Hello everyone and welcome back to Iratus' journey in Age of Wonders 4! This episode and the next was recorded before the first episode went live due to rendering issues, but I want to sincerely thank you all for the overwhelming support on the series so far. Despite the slow and steady goings of reinforcing, Tome ponderings at 33:41, and discovering the horror that is the overworld at 48:35, I hope you enjoy this episode's climactic conclusion in the Desecrated Temple at 1:06:27 that leads to summoning one of Age of Wonder's oldest and evilest units. Thanks for watching!
I find it hilarious how accurately things are going for Iratus. Fumbling around in the underdark with skeletons and poking ancient dark rituals, while the real horror lies on the surface with souped up overdwellers and their empires, ready to square up. Extremely entertaining to watch.
Now I just need one of the yet-discovered goody goody two shoes to invade me on some selfish crusade, and it'll be even more perfect than I could have possibly planned! :D
@@Fableheim No problem! Iratus! The Supreme Lord of Fucking Around and Finding Out!....For a thousand years. It's like the Heros sent him to his room to think about what he did and Iratus went; 'wanna see me do it again?'
*Ebil laugh* Excellent, more necromancy goodness. I've noticed necro is a hard start, even without the added suffering of an underground start - I really hope they (paradox) add more benefits to excavation, like perhaps finding ore veins or hidden wonders - but in the late game dark focus is really good at spreading over vast territories, especially once you have a some units in your armies that can make a few corpses early in the fight. Let your pathetic enemies bring your army to you! Their hard work becomes your cannon fodder, muahah (another great episode. btw)
I'm definitely not doing another underground start until it's updated or mods get involved but I'll keep on doing my best here! Necromancy has been a tricky start, but I think it's a combination of having no support units from Dark and having little magic damage from strictly Necromantic Tomes. I felt an instant power boost when grabbing that Astral tome, but that tier 1 offense is starting to fall off. That said, there's a brief glimpse of Necromancy's great potential next episode, and no mortal will be able to stand before it! Not sure about dragons though...
Welcome to the channel! I'm definitely surprised by the lack of Necromancy but I'm all in on it. I also plan to do another Necromancy series later down the line once I've unlocked most of the Pantheon and actually know what I'm doing. It'll be fun to contrast that series with this one. (:
38:00 Well you see, Iratus does have an abode of wrath and even mentions that he is possibly the last one able to petition the blood thirsty gods himself plus he has a spell called Rites of Carnage were he says "Presence of the Red God" or something (AKA Blood for the Blood god!!!). So i say that as long as you DONT SUMMON ANY DAEMONS you're still in the good for a lore run with some good ol' chaos.
I mull this over at the start of the next episode and come to this exact conclusion! That said, I do construct the Skald, but she's more like a Human gone mad... probably. I just wanted her Insanity attack, okei? T_T
@@romulofriederichs5467 That's the "reference" I was referring to! There's also Kassog'tha, which is the best Wraith skin. I was going to use it to justify summoning a Chaos Eater but I ultimately decided against going further down the Chaos tree.
Been a LONG time since ive been so into a lets play! Thanks for the content, loving it so far. Your voice, commentary and funny remarks are right up my alley!
>Plays an Iratus campaign >Ignores the tome that gives a Phantasmal Warrior, functionally a ghost. >Gets the tome that gives a Skald instead of Summon Banshee. Nice 🤣🤣🤣
You are correct! In the case of the Dark Culture, I don't believe they can increase their City Stability. I refrained from constructing the Overlord's Tower because I thought it only prevented revolt, but it turns out that it's the key to ignoring the penalties in general. Unfortunately, my misunderstanding continues in to next episode, but it'll be my highest priority in episode 4!
@@Grothgerek I have absolutely no idea where it actually comes from but I'll be building the Overlord's Tower and anything else that may give it to me come episode 4. XD
You should invest in Soulbind - it is a world spell, targeting enemy army stack or marauder stack which after being beaten by your force, grant you a lot of souls.
