Age of Wonders 4 Dwarves & Underworld | Faction creation gameplay 

When the devs are confident enough to release a 50min gameplay video months before the release of the game says a lot about the quality of the product they are developing. I'm very excited to play this later this year.

This is the most anticipated game for me for 2023! Absolutely love All of the AOW series! Go Triumph! :)

Just a suggestion, before clicking onward and starting the game, you should see one last recap screen of everything you selected, and hopefully you can save it as a draft.

I think you nailed the high concept and the artistic direction perfectly. The game almost has a Tolkien-vibe with these misty landscapes spotted with ruins, shining cities and dark fortresses, which is awesome.

I honestly cannot wait for this to realease! The video is wonderful, the narrator is hilarious and the video just keeps on giving: The bone dragon and the summoned Armour guys look SO good, the art style is phenomenal. And a tiny thing that I love is, that you can choose now if the dwarves shall ride Boars or wether they belonged on elvish horses all along, it really seems to give ALL the tools to build a game as unique and personal as possible. This game is a childhood dream come true.

These dwarves are absolutely amazing looking. I love this game. Cannot wait. Guess I'll play more planetfall and Spellforce Conquest of Ep to tide me over, but this is rough to wait for! Easily my most anticipated game this year.

Can't wait to dig into the ruler/race creator. Literally spent hours on hours in the AoW3 purely making characters, and this one is going to be a blast. One suggestion tho, dear people on Triumph. Make a separate Hero (the "not Ruler, but leads my armies" characters) creator. It is kinda overcomplicated to add your own heroes into the game, would be nice to have it from the start instead of crookedly modding them in, using weird (for most of us) interfaces or waiting for someone to do so.

As someone who likes to plan their city out from the first turns I like the smaller sectors that can be annexed earlier, it'll make cities grow more organically, so to speak.

This announcement make me reinstall Planetfall and now I'm loving that game, hope AoW4 isn't less complex or anything like that. I really like the idea of simultaneous queues for units and buildings and the fact that empire mode is now the standard gameplay mode.

Age of wonders planetfall was the game that got me into 4X games. Absolutely love the empire mode. I’ll pick this up when it releases.

Damn, the censor at the sheer amount of undead had me CACKLING!! Fantastic stream! I'm so looking forward to getting my hand on this game myself!

Love what I'm seeing so far, especially the customization! Seems like the best parts of Planetfall and AoW 3

I wish I could buy and play this right now.

What is this?! devs actually good at the game. Now that's news. Well played

Sweet, looking forward to watching live!

This is probably the aspect of the game i'm most excited for. Such a cool concept.

This was spectacular, I'm fully aboard the hype train for AoW4. Shadow magic was my favorite game for a long time, and this looks like it's set to scratch all the right itches. That said, question on body plans of custom races: any plans to include non-humanoid types? For example, I'd love to play Spiders or Naga. I can understand that there's balance and map design to be considered, so something majorly different like aquatic or aerial species are likely a bridge too far.

Looks really good guys - I'm really liking how you can customize your race. I'm hoping the city and empire building is the most advanced yet, and I also am hoping combined arms will be much better than Tier IV spam.

The art style is absolutely gorgeous in this new iteration.

These Dwarves are living in a Materium world, and they are just Materium girls.

I'm a huge fan of Dwarfs especially from TW:Warhammer so this is exciting to see more games that include these old fantasy races. I've never heard of these games but I'm happy to give it a go when it releases eventually.

Wow, a restart combat button, I always wanted those, so much easier than always reloading the saves!

Looking forward to more video content! Dwarves obviously are the secound best race behind men ;) I'll make sure to cover the new infos in a video in the comming days.

This looks really cool. I love the faction creation and the unit combat looks really good too. Do you have buildable structures in the game as well? I really loved the watchtower, fort, and bridge construction from aow3. That's some of the most fun I get out of games like this, planning cities, and figuring out where I want to build strategic advantages. The more of those types of things we can add to the map to modify the geography of the map, the better imo.

I was really worried about the art direction after the first vid, but this one brought me back on board. Also love most of the changes to the gameplay. Consider me excited!

I think the more wacky combinations they allow the better, gnome warriors or rat angels, fairy demons, ridiculos and interesting stuff like that.

