Just maybe you should expand alittle bit... there are 1000 of channels that does the same thing... This guy is good... But you could do alittle better ;) Italien spartacus, one of the biggest channel for that kind of work....
@@donkarnage6986 I happen to be subbed already, but why you shilling for another channel in the comments section of an unrelated channel? Also Spartacus' videos went up 24 hours after this comment. Quit trying to start e-drama, weirdo
i love when you go full "100pg spreadsheet"-style informative :D thank you so much marbs! the sheer amount of options and variety here is already making my head spin in the best way
Speaking as an AOW III veteran now, the tactical combat looks very similar. And the refinements even in that game literally seem to be never-ending. Specific unit abilities, hero upgrades, environmental effects, unit synergies/formations, can all play a significant role, and choosing which is suitable to sway a seemingly impossible battle into your favour is really the core of replay-ability.
i have played AoW since the beginning. and this itteration of the game is just bonkers. faction creation, world creation...it is very overwhelming at first, but if you get the hang of it, then it goes smooth.the customazation for your racewhile playing the game is great. holy rodendts with angel wings? yup, you can, demon worshipping toadswith demon wings? yup, you can.combo's are huge in this game. i can wait till i can play it on may 2nd 🙂🙂🙂🙂
Very mucho exacto same perspective from me. Also, AoW2's soundtrack has yet to be rivaled by anything else than HOMM4. In that regard, I don't think AoW4 will even try to compete, though. Let's hope soundtrack files will be... Customizable. If it's the case, well. I'll be VERY happy with the game.
I personally still prefer the first one over the others, but i am pretty sure nostalgia and me abusing the heroes and using incarnates had alot to do with that. Also do you consider aow wizards throne 2 or are aow2 both wizards throne and shadow magic. I think i preferred shadow magic over wizards throne just a tiny bit. Both lose out on first game partially cause i really like having one main character/hero/wizard. The follow ups force you to play different heroes/wizards in scenarios. Was main reason i liked planetfall less; the original age if wonders pretty much let you play an entire huge campaign with one single ruler hero that carried progress throughout entire story.
Please keep making videos like this. I love how you explain things and go in depth. I just learned about this game and picked it up myself, but I'm a complete newbie. New sub here and looking very forward to watching a lot more of your tutorials and videos on this game. Thank you!!!
This harkens back memories of the Heroes of might and Magic series and a really old and not quite so good game called Lords of Magic. This contains elements from both games but is much more detailed.
Very thorough. Thank you for the tip about the boosts. I've been watching several other tutorials and most of them seem to leave out the explanations of some of the important things that they seem to think are a given. Obviously, if we are watching these tutorials we don't necessarily know about such things.
i've been watching a lot of guides on this game since i'm new to age of wonders and this is one of the best i've seen. everything is very well explained!
The mount body traits actually change certain unit of each culture to cavalry with that mount. For barbarian it's furies (T2 ranged) for astral it's their T3 battle mage as examples! Those mounts give the unit the ability of the mount which is great
Awesome video as always! Really appreciate the explanations and your attention to detail. I also was screaming at the screen as you left Vine Prison on the table and rerolled as it's got to be one of the most broken spells in the game so far! 🤣
Thanks Marbz. This is a game that definitely interests me and it's beautifully crafted and presented. Very in depth so I'll need to put some time into this one haha. Congrats on the 100k milestone as well.
It all looks very complicated and this coming from someone who just completed pathfinder WOTR on "hard" difficulty. I will definitely buy it though. Your video helps a lot in explaining everything, thanks.
What an awesome overview! It's pretty clear this is not only a major upgrade and a true sequel to AOW3, but I'm just going to call it here: one of the greatest 4x games of all time.
I’m definitely doing dark elves for my first play through. I really liked planet fall and this game looks like a step up in every regard. The Skarn or whatever the dlc lizard people were called was my favorite unit to use. Looking forward to a lot of content coverage of this game!
AoW3 we played most (90%) of tournaments in PBEM and the turn timer was 1 day (; there are inherited issue with simultaneous turns as 1st to react and some honor system that you will give them like 30 sec. to move if they don't want to be reached ): but anyway - serious tournaments are almost never played .... online in a TURN based strategy game :D
true, but i only play multiplayer with my brother and friends, no randoms, so we have our own "house rules" like who can initiate a battle and so on during simultaneous turns. no turn timer needed
Good guide, but in the future I would recommend when doing an introductory video, don't choose pantheon unlocks (like you did with Talented Collectors) as most viewers won't have those unlocked yet while trying to follow along.
Hi Marb. I am watching your video to try and learn this game and what blows me a way is that you could spend hours setting up the starting conditions and attributes for this game alone..
Really, really great video. The information, yes, thorough as always, but you sound very animated and genuinely excited about the game. How can I not pick this up now? Hope that means you're doing well ✌️!
