Which Tome to Choose? Breakdown & Guide for Age of Wonders 4
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There are six Tomes to choose from in Age of Wonders 4, but the question is: Which Tomes Do You Choose? In this video, I'll breakdown all of the tomes at a high level to guide you in your decision as you get started with AoW4!
0:00 Intro & Summary
1:35 General Rules
4:24 Shadow Affinity
7:57 Order Affinity
12:01 Chaos Affinity
18:05 Materium Affinity
22:19 Astral Affinity
26:54 Nature Affinity
31:38 Conclusion
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Thanks so much for watching today guys! Sorry for messing up the "just launched," I had two videos made and I swapped the days I put them out hahaha. My apologies!
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Did you upload the very long Tome analysis?
About the arctic terraforming, there is actually another spell in that tome, "Marching Winter" that is more meant to terraform your territory. It turns two provinces per turn into arctic, has a two province range outside your owned domain, and every snow/ice province in your domain will provide +2 food and production.
The spell you cover is more about turning one province outside your domain into arctic for fights with an army on that tile.
Correct! I got them mixed up in trying to be brief! Usually there's a set of terraforming spells for tomes
Faithful reminds me of why I enjoyed Theocrats so much in aow3, they weren’t just high morale heavy hitters, they were also complete economic power houses on account of vows of poverty and paid absolution
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
As a 40k fan, I’m just thinking of making a drukhari and even inquisition based armies, of course also a skaven army. Super stoked for this to drop and thanks for the guides they’ve been really helpful as a newcomer to the series.
U mean warhammer fan. Not 40k
Now that you mention it they're pretty much all aligned with magic decks. Order =plains, dark = swamp, chaos = mountain, nature = forest, arcane = Island, and materium = artifact (colorless)
I will say it’s a shame that forest doesn’t have its own single faction.
Don't sleep on Tome of Winds, abducting cyclone is extremely good tactically for pulling enemy units into kill zones. The biggest issue in late game is huge battles with tons of units taking up space making it hard to focus melee and goon. Tome of Winds also has one of the best archers in the game and a good melee elemental. Can not recommend it enough, especially if you are going down a materium civ and don't have access to good archers.
Just launched? Where? On the moon?
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
Don't sleep on Tome of scrying: for any ranged-heavy faction, Guided Projectiles is one of the best enchantments in the game. It allows you to entirely ignore soft cover from other units (meaning you can keep a proper defensive formation rather than having to send ranged units to the flanks for better accuracy) and can ignore some hard cover as well. 70% hit chance can bump up to 90%.
The potential combo synergy looks kind of nuts. Nature seems like it's heavily geared for pairing with either Chaos (even if they have mutually exclusive race transformations) or Order, while Shadow looks like it could do some crazy stuff comboed with Materium or Astral. So many choices, so many playthroughs to do.
Bro when I heard a Dark Age of Camelot reference I had to comment. Albion always, although I did roll a disgusting one shot warlock just to feel the power.
Thanks for the informative video, very excited to try this game out!
I started with Albion! I loved my armsman
DAoC, damn man. Takes me back!
'Summon a gargoyle, like in the hit animated series.'
This is the content I'm here for.
hahahahaha
Great overview! Gave me a good idea of my first playthrough, with out spoiling too much!
What makes nature tomes extra spicy is the ability wild expansion from the empire tree. Whenever you annex a province you get an animal unit based on the province. Combine that with the huge boost to food feudal/nature affinity/tome of fertility gives and the society traits prolific swarmers and adept settlers. With that Setup you can basically print armies of animals while rapidly expanding your cities, while also having tomes focussed on buffing animals.
Btw. Annexing Ocean Tiles has a pretty good chance to spawn a Tier 4 Kraken, meaning two coastal cities can give you a full T4 Water Army by turn 20...
I'm so excited for this game!!! I spent 100's of hours playing age of wonders 3 and while not as much played a lot of Planetfall as well. Thanks for the video great info!
This video was exactly what I wanted. The next one I will have wanted is one about all the trait you can choose to make your race and your armies
Also if you can unlock tome by beating the game
i love the magic in age of wonders. it is all so familiar and reminds me partly of warhammer or elder scrolls. but it is all in one game, one universe and it is immersively integrated
Great vid, can't wait to play this later. Have you come across any really fun or interesting combo's so far?