Praise inoch The elven court will rise again

Can't wait !!! Let's go

I wish you'd add the Draconians again as a playable race.

I’m incredibly excited for Age of Wonders 4. It’s pretty much the “Age of Sigmar” video game I’ve been waiting for! Totally gonna end up making as many Fantasy Tropes from various Fantasy Settings (at least as much as it will allow). I picked up the entire collection on GOG.

Love the dynamic between the two

Absolutely loving the Age of Wonders series since Age of Wonders.

Great playthrough! Loved Tom at the wheel and his and Lennart's banter! He sounds like me when I play curses and all. :D

This looks really good. I havent seen dwarves so properly portrayed in a long time. The passion is there and it shows.

wow, just WOW! I wish to see AoW3, but better graphics and more customization option. Thanks, my dream can true! Please, show undead!

Composer for this brilliant game is Michiel van den Bos? Beatiful coalition ^__^

I'm curious how xp works for regular troops In Planetfall they only have 4 ranks, and that kinda bummed me Also, it's looking like you gonna have less heroes than before

My buddy and I are steamrolling AoW Shadow Magic yet AGAIN! It has the most "magic" among all the 4x games - I hope untill aow4 releases :) It looks splendid, and I'm only on minute 5 of this vid :) Cheers Triumph, and thanks for those games :)

The pronouns option calls for suspicion already, but considering there are elves in this game, who stereotypically are degenerate, I think this can pass for authenticity!

My dear Developers, I can't help but wonder -- it's the Age of Wonders, after all -- how would anyone benefit from sheildbearers staying behind their backs while the obvious choice is to put them in the front line to cover all the archers and pikemen? The pikemen, on the other hand, just must have a reach effect on their attacks, allowing them to strike an enemy across a gex, while having penalties when the enemy is right next to them. That's just my opinion, anyway. The game overall looks very promissing, with lots of rases and customisation even without all the DLCs that are sure to follow! I can't wait 'til the release!

lots of super cool info coming out lately guys! I'm really interested in seeing how the "post-game" stuff works, with ascending our leaders between games. Warlords Battlecry did something like that way back in the day and ever since i've wondered why more of these kinds of games didnt have more game-to-game continuity/meta-progress, since the system lends itself so well to it. In any case, AOW 4 GOTY!!

i only have one question. can i still play my dreadnought. Can i still destroy my enemies with the MIGHT OF MY CANNONS and play out fantasy napoleonic wars with my friends?

Is there any chance that there will be gunpowder and mechanical units from AoW3? My fauvorite part of AoW3 is the ability to create industrial Elven steampunk/manapunk empire with flamethrowing tanks and Elven musketeers just to break stereotype of elves as leaf-lover "Greenpeace" lads.

Age of Wonders 3 was amazing. Very looking forward to this. (Loved Planetfall too)

Can we have a glimpse of the soundtrack?

I grew up with Age of Wonder #1 and I'm so happy to see that you are making more. I hope this one has the amazing level of lore and story that the original had. You've definitely influenced me in my game dev work.

Ever since the announcement I've been like a drug addict awaiting their next fix. This game can't release soon enough. I NEED MY FIX!

I dunno if you guys take feedback on these vids, but regarding visual character creation; it would be much nicer to be able to actually see the options you have, rather than just going through an entire scrollbar to see them all, one at a time. What about a pop out menu with previews?

PLS FOR ALL YOU MIGHTY AGE OF WONDERS DEVS PLS INCLUDE UNIT UPGRADES SYSTEM FROM PLANETFALL AND MAKE ALL ACTIONS WITH SOME RMG CHANCE TO HIT/MIS IT WILL MAKE YHIS GAME ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE AND NO TURN BASED NOT FINISHED GARBAGE FROM THE OTHER WILL STAND NO CHANCE...

Is there any chance there will ever be any type of ram mounts? Would love some dwarfs riding rams like depicted in many other fantasy universes =).

Why did Triumph remove the pentagram from the army symbols? It was the go-to for my Necromancer rulers.

This is looking so good, been playing so much planetfall in anticipation :D

This was much better than the previous presentation, thanks Tom!

@2:55 in aow3 they were BOTH. Just saying.

If anything made me want to buy this game, it was watching Tom in this video. The gleeful enthusiasm he has for this game is awesome. Hope he gets to stream more.