Great video, learned a lot. Can someone explain what exactly the overflow mechanic means? He talks about it when building and I don’t really understand this mechanic. Why would the resource be lost otherwise?
looks like an awesome game, I'm gonna be playing dark elves like wild hunt type ones with the leader Eredin lol, can you customize the units or are they predefined?
Does anybody know how the leader affinities effected the realm affinities? I've annexed a vassal got 2 new leaders and 3 affinity for nature while the leaders have combind 6 affinity for nature and 3 for chaos (where I didn't get any at all) On spells has one a chaos spell and one a nature spell.
1:22:00 - why didn't the fire dogs perform an attack on the snow spirit for leaving their area or control?! great video and i don't ever say that :D so much noobs in youtube just stream for money and have no idea what they are doing ): drop me a note if you want 1vs1 - the old AoW3 community will be up and running so i expect this to be what PlanettFall simply wasn't - a good for tournaments TBS
That's a lot of customization. Not sure how fun it's going to be yet, but at least they put in some effort. Unlike with planetfall, with was basically just a (bad) reskin of AoE3.
I came to the video for answers and just like everything else I've found on the internet, it's useless. The game tells me I can annex, i go to the city and see which provinces I can annex, but there is no button to do so. The internet seems to think everyone knows everything about the game and the game is awful at explaining this one feature. The game says I can annex but hasn't shown me how to do it. I'm going to try rewatching that part of your video again because maybe I missed it.
This game is published by Paradox so I don't understand why Paradox doesn't use the same format for EUROPA UNIVERSALIS and HEARTS OF IRON. The battles would be so much more interesting and the game as well.
Maybe someone asked already, but why play a mage main when practically all their combat spells don't work in enemy combat zones? Makes them pretty useless during seige fights or any fight in an enemy area.
Your spells are only blocked in hostile domain if the enemy has a spell jammer there. (and if he does, you can pillage it, can be a good idea before a major siege)
This is so dam annoying. Why do all the games I really get into come out all at the same dam time? First I was playing Hogwarts and really enjoying that. Then Wartales came out I think last week. That game wasn't even on my radar. I just saw a feed for it on youtube and thought it would be a fun game to play for breaks from Hogwarts. Well, I haven't even looked at Hogwarts since Wartales came out. It's like Xcom2 but medieval. And I think I got it for $30? Then Steam never even gave me an alert this game was coming out for some reason and I didn't discover it was until two days before release. And I was enjoying Wartales so much I was hesitant to spend the $50 to buy AoW4. But I did. After a bit of a learning curve, I am enjoying this as much as Wartales. But of course, it comes out the last day of my vacation. Grrr! With Diablo 4 a month away and Cityskylines2 maybe by the end of the summer, this will be a really good year for gaming for me.
Thank you for going in depth on everything, only creator i've seen to sit down and go through everything in detail from start to finish.
Just maybe you should expand alittle bit... there are 1000 of channels that does the same thing...
This guy is good... But you could do alittle better ;)
Italien spartacus, one of the biggest channel for that kind of work....
@@donkarnage6986 I happen to be subbed already, but why you shilling for another channel in the comments section of an unrelated channel? Also Spartacus' videos went up 24 hours after this comment.
Quit trying to start e-drama, weirdo
@@donkarnage6986 i'm personally not a fan on italian spartacus. i usually disagree with his opinions on mechanics and stuff.
No one gives a more honest opinion on new games than thee. Keep up the good work. You deserve it.
i love when you go full "100pg spreadsheet"-style informative :D thank you so much marbs! the sheer amount of options and variety here is already making my head spin in the best way
Speaking as an AOW III veteran now, the tactical combat looks very similar. And the refinements even in that game literally seem to be never-ending. Specific unit abilities, hero upgrades, environmental effects, unit synergies/formations, can all play a significant role, and choosing which is suitable to sway a seemingly impossible battle into your favour is really the core of replay-ability.
i have played AoW since the beginning. and this itteration of the game is just bonkers. faction creation, world creation...it is very overwhelming at first, but if you get the hang of it, then it goes smooth.the customazation for your racewhile playing the game is great. holy rodendts with angel wings? yup, you can, demon worshipping toadswith demon wings? yup, you can.combo's are huge in this game. i can wait till i can play it on may 2nd 🙂🙂🙂🙂
I love this guys accent so much. I don't know why, its so satisfying to listen to lol.
AoW2 is my current favorite in the series. Looks like AoW4 may give that title a run for its money! Thanks, Marbs!
Very mucho exacto same perspective from me. Also, AoW2's soundtrack has yet to be rivaled by anything else than HOMM4. In that regard, I don't think AoW4 will even try to compete, though. Let's hope soundtrack files will be... Customizable. If it's the case, well. I'll be VERY happy with the game.
