[Hard] The age of Materium is upon us

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[Hard] The age of Materium is upon us - Ep.1

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PotatoMcWhiskey

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@0_Body Жыл бұрын

Behold, the Underminer! I'm always beneath you, but nothing is beneath me! I hereby declare war on peace and happiness! - Potato probably

@wideeyedraven15 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant. I always loved that moment so so much.

@DreadknightVolonis Жыл бұрын

“Might be auto-resolvable…..let’s go ahead and refight that” is the way of the Materium

@webbowser8834 Жыл бұрын

That hard cut was comedy gold

@leandroTRA Жыл бұрын

famous last words

@stewartgames6697 Жыл бұрын

Moles having seafaring kind of actually works. A lot of mole species are semi-aquatic - their shovel hands also happen to make great flippers, they are adapted to need less air, and rely on touch and smell to find food which is handy in murky water, so many species live near water or in meadows that flood during the rain season and will forage underwater when the land floods. One in particular, the star-nosed mole, is even adapted to "smell" underwater - their specialized nose cilia store air bubbles so that they can use their sense of smell underwater.

@tarenflores Жыл бұрын

mole facts

@insomniopolis Жыл бұрын

loving the mole trivia. well played.

@masterofgreymog5751 Жыл бұрын

That's actually really cool to know! Thank you for sharing :)

@clubardi Жыл бұрын

The obsurdity of an industrious plant mole riding a spider of dread while wielding a holy lance is amazing

@capester Жыл бұрын

The industrious scout prospecting is a lot of micro but so many resources, it's so cool. I was playing as barbarian and noticed that their scout (pathfinder) can found outposts by itself! I really wish the culture select screen gave you details on their units, it's tough not knowing until you can build them.

@ibrahimyeung4224 Жыл бұрын

As a person who loves lore and story in games and in general, its super nice to see Sundren of House Inioch back here

@Pixie1001. Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I haven't played the previous games aside from 3, but after reading a few lore summaries the story realms seemed like they did a really good job of picking up where the first and second games left off.

@ibrahimyeung4224 Жыл бұрын

@@Pixie1001. yeah im the same exact boat, only have played aow3

@seasand6705 Жыл бұрын

I like that this run is little less hyperfocused on an optimal build. And more about squeezing value out of what you have

@jgalvan09 Жыл бұрын

facts!!

@christopherg2347 Жыл бұрын

14:51 "Make dilemmas for your enemy, not problems. Problems have one solution. Dilemmas have several solutions, each of them bad." 17:32 Prospecting is a Industrious thing, not a general materium one. You can get it on a lot of other builds too. 27:05 Prospecting is really only a early game boost. That is pretty terrain dependant. This map tends to give you decent mountains nearby, but I never saw anything on that scale.

@MacMeaties Жыл бұрын

Yeah I've definitely noticed that as well, how Industrial units are seriously gimped in auto resolve despite how insanely good they are otherwise. Anvil guard can stack some silly defence stats for a tier 1.

@warlordnipple Жыл бұрын

The AI really fights in the auto resolves and the AI doesn't really defend once it reaches the enemy. Early game I frequently use infantry as shields while my archers are the damage dealers, the AI disagrees and just charges everyone in.

@celestinosemeleer8888 Жыл бұрын

Honestly my auto resolve in my materium run was insanely good, but I went with the tier 2 order healers instead of the default industrial healers so maybe that's why

@chloe5065 Жыл бұрын

I'd love to see Potato play more of the story realms, especially the later ones. I know he isn't a story guy but the challenges of each map- especially on the later chapters- are interesting and I'd like to see how he handles them.

@jasonlange9637 Жыл бұрын

Considering the final story map on easy is harder then regular maps on Brutal, it'd be nice to see him do it just to see him do a challenging thing if nothing else!

@TheThinKing23 Жыл бұрын

@@jasonlange9637 no joke, the final story map is VERY hard, just due to the massive advanced AI that starts next to you. It took me ages, but I did do it. You can use various cheese to make it easy (eg underground start, block entrances, rush magic victory) but otherwise you'll be trying to scrape by fighting overwhelmingly strong armies with everything you can throw together...

