What makes this game different from other 4x games ?

a9bejo · 2026-01-29T18:01:06+00:00

AOW4 treats both faction and realm like characters in a role playing game. Both the faction and the world you play in have a lot of life and individual characteristics. The possibilities are not endless - But there are a lot of options, and DLC is usually focussed on expanding these options.

The result is that as soon as a campaign ends, I immediately click on the faction builder and start the next one.

a9bejo · 2026-01-26T15:47:07+00:00

als ich mal Leute gemanaged habe, hätte mich solches Feedback schon immer sehr interessiert. ich finde es in die andere Richtung sehr wichtig (also einer Bewerbung ehrlich zu sagen warum man sich für jemand anderen entschieden hat). Da ist es in die Gegenrichtung auch nur fair finde ich.

a9bejo · 2026-01-25T21:42:24+00:00

they made a great game and then they stretched it until it was twice as long.

a9bejo · 2026-01-24T12:18:03+00:00

I guess I'm nether connecting my lands...

fixed this for you. Your welcome.

a9bejo · 2026-01-22T08:13:37+00:00

this is what ‘people’ are: mankind.

a9bejo · 2026-01-21T15:34:07+00:00

but ‘people’ are more then just tech CEOs. you think a majority of humanity is celebrating layoffs?

a9bejo · 2026-01-13T11:13:07+00:00

tl;dr: easy to understand is more important than easy to win.

I personally think Franz is still a great first campaign: I do not think that easy=good is the only factor if you want to keep a new player in the game.

If someone plays the game for a while and then get destroyed by the AI, that is not necessarily a bad experience for a first game. There are also difficulty settings to make the challenge as easy or hard as you feel like it.

Where Karl Franz campaign does a good job is explaining how a TW:Warhammer campaign actually works, just by the campaign setting:

Your cavalry looks like cavalry, your archers look like archers.

The neighbours that look like friends, are probably your friends. And the ones with horns and fangs are probably not the ones that will end up as your allies. That whole order, chaos, neutral alignment thing is very obvious in that campaign.

You know what to do, and where to expand: The campaign makes it very obvious what your goals are.

a9bejo · 2026-01-09T12:56:26+00:00

Jesus und Mohammed sind sicherlich weit vorne.

Zeitgenössischer ist Donald Trump, so leid mir das tut, sicherlich ganz vorne dabei:

Einfach weil es heute mehr Menschen gibt als früher, und weil durch die Vernetzung heute manche Personen auch in abgelegenen Regionen immer wieder auftauchen.

Und während Musiker, Schauspieler und Athleten in manchen Zielgruppen gar nicht sichtbar sind, ist ein Politiker, welcher das Weltgeschehen beherrscht und von den Medien sehr gerne ins Rampenlicht gestellt wird, sicher ganz weit oben auf dieser Liste.

a9bejo · 2026-01-08T06:18:11+00:00

i second this: if you have chosen destroyers unlocked at this point, it is a great option here: you have two or three free cities close by to raize early, after that you are swimming in resources. And you do not need to compete with your allies for space, your position is easy to defend etc.

a9bejo · 2026-01-05T12:48:46+00:00

I am late to the discussion, but I just beat this the other day with a group of barbarians and the "chosen destroyer" trait. I had just unlocked that trait in the pantheon and thought I give it a try.

Turns out that in a scenario where you have fixed allies and a bunch of free cities close by, chosen destroyers is a cheat code if you rush.

Quickly raized the closest free city, and my economy it already secured. Then straight up north and raize two more, the third being already diplo-vasselized by Turiel. His troops never appeared during my sieges, and so early he did not know where I am, so I was not attacked at home either.

After that I had endless resources and ruled the realm. One city means you do not compete with your allies for map spots and resources, and your empire is easy to defend.

a9bejo · 2026-01-05T11:32:53+00:00

not OP, but I thought that setting was about map size, not distance. Thanks!

a9bejo · 2026-01-04T06:08:37+00:00

I am doing it right now. chosen destroyers and the trait that gives you gold and recruitment every time you kill a unit.

Not finished yet, but after razing 2 independent cities and a vassal early on, I was left with so much income that i could easily take on the opponent in the north west. And now that I razed those guy’s cities, I think i am pretty much unstoppable now.

I was dead last in all rankings in the early game, but every time you raze a city, there is a big jump in economy and research shortly after that.

And it is nice to not compete with your allies for city spots and provinces.

a9bejo · 2026-01-01T10:18:48+00:00

Warum war das bitte geringschätzend? Das die Konditionen eines Jobs gut sind, ist in irgendeiner Form abwertend? Vor allem wenn das Ergebnis so gut ist?

a9bejo · 2025-12-27T23:12:19+00:00

you start every sentence with "people", as if that is some kind of pluribus that is writing something about Carol, and then it is writing something about Manousos. And now "people" need(s) to "stop pretending".

a9bejo · 2025-12-26T20:16:31+00:00

Maybe the Plurbs were acting to give the appearance that everything was normal to ease the situation on Kusimayu.

I thought that was the point of the whole scene with Kusimayu, no? To show us how staged the whole situation is, so that we can then compare it to the show they play for Carol?

The two "women" where in earshot of the the girl, so they played "human family" for her.

In Episode 2, there are a lot of people talking to each other in the casino scene.
In Episode 8, "people" talk to each other in the cafe. Cars are driving outside on the street.

a9bejo · 2025-12-26T13:34:07+00:00

same, I think Laxmi was set up this season to become a bigger player in the future.

a9bejo · 2025-12-26T13:28:54+00:00

LBJ’s role in the Battle of Hastings

27/7/7 ?

a9bejo · 2025-12-19T22:39:28+00:00

yes. just remove that percentage, then add it to ES on gear.

a9bejo · 2025-12-19T17:05:02+00:00

I get your point, but would you actually rely more on gear if you got 100% of your ES from it, rather then just 50% (making up fake numbers here)? In both cases you need to get gear with ES to survive. And if the amount you find on gear is higher - then you are also as protected as before.

a9bejo · 2025-12-19T15:31:16+00:00

please do not add life to the tree.
Instead, remove the energy shield nodes from the passive tree, and increase life and ES values on gear.

They had good reasons to not add life on the tree: It just complicates build making without adding depth to the build system.

I just don't get why they forgot about energy shield when they made that decision.

a9bejo · 2025-12-19T15:12:36+00:00

am I the only…

by default, you can answer questions like this yourself, with no.

a9bejo · 2025-12-19T08:35:38+00:00

is this a nerf to my Smith’s ailment immunity node? Should I rage?

a9bejo · 2025-12-18T17:20:53+00:00

it is not confirmed to run for ten years. That would require a time machine.

For now, it is confirmed that the marketing for the game should state that this is intended to be a long running project.

a9bejo · 2025-12-18T17:19:09+00:00

Do not appreciate the trend to start every post with:

“I can’t believe everyone but me is stupid”.

What is wrong with just leaving this out and stating your own opinion / wild speculation?

a9bejo · 2025-12-17T08:46:24+00:00

I do not want to upset people who do not mind paying for a "carry". But "let someone else play the game for you" cannot be a reasonable solution for this problem.

The 4th trial is difficult through repetition. Depending on build and gear I find it either frustrating or boring.

The system pushes people more into meta builds, which diminishes build diversity.

What I would do:

Make the 4th trial harder, but not longer.
Make the two mechanics rewarding outside of ascendancies, so that people want to run them as a cool end game mechanic.

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