First of your videos I've seen, and I have to say, I'm a fan. Your straightforward, you edit out the in between bits, and your advice is smart and no nonsense. That puts you in the top 1% of gameplay how tos already. Thank you very much for this.

Finally a good guide to understand the basics. Thank you.

Thank you for this. I don't have to go through a whole hour of rambling and nitpicking information I actually need. You thoroughly had tips for every aspect of the game.

I tried playing Planetfall coming from Civ6 and even though they're very similar, they're at the same time so different. These Tips helped me a lot. Thank you for that!

These tips really helped me get a better start, theres alot of room to play in the mid game but getting started is always the hardest part

While I have over 1100 hours on Age of Wonders 3 (my favorite game), some aspects of Planetfall take a bit to get use to. Thank you, Frost, for the excellent Planetfall suggestions to help avoid critical mistakes that can ruin your game. Please continue making Planetfall videos! Once you complete your tutorial series of videos, would you consider a "Let's Play" series of each faction? I think that would help bring out the gameplay choices and details you've presented in the tutorials, not to mention it would be just plain fun.

This was exactly the type of concise, straight to the point, immediately applicable advice I was fishing for. Will definitely be checking out your other Planetfall guides! Thank you for your good work.

Thanks for the tips - just picked up Planetfall. I'll re-watch and write these down next time :)

I just started AOW Planetfall I've seen several guides but yours is by far the best and the easiest to understand. Straight to business no long overly convoluted explanations as it should be. Almost every tip was helpful so thanks a lot, have a sub :D

This game is very complex, thanks a lot for these tips, the part about the map dominance up and down is super insightful ! Top content!!

Been an old school Age of Wonders 1 fan, now looking to planetfall. Thanks for the guide, I think you convinced me to try planetfall.

This was very helpful. Some of these I was starting to figure out, but this gives me more of a sense of why to do those things. Thank you!

O_O This is a really good video. I've attempted a few playthroughs and had no idea how badly I was playing before watching this. I was always expanding Left to Right, would only build 1-2 colonies slowly (bad training from civ to keep costs under control). Thanks for the tips!

My word, it's only just gone a year since this video but look at how much has changed!

Brand new to 4x games in general, thank you for this!

Just bought this great game on ps4 on sale. Console generally dont have sci fi strategic games so Im hyped. Thank you for this video. Really helps. :)

Thank you for the tips. Still figuring the game out. I enjoyed Endless Legends and this game is just as good.

Just found you. What took me so long? Compliments on the straightforwardness and quality. Subd.

Your channel is criminally underrated. Keep at it its gonna blow up.

I had this game for a while. I just get overwhelmed and shut it off. So thank you for the video as its really helped me.

Picked up the game on sale last week and really dig it. Got a fair grasp of the mechanics, but still learned some new things here. Time to binge the rest of the playlist I guess.

Great video I have been a fan of the Age of Wonders games from the very first game. I have not gotten Planetfall yet but I have been looking at getting it.

Real informative and optimization-oriented tips, just the way I like looking at games!

Your commander's named "Mandy Bils" and I wanted to say that it's a brilliant name. Thanks for this handy video!

Nice Tips They really helped

nice tips thanks... first vid Ive found that actually gives decent tips rather than just playing through and throwing loads of stuff ..will watch your play throughs..tku.