@chloe5065 Жыл бұрын

@@jasonlange9637 yeah i was definitely thinking of that last map most of all when i made this comment! the sharp difficulty spike on mission 5 made me feel like i’m missing some obvious strategy… but from chatter online it seems like everybody struggled so idk maybe it is just that hard

@SythDracous Жыл бұрын

I think it took me 7 attempts with different strats including Spiff's Destructive Summoners before I just went underground magic victory with 0 attempts by the actual enemy AI to stop it.

@TheThinKing23 Жыл бұрын

@@SythDracous I did it on my first try, but I very quickly gave up on having a “thematic” play through like the other maps. I got Spawnkin for damage outlay, and then vine prison spam, which got me through insanely hard early battles. By the end the AI had a whole stack of Shrines of Smiting, which even vine prison couldn’t overcome, but I had the dark instant kill spell which allowed me to eliminate 1-2 per turn and fight the rest of the armies head to head. It was extremely touch and go.

@Tyrgalon Жыл бұрын

The "Ferocious" body trait is a pretty good combo with a defencive materium build. Add defence sundering and you will absolutely nuke enemy units after a turn or 2 in defence mode while taking no damage from them :D

@jimslim4227 Жыл бұрын

Would love to see Potato reevaluate the tierlist he made now that he played some more.

@vaevictusasmadi84 Жыл бұрын

I made a Molekin High society and named them the "Holy Moleys". I was satisfied with my pun and they actually played pretty well.

@fugitiveunknown7806 Жыл бұрын

Wonders + Imperium is HILARIOUS if you get a food or material producer turn 1. Combine with fanatic workforce and awakened tools for absurdity.

@stewartgames6697 Жыл бұрын

Not to mention Trolls are ridiculously good units you can get very early with Rally the Lieges + an abandoned fortress Wonder. Butcher Trolls just wreck with their insta-gib and Brew Trolls have some decent debuffing power.

@Stu-Bo Жыл бұрын

Facts! I got a research wonder adjacent my city on turn 1. +20 research from the beginning of the game, was cracked!

@ZeEggzz Жыл бұрын

I am really vibing with this series! And i love the way the videos are edited, the cuts are not choppy and everything is well orchestrated :)

@-nav-398 Жыл бұрын

Staves of warding and the faith units 'awakening' allows you to get some ridiculous resistance on units. Maybe that could be an idea for a faith build.

@WeirdGamer20555 Жыл бұрын

I've been waiting for Potato to dive into the story realms, seems like it would be real fun.

@KlassicKelvin Жыл бұрын

Yes! please play through all story realms. I kind of need a guide on how to beat some of them! and you play/explain this game so good/fun!

@jacobski4824 Жыл бұрын

I always keep some of my extra equipment, as long as you have like 1 friendly AI you can get so much extra gold/mana from selling them extra shit. Also love randomly buying OP items from then.

@stopmeohgod Жыл бұрын

During the early game I've found it especially useful to trigger combat with spare single units (preferably fast ones like scout) and let the main army stay just on the edge of the combat range, saving up some movement. Those movement points on main army really add up and allow to do more fights in less turns.

@fantasyfootball2122 Жыл бұрын

Underground Adaptation and you start on the surface? hmm

@Laserbeams_ Жыл бұрын

I think Experienced Seafarers has you start near water, and maybe it forces surface water? That's my best guess.

@peterchoi675 Жыл бұрын

Isn’t it because of the “inhabitable underground” trait of this realm?

@C00kiesAplenty Жыл бұрын

Uninhabitable underground prevents starting down there.

@des802 Жыл бұрын

the realm has a no spawn underground condition the bigger issue is he said that he'll take this faction through the campaign. ah yes underground is known for it's large oceans, gonna get alot of value from experienced seafarers.

@damienjohnson3450 Жыл бұрын

It's a story map.

@danhaggerty847 Жыл бұрын

Loving the age of wonders content, recently found your channel through the yogs and have been binging ever since. For some reason I wasn't willing to believe your channel was legitimately called potatomcwhiskey.

@kjcramer Жыл бұрын

"Oh no, that activated my rabbit"

@Hereisdavidold Жыл бұрын

prospecting really needs to be built into autoexplore, its one of the main selling points of industrious but so much micro

@dinoking6338 Жыл бұрын

I dont know about everyone else - but I love the intricacies of combat and the strategy to this game. I would very much like it if you kept in more of your thought process. Less cuts please.

@tonyromano1394 Жыл бұрын

Materium is really the only build I haven't played around with much. Looking forward to trying them out myself.

