Age of Wonders 4: Eldritch Realms | The Hollow King #5

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The Hollow King arrives to bring the end times to the realm of Gelerion.
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Leader: Eldritch Sovereign with Relic of Havoc
AI: Brutal
Form: Insectoid
Traits: Keen Senses, Arcane Focus, Overwhelm Tactics
Culture: Mystic + Potential
Society: Umbral Disciples, Powerful Evokers
Tome: Pyromancy
Players: 6
Distance: Large
Presence: Druidic Alliance
Victory Conditions: Score Disabled, Dormant Seals enabled
Hero Resurgence: Never
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[@bradpitt6820]

Hey mate I just wanted to say I really appreciate you and the videos you make. There are like no ads and im poor atm. I have been watching your videos since early faction wars on DoW2 and when I had panic attacks and couldnt sleep id listen to them and watch and it would help me fall asleep. When I was homeless and sleeping in the cold they would help me sleep too. I want you to know I love your work mate and you seem like a really awesome guy, its deeply appreciated. Sending my love from Australia ❤❤

[@IndridCasts]

Thank you for watching!

[@erykczajkowski8226]

Patch 1.007 says indeed xp is granted for routing or captured units, but not for mind controlled/ dominated

[@Chooch1080]

I think it would be rad to get some of the good Gold producing Materium Path Scrolls/Perks. Since the Hollow Lord isnt cerebrally destructive, i think it stands to reason hes more Materially Interested. This would also encourage deeper exploration into the Umbral Portals. Since the Eldritch Vassals are the best for our leader 🤙🏿🍻

[@barrym2112]

I hope you don’t break down that new tier four weapon you pulled. I hope you give it a try. If you put it on your melee hero I think it will do incredible damage on charge strikes. Remember that type of weapon can be still be used on a mount. Plus it will have an aoe attack. You rarely get in the full three swings with your normal melee weapon. Edit: It’s called Demon’s Bane of the Whirlwind.

[@IndridCasts]

Melee hero can't use mounts because of his Umbral transformation. I want him to have a shield anyway as I lack tough front liners.

[@vadimkarpov3120]

Year 2024. 4X games still has no balance, AI cheating and has free army (spwn by turns with medals already), positive economic (free structures as bonus) and "wall hack" for the fog of war. They are also has 2nd treasury for trading with players, which is very limited, while main economy just provide free stuff to the AI.
Auto battle skript still can't calculate 90% of things, thats why most of the interesting factions are losing auto resolve so bad. While dumb nobrain cultures like barbarians and craftsmans can auto resolve everything with their T1-T2 units, because warriors and berserk of barbarians and those shield guys of craftsmans are extremally valuable in auto resolve, because of high ATk and defence, they are also has 1 active ability, which is always calculated as perfectly landed with maximum possible impact (same for tribal T3 spearmens and their jump), while units with a lot of abilities are "nerfed" in term of auto resolve.
And nobody care if you have a dosen of hero special powers for every situation and a lot of versatile units. Dumb might is always best way in PvE.
Not to mentioning it's useless to try to upgrade your faction and learn more tomes - AI will flood you with free 3x6 armies of T4-5 units every 5 turns on high levels. Thats why PvE players are also firced to play zerg rash tactic or abuse holes in the game mechanics.
Thats why I so love and so hate 4x strategies.

[@argenerarion]

damn dude, you are not wrong...

[@JT-or4ye]

That's kinda the point of Brutal difficulty. It's suppose to be, well, brutal lol. If the AI didn't get any cheats, then we would just be playing the game on normal mode, or for some, easy mode 🤷‍♂️
Also, it's optional. If you don't want to give the AI cheats, don't opt in

[@vadimkarpov3120]

@@JT-or4ye How's optional? Where can I disable it? Please, don't tell me about lower difficulties, lower difficulties only replacing all opponent's units with lower tiers. Bots still has free armies for every 5 turns and free medals for them.
You can't cut their supply lines (captured sectors), dry their gold and mana and win them by other diversions. Only you can do is destroy them physically, because no matter how many cities and sectors they have, thair free armies depends of current turn number. Same for total war - you can rise unrest, but local citizens will never riot against AI, nlike your own citizens.
So please, don't tell the fairy tales here, newbies can believe in your fables.

[@JT-or4ye]

@vadimkarpov3120 Lol ok, now you're sounding like a Reddit complainer. And yes, exactly, if you don't want to deal with AI having cheats then play on the lower difficulties. This may come to you as a surprise, but developers have yet to give the AI the same or equivalent thinking power as a player can potentially have so on tactical battles, as Indrid here just showed, you can still win even if you're outclassed. If ya still have a hard time on the easier difficulties, well as a wise man once said, get gud. 🤷‍♂️

[@vadimkarpov3120]

@@JT-or4ye Looks like you see only what you want to see. AI has cheats and free armies regardless of difficulty mode. You can't win by harming it's economy.