i dont want in there, how do i remove them? For example I've had a scout in my spear and archer army and cant remove the scout. . smh
How can I use unit deployment location? For example circle of zealotry can be used as unit deployment location, but how?
Does the campaign have a proper story like the first three games (not the one in AOW3 because no progress was transferred to the next stage)?
Great video. So its everything that CIV 6 shouldve been. My friend played civ 6 with me and after about 12 hours, it was so dull. AOW looks like it has developed complex and epic gameplay. Paradox made another good game. Good to see. Thanks Sparty for your great videos!
@MeldinX2
Жыл бұрын
Paradox is only the publisher. Triumph Studios is the development team that made the game.
@crunchyboi4591
Жыл бұрын
@@MeldinX2 I wonder why they made planetfall pretty differently, I wonder if it was just because it was the first age of wonders game to be put on console or they wanted to try something mechanically different since sci fi was new for the series, Planetfall was my first entry into the AoW series and people were saying 3 was a lot better and I didn’t think it was much different but after playing 4 a bit it feels so much different and better to me I like both but definitely gotta hand it to 4
First map i played i spent 80 turns getting every vessel to join me. Then I went to war thinking they would all join. Nope 20 turns later not one army left my vessels city's. Do they not help in war?
Hey new player here with a question. So when im building a new structure it has a cost at the bottom like 150 food 250 production. Though say I only have 50 food and 60 production it still lets me build? I'm kind of confused about the resources.
When I launch the game I get a Black screen with the audio playing. Any idea how to fix that. I did go to Steam to get help but after following their instructions, nothing changed
Is it better to just keep creating tier 1 units hoping for their promotion and low upkeep, or to create higher tier units?