YARGH! yar har yeet

There is so, so, so, so much Blooty (Booty of Blood) to be plundered. And I cannot wait to plunder it with you, Community of Wonders.

thank u, Love U
— The Maggot Man

Flying and amphibious units appear to be unaffected/unrestricted, as expected.

Constrictors, nymphs, skalds, temptresses, umbral mistresses, astras, pain bringers, weave priestesses, swashbucklers, y'know, baddies.

how scratches a lot of itches for me: a little colony management, tactical combat with party-based RPG elements, and plenty of freedom to create a faction with its own identity.

But that freedom also makes me want to go further. The more personality I give my faction, the more I notice the places where its appearance is still limited to fairly generic assets.

For starters, I’d love finer control over the appearance of our rulers and their people facial features, proportions, hairstyles, clothing, and more ways to make a race feel distinctly ours. The existing customization is a huge part of the appeal for me, so naturally, I want more of it.

And I would love, love, love to see our cities at a more intimate level. More control over their architecture, decoration, and overall atmosphere would go a long way toward making them feel like places inhabited by the people we’ve imagined.

I know that edges beyond what some players consider the game’s core focus. But my reasoning is that we spend hours upon hours with these factions. We develop attachments to our rulers, their people, and the civilizations we’re building. It makes sense to want that investment reflected in what we actually see.

the more freedom a game gives me to imagine a faction, the more I want its visuals to support that imagination.**There’s something really satisfying about looking at your ruler, your armies, and your cities and seeing a coherent identity that you helped shape.

What about you? Where would you most like to see more visual customizationrulers, racial appearance, units, cities, or something else entirely?

They have made a liar out of me (in the best way).

So the gist is ive made a video that explains managing through a corporate merger and acquisition, and the core concepts i use age of wonders 4 to explain the theory.

For those of you that wre visually gifted, what age of wonders 4 imagry would you suggest i use on the thumbnail? I am STUMPED. The UI just kinda reads like a colorful blob whenever I try to make something

I added it to a mancatcher-style staff and gave it to the biggest, thickest boi in my hero roster for kicks but it actually still looks cool. Only caveat is you can't increase your speed with it by itself but it does stack with enchanted boots and/or athletics.

The helmet from the Barbarian icon.

Have there been any updates as to whether the new update will introduce boats/rework naval combat?

It’s so cool to see these water and sea based updates, really hoping that boat battles mimicking turtles headbutting each other will change 🙏🏼

I just started playing the game and have a few questions about combat:

1. Is about the shown strengh vs the actual performance. Is there a way to guess when your units will over/underperform?
2. Best way to setup overperformance to get reknown on challenger heros?
3. This time I spawned on a map with 3 marauder all stronger than my starting army. Is it worth to rush building armies? Or better to accept that army is useless atm and concentrate on economy?
4. Is there a rule of thumb how the ratio should be between army upkeep and total income?
5. When is worth playing combat manually vs when it's just as good to do auto combat?

Also if happy to get links to simple beginners guide that are actually helpful.

Gazlowe will become Mercantile, should he be Barony or Cartel?

Simply put is it effective and worth picking up in regards to ambitions, perks, and equipment I do not pvp in this game so I have no merit interest in that since it would be yes, I am only looking for the fights against Ai

Out of the house so I didn't have the best references, but here is a Gold Wyvern head

have a few current viking-themed factions in the pantheon, built around seaborne raiding. tome of piracy has a certain appeal, the pirate haven, plundering blades, and raiders of the sea would definitely benefit my guys, but most of the tome would be 'off theme' what with the powder focus.

not sure if i should add it to the tome lineup or just spend that tome slot on something fightier

I have the hankering for a fantasy kingdom-management sim, and am wondering if at this stage in development AoW4 would fit the bill?

I played a lot of the OG AoW which was basically an RPG/War-game mash-up. Obviously, AoW4 has had huge amounts of additional content over the years, and I would like to know if it is still a ‘conquer the entire map’ type game like the older entries, or something that can be played more like ‘build your little kingdom of Halflings/horrendous oppressive nightmare realm’

If you're going to be engaging in trade, invest in mines. Maybe even go for a tome which will let you put them down as an SPI if your domain is poor in iron/gold/pearl deposits.

They're not *required* to make the trade upgrade buildings but they boost construction, starting with two all the way up to four for later ones in the chain.

One of those upgrade buildings increases trade output from outposts by 50%, including outposts in the Umbral layer. With the richness of umbra nodes I've got two right now bringing in over 100 of research and gold respectively and I'm just running a bunch of ascetic barbarians.

Hi all,

since the November 3 update will introduce some systemic changes such as trade routes, will this impact our ability to play existing campaigns i.e. are game files likely to crash? Were there many crash reports when the last major updates came out (e.g. last season pass)?

Thanks for sharing your experiences!

Now that we are having Pirates themed DLC why not add a Sword & Pistol to starting weapon choices to Vampires & Wizards?
It can be just simple weapon or Pantheon unlock. But I don’t want to wait for a gun to my Vampire Pirate until Forge is built.
Edit: Currently only Reaver Champion Rulers can start with Magelock or Sword&Pistol. So, Pirate Vampires or Wizard Kings would have to start without.

can you imagine sailing through the sea and wandering into a place where the water turns to blood?

Welcome back to our Sneak Peek Sundays series!

Today we are sharing a teaser of the artifacts you can obtain from the new Free Captains coming in The Silver Seas!

Did you know you can also adopt the captains' ships' unique visuals for your heroes?

I used to play this game a bunch on my steam deck it was my favorite way to play.

I recently tried to play the game and whenever I hit play I get "supported GPU not found". Did an update break something?

I did try reinstalling as well.

I have a necromancy/cult of death build and I'm trying to figure out what order of skills my ES ruler should go into. I know to get the zombie summons first, but what should I focus on after that?