@ayyylmao1759 Жыл бұрын

Finally another AOW4 videos, i'm FIENDING for this

@boab4 Жыл бұрын

I too enjoy being an immovable object, I went feudal however for stand together, with defensive tactics, the resistance equivalent also works, grab earthkin or spell tempered shield based on what trait you took as the first tome.

@JoshSweetvale Жыл бұрын

Tome of the Glade (II) has a buff for shield units that turns them into healers. Makes support units obsolete.

@mrdvcapj Жыл бұрын

I can’t I can’t I can’t get over how effing good this game is….I just can’t…wow!

@cageary1100 Жыл бұрын

The things you value in this playthrough are drastically different from your tier list vid a couple weeks ago, iirc, haha. It's interesting to see the evolution. Looking forward to the rest of the series. B-)

@AnonSeacat Жыл бұрын

My experience doing a materium/order build was that the combination of healing and defense paired well with polearm units with First Strike; I could make absolutely unbreakable armies that enemies would kill themselves trying to attack. The downside is that it was awful in auto-resolve, so I had to manually fight almost every battle.

@TheDirtyShaman Жыл бұрын

Copper Golems are arguably the strongest summonable unit, if you have enough perks to have them evolve immediately when summoned. The Iron Golem has the Siegebreaker trait, which means it will contribute +1 to siege progress per golem at a cost of only 60 spell points.

@jacobh9241 Жыл бұрын

I just discovered the other day you can stack "+X ranks to new magic origin units" buffs enough to instantly evolve a lesser elemental spirit into it's greater elemental form--no XP required. I was basically printing Storm Spirits at the end of that game. How I did it: combine the "Mana Channelers" society trait with the final astral empire development "Astral Binding". Together they give +4 ranks for new magic origin units (sadly it didn't work for my copper golems because they only got +3; I don't think Mana Channelers affects copper golems).

@robjohnson3095 Жыл бұрын

Potato, get rid of underground start ASAP, in the 2nd or 3rd scenario I started underground but there was no exit which messed up the game! Also, I later made a game with a massive underground and tried to stay underground only, and other than the starting area for my first city, the caverns were tiny and wouldn't let my tiny cities connect through the tunnels. I recommend hiring a hero on turn 1 to be the boyfriend/girlfriend of your Ruler BTW, that undead raising wand can make zombies in the enemies, it's one of the better artifacts

@AHeckman118 Жыл бұрын

I think I just found an awesome tactic that, while technically not exclusive to Materium, feels really well suited to it. Basically, I found out how absurd Elementalist is with Experienced Leader. I got Copper Golems from the Tome of Enchantment and Lesser Magma Spirits from the Tome of Pyromancy. And my leader can evolve them in, like, three battles. It’s absurd. And since both units are summons, I can get them anywhere on the world map for 60 mana, instead of having to build Iron Golems in my cities.

@Jeff55369 Жыл бұрын

I'm glad to see you've changed your opinion on the copper golem. In your tier video, I recall you saying they were garbage. (But I think you may have missed the fact that they can evolve into iron golems.)

@clamor95 Жыл бұрын

Your civ videos are great, but AoW4 are much much MUCH more satisfying!

@nicoruppert4207 Жыл бұрын

Ugh, the upload schedule notifies me a potato video was uploaded even though I'm going to sleep. Always gotta battle the desire to watch this and ruin my schedule.

@GlenishDsilva Жыл бұрын

Keep the amazing aow4 content coming!

@dannyboy1200 Жыл бұрын

AoW 4 has some good bones to it but after playing it for about 50ish hours it's pretty shallow as is. They might be dependent on the Paradox model of expansions, but the problem is that unlike the usual Paradox games AoW 4 doesn't have that level of emergent stories. The campaign AI also has some issues. Specifically the city states doesn't do anything during war except mill about. You can't even command them to attack or defend certain spots, IE a chokehold right next to their city.

@IainDoherty51 Жыл бұрын

Picking Gaia's Chosen when you know your opponent will be Yaka... The Pyromancer 🤣

@thespicyjim8954 Жыл бұрын

Only just starting the video but ohhhh boy, I would love to see you do Story Realm 5, I hope you keep going to it! (I have found it a real challenging one to get done)

@shahbazsheikh3545 Жыл бұрын

I like the pacing of your videos.