Sorry, but I'm new to this channel... Is Iratus your own lore thing that you made, or something from a game? If you made it, mad respect by the way. Also, I enjoy your "big evil supervallain voice". :D
Thanks for the kind words! Iratus is from the indie game Iratus Lord of the Dead, which is like a reverse Darkest Dungeon where you play as the long lost evil exterminating and shattering the spirits of mortals. It's the game that I've made the most content for and absolutely adore. Here's the Steam page if you want to learn more: store.steampowered.com/app/807120/Iratus_Lord_of_the_Dead/ It occasionally goes on some hefty sales (recently was 75% off for its 3rd anniversary), incase it caught your eye.
I am sure you have it figured out by now (i'm early in the video) but City Unhappiness, the easiest ways (to me, i'm still kind of new) is to build buildings with the Opera Masks on them such as the Interrogation Dungeon that shows.
The Opera Mask represents a building that interacts with City Stability, and that usually means increasing Stability. The Dark Culture is the one outlier that doesn't have any Stability increasing buildings, except the Town Hall, and instead ignores the economic penalties of negative Stability once the 2nd level of the Town Hall is constructed. With the 2nd level of the Town Hall to ignore economic penalties and the Overlord's Tower to prevent Provinces from rebelling, you're incentivized to go absolutely wild and generate as much Negative Stability as humanly possible. It took me until the fourth episode to figure it out. ^_^;
I am playing necro with dark and chaos affinities and it is insane how potent they are with morale buffs/debuffs . Zombie explosions are also ridiculously good. Their aoe range is insane. Just stack your packs with necromancers ( they can rise zombie from a corps once per battle ) and every fallen unit is a massive aoe on the enemy army.
I'm glad to hear that Corpse Explosion remains a glorious strategy! I haven't been able to put that together just yet, but it's in the cards. (: I avoided Morale debuffing because I thought the Brutal AI would have loads of protection against it and/or just an unholy amount of bonus Morale. It's one of the many things I've learned in this run.
I'm probably not the first person to comment this but at tier 3 the dark society gets the overlord's tower which (from what I've heard from other people playing the game) negates all the penalties you suffer from low stability
The Overlord's Tower just prevents Provinces from breaking off. I eventually discover that it's the tier 2 Town Hall that negates economic penalties, although I wish that was displayed when you hover over your stability. :\ Thanks though!
Why doesn't Iratus: Lord of the Dead or Wrath of the Necromancer have a life-stealing Dire Penguin in his game??? This is a horrible oversight that needs to be brought to Unfrozen's attention IMMEDIATELY!!!
The only plausible defense is that Iratus is less about being evil and more about being a force of Nature, while the Dire Penguin is an abhorrent being of True Evilᵀᴹ. But I agree. {:
The Tome of Revelry does align more with Slaanesh's debauchery and hedonism, but Khorne is also all about that bloodlust and unending carnage. It could go either way, depending on how you're feeling. (:
If you take Underground Adaptation as the mind trait, then it will start you underground. I can't say I've enjoyed the Underground start, but it has been incredibly thematic.
yeah penguins are evil. there was a documentary where a bunch of penguins decided to Rap3 the corpse of a female penguin. yeah someone was filming that.😐
I made it myself! Iratus on his throne is cut from the Iratus soundtrack album cover, the cheering Undead up front are cut from the Iratus title screen/key art, and the background is an image from the Age of Wonders 4 story reveal trailer.
So each society has aspects that they are weak and strong in. that effects how you build an empire. In your case dark societies have cities that tend to have low happiness but can build a lot of research and magic buildings. Unlike other societys your not going to have many happiness boosting buildings merely ones that either give more bonus at the cost of happines or offset the effects of low happiness such as revolting provinces
Yes, you are correct! I knew this going in but was unsure how to counteract my negative Stability. I assumed it just happened passively, but it turns out you have to construct the Overlord's Tower, which I thought just prevented the most extreme Instability (revolt). Unfortunately, my misunderstanding persisted through the next episode, but it will be my highest priority starting in episode 4!
Ah yes necromancy and blood magic it is not blood for the blood good 😂 khorne cool yes bit you basically made a vampire from the von carstein lineage 😏
Your fine. This game was designed for dabbling in other affinities. Just don't do it so much you become a jack of all trades, master of none. In my experience, after getting my tier 5 tome, there wasn't enough to keep me occupied.
