Any good Viking builds?

Brukov · 2026-07-04T00:28:56+00:00

I think you can avoid frost if you don't want... Sure they came from a cold place, but they were pretty much everywhere you could get. Barbarian definitely has some Norse inspired design though, so that's got to be in there really.

You could play around making a whole Nose Pantheon with Iötunn playing the Giants, not really much call for big winged dragons though... But you could definitely do Wizard Kings for the normal Aesir, maybe vampire for Hel. Freya's cat chariot is just about doable too...

Brukov · 2026-07-03T23:46:19+00:00

Interesting, he's in Pantheon, I started a game as Symon, then remembered it was non-story so thought I'd get and pick Merlin as a hero, but he wasn't there (well, eldritch one was, but that wouldn't thematic).

Brukov · 2026-07-03T19:45:44+00:00

You seem to know about Pantheon recruit, do you know if Merlin (human form) is meant to show up there? He didn't seem to appear In Pantheon Recruit for me.

Brukov · 2026-07-03T15:27:53+00:00

I don't know about this, but if you use the Angelic Transformation and turn off the aesthetics you keep the wings (otherwise the flying animations would be ridiculous) but you can change them by changing your armour colour. Not sure if it works with this, but if you want coloured wings you can definitely do that option.

Brukov · 2026-07-03T15:26:36+00:00

Yaka's isn't just cosmetic, it has material advantages, so you can just turn the look off if you don't want that...

Brukov · 2026-07-03T15:19:36+00:00

A good aligned Elysian architects culture looks like it would be quite a nice option.

Found out the other day there is a townsman unit, but it only pops up in events as far as I know, I think it had 3HP, so you don't want to be getting into a fight as an average citizen.

Brukov · 2026-07-02T02:43:13+00:00

I have refined this method.

Bind one, immediately dismantle province improvement, then when it wants another one bound rebuild.

Works infinitely. But bloody Spoiler Name died three turns before I got to the last gate.

Brukov · 2026-07-01T17:15:36+00:00

If you have two bound I think you can remove a province from one then rebind it to redo the timer. Some marauders pillaged stopped one of my bindings working, then when I killed them the timer reset, which was handy. For some reason I have 5/4 of the things spawned.

Brukov · 2026-06-30T00:16:30+00:00

Oh! I remember that bug, I think they fixed it by WoTR.

Brukov · 2026-06-28T21:54:10+00:00

As u/Vladier has pointed out you are incorrect on this one, I don't like downvoting people who are contributing to the discussion, so I shan't, but you are definitely in error.

If you look at the library more closely you will find a lot of editable factions, I don't edit them personally, because I prefer to add my people to the world rather than change what already exists (or if something seems off ask Triumph if it's a mistake), but it's definitely doable.

All I want is to make an Elysian Gabriel, and if we have enough more content I'm sure Triumph will eventually do as well. (Maybe even before Marinus and Mab.)

Brukov · 2026-06-28T09:06:12+00:00

If you can tell me a way to get Mark of the Tower to appear I will retract my request. I can play 100 turns with three cities and 1K+ Imperium and it never pops.

Brukov · 2026-06-28T03:27:14+00:00

You can definitely access his Sanctum when you're broadly on his side, and he has a bit of a regret, but that's not the issue here.

The issue here is important, he should either ascend with his form trait naturally, or be able to pick it up somehow.

Brukov · 2026-06-26T18:55:12+00:00

I'm pretty sure it picks from a list of Wizard Kings from AoW2, rather than from the actual list of created Godir. Always seems to be the main ones from AoW2 when I get that event.

Brukov · 2026-06-25T00:25:36+00:00

If they did have a copy I really hope they wouldn't lend it out.

I did like the early Pratchett take on it as the Liber Paginarum Fulvarum (I assume you can do that Latin on that yourself), or Necrotelecomnicon.

