Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Age of Wonders 4 

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Finally someone that explains things in a new player, friendly way. Found this super helpful and really appreciate the time and effort you have put into this. You have a new subscriber. Thank you.

So cool seeing this game get so much attention

This is another game I would’ve never touched if it weren’t for your in-depth videos-CK3 being another prime example. Thank you!

This is my first 4x/strategy game ever, and this has helped immensely! My first blind game was a mess

Hands down the best beginner guide for Age of Wonders 4. No doubt it might be longer than other shorter guides but many have missing bits here and there. This is the one video you need that gives you all the comprehensive information you need, and elaborates further on the UI and mechanics of each phase, that might not be evident on first sight (especially for newcomers) but I find myself returning back to this video for refreshers and am amazed that the parts where I needed help was still being covered (despite forgetting about it on first viewing. Thank you ItalianSpartacus for making this. It is really extremely helpful! You have a great ability at explaining the various nuances that is missing from the standard tutorial in-game from a newcomer's perspective.

So grateful for your guide! You're the only RU-vidr that really touched on the nuances of the game that I needed confirmation on. This is my first 4X game so it's pretty overwhelming but you pretty much simplified everything for me. Easy sub!

Also remember: Boosts are applied retroactively. So if you queue that town hall so it starts getting built around the time your city hits 5 pops, that's an investment refund for you. Edit: The shuffle also lets you lock in a tech to be available after your current research finishes; useful if you roll two techs you've been waiting for for a bit.

Like others have said, I really appreciate the way you walked through and carefully and "clearly" explained how things work. Awesome!, hard to find good videos like this one. Keep em coming!

The perfect tutorial video!! Very well explained, detailed and with the perfect voice rhythm. Many thanks from my THRONE city :)

Best beginner guide creator for 4X content, always watch these when starting a new one.

Great Tutorial! Thanks @ItalianSpartacus. Your Tome and Faction guide are also really useful and very well done.

Thank you for making such a thorough tutorial! One minor topic suggestion that seems to be missing is seafaring, embarking, and nautical combat! Liked and subscribed!

The best guide I've watched in a very long time. Thank you for doing this.

Video completo, qui c'è tutto quello che c'è da sapere per comprendere a pieno questo splendido videogioco, grazie ❤

I was waiting for this. Thanks a ton, Spart!

I really appreciate your coverage of this. I've followed you & Turin for Warhammer for a long time but I'm an oldschool HOMM fan at heart & this scratches that itch. I've been hyped since announcement & was so stoked to see you doing videos on it. Paradox really nailed this game. I love the create a race & other features that make playthroughs feel more "personal" so there's more RPG vibes as opposed to purely trying to min max insane difficulty runs on a mechanical level like Civilization etc.

Well worth the hour and a half watch/listen. Thanks man.

this video is so good, the tutorial of the game doesn't explain so many thing, and I was so confused playing. thanks alot

Best AoW4 tutorial video I've seen so far. Thanks!

I am fairly new to this franchise so your guide has been super helpful. I had no idea on some of these things.

So helpful..unbelievably well organized and concise!

I like how fast you talk, i can't wait to get back in the game and you not only speaking fast but getting straight to the meat and potatoes, is gonna get me there quicker, and you earn a sub for that

👏👏👏 all the the other ‘basics’ videos from other creators went over my head.. sub

Very helpful! I'm diving into this game tomorrow!

As always, excellent guide

Just got into this game. Played AOW3 and planetfall but this video helped a lot! Loving this game so far.

Stoked to see you're doing videos for AOW4. Your Bannerlord videos have been great, so looking forward to your content for this game.

Thanks Spartacus really helpful! They definitely need to add an option to prevent that territory boundary flash though after you pointed it out I couldn't not fixate on it.

Very comprehensive guide - thanks!!

Excellent tutorial! , needed to be extensive. many thanks !

thank you. great to have another game where sparty teaches me how to play. love to play along with your tutorials be it this, vicky3, ck3, warhammer etc.!!

Hell yeah dude thanks, I'm not really into fantasy settings but this game has me absolutely hooked!

Thank you so much. I was about to uninstall the game because it's so overwhelming. I never played 4x games before. With this video I have a much better understanding of the game!

Thx been playing for a while now but missed so much.

First time playing a game like this, found this video super helpful

really good guide , best one i find in youtube

Great guide. Thank you.

Great guide, thank you!

Thank you for this video. I am learning a lot of things from this. I was hoping to see you talk about when to build second city. I gave up several early games, because I was too slow on spreading out. I had vessel developed before I even had a second city.