Hey, thanks for the effort for this guide :) There are a few things I'd like to correct or add to but first of all I got to congratulate you on the great name for your leader. Kinda makes me want to see the other commanders you've created. Also I'm so gonna steal "Mandy Bils" for my next Kirko mission! :D Tip#1 is great and explained very well but at 1:24 you say you've claimed a sector which you haven't. You are probably very aware of this but for the others watching the video it might not be: flying to an unclaimed sector doesn't do anything in itself. For that you need forward bases (tip#9) or colonies. For Tip#5 you talk about researching Operation Effectiveness once you've "finished a vertical tree". That's not a thing though. You don't need to research everything in a column to start something in the next. The only requirement to research something is that you've researched whatever the little grey line left of it is linked to. If it's linked to multiple things either will do. So once you've researched "Operation Effectiveness I" you could go straight for "Operation Effectiveness II". That might not be the best play though since it'll require more research than something further to the left in another row and it might be better to go for something else first. Tip#9, Tip#10 and the Bonus Tip are basically all about how to spend Influence and I feel it's a bit incomplete and also that it depends a lot on playstyle and the specific situation. I'd never pay influence to compliment someone else for example because the opportunity cost is so huge. I could be spending it instead to buy units and mods from the NPC factions which also makes them like me more which gets me to peace with them faster which in turn gives me more influence per turn and better units and mods to buy and so on and so forth. Also while focusing on a single NPC faction might be a good idea in some, probaly even in most cases, working for multiple factions can also have its advantages. By working for multiple NPC factions you get more rewards and more experience because you get more of their quests to fulfill. And I do believe that you gain 10 favor for fulfilling a quest for the faction you helped and only -5 for the faction that doesn't want you to work with whoever you worked for, so it would only be slower but not impossible to reach peace with a faction (or multiple in this case). Either way great vid and good tips for beginners. I'll make sure to check out your other videos :)

Thanks, this was a really helpful video! This game is deceptively different from past Age of Wonders games, and I found myself struggling a bit when playing this as if it was AoW III, but this video really helped highlight some of the things I was doing wrong.

Just started playing this game this video is very helpful for beginners thanks a bunch.

Bloody brilliant game guide! While this game shares alot of similarities with 'Worlds of magic: planar conquest'....'Grand Ages: medieval'.... 'Risk'..and the Xcom franchise, I still found myself like a fish out of water in some aspects. Along with the series you created about this game, this guide helped alot!

thx for the guide, I get the game after the new update but the wall of knowledge is REAL

Love your videos and think they are really helpful but another reason why the forward base is useful is because if you get attacked and your defending on the base, it makes life harder for the attacker and another useful tip for beginners - if your not sure about the manual combat because it can be a bit daunting at first, just auto the fight and then watch the replay video after so you can see what your units are like in battle before trying your hand at it yourself 🙂

I just bought the game and want to thank you for the tips, I'm gonna see some other of your videos ^^ I don't know if they're dated nowadays, but I guess it can't hurt for general stuff :D

Excellent video. Great tips, well explained. Liked and subscribed!

omg! this was most helpful ^_^ thank you, Frost!! I love your content - it's always thorough and interesting! keep up the good work~

Thank you for this Informative and very well structured video, well done!

Amazing Game. Thank you so much for those guides and uploads.

I enjoy strategy games a lot but have been terrible at this game. Very good tips and tricks I'm going to use!

I found myself struggling with AOW:P despite having played AOW3 but this video helped alot! Cheers

Thanks for the short video. I just got the game a few days ago and I've been looking up videos, but I found your 45+minute videos too long. This is much easier to digest.

been out of game for a while so i'll give your tips a try

Just got the game on sale coming from civ 6 and rtk 13 similar in a sense but confusing. This did help me because i never built forward bases because i didn’t know what they were for

just started this game recently. thanks!

Great tips!

best simple guide . thank you

Good tips, thank you!

Great video thank you ... Now I go an try

thank you you are a good teacher.

best guide on utube! Respect!

This was a great help to me. Thank you very much!

Just found your video! I am recently getting into Planetfall and am wondering if all of the tips are still valid for its current state!! Thank you for the great info!

I'm loving this

#4 is a great tip! Wish I saw this a few days ago.

Tip #4 is great, thank you

Thanks, you have some really nice tips. This is the first of your videos I've seen, but I think I'm going to be going through all of your AoWP guides. At least as many as I have time to watch. Are you still making videos for it, or have you moved on to other games? Thanks.

Thank you, nice tips easy to understand for a starter like me

Great tips, thank you!

Some really good tips. Thanks!

