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Im surprised you didnt you the official arachnophobia mod that turns all spiders into potatoes. Rising the broken potatoes to victory lol

Spiders currently do double damage with their webs due to a bug, there is a mod on the workshop that fixes it until the devs get to it (they know about the bug)

I am so glad that Potato is still making AoW4 videos Keep it up, they’ve all been great

1:20 Overwhelm tactics is bugged and only gives 10% crit chance just so you know

Dude Potato you're singlehandedly responsible for so many of your audience getting into this game, they should give you a prize or something. I've been having so much fun with this game lately

Here is this fire giant. He’s pretty good *”but is he a spider?”*

Broken combos like this is often what make the game fun. In this case it’s bugged and not working as intended. But I hope they don’t balance the game too much to ruin fun and somewhat OP builds.

48:48 I know it's just a scout but it actually pays off to fight impossible battles manually, only to immediately retreat the units, so it's really quick. They frequently survive and teleport back to the city after just a few turns. And the worst case is what you already get by doing autocombat. I wish there was an autobutton for this called "Attempt to Flee".

I just did a game with a very similar build. Only difference was I took shadow walkers because I originally wanted to see if you could win just with spider riding scouts, but they don't benefit from most unit enchantments or from fabled hunters. I was still able to kill suprisingly tough stacks just with massed spider scouts, but furies definitely work better. I think even if web gets it's damage fixed this will still be a really fun and strong strategy.

So cool to see you trying out the challenging world scenarios!

suggested this spider build in your first brutal playthrough, glad to see it in action, nice job.

I have been waiting for more age of wonders videos. Thank you for the amazing video!

On a side note, Barbarian Scouts can build Outposts. Even in the late game, this is very handy - you can sneak a scout behind the enemy capital, find the outpost, build a teleporter there, and have your Gul'dan's own Dark Portal invasion. ;)

Insane Fights Dude! Nice Work

I love that you decided to do this run. Spiders were always my favorite units in AoW3 because it felt so satisfying to get a tier 3 out of a tier 1 unit.

I just did this playthrough it's so op with high crit modifiers, I even took the tome of revels just for the hero skill that gives all your units 20% crit. Barbarians are so good though being able to make outposts with scouts is very strong. Surprised you didn't take mana addicts considering it's so broken and the life steal applies to the webs.

I need to play this ASAP. I hate when things get nerfed before I've had my fun with them...

DAMN, I think this is my fav build I've seen so far! Absolutely amazing :D

Awesoome, can't wait for next episode

Nice! Thanks for this gameplay, love it, waiting for the next one! I already told u i dont understand how coooooool its this game, sooo cooooool

Awesome game going on. I hope you do some more of these!

Love the series. impressive gameplay.

Furies are kind of expensive. The strat is to only build spider scouts and get all race transformations. Nothing can stop them.

Mana unchained is a pretty nutty hero ability on an archer build btw. Worth trying if you haven't yet.

thanks for the video!

Such an epic win on the last battle!

Man those map modifiers seem intense! Looking forward to trying that map!!

I'm enjoying this a lot

Potato I just did this crazy game where I did a similar build but went late-game Order tome to grab Sanctuary to give the tier 2 spiders all Keeper's Mark and then Exaltation for "Ascended Warriors". That spell is INSANE with spiders. It ranks each one up each cast, so up to 6 at a time, and you can turn an army that you pumped out in 1-2 turns into Matriarchs for no cost but the mana. I won a crazy game on Hard mode with stacks of Matriarchs running around.

Love your videos, Do you really talk that fast, or is it sped up?

Little tip I've discovered: Selling hero items you don't think you'll use to other rulers is a great source of early game money, don't leave it on the table!

- I have a different type of spider build. I go spider mounts + underground adapt (mainly for chosen destroyer). I go feudal for stand together (20% more damage when adjent to a friend). I go chosen destroyer (permanent income with razing cities) + Perfectionist Artisans (great pair for chosen destroyers because chosen destroyer only have 1 city. plus gives tier 3 unit). I go wizard king always brainless for me. - Military strategy: till turn 30ish I only recruit scouts because they are cheap, great pillagers, web makes them op, u should have 4 - 5 full stack at this point. After that you build wildlife sanct and recruit hunter spiders which can evolve to tier 4 spider unit. After turn 60 u can recruit cavs, cavs are quick so great at reinforcing ur stacks but at this point u should camfortably say this campaign is over if you raze a lot of city. I don't value crit chance early cus in the late game with astral blood and some of the late game nature books u should have flat 40 % crit and in battle after casting 1 spell max 50 % crit chance. I go melee lord to frontline and always upgrade support skills to boost my units to another dimension LITERALLY. First special skill should be shadow one for affinity cus first shadow empire development gives you 50 RESEARCH PER HERO LEVEL U KILLED this makes u research monster in harder difficulties. - Expansion strategy: You think there is no expansion with chosen destroyers because they cannot build city. Which is true but the strategy is clear ancient wonder and annex them with outpost + u should always have outpost close to your next target because of teleportation. - Books: I go 2 tier 1 nature books they are OP. For tier 2 books I go amplification for astral blood (10% crit chance every time you cast spell in battle STACKS) and Revelery for chaos affinity and revelery triump hero support skill (gives 20 % crit chance for non-hero units in the army). For tier 3 books I go Vigor which is must have for empowered beast and supergrowt AND Devastation tome for flammable weapons and devastator spheres. For Tier 4 I go Paradise for gaia's chosen and natures wrath for awaken the forrest and Natures avenger hero sup skill (In battle u can cast this for 0 action points gives 2 hexes of area all animal and plant units 5 strengtened [50% damage] ). LAST Tome Goddes of nature for mass rej which makes ur units unkillable in battle and force of nature for 20% crit chance to all ur units. IDK who is gonna make it this far to read it but enjoy the most op build (for me) that I found