@logandaley1544 Жыл бұрын

I just finished my first tutorial game recently. I still can’t fathom all the ways you can build a faction

@snowgods2195 Жыл бұрын

Those mountains are half the map, think I was mystic when I played, so I just considered them a waste of space. However they are built for industrious

@feartherain Жыл бұрын

I am so excited for this next series

@sirrubio958 Жыл бұрын

A video on how to build heroes would be nice. Sometimes I find myself doubting if getting support skill or damage skills

@228zip Жыл бұрын

I don't think McWhiskey is going to reach the age of materium on this story map. It's very short!

@blockchiken Жыл бұрын

Materium I feel is pretty underrated

@Melatonine1987 Жыл бұрын

campaign is quite easy if you're doing quests achievements could be a bit harder, cause youre supposed to fight opponents normally, still doable

@sholmen1872 Жыл бұрын

So it is you who brought forth the balrog called my mom!

@simdoughnut659 Жыл бұрын

So happy you're enjoying this game so much. I am too, and love your AoW4 vids. Curious, have you played around with any of the custom tomes on the workshop yet? I found most are very balanced and add a lot of new twists to gameplay. Would love to see what you do with them.

@The_Unnerd 2 ай бұрын

1 year later and I still want you to play age of wonder 4

@MartynWilkinson45 Жыл бұрын

I find I can get good money selling spare items to friendly AI. If you get lucky on the leader personality, you can sell tier one mounts for 100g.

@rz264 Жыл бұрын

Question on a minor combat option that may have been suboptimal (or I'm missing some of the logic). At about 7:35 you attacked the last remaining opponent with an essentially undamaged unit saying that you intended to have him tank the retaliation, and then followed up with a second previously damaged, but healed up to full with temporary hp melee unit. My thinking is on clean-up especially to have any retaliation or damage go into temporary hp when possible because you are going to lose it at the end of the battle anyway. Any reason that you felt the opposite to be better in this situation?

@webbowser8834 Жыл бұрын

you are in fact correct. It was a minor mistake, but frankly this map is so ridiculously player favored that unless you do something stupid like declare war on your buddy, there is no way you're realistically losing here, even on hard mode. Incidentally I did precisely that and had Yaka show up to burn down one of my cities.

@YungGaucho Жыл бұрын

I'm loving the AOW4 content!!

@maartenpauwels8970 Жыл бұрын

Yessssss! More AOW 🎉

@DarthAssViolater Жыл бұрын

i still take seeker arrows first every single time, no other tome 1 upgrade is as impactful aside from spawnkin/ muster irregulars

@damiens4601 Жыл бұрын

Oh nice, im currently trying to make a materium melee only build but ranged units are so good its hard to figure out ^^

@zanturius7221 Жыл бұрын

Teir III Mater shields and Zephyr/Glade behind them. Throw every enchantment from Nature+Materium (and some low tier like zealot and homing)on archers and you have 140+non crit dmg (up to 6range) artillery. Go for runesmith for discount on mana.

@dav2490 Жыл бұрын

@@zanturius7221 I still prefer zealous t1 high (awakened)archers, faster to gear up and print en mass You can always transition into higher tier units, but they do so much damage as t1 and their cost that they're hard to leave behind.

@Sten43211 Жыл бұрын

Materium melee only can work well with one of the mounted traits (wolf works very well) as their tier 3 bastion unit is then mounted and very effective...

@rhevoramirez7969 Жыл бұрын

thanks for this great walktrough!

@jaredstearman3625 Жыл бұрын

Been waiting for this one for DAAAYS

@fb100 Жыл бұрын

Can you make a Auto resolve only series, where you are not allowed to manually fight battles? That would really add some difficulty.

@perer005 Жыл бұрын

Auto resolve can’t utilize a lot of tactical gameplay that most units are designed around, so you would be forced to use braindead units specialized at hitting hard.

@LagTheKiller Жыл бұрын

Ring of the vicious killer is awesome in 3v3 stack battles especially vs T1 horde. You snap few of them, maybe some crits or chaos magic and boom. 1.5 stack will retreat. Steam roller continues. Also I think steel shaper buff should bounce to another unit (or give it medal that allows it) coz steelshaper usefullness falls pretty fast. Also their attack is laughable.

@jameskeenan7651 Жыл бұрын

I suppose, thematically, it makes sense for chaotic armies to do well without careful battle management compared to others.