Discovering your channel, great, i love your didactic and easy going tips :)

Thanks !!

Thanks for info, much appreciated

Just a quick note for people playing the campaigns, the relationships in the campaigns are scripted. Don't waste your influence points on compliments or insults, because the story controls all of that and an A.I. player can go from positive 800 to declaring war on you in a couple of turns. If you're playing a campaign, just enjoy the story and save your influence points for other things. Cheers.

Very good guide!

Hello Frost! I don't know if you already posted it, but placing heroes and their armies at adjacent hexes before entering a manual combat multiplies your combat units. For instance, two armies means two heroes and ten units.

Thank you for this video.

Great video, thanks!

Thank you so much. I've been playing the tutorial planet and its rather overwhelming. Funny enough I took all three the skills you mentioned for my heroes. I was a bit too slow with colonising but now I have 4 colonies (one of them I bought with influence). The research part had really overwhelmed me and I just mostly did random research except for sector upgrades and the one that gives a mod that increases range of ranged weapons

Reinstalling after seeing this. Good stuff !

such a helpful video thanks allot x

Thank You for the great tips, You got my sub! :-)

Thanks for this

Helpful... liked and subbed!

Do you play star citizen.. this is my second video watching you.. and i love your clear and very concise view.. ill gift you star citizen or id really enjoy if you already have it doing some mining or anti pirate runs

Wow what a great tip video. Thank you for helping a noob learn how to be noobish lol

Great guide, thank you. I have a question about your 3rd tip (specialize your colonies). I'm still new to the game, but I thought food and production are separate from each colony. Wouldn't it then be bad to specialize food and production among colonies? Unless you mean to specialize the sectors in the colonies, which makes sense.

I can't even progress past "Exodimensional Observation Complex" because it says i need 4 more settlers. How do i get more settlers. ??

great tips, thank you so much

very good. However building bases costs (a lot of) influence points, so if you do that all the time, you won't have anything left for diplomacy. I would like to know how you get new heroes and if there is a limit to the number of levels a hero can have. You didn't mention that some sectors are better than others because they have some extra building in them or they provide certain resources, so choosing which sectors to annex and what type of exploitation is not quite so simple

Really nice video, greetings from Germany!

excellent vid.

thank u :)

I have a tip, dont start wars with huang on the first campaign. That fella doesn't mess around. Wiped the floor with me lol.

Thanks for this...

Do you find it a setback to spreading quickly now that colonizers cost increasingly more cosmite? Do you have to specialise colonies in dual roles now?

Nice presentation.

I'm new to AOW and this really helps. The tutorial is quite poor. And I didnt understand why I was falling behind. Cheers.

Grt help tyvm :3

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I just found this. It is a GREAT guide! I am very new to the game, but I tried to use your tip about "claiming a sector." I know that late game I get into Causi Beli issues when trying to annex territory claimed by me and another faction so I went around with a scout in my current game. I went to the flags, but it still says unclaimed wilderness after I visit the flag. Am I missing a step? Does it only work on territory next to owned/ annexed territory? Also, I am not understanding the faction standing. For regular Commanders it has a left arrow and a right arrow plus a number. For the NPCs it has just one number and an arrow. My brain is trying to see it as my faction relation rating is X (between -800 and +800) and it is going up (or down) based on an arrow. However, there are two arrows and two numbers. Thus something else must be the intent of the numbers. Can you explain what the faction display rating is telling me for AI (two numbers/ arrows) and NPC (one number/ arrow)?

My scouts were attacked and distroyed... generating a need to produce more or let go.

Lol I just got the name. Mandy bils.

You should check out tabs and some of the other strategy games on game pass for Xbox .. Your hot to btw 😤🏌😍

I like your content.. Your factual charming and don't talk shit...

Why do I think this video has eleven 'tips'...?

get a job

Bought the game yesterday because my friend got in on PS + but can’t even play it because my nanas wifi barely works and gets 800kbps while the game is 8gb

Great tips!

Great tips!