Props for the DAoC shout out. It's so rare to run across people who know the game!
The game offers so much flexibility especially since you choose tomes as you advance. So while tomes like Order are pretty straight forward, if you don't care about focusing down a tome line you can really do some cool hybrid factions. It is so fun. Right now playing my first game as a Chaos Barbarian faction. Didn't even know Chaos lead down the path it does, went in blind, and over time I started realizing I was basically playing Norsca lol.
In older Age of Wonders games I made a wizard lord based around dark magic and ice magic. It's interesting to see that they combined those two into Shadow in AoW4.
I'm glad your playing AOW4, you make damn good content man - i would love to see some deep dives on some of your builds, maybe analyze the strategy right on the pre-win autosave so we can look at the build in it's final form. I have been CRUSHING it with UNICORN MYSTICS. You combine tome of BEASTS with Unicorn Mounted Spellbreakers that have the Enchantment from Tome of Scrying that cancels accuracy penalties for shooting into crowds. That way you just use a Mounted Hero and 5 Spellbreakers for each army. It's really expensive and takes a while to get it going, but when you have Pack Leader and all the Beast buff's going on Battlemage Cavalry it's insane. And when something pins you in melee, you just use the unicorn to teleport. Broken AF.
Another great one!
Thanks for the video
Had me excited thinking i could play it today
Yeah this is looking very promising. One interesting thing is the lack of a major race transformation for materium.
Your passion for this game is infectious
it's so fun!!!
@@italianspartacus what tomes would you recommend for a tall play style? Like for that one city affix
Every affinity have great low lvl tome which is worth touching. For example tome of faith give you tonns of healing. Including true healing, not just temporary one. Plus very very good support.
I think my first play through is going to be some kind of tome of the horde holy order faction. Holy rat yes-yes!
just lunched? somehow i guess you uploaded this video a day to early ^^
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.
I appreciated the advice on just continuing playing in the first realm, despite mistakes. It helped me appreciate the game’s forgiving learning curve.
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.
Order looks like the paladin types, but you can be an evil-aligned Order faction, which might be something like Sauron.
"Tome of Goddess of Nature", well, It seems like I can recreate Ariel and Alariel, just add a little spice for your flavouring...
After playing for bazilion hours so far there is only one spell that matters. Astral Projections, You can create endless copies of your champion. True, they make 50% damage BUUUUT: all the buffs, all the single-use spells (80% magic damage buffs) all the summons, rewinds work normally. I honestly have no idea how this made it through QA but it's so broken it kinda ruins the fun. I have literally won 1v12 battle with this one
Thinking making some materium-focused industrious stone-elves
great video hopefully we see a how to play and tips for doing a undead legion or something like that lmao
I found that Order is a great path if you're going for a Magic victory. You don't really get bonuses to research (that you would get in Shadow or Nature), but the overall output fits rather nicely. Casting Wrath of the Emperor four times per turn softens up the spawns real nice.
Nature is something that is a really valuable splash. Not necessarily because of the tomes themselves (although the Glade Runner is a brilliant ranged unit), but because the Empire improvements from the Nature branch have some of the best choices.
Can't say I'm not disappointed there isn't a vampire transformation!
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.
Nice DAoC reference!
Midgard forever! Going to make my Kobold Spiritmaster tomorrow as a Wizard the best I can.
Can i have a question ? When we create physical traits & mind traits for own factoon, our summon units or units from tomes will be inherited the traits or not ?
"Age of Wonders 4 has just launched..."
/checks steam page
"This game plans to unlock in approximately 22 hours"
😁
Bro my first race was industrious dwarves going down materium and order affinities and I beat the first story realm very quickly cuz I stacked defense so high.
Played a Skald on Guinevere back in the day. :)
so beyond turn 60-70 we need to stack tier 3 and tier 5 units together because we are going to miss some roles ?
Is the number of tombs one can get limited?
when I select research, there's a button to "lock" that research by spending some mana. what does that do?
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
Not sure if mighty meek unit enchantments are working properly. I am playing a horde of angry gnomes and have like 90% T1 units so I thought it would be perfect for me... but it costs me like 2 g or something to maintain the enchantment in each unit. The upkeep for each unit was 5g to begin with. So its kind of like a 40% upkeep increase with a 10% upkeep decrease from faithful added in after, which is still pretty horrible. They do hit higher tier units a bit harder, but the cost is still crazy high. 54g and 76mana per turn lol.
