HIGH CULTURE UNIT GUIDE - Tutorial & Tips AGE OF WONDERS 4 

It's a bit cheesy but at least for playing against the ai its actually kind of better for your archers to not be awakened from the start. Letting them walk up and try to wait 1 hex out of range of your archers then activating the awakening to get your full 3 shots is pretty brutal/funny.

@@soccrplayr232 I'm ok with cheese, I normaly bait the AI with meatshields like summon undead (which is OP btw, especially with weaver )))

isn't pure evil awakening just for the first 3 turns?

@@dawn4383 to be honest, I'm not sure, since I won all battles on autoresolve since then ))))) Need to look it up

​@@BlackBirdOniJust tested it, alas no. Pure evil only awakens you for the first 3 turns. After that you're on your own.

Yeah, they are among the hardest hitters in the T2 roster (if awakened ofc).

I haven't analyzed all the Tome Units yet, will get to that as well though!

Yeah Dread knights on unicorns are a menace. I also used a lot of xp gaining buffs and level gaining spell from order book, and the final order perk, so I got an army of legendary level 185 hp dread knights that have a chance to stun. They obliterated everything.

Yes, basically every culture has a Unit Enchantment which lets all other units inherit the cultural baseline trait.

I think it would be much more difficult to choose if we had different dormant traits for every class type. Currently there is no real pressure of choice here, cause I'll for sure only awaken guys with dormant skills. Everything else would feel like a waste. But I would like to know how it felt if we had that kind of selection variety if you catch my drift.

@@Ic0nGaming Yeah, ok, I see your point, although my gamestyle focuses on survavibility and raw damage, so maybe that's why I don't see a need to have this on other unit types. This looks like an area for a mod though. I plan to learn modding AOW4, as there's much to be tweaked there. So do you have any ideas on what the Awakened skills could be for Cav, Fighter and Skirmisher units?

I find it's quite easy and accessible to build up Evil alignment - every pillaged province is -5, every razed city is -20 (-10 if you do migrate instead). To stay good requires a bit of commitment, I find. Even selecting every Good Alignment choice during events, I rarely find myself at Pure Good. Off the top of my head, ways to help would be forgiving transgressions (so you don't get paid gold), but not many choices other than that.

The main problem is that if you are at maximum evilness you will receive a random "bump up" every now and then raising your alignment from -100 to -95, thus breaking your pure evil alignment. This is a minor thing, every transgression fixes that again, but it's surely annoying smh.

@@Ic0nGaming Pretty sure you can overcap on evil alignment to add a buffer to this. I've gotten over -165 alignment before. The key really is pillaging, it stacks up so much.

@@badtiming2208 Ah, that's a nice solution, I always somehow thought it caps at -100. Thanks!

Yes, absolutely

I wouldn't call it slow, but it's tedious for sure. Try a full on evil run, maybe this makes them more to your liking, cause it removes all the micro management of awakening units later on.

Pushing it evil removes the tedium. However, if you ever want 7 range archers that hit harder than tier 3 archers. This is for you. If you want tier 1 shield units that might as well hit as hard as tier 3 shock units? This build is for you. Tome of the horde + high culture is just stupidly powerful. You get basically +40% damage for your tier 1 units just for being awakened, and then tome of the horde adds another +40% damage. A fuedal tier 1 unit with tome of the horde goes from 10 damage, to 14 damage. A high tier 1 unit goes from 10 damage to 14 damage for being awakened, and then 19.6 damage for the +40% damage. Then everytime you add a weapon damage increase, you gets an addition 40% off of that from tome of the horde. Which means, if you've stacked say, +8 damage from elemental weapon buffs, you're sitting on like 28 raw tool tip damage. Have fun with your dawn defenders on turn 30 having 28x3 damage on a full round of attacks. Yea, they are a little light in the HP, but, owie they hit hard. Throw in sun priests to distract, or even dip into tome of the beasts to reliably distract. Then throw sneaky on your build. Now you are doing bonus flank damage, and ALL your attacks flank. Stack tome of amplification and tome of artificer for pumping your crit, and now you have tier 1 melee and ranged units that crit 70-90% of the time, get bonus damage on flanks, and you can distract at will! Now you're talking about tier 1 units that can around say turn 40-50 (if you're not running some insane magic research build), start to potentially ONE bang tier 5 mythic units.