Which Tome to Choose? Breakdown & Guide for Age of Wonders 4 

Did you upload the very long Tome analysis?

Correct! I got them mixed up in trying to be brief! Usually there's a set of terraforming spells for tomes

I plan on missing with faith too tomorrow. I want to go the more tyrant mind control faith though. All who are not faithful shall perish lol

Theocrats? More like Theochads

@@Ravi9A BASED AND ZEALPILLED

I will say it’s a shame that forest doesn’t have its own single faction.

U mean warhammer fan. Not 40k

Lmao

Only one way to find out. See you on the moon

Can confirm Age of Wonders 4 is at the moon. Earth is behind 1 day.

75 minutes in the future

I started with Albion! I loved my armsman

DAoC, damn man. Takes me back!

hahahahaha

Also if you can unlock tome by beating the game

Hahaha yeah I swapped the one I had planned for today

@@italianspartacus I wish your video talked about hero unlock tome skills and what they did for each tome. I guess I'll find it tomorrow when the game releases. currently, It seems like dark faction is strongest and strongest tomes in early game seem like 2 red tomes.

@@dodang_9147 Nah... Red tome are not the best at the start of the game. it depend on how you create your race. Like a elves with a lots of arcane will be better with arcane book, but if you make some really insane melee unite yes maybe red might be better.

@@seb4sti4n666 tome of horde is easily S-tier overpowered tome that should always be first selection. there two reasons to why its so good. 1) early game is based tier 1 units. 2) Imperium upgrade for chaos tree are best upgrades in early game. 3) this tome gives small skin which is free 20% damage boost with 0 downside. 4) this tome has summon unit at the start of the game. Why this is strong is that summon units are best way to tank and create fodders. 5) this tome has access to best unit archer unit in the game. The houndmaster. The houndmaster is an archer that summons free fodder unit. why is this good? it gives you turn advantage in combat because you can summon wargs to take first hits to bait enemy into attacking you then you get free hits on them. 4 houndmaster is effectively 8 units. The other tome to take in tier 1 is tome of crytomancy. this tome is strong because it has ice witches which give turn tempo of enemy and it has one of the strongest combat spells game for early game. Ice tomb. It also gives dark infinity which is important for 1 particular upgrade that is busted in imperium section which is 100% exp for leader. Leader is most powerful unit in your army, so buff his exp means he can level up faster and gain more affinities. It will likely take 100 turns to get this upgrade, but its well worth upgrade. Every faction should basically be running this. After that, you pick any tree you want to go to magic victory and you only select that tome type. so if you pick order. you play order. the other tome you should get as splash tome is astral tome that gives astral blood. This is tier 3 tome. this gives 10% fortune for every combat skill cast. This is min-max order of the game.

it's so fun!!!

@@italianspartacus what tomes would you recommend for a tall play style? Like for that one city affix

Are you new to Age of wonders? I want to give it a try on Xbox, would you recommend it?

@@hihosilver1234 yeah. I’m enjoying it a lot. First thing in awhile to make me skip a nap. Not joking at all. Having a lot of fun.

There is undead transformation, got it in some temple. Looked cool, life steal and stuff.. but it changed the look of my good looking, long-haired high Moon Elf I created to a bald creature lol.

You're spending mana to KEEP that research in the next cycle. So, you'll get two more plus the one you locked. It's for when you have two techs you really like but choose one over the other and wsnt to plan out the next move

@@italianspartacus that makes perfect sense! Thanks

Absolutely!! Go for it :) I do it all the time!

@@italianspartacus Nice! is there any limit? or can I go full rainbow?

depending on how potent are features in order and materium. Majority comes down to playstyle prefference. I'll have to try out soon myself

No, they don't - and they don't incur a morale penalty in the same way as AoW3, per the devs. I did enjoy that system in Disciples, though.

@@Dan-vo7vc diciples 2 have a special place in my hearth. Thank you.

Nah you have to cast spells to change terrain.

@@SolitaryLark Then spells it is 😀

@Grimfanden if I could have the D2: rise of the elves city view as an animated Screensaver, I'd be in heaven.

100% yiu could. You don't need to use any mechanic from a tome you don't want to :) you could pull all the necrotic stuff then make them astral from the astral line and not once resurrect any undead

@@italianspartacus awesome thanks :D

EMBER!

I wanted near the same but with Chaos... I want to corrupt them and make them demons.

HAHAHAHAH

It seems really complex

Tomes aren't really a tree per say, you can research any tome of any affinity no matter the tomes you researched before. The game will probably be over before you could finish all the tomes

If you unlock enough tomes, you can cast a spell to win the game I think, like in Master of magic

Thanks but I am not talking about tomes but the affinity trees where you buy empire upgrades with imperium. If you reach the end does your affinity income go to waste or is it converted into something else

@@jonathanpickles2946 if you havent found the answer, i did a game where there is only destroy all as a rule and after level 5 tomes you can change to tome 3 and 4, i think 2 is included but can remember 1 is the ones i think were gone from research

Yup!! It'll cause relation issues for external free cities or factions but nothing internal

@ItalianSpartacus Oh. Oh I didn't realize that. The combo potentials just got nastier.

Yup that's the preferred way to do it. I think two Colors with a third splash is so fun

I'm sorry dude!! I didn't want to spoil it! /

It doesn't have a campaign per se - it has a tutorial realm and 5 story realms that have an overarching narrative, but can be completed (or not) in any order.

Yes it has campaign mode. 7-8 map storries...u can complete in any order.

It probably will be up tomorrow

There are 3 wiki-like posts on the official forums made by Ericdb that have most of the info with screenshots.

Swapped the two videos I have planned oh well!

@@italianspartacus dudent matter, was still a good video!

Probably a paid DLC in the future. Feels very much like we're being asked to buy 10%~ of a game here; another $Parodox$ situation where to actually get the full game it'll be dozen of DLCs adding-up to hundreds of dollars.

@@ItWasSaucerShaped well, there's the season pass, for everything it's like 80 bucks. I didn't really play yet but I spent a lot of time in the encyclopedia... And I must say I'm pretty disappointed because we're missing stuff. The transformations are meh and the races feel largely dumbed down. I feel like Shadow Magic will never be matched. AOW3 had some interesting ideas but they were already dumbed from SM and now, we're getting a dumbed down 3. They used the pretty cool and interesting ideas of AOW Planetfall and they improved many things but other parts of the game are suffering from it. It really makes me wonder what the next AOW will be like, be it planetfall 2 or aow 5. You know, I was almost hyped for AOW 4 because I wasn't expecting much of Planetfall and I was really surprised by they way they managed things. Now, AOW 4 is a major step back cut of much content.

Not exzctly. Close is wight born from tier 4 tome of souls and with the dark culture you get kind of close

@@italianspartacus bet

So while I do TALK about those tomes I just quickly discuss certain higher level tomes that work together. Think of it like a Dev blog on tomes becsuse I don't show off any explicitly

@@italianspartacus thats fair just saying even looking at the tomes and what spells they get even if you dont go into detail is still a little spoilery, to each there own just thought that putting a small notification would be nice

No worries at all man! I would just feel bad if you came back after and didn't get more info

What the fuck are you talking about