@keccakec Жыл бұрын

The biggest issue i always have with brutal materium builds is mana honestly. You drown in gold but mana is so much scarcer that I end up dipping into several other tomes for mana structures alone

@TylerSantinelli Жыл бұрын

I've been really enjoying these videos and this game. Mr McWhiskey, any advice for story mission 5? It's kicking my butt.

@HamiltonWard Жыл бұрын

Love your videos man, great content!

@dominikgonciarz3755 Жыл бұрын

Heeeey Potato, Spudies here!

@crazyhorse705 Жыл бұрын

Awesome set of series ty for this potato 🥔

@colep715 Жыл бұрын

@PotatoMcWhiskey You don't play games for story? What about D&D, I know you play but are you just in it for the numbers?

@Alex_Gron Жыл бұрын

Potato, please, sell hero items to your allies wia trading, it will be much more cost-efficient!

@bread1958 Жыл бұрын

Excited for this. Materium is so fun imo

@TsunamiWombat Жыл бұрын

I just finished a 8ish hour game as an arcane leaning hard into materium tomes to supplement my tiny goblin people with golems. Finished at turn 101 with the astral ascendancy. I am so tired... Anyway, mono materium is hard, your good stuff doesn't kick in until later game and you don't have the growth abilities other affinities get.

@Conbomb810 Жыл бұрын

The 4th or 5th story realm, forget which, is actually pretty tough

@shadybrain3424 Жыл бұрын

i wish they would cosmetically let heroes ride mounts but just take away the benefits per weapon, or make mounts that only work with certain weapons.

@dannywood3015 Жыл бұрын

What a game well played guys LDN

@amshermansen Жыл бұрын

You're not even in turn 30 and have almost four full armies. I swear this game is SO rush intensive it's insane. How anyone enjoys it is so beyond my understanding. I wish I could get into it, but it just feels to warfare intensive.

@steelglade1401 Жыл бұрын

somehow when ever i heavily focus on Materium i end up with more gold then i know what top do with. Materium makes bribing npc rulers is realty easy that way. the fact that with enough gold you can just spam gifts seems a little op.

@MrGlassjh Жыл бұрын

That T5 map is not the hardest map by faaar, try adding regenerating infestations and dragon lairs

@linkatronic Жыл бұрын

This story campaign looks pretty neat! Any thoughts on an underground focused game?

@ivilivo Жыл бұрын

This game looks more and more intriguing, the more I watch. But how this game plays still confuses me. Clearly tactical, but is it more into strategy or rpg? Think I have to try it

@elsanto2401 Жыл бұрын

Massive Dreamworks face

@tonyromano1394 Жыл бұрын

Probably not a big deal but you can sell items to other players, sometimes for more than what they're worth.

@leepatrick5161 Жыл бұрын

Woohoo! More AOW!!

@QuestionableObject Жыл бұрын

interestingly materium & nature aren't opposed, materium and astral are the opposites. Shadow is the opposite to nature.

@aidanbieszk2341 Жыл бұрын

When potato said "I accidentally activated my rabbit because she thought I was throwing a treat at her" I just.. I- He's got a rabbit? 🥺

@mihaipuscasu7357 Жыл бұрын

Are these the decendants of the Iron Teeth from the other game with beavers?

@Jacob-fz5ho Жыл бұрын

brutal or bust

@kronosDking Жыл бұрын

Materium sucking on auto-resolve is why I will likely never play them again. Too much micro-management required.

@andrewshawley7891 Жыл бұрын

I prefer the twists and turns and chaos of Civ 6

@carlotheemo Жыл бұрын

if you ran out of aow 4 ideas, can you come back to aow: planetfall? that or civ, either works

@edendrake8204 Жыл бұрын

I would really like to see you play the quest mission 5. I have been stuck on it for eternity.

@markmalocha3303 Жыл бұрын

I went overboard on pure conquest on that one, without knowing the ins and outs of everything in the game yet. Took a good 200 turns on hard with my limited-ish experience, lmao. Related fun fact: shadow affinity is not the best pick on that map, surprisingly enough. I wanted to try an undead build in a game, but something something spirit weakness, so I had to change plans and go down chaos (and most other things by the time I was done, might've actually went angelize for my major?) Oh, and I chose Melenis for it, thinking it would be funny story-wise to have her turn against Meandor and the Covenant after her defeat on the Eternal Court (she declared war on me after a long string of unfortunate events). Little did I freaking know...