Aight; nature, shadow, earth it is for me. In that order of importance. Gonna go for a dark take on wood elves.
I'm new to the AoW games, tho I did enjoy the dozen or so hours I played of Planetfall on gamepass years ago. Would anyone recommend AoW4 or Planetfall more? I'm itching for a crazy complex and awesome strategy game so maybe I should play this one?
Do all summoned units have souls?
@ItalianSpartacus , or anyone on the know, how does mixing tomes work? I wanted to do something like poison paladins, so I'd have to go Order + Nature?
Absolutely!! Go for it :) I do it all the time!
@@italianspartacus Nice! is there any limit? or can I go full rainbow?
AoW3 classes are still sort of in the game. If you go hard down a single particular tome you can still play out as a Warrior or a Theocrat, so on and so forth. It's just more freeform then it was before.
How do you unlock the 2nd Tome?
I start as industrious for the materia, because my society traits and tomes won't give me any. Usually Tome into Chaos and Nature but I like to dip into Necro for 1 book.
Honestly, using spider mounts and don't have anything too cool for the mental trait. Underground farms is cool... need a better mental trait
I wonder how balanced the tomes are. From the video it sounds to me like shadow and chaos are much better than order and materium.
depending on how potent are features in order and materium. Majority comes down to playstyle prefference. I'll have to try out soon myself
So a society that follows the Shadow Tomes would be basically the Scourge from World of Warcraft? Nifty.
So if i would create a dark elf races whit shadow damage im forced to make them necromantic or i could just focus on curse/damage?
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
TOMORROVE!! .. Cant wait to sink my time in to this. One question tho, do landscape or owned land change in to what aligment you are? Without terraforming? .. Say you are a undead lord, your lands will be ghostely and gloomy?
Anyhow, this game will rock!
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.
Is it allowed to take opposing tomes like an Order tome and a Chaos tome?
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.
Are hybrid infinities Good because I’m planning to have material and order as a combination?
Yup that's the preferred way to do it. I think two Colors with a third splash is so fun
EMBER!
Daoc reference ❤
What happens when you reach the end of an affinity tree? Is the excess wasted?
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
I appreciate you trying to provide "spoiler-free" content, but if I didn't want the game being "spoiled," I wouldn't be watching a youtube primer on how to excel at the game... kinda defeats the purpose of watching this when you cut stuff short with "I won't spoil this for you." Bro, that's what I'm here for!
Tome of Spartacus for the rock hard quadriceps
HAHAHAHAH
0:03 🤣🤣🤣
This game has endless possibilities.
It seems really complex
Gonna make me some wolf riding nature orcs
I wanted near the same but with Chaos... I want to corrupt them and make them demons.
Maaaan, I wanted to see the "every little thing" tome breakdown.
I'm sorry dude!! I didn't want to spoil it! /
Is there already wiki included it all?
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.
Honestly its feels like its a rough copy of Magic the Gathering affinities imo :D So easy to think this way :P
Is this game going to have a single player campaign?
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.
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It will launch tomorrow, don't you play with my heart like that XD
Sooo... where's bramble wall? Wall of fire? It feels like they removed all the super cool city and strategic spells :(
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.
is there a tome to make your people vampires?
Not exzctly. Close is wight born from tier 4 tome of souls and with the dark culture you get kind of close
@@italianspartacus bet
*Soooooon…*
I think you may be a day early big fella😂
Swapped the two videos I have planned oh well!
@@italianspartacus dudent matter, was still a good video!
Gonna have to put this video off till later, thought u might just be talking about starter tomes but this is massive spoilers you might want to mention that for people who may not want to be spoiled on the higher tier tomes, so ill be saving this video till atleast later on tomorrow after i can play a bit
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
nope there is 6 hours til release
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I tried to watch your video and I was going to subscribe, but you curse too much for me. I don't understand the need to curse with your generation. It shows a total lack of manners. good luck
What the fuck are you talking about
I was thinking of creating Something similar to Spacemarines in Fantasy setting/Stormcast Eternals, guess it will happen. Just wandering, what to choose Feudal, Industrial, or High.
Wish there were more Beasty Transformations