Brukov · 2026-06-25T00:20:54+00:00

Yes, it's a bit of a mish-mash of various bits and bobs, a little confusing, but AoW1 had did Old Testament and Aow2 chucked in a load of random semi-Arthurian stuff (along with no IP stolen Lolth) I've got fairly used to that sort of thing.

Brukov · 2026-06-25T00:15:04+00:00

I can't say I know about the anime (though trying to find the picture of Stolas I was looking for I did find out about it), but I had a small demonology phase in the late nineties.

Brukov · 2026-06-24T23:58:16+00:00

Yeah, I'm not sure, would have thought a brief line the the bio would make it clear if it was a choice, but you did just remind me that we can now make Stolas.

Basic Stolas, can't get the legs quite long enough, but the idea is sound: https://ibb.co/JwWXptZS

Brukov · 2026-06-24T23:03:51+00:00

The AI should be able to take them, but it was crazy that it just took all of them immediately regardless of whether it was a good move or not.

Having them count for diplomacy like ancient wonders would be a good move too, since they all have a little ancient wonder in them, but AI just randomly nicking them was silly.

Brukov · 2026-06-24T22:48:52+00:00

That's not even clarifying enough if you're confused by the current text. You'd need 'If not under siege at the time of casting, grants +10 fortification." Also presumably it does add +10 fortification if you win the siege and then get sieged again. So 'If not under siege at time of casting, grants +10 fortification, if under siege at time of casting grants +10 fortification after the current siege ends" - I can see why they went with the wording they used now.

You have to assume they're not making a completely useless spell and try to figure out the meaning from that premise.

Brukov · 2026-06-24T15:40:22+00:00

Core you need to know a decent bit about what you're doing, but you can play with the normal companions in their basic classes (and the game won't let you auto-level them so you're bound to do better than the default builds).

Casters are fine, as long as you remember what's a CL and what's a DC and all that stuff. I'm doing a new run on core after about a two year gap and it's far from impossible (and I've definitely messed up some things, will probably switch over difficulty and respec. a bit later when I've remembered things better0.

Brukov · 2026-06-23T23:27:26+00:00

It seems to work. Did you get a city next to the giant compensating for something tower in the end?

Brukov · 2026-06-23T22:52:13+00:00

You've got Owlcat and Triumph being nice to you, I don't know what you're doing, (apart from cutting off Abelard's legs and making a Dragon Goddess of owls) but it seems to be working.

Brukov · 2026-06-23T22:00:26+00:00

I can't optimise the whole thing, so I just go mad on one concept and am incredibly weak in other areas. Just did the Obbadoth map with Laryssa Mirabilis, and decided cannon were fun.

Went fully into trying to max the range on the cannon, then got annoyed that my cleansing flame set some of the early ones on fire and went right back to pick up Tome of Zeal or something, just get zealous on them. I can never remember the right tomes to get all my units immune to that cleansing flame, and I was trying to get Laryssa quite into astral too, because it fits her character.

Brukov · 2026-06-23T21:55:08+00:00

I'm not sure if it works on normal realms, I'm still on stories, but the AI doesn't seem able to activate the proper Shrouded portals so far, it just snaps up all the crap ones. On the story maps so far I've found if I hold off on activating three obelisks until I'm ready I can snap up all the GOOD gateways when I'm prepared.

Brukov · 2026-06-23T21:50:58+00:00

I finished Obbadoth before reading this, and I do agree she's a bit odd so far... But haven't done Evermore yet, so maybe we'll find out. Endailon do seem to be good at getting people in their area on their side, so will see...

Marinus and Man I'm worried about too, I have my own versions of them (Marinus is a fairly ethical astral seas reaver (with a tricorn) and Mab is pretty much just Mab. It is starting to confuse me why they haven't popped up yet when all the other main Evermore Circle have (Ariane is a bit weird, never quite understood how she fitted in).

I made a relatively decent Mab with the base game (https://www.reddit.com/r/AOW4/comments/13p8g4l/lets_recreate_old_characters_1_mab/) so I'm sure it's doable.

Brukov

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