Bought this game Friday I’m full blown addicted having a blast

I just made a spider build myself. But im going full hunter spiders and a wildcaller to further decrease upkeep. Nature and order are my 2 favourite secondaries but together they are really good for Farm builds.

"I'm going to give them a whispering stone for now but we will be killing them." What a glorious eastern Canadian accent. Loving these vids brother.

Thanks for your videos and for your guide, are u planning to play Dark in brutal difficulty ? i'm pretty curious to see how are u build that faction in brutal. I mean ,i guess u couldnt rush like ur did in ur guide right ?

Good video. However i whold love to see you playing this with the yogs

Did just play game with spider riding overhelm barbarian goblins, next one will be wolf riding overhelm feudal orcs to get nice melee cavarly buffs, overhelm one combined to wolf mounts pack tactics, howl and feudal's stand together one.

You can do this with Feudal Scouts. Stand together + cheaper upkeep...

If playing this game would be as enetertaing as your video, I would not stop playing it. Literally.

Definitely trying this before its fixed

My take on mounted tactics was Industrial Wolf Bastions. Went materium and nature, stacking most physical/cavalry buffs I could. Early game was hard because wolf scouts dont do much damage so I went pretty much normal industrial early but as soon as the first bastions got made I was steamrolling and losing nothing. Unfortunately the hero skill that gives mental control imunity to animals and cavalry does not work on self inflicted debuffs and my guys still berserked after Awaken Instincts but it was still so much fun

This is a fantastic game. Age of Wonders 3 is also worth playing, and I'm glad to see such a strong sequel.

Were you peaking in my windows again Tater? I literally just finished a Spider Cavalry Demon game before I saw the notification for this video. Granted, I don't play on Brutal, and I used a much more forgiving world, but I'm curious to see how you go about it. PS: Don't you dare suggest nerfing my beautiful spiders, I love those guys.

Going to be interesting to see what they do about the spiders and the spider mounts.

Quick question, Potato, what's your favorite affinity combo in this game?? I'm just curious and recently started AoW4 myself

Just trying it out a month later, Now barbs get the base warrior as a mountable unit. They really expanded the amount of units who can get mounts and it's nuts with prolific swarmers that helps curb many of the issues you have with no real front line, high gold costs and well, -10% food needed is always going to be nice.

For whatever reason this is one of the view videos i could watch all the way through. Most of them I get bored half way through.

Are you uploading sped up versions of your recordings with a lot of cuts or am I imagining things? This seriously messes with my anxiety.

I honestly think i learned more about the game from this than the overexplained videos. Watching you play by the seat of your pants really showed how to prioritize what.

Already saw the spider cheese on a smaller channel. :3 He cleared pretty much any enemy army on brutal. Even with t4 units in it. Only with scouts and his hero.

The final order empire development perk will also grant the Furies +50% evasion once they reach legend rank.

Did a scout only run. Only recruited scouts, as well as a couple heroes to lead the armies. Thought it’d be a really hard challenge but it ended up being a piece of cake cause I gave them spider mounts. It turns out an army of spiders is pretty strong, even if they have wimpy scouts riding them.

Potato: What kind of AoW4 content are you interested in? Leave comments! Also Potato: Here's more Chaos archer spam! lololol But also, super impressed how efficient your gameplay is. I'm still faffing about on Normal, these Brutal games are terrifying.

First time even hearing of age of wonder

A challenge for you, PotatoMcWhiskey. Play a brutal game with only summoned units. Not necessarily only units that you summon yourself, but only units that are all mana upkeep.

The "More Cavalry" mod makes the Tier 1 Warriors into Cavalry, and I am having an absolute blast. 😂

OMG, you used my build! I am totally taking credit for this with no evidence or the fact I was using Wolves! :D

The unlucky start will only make it more satisfying at the end. wondering what the spider late game will look like.

I was thinking of a underground, spider-mount elvish build. Any way to get cool synergies with that?