I personally still prefer the first one over the others, but i am pretty sure nostalgia and me abusing the heroes and using incarnates had alot to do with that. Also do you consider aow wizards throne 2 or are aow2 both wizards throne and shadow magic. I think i preferred shadow magic over wizards throne just a tiny bit.
Both lose out on first game partially cause i really like having one main character/hero/wizard. The follow ups force you to play different heroes/wizards in scenarios. Was main reason i liked planetfall less; the original age if wonders pretty much let you play an entire huge campaign with one single ruler hero that carried progress throughout entire story.
This was by far the best video to help understand the mechanics of this game. I have watched many others, but you explained things so well. Thanks!
Please keep making videos like this. I love how you explain things and go in depth. I just learned about this game and picked it up myself, but I'm a complete newbie. New sub here and looking very forward to watching a lot more of your tutorials and videos on this game. Thank you!!!
This game will be my fav 4x game of all time
Nice to see more Age of wonders 4 gameplay. Hope you continue this series.
This harkens back memories of the Heroes of might and Magic series and a really old and not quite so good game called Lords of Magic. This contains elements from both games but is much more detailed.
Very thorough. Thank you for the tip about the boosts. I've been watching several other tutorials and most of them seem to leave out the explanations of some of the important things that they seem to think are a given. Obviously, if we are watching these tutorials we don't necessarily know about such things.
I hope to watch you playing the game!
Love this guide! Picked this game up instantly!
really look forward to seeing your videos on this in the future, already craving the next part
i've been watching a lot of guides on this game since i'm new to age of wonders and this is one of the best i've seen. everything is very well explained!
just picked it up, excited for May 2nd to give it a spin. Appreciate your detailed preview!
Very well explained. I understood it. I think you were the one who taught me about civ 6 too.
Great how to guide. Plus it put me over the top to preorder
Very decent introductory video for someone not familiar with the AoW franchise. Thanks Marbs!
Wow, impressive work, love it 🙏
Looking forward to seeing what you have to say about the game.
See/say... Interesting. I can't help but be fascinated by your comment.
Very nice guide - thanks a lot! Would be awesome, if you would make this a series
Marb, this guide is exquisite.Thank you very much!
Let's goooo, didn't know this was in the works !
The mount body traits actually change certain unit of each culture to cavalry with that mount. For barbarian it's furies (T2 ranged) for astral it's their T3 battle mage as examples! Those mounts give the unit the ability of the mount which is great
Well this looks REALLY good!
Been playing for a few days, this is SUPER helpful, thank you!
Awesome video as always! Really appreciate the explanations and your attention to detail.
I also was screaming at the screen as you left Vine Prison on the table and rerolled as it's got to be one of the most broken spells in the game so far! 🤣
Thanks Marbz. This is a game that definitely interests me and it's beautifully crafted and presented. Very in depth so I'll need to put some time into this one haha. Congrats on the 100k milestone as well.
Looking forward to this new campaign. I'll definitely going to watch it.
Excellent advice and game play thank you
Ok i'm interested in this game now like the customization.
Very good presentation, thanks! I will probably buy this as I did with "Against the Storm" :-)
just bought it and can't wait!!!!!!
Hope you make series for this game!
It all looks very complicated and this coming from someone who just completed pathfinder WOTR on "hard" difficulty. I will definitely buy it though. Your video helps a lot in explaining everything, thanks.
What an awesome overview! It's pretty clear this is not only a major upgrade and a true sequel to AOW3, but I'm just going to call it here: one of the greatest 4x games of all time.
Missed opportunity to name them 'Marbarian Cats' :p
I’m definitely doing dark elves for my first play through. I really liked planet fall and this game looks like a step up in every regard. The Skarn or whatever the dlc lizard people were called was my favorite unit to use.
Looking forward to a lot of content coverage of this game!
Turn timers are useful in Multiplayer. Paired with Simultaneous turns it's a lot of how you get multiplayer to be close to playable.
AoW3 we played most (90%) of tournaments in PBEM and the turn timer was 1 day (;
there are inherited issue with simultaneous turns as 1st to react and some honor system that you will give them like 30 sec. to move if they don't want to be reached ): but anyway - serious tournaments are almost never played .... online in a TURN based strategy game :D
true, but i only play multiplayer with my brother and friends, no randoms, so we have our own "house rules" like who can initiate a battle and so on during simultaneous turns. no turn timer needed
Ok, thanks for making want to play this game. The unplayed games in my library will resent me tho... Im totally burned out on Civ 6
Outstanding tutorial! Thank you!🤓
Good guide, but in the future I would recommend when doing an introductory video, don't choose pantheon unlocks (like you did with Talented Collectors) as most viewers won't have those unlocked yet while trying to follow along.
Hi Marb. I am watching your video to try and learn this game and what blows me a way is that you could spend hours setting up the starting conditions and attributes for this game alone..
