Heck, I'd even go as far as saying it could be one of this year's biggest and most exciting fantasy games outside of Baldur's Gate 3.īuilt from the same enchanted bone pile as previous Age Of Wonders games, AOW 4 is a game of two halves. There's a heck of a lot to get through, but rest assured: this is Age Of Wonders through and through - and thanks to the addition of those new, customizable factions, it's also the most RPG-like entry yet, which is good news for budding D&D-ers looking for a grand, 4X strategy game to sink their teeth into. I've spent the better part of a week and half playing an early build of AOW 4, getting to grips with its enormous array of customizable factions and hero types in its generous crop of single-player realm maps. Despite dipping their toes into the sci-fi realm with Age Of Wonders: Planetfall three-odd years ago, developers Triumph are now returning to their fantastical 4X strategy roots with Age Of Wonders 4, due out on PC in just a couple of months on May 2nd - and what a homecoming it's shaping up to be. Since those armies have to have a certain size to be effective, this is more costly in terms of manpower and gold, but it is easier to gain advantage over the AI here - so you can beat them by sheer numbers.Somehow, it's been almost a decade since the last numbered Age Of Wonders game. You can never beat the CPU with multitasking - here only slow speed and frequent stops help to an extend-, but you can at least be prepared to have extra armies in the back to deal with AI tendency to open second fronts. But the most important reason is the AI - despite all the shortcomings, if it understand something really good, then it's playing the computers advantage of a RTS of being able to control many stacks at the same time and -if they are presented with a too strong human army in one place - to strike at your weak back. You incur a higher food consumption (or even attrition cause by it), you loose flexibility (while smaller armies can still easily fight together, if needed), you have less jobs to make your families happy. It depends on the situation if few bigger or many smaller armies are better, but just one army is rarely a sucessful concept.
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