You always have the best intro videos to 4X games man

I just started this game today. Old time Civ veteran, also big CK3 amd Stellaris fan. Looking forward to learning about it

Thank you for these tips!

Very helpful and informative video, thanks!

You're the man, Spartacus!

excellent tutorial video...thanks for that👌

holy crap 1.30hs? Saving it to watch it later. Thanks bro.

Great video mate, very useful

That was the best Beginner's Guide ever! 10x

Thanks this was very helpful. I need to figure out how to actually build an outpost now - that wasn't obvious in my last play-through and I didn't expand.

Brilliant guide thanks bro

About to play this not played a strategic game in 15 years, I've truly effed it havent I

As a fan of Ratfolk from Pathfinder (the PnP version, OwlCat still makes a joke out of what was a core race), the bit about distant claims allowing Underground Acclimated or Isolationist empires to summon units above ground/into the midst of occupied space just prior to cashing in multiple grievances and declaring war.

Thanks man, just picked up

nice deep dive thank you

this video has been a boon for me! thank you i played the original age of wonders a long time ago and saw AoW4 brought it and was imediately confused lol. still i got some fun made a halfling called "Frodo Baggins" made the halflings evil AF and loading up the game i was greeted with "Greetings Dark Lord Frodo Baggins,........" i swear i burst out laughing. i got to about 2 hours into the game all the while confused as to what i was doing then it crashed lol. i guess tolkein saw what i did and used his godlike power to prevent the greatest threat ever known......... an evil frodo who was corrupted by the one ring, turning the halflings into an evil hellish race of unstoppable migits XD. thats when i decided i needed help and thank god your video was at the top of the list. also i cant remember what thing did it but when creating frodo baggins the armour set had that complete mordor vibe and it kinda made go into the evil frodo tangeant lol. Edit: the back story i had in my mind was that Frodo finally became seduced by the one ring stabbing sam in the back and tossed Golom into the lava lake of mount doom to which shortly after he wore the one ring and proceeded to kill sauron, claiming the throne of Mordor for himself. in the midst of all this gandalf felt a great disturbance falling to his knees and said "Frodo no, what have you become! im afraid we are all now doomed for a new Dark Lord has risen, one more powerful and more terrible than sauron ever was."

Awesome video! Thank u for taking the time. With that said, I'm completely new to this style game, and it still feels way too daunting to get into 😢

I just started playing stellaris and now I’m loving this type of genre

Ty for the ultimate guide

Love this channel

This is a great game, I've been having a blast with it still. The updates have smoothed out a few initial issues, but I've heard the mulitplayer is still a little rough. I exclusively play single player, and I can't get enough. The customization of worlds, heroes, and races makes for endless replayability. I can't say enough good things about it. It just scratches a unique itch, haha.

Liking this game so far. Lots of customization, deep systems, interesting maps. I do find myself a bit put off by the extreme reliance on status effects, buffs and debuffs in combat. You HAVE to be very aware of the buffs, debuffs and effects that both your army and the enemy work with to be effective. It can be tiring for someone used to Civ or even XCOM style turn-based combat.

Thanks for the video

Thanks for the vid. I made indoustrious orcs but ironically i don't know how to manage the industry of my city's.

my god this game got me good for the weekend LOL

Always my favorite strategy game channel and this video is another excellent example of why. Really informative and I learned a ton watching this. I'm fairly familiar with Civ games and AoE feels like a great fantasy take on that formula and with more advanced combat. I'd still love to see a full combat guide for total noobs like me but this beginner's guide was fantastic.

What's missing here is a bit of a breakdown of the different builds one can go through starting from the faction creation part. Because obviously I'd guess that some starting builds are better for certain things, and to better pursue a certain type of victory (if this is anything like civ and the like), which as a beginner I have no idea about. So I could pick something that looks cool to me but just isn't very good for how I would want to play once I learn a bit about things.

Oh my god ur my new fav RU-vidr

edddaaaiii che figoo che ci sono Italiani che ci giocano

What's fastest way to get lev5 tome? 2 tomes of lev 4 of the same affinity as that lev 5 tome that we want or can I just research one tom4 and then Tom5 after that?

Is the Quick Start the Beginner Scenario? Im finding it a good way to learn and I'm having a good time.

Have a question, what happens if you a province with both gold and Iron. Does the 1 mine effect benefit them. Great breakdown I've learned a lot.