Really, really great video. The information, yes, thorough as always, but you sound very animated and genuinely excited about the game. How can I not pick this up now? Hope that means you're doing well ✌️!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm doing quite well indeed
nice
really great intro. thanks
OK marbs 2:30 of video and pantheon lvl 28 means you really like Dat game lol
Can't wait play it myself
Would love if you made a series/playthrough in this game.
sweet. have fun marb.
Game looks nice, another time devourer :)
More please. 🙂
Great video, learned a lot. Can someone explain what exactly the overflow mechanic means? He talks about it when building and I don’t really understand this mechanic. Why would the resource be lost otherwise?
Daameed, this looks like a good game.
Looks promising. A replacement for Civ 6 is overdue anyway.
looks like an awesome game, I'm gonna be playing dark elves like wild hunt type ones with the leader Eredin lol, can you customize the units or are they predefined?
The great Marblord.
Does anybody know how the leader affinities effected the realm affinities?
I've annexed a vassal got 2 new leaders and 3 affinity for nature while the leaders have combind 6 affinity for nature and 3 for chaos (where I didn't get any at all) On spells has one a chaos spell and one a nature spell.
Are the cats barbarian culture units the same as the human barbarian culture units as you showed us the human ones.
I wish the game had a way to restart/reroll the map like you can in Civilization. Having to exit to main menu every time sucks.
1:22:00 - why didn't the fire dogs perform an attack on the snow spirit for leaving their area or control?!
great video and i don't ever say that :D so much noobs in youtube just stream for money and have no idea what they are doing ):
drop me a note if you want 1vs1 - the old AoW3 community will be up and running so i expect this to be what PlanettFall simply wasn't - a good for tournaments TBS
That's a lot of customization.
Not sure how fun it's going to be yet, but at least they put in some effort. Unlike with planetfall, with was basically just a (bad) reskin of AoE3.
As a first time 4x player, do these types of games play better on console or pc?
I came to the video for answers and just like everything else I've found on the internet, it's useless. The game tells me I can annex, i go to the city and see which provinces I can annex, but there is no button to do so. The internet seems to think everyone knows everything about the game and the game is awful at explaining this one feature. The game says I can annex but hasn't shown me how to do it. I'm going to try rewatching that part of your video again because maybe I missed it.
Do you think this could be a reoccurring game on the channel like Civ VI and XCom?
Definitely. I already streamed it for around 50 hours.
" now I have plus 69 food....nice" can't believe no one's talking about the deepness of that line 😂....
Time spend playing AoE3 - 1243H :)
l would like tome of magic give our army units. for example fire to attack of unit with piromancy
I'm in the process of making my character. Can you make a female? Is there an option I'm not seeing?
@marbz: when jagged alliance 3 (beta)????
Music cutting out?
This looks amazingģggggggg
Age of Wonders... Never heard of It.
auto resolve in some games just sometimes give you the most impossible result... "cough" total war
This game is published by Paradox so I don't understand why Paradox doesn't use the same format for EUROPA UNIVERSALIS and HEARTS OF IRON. The battles would be so much more interesting and the game as well.
i want to play so bad
Maybe someone asked already, but why play a mage main when practically all their combat spells don't work in enemy combat zones? Makes them pretty useless during seige fights or any fight in an enemy area.
Your spells are only blocked in hostile domain if the enemy has a spell jammer there. (and if he does, you can pillage it, can be a good idea before a major siege)
@@Marbozir tyvm. =)
49:09 what s going on with this horse's tail o.O
This is so dam annoying. Why do all the games I really get into come out all at the same dam time? First I was playing Hogwarts and really enjoying that. Then Wartales came out I think last week. That game wasn't even on my radar. I just saw a feed for it on youtube and thought it would be a fun game to play for breaks from Hogwarts. Well, I haven't even looked at Hogwarts since Wartales came out. It's like Xcom2 but medieval. And I think I got it for $30? Then Steam never even gave me an alert this game was coming out for some reason and I didn't discover it was until two days before release. And I was enjoying Wartales so much I was hesitant to spend the $50 to buy AoW4. But I did. After a bit of a learning curve, I am enjoying this as much as Wartales. But of course, it comes out the last day of my vacation. Grrr! With Diablo 4 a month away and Cityskylines2 maybe by the end of the summer, this will be a really good year for gaming for me.
All I could hear was “bluegh blah blop , dahh, cloool.
holy shit....HARDCORE accent....^^
Cool video but I was kind of hoping to see a more heavily edited tutorial, kind of like how the let's plays have become a lot sleeker too
Now now Marb, I need a Playthrough to go with all this knowledge. 🫣
Oh no i just realized there are no Draconians. Or did i miss them?
And no race units, only from culture and tomes?
No Draconians, they'll probably be added in the future