10 TIPS & TRICKS - Industrious Culture Guide AGE OF WONDERS 4 

I made a very thematic Dwarven faction with this culture and found that Spawnkin paired nicely with Tenacious and the inherent toughness of Industrious units. The combo of Spawnkin and Tenacious is already quite strong, but the added toughness from this culture gave them so much longevity - I don't think it's quite as strong as the combo of Wightborn and Fetid Legion on a Dark culture, allowing them to easily heal most, if not all the damage they take, but it seemed pretty close.

I justn learned that I should read all my unit skill, turns out some less good culture trees made up in other ways.

Here's a pro strat I figured out on how to get Pantheon unlocks quickly. Create a custom realm with a single continent and no oceans. Set size to small, number of factions to 2, and distance between factions to Close. Create a Mystic culture with the Shadow Walkers trait. Build scouts every turn and set them to auto-explore. Don't do anything else - just explore with the scouts. Once you found the second player - declare a war on them and immediately surrender. The second faction now gets a Military victory, and since you are their vassal - you also get a military victory. Which gets you 500 pantheon xp and 1 pantheon point. The whole thing takes about 5-10 minutes per run, I usually find the opponent by turn 4-5.

These are really nice, I think tips on how to expand on each of them would be nice too. I’m guessing you just spam outposts on these guys without actually making cities of them but haven’t tested it yet. My biggest issue is figuring out how to not get forward settled on every 2 turns (really wish they’d gut adapt settlers), or maybe I just need to turn the number of AIs down.

hi, it's strange that you did not mention the fact to all their units has got Watchful. Watchful grants an extra retaliation attack. Which means that you get MAX value from Ferocious. Taunt allows to dissamble focus fire and the unit can't be controlled : it will try to run away to attack you if it's a range unit. Have more hp is more efficient than having more armor because moving from 5 to 7 armor get you 51% physical damage reduction instead 41%. Moreover hp helps you with magical damage too and synergy better with Halbardier.

Will be waiting for Feudal Culture :P even tough it is the most straight forward race ;) Mystic would also be nice :)

I find that if you're playing industrial that the warding spellbooks transformation can help with the lack of elemental resistance

Good stuff Cant wait for that chaos and astral guides.

Having more ways to get bolstered will improve the effectiveness of your steel shapers. Staves of warding from the tome of warding, and adaptive armor from the tome of transmutation, are both nice to make your steelshapers better. Though come to think of it, I don't think I verified if adaptive armor and the regular bolstered mechanic stack. Transmuter should be helpful too, but I think it would have been better as a tier 3 unit. Don't take the tome of warding to early, even if it does shore up the weakness of industrious, you need better tomes in the early game. Ferocious is a good mind trait imo because these guys get extra retaliation attacks. I imagine combining it with supergrowth so you can hit back even more, though I haven't that yet.

It's good to add tome of warding- support skils also boost resistance, just dont research unit that is there, as its downgrade from own shields

Another great video.

Imo, you forgot to mention what I considered their bread and butter culture spell, which is steelfury chant. It sinergizes with both their racial passive and their tier 3 unit, the bastion. Get some bolstered buffs from either order or mystic and you're ready to inflict some heavy pounding.

Thank for the Prospector Tip.

No cannon to be built like the 3rd sequel? I thought industrious is like dreadnaught culture from that sequel.

Spam Huntmasters on a Shooty Boi build. Get your heroes as many Summon abilities as possible. Summon Undead. Summon Elemental. Summon Animal. Spiderling hatchling bell. Its hilarious starting a battle with twice as many forces. Use Overwhelm Tactics+ Pack Hunter+ Pack Leader.

thnks bro amazing

One think to note if you choose a special mount during creation the bastion unit will become mounted, similar to the furries of the barbarians.

Is prospecting scouts effected by the hunter trait that gives you better loot of of plagues / notes / wonders?

Add bolstered defence in turn 1 with steel shaper In turn 2: Heal and grin strength by losing it Then cast spell to add bolstered defence again before end of your turn. Repeat

I noticed with this race i lose way more auto ai controlled combat than any ither race ive played. The ai doesnt do well with these guys.

How big is this nut shell?

No Airships , like AoW1 =(

The video is very misleading in terms of defense you have tough and Earth kin that is + 3 defense. In terms of traits a better one would be the magic resistence one , the hp one or a mount.

Say: *So, to summarize up* or *in conclusion". *NOT* In a nutshell 😅

Industrious is by far weakest culture. They passive is ok, not the best, but userful one. Their prospect is indeed great. Xbow units is good, shields is userful... But in general - its terrible: All melee units lost 2 damage. On repeatable attacks. This is huge, especially for early T1 shield guy. But at least he compensate it with taunt. Halberder at least have damage reflection - its worse than taunt, but still something. But their T3 unit... Its simply the worst. Low damage, only marginaly userful passive, T3 unit cost... Why? Why pick him over taunt-guy? Who at least can lock enemy with his taunt. Over plant-shield unit from tome of the glade? Who have more damage with poison and have big heal? Over iron golem, who simply superior T3 shield unit in all regards - more damage, have aura on defense mod too, but most importantly - immune to status effects AND morale. He will never lose his defense, never break, etc. And steelshaper? Its another joke of a unit. She cannot heal without stacks, she cannot help if unit got bursted down in 1 turn, she preparations to simply heal 1 unit. And she also have pretty mediocre buff to 1 unit. Its worse support unit in entire game, and you will be happy to replace it with someone like bannerman. And she have physical damage attack. So - only 1 type of damage for entire culture. In the game industrious player want to replace his entire unit line from tomes and over cultures, cast Rune of Industry on them, and forgot about base units forever. And also to add insult to injury - DWARVEN FEMALES HAVE BEARDS! God, this so disgusting, i wish race creation have unit gender option. This also will help to roleplay as amazons and feudals, but main feature will be removal of this disgusting creatures.