Great video tutorial!! But something odd keep happening to me when selecting "Affinity Checks" or Choices in ancestral locations. So, if you have a certain amount of affinity required you may choose a special option when entering certain ancestral places and it says the % of success. However, no matter how high the success probability is it always fails. Am i Missing something or may it be a bug? Thanks in advance :)

Just a quick correction-- Wizard king can be chosen in story made after the first level. Outside of the first story level you always have access to both, if im not mistaken

The other scenarios have turn limits for the end game? I am a beginner and the first games I have played I lost because I wasn’t aware or the turn limits( plus i suck but having fun)

These tips are helpful for understanding how things are supposed to be working, unfortunatley I haven't goptten to really explore much in the game doing the story scenarios however. I'm playing on normal and every story has been completed in like 40 turns, simply by just sending 2-3 6 stacks of mainly t1 units to wherever the enemy is and just auto-resolving any battles on the way to their cities and then their city without stopping. I guess i need to up the difficulty but I'm worried that the little details in the game are just going to be overlooked due to vastly incompetant AI :/

For anyone still having graphics driver related crashes, switching from borderless to windowed display mode is worth a try. I went from a crash every couple of minutes to no crash in a hour of play.

Thanks. This explains why all my cities hated me. 😂

Does the campaign have a proper story like the first three games (not the one in AOW3 because no progress was transferred to the next stage)?

Thanks!

Fantastic guide for starting out! I found it incredibly helpful. Question: How do you get those diplomacy stones. I know you start with one but how do you earn more? Comment: CRITICAL COMBAT INFORMATION CLARIFICATION - Line of Sight. You mentioned that if there are any intervening units, it will lower your chance to hit your targe. There is a HUGE exception. Your own units that are directly next to your ranged unit do not count. This is absolutely critical because it allows you to strategically position your archers directly behind your defenders. They will benefit from any defensive bonuses and they are really hard to get to without the ability to pass through other units. SUPER effective and very obviously intended to be used that way. I know this is in the tool tip and you did not have time to go over every little detail, but I thought that this was important enough to point out as it affects the usage and effectiveness of all ranged units in the game.

Hey new player here with a question. So when im building a new structure it has a cost at the bottom like 150 food 250 production. Though say I only have 50 food and 60 production it still lets me build? I'm kind of confused about the resources.

First of all: great tutorial. It is very helpful and i appreciate your effort to make it easy to understand for all of us that are beginning to play this game. I have one question, tho: in the combat, at 1:16:04 you said that if you use "Healing Sap" that has the cost of an Ability Point you cannot move and that you have to decide to use the ability or move. But if the cost is just one Ability Point, shouldn't it possible to use anyway, since the movements take at max two ability points? Maybe i misunderstood that part.

So basically total war but more buildings focused than battles, started playing today and I enjoy the development of my empire and also the lord item customization.

cheers mate.

Are you planning on running some campaigns on this in the future? I've only seen people play multiplayer on their sponsored videos and I'm more of a singleplayer guy, i want to see how the game works and if there's any significant bugs before actually getting this game

Finally got my canablistic hobbits to the pantheon so hopefully this video helps me out with my frostborne orcs and humans (all 3 i mentioned are barbarians by the way) EDIT: while i had the AI on Easy because of the Volcanic Daemon Realm i made and how i still am trying to learn some thing (still combined houndmasters with shamans to win), it wasn't exactly easy especially when you have regenerating infestations on

Pretty sure if you increase the mouse deadzone setting, you'll have an easier time getting to the tooltip box before it disappears.

Definitely NOT THE WORST. Nice video.

Thank you... very informative. Are there any other Spartacuses except Italian?

If i have a unit in an amry that i dont want in there, how do i remove them? For example I've had a scout in my spear and archer army and cant remove the scout. . smh

Can the high level race unlocks on the Pantheon be used on MP? Like if my friend has played or cheesed his way to unlock them can he have those while I with my 10 hours played do not?

Is it better to just keep creating tier 1 units hoping for their promotion and low upkeep, or to create higher tier units?

how do you create another city outside your boundary ? with scouts ?

When I launch the game I get a Black screen with the audio playing. Any idea how to fix that. I did go to Steam to get help but after following their instructions, nothing changed

How can I use unit deployment location? For example circle of zealotry can be used as unit deployment location, but how?

Great video. So its everything that CIV 6 shouldve been. My friend played civ 6 with me and after about 12 hours, it was so dull. AOW looks like it has developed complex and epic gameplay. Paradox made another good game. Good to see. Thanks Sparty for your great videos!

First map i played i spent 80 turns getting every vessel to join me. Then I went to war thinking they would all join. Nope 20 turns later not one army left my vessels city's. Do they not help in war?

What does the difficulty level changing?

Please help I need to know how to cancel a magic materials trade I cannot find a single iota of info on this. No one has a single article or video on it