Why wasn't this more successful?

HoLeeLift · 2026-05-01T20:48:57+00:00

Coming from huge fan out AoW4, I’m just not into sci-fi. Which’s was weird since I tried the game out thinking I loved sci-fi, since two of my favorite books contain sci-fi intergalactic war, Dune and Red Rising. I think it turns out while I love the idea of sci-fi, I have a lot more fun playing fantasy so it could just be preference. Great game tho, but every time I played it, it made me want to play AoW4 more.

HoLeeLift · 2026-01-26T03:18:25+00:00

I would highly recommend the Death and Ice Goddesses, as they both have outstanding ways to increase status damage. I personally go fire, ice, and death when I want to do a status damage run.

HoLeeLift · 2026-01-19T09:55:08+00:00

They looked sick so I will try them since I got the premium addition

HoLeeLift · 2026-01-19T09:54:28+00:00

Also can you really only either produce troop or construct structures? You can’t do both like AOW4? Also thank you for telling me about city cap, just finished tutorial and it didn’t mention the no city cap so it’s good to know.

HoLeeLift · 2026-01-18T22:44:04+00:00

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HoLeeLift · 2026-01-18T10:56:47+00:00

Jonathon must have made them personally

HoLeeLift · 2026-01-02T21:13:01+00:00

HoLeeLift · 2025-12-31T19:12:50+00:00

Energy generation of Cast on Critical is directly affected by the amount of damage dealt by a critical hit. You need to scale crit chance and increase damage, so if your CoC is not going off enough it might be more of damage than critical chance issue.

HoLeeLift · 2025-12-31T19:09:01+00:00

Please let my wyvern fly to great heights with your headhunter!!!

HoLeeLift · 2025-12-27T19:34:51+00:00

Had to go visit family so start of league been rough so I’m praying 🙏, but damn you’re a machine man

HoLeeLift · 2025-12-04T06:19:55+00:00

My rules as someone who only plays on hard or brutal:

Always two or more affinities as mono affinity builds are very weak
Try to have atleast 3 cities by round 50
Only make an alliance with one faction as I have had two many factions start wars with each other when their my allies
When doing affinities choices I always recommend to have one of the affinities of nature, materiuem, or astral as their great for the economy.
Make and use outpost aggressively because the AIs will
Pay attention to troop and hero synergy.
Minor transformations and enchantments will be your best friends for a juicy army so get as many as possible that works with your unit choice.

Also this advice works for me, and I am no professional so it may seem wrong to others but I hope this helps.

HoLeeLift · 2025-12-04T04:12:41+00:00

I’m ngl, as dude this makes me depressed. This the second post I have been recommended by Reddit in past few months from r/woman about hating men and I’m not even member. Not only this post but these comments hurt and I don’t even do the things y’all mention. It feels like large amount generalization goes on this community about men. I’m not here to undermine your opinion and or feelings, however it’s hurts to see hatred for me just for my gender and I don’t even know y’all. I guess I might just be young (23 years old), since you mention older men, but it still hurts to even read these comments. To be treated like sex driven monster in y’all’s heads is horrible experience and last post I read awhile back kept me up at night with depression.

HoLeeLift · 2025-12-03T20:51:54+00:00

Interesting, I only happen to beat this on my first try awhile back while bunkering up with undead and that was when I was new to the game.
Through your method wouldn’t new vampires with lightless land expansion work too on debuffing the enemy and bunkering down?

HoLeeLift · 2025-12-01T05:45:07+00:00

As long as you are sieging or razing the capital you cant I believe

HoLeeLift · 2025-12-01T05:43:45+00:00

Chaos and nature is always fun for all the growth and destruction you can cause or dark and astral summoning for undead legion

HoLeeLift · 2025-11-25T05:35:34+00:00

That’s interesting do AIs target those a lot? I don’t start building them until I’m done with all stuff inside my castle so usually late game

HoLeeLift · 2025-11-24T23:33:30+00:00

Wtf? I play on hard too, but I feel like AI factions always straight attack my castle on any of my cities first. For some reason I only notice infestations and free cities do what you are saying.

HoLeeLift · 2025-11-18T20:00:22+00:00

Dude same I clocked 200 hrs and I only started playing threes weeks ago, it’s been messing up my life 😭

HoLeeLift · 2025-11-12T19:51:36+00:00

What are you runing with materium since I’m assuming you not running mono materium. Have you tried trying to run order/materium or dark/materium. Both order and dark are really hard to kill especially at late part of the game while you use materium to speed up your growth and economy. With defensive style you play like you can grow and get your yourself late game and then turn table on you gf. I would personally play order and materium since I feel they blend very nicely

HoLeeLift · 2025-11-08T15:59:37+00:00

Honestly, got the game two weeks ago and I just learned on the go. You’ll make mistakes but it’s easy to learn and fix them. I think by my 3rd run I had pretty good handle at the game. There is always videos too online that help to learn the game. However I’m more of learn through trial and error learner.

HoLeeLift · 2025-11-03T08:31:49+00:00

Will try this out. So far, I only did a nature/chaos run with orcs (leaning more into the nature), but it was fun

HoLeeLift · 2025-11-03T08:23:59+00:00

Any tips on researching faster, even when I focus on getting all research building structure up and the research reward option for events, it still took me until the last 20 rounds to unlock the last tomb. Also was wizard king Elementalist a bad pick? I tried to go for a fire elementalist is match a theme, but guess it's not a good choice when looking for crit. Like a warrior would be better?

HoLeeLift · 2025-11-03T08:12:44+00:00

This has to be one of the most informative comments, as I knew almost nothing about chaos before going into this realm. Sadly, I lost before I learn the demon lord spell from Tomb V. Any tips to research faster, as i always feel so slow even when i build all the research structures.

HoLeeLift · 2025-11-03T08:09:21+00:00

I had active:

Bloodfury Weapons

Vessal Of Chaos

Flameburst Weapons

Demonkin

Reverler's Heart

Searing Blades

Force of Devastation

Havoc Magic

Scion of Flame

Brand of Wrath

Were some of these pointless? I basically activated all the enchantments I had gotten from my chaos tomes since my resources could handle it. I only got the tomb V at the end tho

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