I’m playing this exact build currently and it is so overpowered. No battle is impossible with immobilizing and the total damage of web. Once you get your tier two archer, the game is on easy mode.

RIP Sharna the Shining (2023-2023). She died to save the Empire from the Demon Horde. Never forget

Also, primal mark is for MELEE attacks, not ranged (I wished it did)

before I even watch the video let me just say this, demon king just kicked my ass on hard since he has tier IV warbreeds from the get go.. stay out of a war with him for as long as possible he obliterates tier 1 and 2 units. also the leader '' demon prince is a killing machine with a axe

it's also worth noting the 80% psyche damage bonus against opponents with arachnophobia.

Lmao when you said appeal instead of stability (civ player be like...)

Honestly I don't even know why Webs do any damage at all, even if it's due to a bug.

"I don't really care what he looks like" As someone who spends over an hour in character designers no matter what, I'm offended

how do you decide what build you are going, all these in the first 4-5 minutes of the game could you do a more detailed version on how theorycrafting works for aow4?

Something I noticed about all the "pre-made" realms is that their names are randomized every time you open the menu

As much as I enjoy this playthrough, I would love to see an Industrialist one more

The fire giant is clearly hanging out in a tree in a very spider like way

37:27 rule of cool prevails as it should

I was told by devs, that spides do incorrectly double damage and it will be fixed (nerved) soon, basically right now you could build brutal game with just spider scout, nothing else needed.

Siege optimization: Cragwell had 30 points Default siege deals 10 per turn. You ain't gettin 20 for the one turn siege. So you only need 5 more. Sabotage support is beautiful, plus literally any of the 3s sitting on the list. Tadaaaaah.

37:03 Potato recuits a giant spider

Had this idea a while ago but I was kinda worried about ai spamming aoes with this build which happens when you get 3 heros with the bilzzard wand.

Warhammer spiders and giants are in the orcs and goblins lineup, so the giant is fine

little goblin laugh at 28:23

"Potato Spiders" is a example mod. You missed the shot to have your spiders, and eat your Potatoes too!

Hot take: Seeing as most people seem to play single player; and if they do venture into multiplayer it's usually with friends where you can set house rules, I think keeping fun & busted stuff in the game is fine. Let the player use and abuse goof if they want to; besides, in a game like this I get the feeling there's always SOMETHING that's going to be super strong, and going around and stomping all of it is just going to make it dull.

You'd be surprised to know that there is a mount which is even more overpowered than the spider mounts. The Wolf mount is essentially the T4 "White Wolf" unit as a mount, one tier higher than the wolf you get from the nature empire development perk. It gives all cavalry a stacking 20% damage buff per adjacent other cavalry with the same perk, while also giving them an AoE magic attack which applies weakened, allowing Dark units to gain another 20% damage buff. Dark Knights have an ability which deals 18 damage in a 2 hex cone, which doubles if the enemies have any debuffs. Shock units are also able to benefit from most enchantments, allowing you to rush a T3 city and have immediate access to units which will allow you to steamroll for the rest of the game, as the Dark Knights essentially quadruple in combat-effectiveness in the hands of a player, all by picking a single racial trait.

What build would you suggest if I want to run animal based race

I want more spidersssss 😊

you know what I miss? dwarven cultures having rifles or as it was called in the commonwealth on AOW 3, boomsticks. the crossbows are fine I guess but I want gunpowder units

My furies wouldn't mount 😢 it showed the spider in the menu but in game no spiders. Which really sucks as Goblin Spider Riders sounded so good to me they were my first playthrough and by the time that bug gets fixed they will fix the bugged dmg as well.

The first time I played I accidentally used them. But I never abused the spider web mechanic and it was fair otherwise. They just have to fix the bug, that's it

Honestly I thin that spider web should not do any damage, just immobilize and it will be still fine mount to have.

46:15 Adding merchandise to the queue is meaningless, it's already in there by default when you have nothing else going on. Previously in AoW Shadow Magic there were a couple more options for the baseline conversion: gold, mana, and maybe something else, can't remember. But now it's just conversion to gold, and it's always there by default.

Im addicted to this game, at least watching this game hahaha

Try a Nightmare Dark build. Joy Siphoners plus Nightmare intimidation is silly.

The attack of the spider furries, sorry I mean furies.

In the beginning of the video, I had to make sure my playback wasn't at x1.25

yeah, well, spiders are full of bugs and exploits. With spider mounts, you can also prospect not even moutains, but also forests... and any unit on spider can prospect (not only scout, but also hero for example).

Spooders so OP they spoopy. ...Or is it so spoopy they OP?

I‘m gonna fight the demon king! Game: Let‘s see how well you can snowball in hell.

this build wont work on multiplayer since you need your early battles to be done manualy - cool shenanigans tho

Are you speeding up your voice or talking that fast naturally?

i feel like they need to buff wolf mounts, or im using them wrong v.v