OP ELDRITCH PRIMAL ICE BUILD - Guide AGE OF WONDERS 4 

I did a eldritch primal mammoth build with zeal/tentacle/inquisition/glades/corruption and has been doing very well. I was inspired by your earlier dark culture build

I didn't get the nerf of primals until now. Before the last patch the Animist could summon endlessly.

These are great! I would love for you to do an item forge pass over. Some of the powers that need three of a resource is generally hard to get. I'm doing the reaver 2.0 build you have right now with a dragon but most of my heroes have Necro zombie spawning magelock rifles and that have been great at helping with screening. If I can get it I know the status protection ring is great. But a zeal, wind wall also works well. Wands for easy summons or a heal is nice. I'm sure there are some neat things I'm missing in that are reasonable to acquire.

You do great work on these videos. Thank you!

So the primal animal summons all count as animals. So tome of beasts and tome of vigor do have synergy. I recently got a chance to use treacherous reflection and its really good. Being able to spawn in a copy of an enemy unit is really strong even if it is just as a distraction. Also the reflection seems to have your enchantments. Im working on an astral order build with a mystic attunement culture. I had attunement star blades on all my units. I copied a tyrant knight and it had star blades on it. Based on your enchants you could end up with something rather powerful. I think a deep dive into the different ruler types and how best to use their strengths and weaknesses would be interesting. You could go over some synergies and level up traits for the different leaders and heroes, so that people know how they work with their economy and their army.

Chill man!

Change the tentacle tome with the tome of necromancy and use the relic of mind as a starting option. This allows you to convert your souls (which you get 30 for free) into Thralls. And you can use them to generate 200 knowledge. giving you a massive early boost. Further more I would use the tome of inquisition since it works with your spirits.

I wish game would go on deeper discount. Might have to just bite the bullet here...