Love the happyness icon from aow3 when units crit 😄

Please add the ability to increase the text font size in the game! Text looks too small on a laptop screen.

This looks very pomising. Can`t wait to play the game.

22:40 Do units have the background of where they are, just as in aoW3?

I just wish there was some biting animation for dragons, not just the slaps. Love the game!

Tom is the best dude ever..>So much passion in this guy

Next time tigran :)

Dang, new streaming content showing off your game play instead of a bunch of cinematics? I'm here for it and to me this is huge green flags and a sign that I need to keep this game on my radar at all times so I can track your updates. Thank you for the quality and transparent previews 🙏🏽

Bought the biggest, fanciest edition to support you guys. Loved 3 and SPASE, can already tell this is a culmination of every lesson learned from previous titles. Very excited.

Oh, Dwarves of the iron hills from lotr. :)

It is so cool to see the whole enemy army move at once in the first turns + gain of time and more smooth (specially after playing a lot of AOW3 seing each enemy move foward then guard over and over again. Subtle change that goes a long way over the course of a game !

Dwarves just bonking away with their meat tenderizers.

Never heard of this series, but this looks amazing. Also, seeing just some devs, playing, enjoying and sharing their game? LOVE to see that. This is my kind of marketing. Wishlisted.

Will there still be riflemen musketeers and steam tanks and the like, like in AOW3? Any Tomes/Specializations for that?

I fkn love you guys for creating this.. and also cant wait to see what you guys gonna do with the next Planetfall installment

Interesting, what happens, if you have underworld infestation, but all races start on surface, infestation will spread, will it spread on surface and how strong invasion will be from neutrals, and will it get stronger with time? It would be cool, if it would, something like demon invasion, or undead horde invasion and other things.

Insta-buy for me. I hope there will be regional pricing.

this will be my game in 2023

The customisation options look great! I hope for a good map editor to put my favourite fantasy worlds with their multitude of cultures on huge maps. Maybe even with magic level control, like in AoW 1.

City management still looks rubbish. Two queues and a bunch of "buildings" that don't appear anywhere and only add some arbitrary stats. Make city building and management actually interesting - why not have settlement leaders with unique bonuses? or city centre buildings that add to the appearance of the city? The extra animations needed etc are worth it and one of the things that makes a big part of the game more interesting. (HoMM has longevity of series largely because of this feature).

will there be gunpowder units?

Customize your race's appearance as well as your hero's! YES, THIS IS AWESOME!

the most important thing are many playable races man... Age of Wonders2: Shadow Magic (literally best game ever btw) had like 15 different playable races, and they were all cool and unique.

AND PLS AT LEAST MAKE PENGUINMAN FACTION FOR MEME

Had no idea this game was being made. Got to admit I'm getting pretty hyped, looks great. Intense customization being one of my favourite things, I can see myself playing around for hours and hours just making variations on races.

Looking nice. Good to see that maps graphic improved since the 1st steam - what I saw in the 1st one was quite disappointing to me. Though I still have impresion that general style is very close to AOW3 just slightly more polished. I would hope for something more new. I like new race customizarion system pushing further from AOW3, 2 production queues in cities and back to global enchantments from AOW1. I wish we could go back to 8 unit stacks from AOW1&2 allowing for more synergies and combos from different units. For now I am not sure how I feel about city grow system - selecting zones to expand is cool but be able to choose only one options from this zone to build and use seems horrible. I always loved to find a sweet spot for a new city will many good features closed by. Maybe I am missing something here. Would there also be extra buildings options based on ruins and sites around the city from AOW3? That was super cool features allowing for each city to be unique focusing on different units and development routs. I would also love to go back to AOW1 ruins explorarion system when your stack trully went into them and explore them with the fog of war never knowing what is inside going through dungeons corridors or cave mazes. And these hasty retreats on the edge of panick when you stumbled on something much more powerful than your current level and chased to exit zone with your heros and most valuable units sometimes having to sacrify less tier units to delay the threat. Those were days... I would also love to go back to AOW1 city defense style. Dont get me wrong AOW3&4 city defense is much better than this abbomination that was in AOW2 but still lacking the charm of AOW1. In AOW3 we had one stright line of walls and though it was fun it was nothing like defending the entire city from all sides like in AOW1. You could split your attack to different directions, defenders had to split their forces, and defending the walls was often just a prelude to main brutal defense between houses, in narrow streats and city squeres when sometimes last defenders retreated to do the last valiant stand. Often these in city fight were the most important and decisive - I love that. I know that this requires slower game pace than one selected for AOW3 and seems for AOW4 but I prefer slowerone when there is more space for tactical moves and combining different unity skills for greater effect. In AOW3 fights were very brutal and short not leaving place for some skill uses as the fastest way to win with minimal loses werr these wild cases for flanking moves to chop enemy to pieces. I also really hope for AOW4 team to take seriously lore and building it properly. What was done in AOW3 call for vengence to heaven with such things like halfling slaughter disappearance just to reemerge in dlc!

