[Brutal] Call me the Dragon Sniper, I'm taking names - Dragon Dawn - Age of Wonders 4 - Ep.4 

didn't take too long 3:45

the problem with spiders is that autoresolve cannot use nets and you need to manual fight everything

​@@bart7114 I find they work pretty well in auto. Not as well as a human, but not terrible by any means. And they are really cheap to recruit. The weakness I find is that hunter spider matriarch are tier 4, and eat into my imperium.

​@@bart7114 and thy definitely use nets in auto on my build. Don't know why they don't on yours. They sometimes use them stupidly and net their friends, but they definitely use them.

@@MartynWilkinson45 I encountered the issue on spider mounts. Maybe standalone spiders run on better AI. On heavy spider cavalry AI kept charging in and basically never use nets unless their first target died

@@bart7114 ah, I used scouts, standalone spiders and furys. It might just be an issue with melee cav AI clashing with spider AI.

It's not a bug, if a corpse is gone the unit can't come back. Eating the corpses will have the same effect.

The bug is that the unit will revive for the wrong player after it has been transformed

Also, the corpse is not lost, it simply started walking. If you kill the zombie and raise it as a zombie yourself afterwards, it will revive as its original unit after combat. The bug happens because the unit switches factions when it gets converted, but doesn't revert to it's original allegiance even if the conversion only last for the duration of a single combat, nor does it stay as the unit it has been converted to when the effect should be permanent.

if you put a unit on top of a spelljammer it will be disabled for as long as unit lives

Agreed, with pillaging being an evil act, letting easy fights flee for no xp ect, playing good alignment is actually harder

They nerfed it, HARD. It used to be 50 Knowledge per hero level. So kill a level 10 hero, gain 500 knowledge. Yeah. 150 per hero is much more balanced, now.

@Xagerx10 oh I read that wrong but yeah still a nice bit of knowledge

Actually, that is something you can change in the settings when making the game. Considering that this is a story mission with its own goals/victory condition for the player I'm not sure whether that was selected or not.

Wyverns are Tier 3 units, same as full-grown Slithers, they are not an endgame stack. In fact what you're suggesting is a nerf, full-grown Slither -> Wyvern Hatchling is a direct downgrade. Edit: Okay I see the "stat them accordingly" now, but that doesn't fix the fact that you would lose access to unit diversity early on Edit 2: And it doesn't make sense from a lore standpoint, they're all entirely different species

You can trade occupied tiles to one of your cities, as long as the tile is bordering your city and the city in question has enough population to be able to annex it. This will not incur any alignment changes at all and is possible even if the occupied domain has an intact sanctuary.

yes, not impossible but its less optimal

Its not impossible. A couple other RU-vidrs play on brutal and can maintain good and pure good alignment.

You miss out on a *lot* playing good. Almost every event is a choice between a good reward with evil allignment or a bad reward(or *no* reward) with good allignment. Good allignment also can't trespass, pillage, raze, migrate, or easily declare war. That makes fighting an enemy really rough, it can be hard to stop an AI snowball if you want to stay good. Additionally, the only downside to being evil is increased odds for "negative events", but you get like 1 event every 10 turns and even the few negative ones are rarely bad. There's also the relations thing but it doesn't ever feel that impactful. The system feels designed to make the AI gang up on "optimal players" and support RPers, which is actually pretty smart from a design perspective. I just wish there was more tangible reward for being good to make the events feel less one-sided on a turn to turn basis, good feels pretty useless if you aren't playing a map with tons of free cities (for example; on every single campaign mission)

Game isn't that hard, you can do it but it just sucks to do things that are suboptimal. Though if you go for an order build being good aligned is actually a good play since it gives you more than pillaging would.

@@Kandall05161 right? Boo, I lost stabilty, it never feels bad enough for bad. Maybe some knowledge or blocked prod/food. You more than make up for it fighting n evil.

What part of tier 3 spider spam felt trash? Not to mention Phoenix spam that's in the same build.

Quite simply, almost every other path you can choose is quicker, easier, cheaper, more seductive. By the time the spiders get rolling, I can otherwise have Tier 1 units hitting harder, for far cheaper. They won't have the bugged and soon to be gone super spider web (and all summons are getting nerfed too), but I'll be able to field multiple super T1 terminator units per each spider, and I'll build them faster and can easily replace them if they actually die... which they only will in autoresolve. Or better yet, use heroes, which are going to be cheaper than T3 or T4 units. T4 and T5 units are inherently flawed, because they use Imperium, which slows the most significant way to strengthen everything (which is better, 150 Imp/turn or an army of Phoenix?). The Phoenix in particular, because it depends on dying, requires too much healing to remain reliable when facing back to back battles - as a T4 unit, is C at best, and only because it gets a 2nd life. Also, you can't even reliably spam the Phoenix as you suggest, sometimes it comes out 3 times in a row, sometimes it doesn't come out 6 times in a row, so it's incredibly expensive to get however many of them you think is most effective (unless, like me, you think the most effective number is 0). tl;dr: animal army buildup way slower than anything else

and my axe

They penalty for pillaging once is tiny. It's only high if you pillage a lot. Being evil is kinda it's own reward, since you can get lots of money from pillaging and burning. I feel it's about where it should be if you look at your karma as a currency. If you're struggling to keep your karma up, remember you can get karma by forgiving grievances, releasing prisoners and starting fully justified wars. You keep all the prisoners items when you release them, so you really only lose the value of their corpse.