Oh thanks, that slipped past me whoopsie

I was waiting for him to mention the wolf mount ability to do so too

Where does it say that?

@@SmokeDrake Read the persuer's basic attack: "Shoot Bow Fires ranged projectiles at target enemy unit Weakened: Base 90% chance of inflicting weakened for 3 turns." Or find out like I did, by using them and seeing 'Weakened!' pop up with every shot.

Yeah literally made an archer enchanting build that is super cheap and all around busted considering what you can kill with it.

Very good point on those city spells! All that stuff that usually cuts you is just not phasing the Dark Culture at all and it's quite massive.

What do you mean with 'playthrough'? The games been out like 7 days, you've done all the story realms?

@@vaettra1589 no. playthrough, like one game. You can change your race and leader each game.

I’m going through my first proper game that i’m committed to finish as a dark faction i’m kinda going from evil to neutral to good and back to evil all the time, i’m guessing i’m not aggressive enough to be evil all the time

@@pvt.prinny759 dark doesnt have to be evil though. my dark game I was mostly good. the big advantage is you have a lockdown on your population so you dont care if they hate you lol

Oh that's a very smart thing to point out! Thanks a lot for sharing and I hope you don't mind me adding this into the upcoming advanced tips & tricks for each Culture I'm already working on! =)

@@Ic0nGaming Certainly. I forget where I read it, but I gave it a try and it worked out great. Another one to look into for late game economy is the buildings that improve income from your crypt and prison. I haven't made it that far in a dark game yet, but if you can collect a lot of bodies it could become a large source of mana income. Something to test.

​@@justalesbianmage9811 very true on the last point. In my Dark run I got an extra 260-ish mana by the late game just from stockpiling bodies. Negative part is that it's kind of hard to get a ton of artifacts for your heroes this way, but that's another scale to balance.

good point.

There are no campaigns in this game. Do you mean a story realm?

How to you get these units? Lol im new at the game

@Eagle Force houndmaster is a unit tied to the tome of the horde which is a tier 1 starting tome, just choose it. Scald is a yier 2 tome I believe and it's called tome of Revelry

Yeah that "Medal System" for some unit characteristics is really too small for such important traits. Way too easy to overlook.

Just to be clear, that don't work with AI, they detect you eithier way, or there is some hidden true sight mechanic i'm not privy to that make them abble to pin oint them every time, I tested by loading a save for almost an hour, and every time my scout was in range of an army, even if he was concealed for the last to turns, they bee-line to my posistion and kill him and that even outside of any domaine, even if I din't think that a domaine give true-sight in the first place without the right upgrades

T3 town hall unlocks a building called overlord's tower which prevents provinces from leaving

@@justalesbianmage9811 gotcha, thanks!

What the eff did I just read.

I don't think the Wolf Mount is good without access to Cavalry, which Dark Culture only has on Scouts.

@@Ic0nGaming tier 3 unit is mounted cavalry.

@@expandeux Ah ofc, it's early here, forgive me lol, I slipped into the wrong roster.

That's one of the main reasons why I prefer champion over wizard king. My favorite affinity combination and setup right now is also a dark culture - materium hybrid. I always start with Dark culture, if megacities world trait is selected, I play Runesmiths + perfectionist artisans. If not, I choose Runesmith and either Silver Tongued or Shadow walkers. I start with Tome of Enchantment and then usually take a Shadow Tome and go back and forth between Materium and Shadow. Silver Tongued allows for an amazing semi-diplomatic playstyle where you can slowly but increasingly rob others of their resources, while pumping out massive amounts of buffed units via cheap enchantments. Couple this with the strong defensive nature of materium and all the siege power, and you become easily unstoppable even on brutal.

Exactly, you don't need Pure Evil.

Yes! Add in some T1 Faith Tome from Order and you are so darn healing heavy it's amazing :D

Give it some time, the game is relatively new, I bet it won't take them too long. Love AoW 4 a lot myself too, game has amazing depth.

@@Ic0nGaming Yeah im sure. Im just impatient, me and my bro been wanting to play a full game without d/cs and end turn bug. But single player is just so fun as well. This is my fav 4x game by far!! This actually got me into 4x's. So i ended up buying civ 6 lol. (great game as well btw!)

@@bytron2007 Haha I hear you! Can't wait to play this with other people too. Feel like this could have been the best game since Civ 6 actually in the 4X sector. It has a heavier emphasis on RPG elements and such, but that just makes it stand out individually a lot more. Can't wait for the fixes and mods and DLC's!

@@Ic0nGaming Yeah i know right! Ive already got like 31 hours in this game LOL

Yeah, I missed that detail

You have to select one or the other, *but* you can select the Dark culture for the unit roster, and then pick up Astral society traits and tomes. I want to try that out with a spellcasting and debuff build.

Every city which has a different culture won't have access to the ability to ignore negative stability. Only if they all have dark culture you can build the proper T2 town hall everywhere. Hope this makes it clearer =)

Afaik the T2 town hall suffices

Just the T2 city hall needed, alignment doesn't matter =)

@@Ic0nGaming cool, i also wsas thinkthat dark alimebt was opposite by order but chos may fit better is tru . i just nature i want to compbine with dar culture ; may if thay add nature focus culture layter

If you want to lean into dark knights, then tome of beasts and other nature tomes can be really good. For warlocks, Astral tomes like amplification, scrying, and teleportation all have bonuses for battlemages.

tome of the great transformation allows you to put weakening aura on your melee units, gets you lifesteal on your race and lets you use undead support stuff (like necromancers) on units of your race.

Only if you don't have the T2 Town Hall built up