Guys, this game is amazing but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE change the minimap to Age of wonders 3 style and NOT planetfall. there's seriously 0 useful info in this minimap, at least in AoW3 map you could see units represented as dots.

Why is Werlac red if he had black hair before?

Hopefully multiplayer was revamped since AOW3, its boring to w8 for other peoples turn, in TW Warhammer 3 you can give units to your allies or take control of the opponent AI, I dont think this will work for AOW4, maybe add a card game mini game while you w8 =)) or I dn something fun, while you wait for other people to finish the manual combat.

AI! I want 50min dedicated to the devs explaining how they've fixed the terrible AI from the last 2 iterations of this IP. Planetfall and AOW3 were two of my fav games but the AI makes it impossible to enjoy the late game. Brain dead diplomacy (not to mention lack of options but that's another matter), preference to zerg with low tier units, never tech up to higher tiers and inefficient use of unit customization thus leading to weak combat challenges are issues that have consistently plagued this IP.

where is the draconian race, dragon D:

I'm so glad to see they've gone back to the AOW1/2Planetfall rts empire building style. AOW3 campaign is the worst game in the series and almost unplayable for me.

Used to not care at all for age of wonders because as far as I could tell you only could customize the wizard, not the faction itself. Now they’ve made faction creation look almost as free form and creative as Stellaris and now I’m ALL HERE FOR IT.

1:06 Edward Portsmith was main Hero in Commonwealth campaign and his class was Dreadnought. I wonder how developers explain the lack of Musketeers and Cannons in his army?

Fantastic. Great hosts, interesting gameplay. Definitely on my wish list .

overall looking good but i wish the art style would be less cartoony and more like its ancestors AoW 1+2

Please don't speed up idle animations when animations are sped up. It really looked stupid in past games. We want the battles to go by faster without degrading the game's visual quality. In fact even for attack animations, at maximum speed it would be nice to provide the option to replace overly sped up animations that tend to look silly by a "bump" effect for attacks. Likewise, for movement animations a "slide the unit around with motion blur" like Civ VI does would be a nice option to provide as an alternative to spastic walking animations.

ok compared to the first gameplay show off this one is Just Awsome !! i laghed my ass of chamistrie in these tw oguys are amazing and ufcorse the way he tells the story while palying is just so entertaining :) Great game cant wait HYPE HYPE ! take my money =]

Lmao, they added bras to the females of physical form picking screen. E: 36:52 Ah, I see the Bone Dragons everywhere late game "crisis" of Age of Wonders 3 is still there in spirit.

most of the time you wont see devs playng theyr own game before launch, never played Age Of Wonders but aGE OF WONDERS 4 I will buy

TAKE MY DAMN MONEY ALREADY!!! That UI is no nice, and the replayablity looks grand.

Ah so much memories. Wonderful. However I do miss cannons and musketeers for the industrious dwarfs. Hailing down a barrage of hot iron on the dragon before the pikes get close. Can't wait to start my own journey and conquer the new realms.

Age of Wonders needs random map generator like in civilization or in heroes 3 to increase re-playability. AOW3 generated maps were almost the same. Also adding on map some buildings like in heroes 3 that are worth to visit, previously it was mostly like city to city travelling. Waiting for this game

It's so refreshing to just see devs playing and loving their game to show it off. This should be how more games are promoted. Game looks awesome! Gunna re-install planetfall to get ready for it :)

Looking really good. I just hope optimization will be done well enough that I don't need à 2000 dollars graphic card to run this.