{"id":28453,"date":"2023-04-30T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T02:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/age-of-wonders-4-review-a-4x-for-the-curious\/"},"modified":"2023-04-30T03:00:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T02:00:32","slug":"age-of-wonders-4-review-a-4x-for-the-curious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/age-of-wonders-4-review-a-4x-for-the-curious\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of Wonders 4 review &#8211; a 4X for the curious"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nWith every new edition, tactical strategy fusion series Age of Wonders has changed up exactly how it works &#8211; and Age of Wonders 4 showed its priorities as soon as it let me make a faction of mystical, arctic-dwelling wolf-riding dwarves.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter choosing a campaign, the first choice you make is whether to use a pre-made faction or customise your own. Where in Age of Wonders 3 you could alter your leader&#8217;s appearance, your empire was functionally a combination of race and class &#8211; Orcish Theocrats, or Dwarven Dreadnoughts. Here, I find myself picking my way through a menu that feels a lot more like RPG character creation: choosing a body type (with swappable perks), culture, society, and early specialisations by way of that first Tome of Magic &#8211; and, of course, appearance customisation.\n<\/p>\n<p>Culture, and your first Tome of Magic, determine the pool of units you get. A dwarven knight in a feudal society is the same as a human knight in a feudal society &#8211; but I can upgrade them very differently. But taking enchantments through the Tomes of Magic &#8211; whether its unit enchantments that apply to just support roles, or racial enchantments that apply to all dwarves in my empire &#8211; can take base armies down a very different route, especially with the ability to mix tomes of different affinities. Mixing Order and Nature tomes within a feudal culture feels distinctly different to mixing Chaos and Nature tomes within a barbarian culture. Even with a nature tree in common, it&#8217;s druidic paladins versus primal hordes.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/age-of-wonders-4-review-a-4x-for-the-curious\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With every new edition, tactical strategy fusion series Age of Wonders has changed up exactly how it works &#8211; and Age of Wonders 4 showed its priorities as soon as it let me make a faction of mystical, arctic-dwelling wolf-riding dwarves. 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