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Was playing a custom scenario as an underground race. I entered an alliance with an empire above me while I expanded through the caves. They ended up in a war with another alliance with the empires that were rank 1, 2, and 3 in strength and basically got instantly demolished.

As soon as the swarms of enemies started entering the cave I surrendered and became a vassal...

besides being yanked about into a war (which isn't an issue this alliance is easily wiping out the rest) what is the downside to being a vassal? Seems like I'm just going to win without really fighting in a single major war.

Sooo maybe some of you guys have a solution for this issue since I searched high and far all around the internet and failed to find any solution as for now.

Background: We were playing a 3 Player Multiplayer Campaign + 5 Bots for roughly one week and a couple of mods installed (several different campaigns in this configuration with the same people) and never had a problem until the hotfix update came along on Tuesday, 8th Oct or something.

We resumed to play our campaign where the game told all three of us to update the savefile to match it with the Game's post-hotfix version. We did that by clicking the "Yes" button on the popup-window in-game and went on to play. Bit more desync problems than usual but it was tolerable.

The moment we eventually hit Turn 59 that one friend crashed back to desktop immediately the moment everyone ends their turn. Since this first came up he is unable to end any turns in Multiplayer Sessions.

What we tried by now:

• Play without mods
• Have him reinstall the game
• Check the Integrity of the game's files via Steam
• Reboot his PC
• Try different hosts (when he hosted the game, it seemed to work but he has no DLCs which limits us while the other two of us got them. But he crashes on both of us if we host a match)
• Begin an entirely new multiplayer session
• Reinstall Nvidia GPU drivers
• checked his Windows Firewall settings regarding Age
  of Wonders 4
• Revert campaign / turns

None of the above resolved the issue. As long as he plays a single player match it works without any issues.

We would appreciate any idea that might help coming up with a solution. We are slowly running out of ideas for further troubleshooting.

I need a rabbit race with high movement I think that would be super cool. We got goats, cats, wolves, and parrots. Why not rabbits?

Also, any tips on the best cultures/traits for the eldritch sovereign? I love eldritch horror but I kind of suck...

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I have a tree seed event. Roots are applied to the unit every battle. It seems like they should disappear after a turn, but they don't.

I made a costume faction that feels quite nice. Race traits, Keen-sighted + Swiftfoot raptors, Industrious with artifact horders + devious watchers. Dragon Lord hero. Went for a shadow-materium tome, with undead fodder till I got some bone drakes and snipers and tanks from the material

My mana and economy were both insane, lots of fun.

The tier one unit is very solid with the swiftfoot raptor arbalest and bolster anvil guard for the early game

Bastion for late game is also very solid front line unit and along with the backline with ironclad when I got to tome of the dreadnought.

Scouts with universal camouflage becoming miners on the mountains to gain artifacts and random economy making me choose how to develop due to the nonstop boosts.

Mid game I was pumping so much economy I could do anything tbh.

My issue is I had like 11k mana in my reserves and I had nothing to spend it on. Like nothing at all, I had 3 armies of summoned units, 7 enchantments and I still got like 349 mana per turn. Of which dragon hoard gave me like 600 mana by itself.

Granted, I have only played one game with them, and I am still figuring out the tomes system, but is there a mana sink in one of the tomes?

Or better yet, does anyone have some theory craft of tomes for this faction for me to try out?

so I am doing an infantry only chalange for age of wonders planetfall and I am honestly stumped on what I should do for it, so I come to you all. please tell me what you all think I should do for this challenge

Magic victory objectives should be shared amongst those in an alliance to make it slightly more viable?

Could AI players take a simultaneous turn after the player takes their turn to alleviate late game crawl?

Can we edit the AI personality of an ascended ruler?

Wish there was a spectator mode to just watch battles between AI players.

Hello peoples, I've just started playing AOW4 and I'm really enjoying myself so far! I'm just wondering about auto resolving fights. Is that something that I should be doing or is it better to manually fight? Apologies if this is obvious I'm just not sure of my play style yet, any help is really appreciated:)

One of my vassals has units standing on the producers in a couple of my provinces. When I go to claim a province with a vassal's army on the producer it says the producer is blocked; is it still blocked after I claim it? The tooltip makes it seem like I won't get the resource.

Is there any way to get them to move their armies?

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I'm getting this error every time i try to start age of wonders up. what is the fix? I'm at my wits end I've gone into norton to exempt it because norton has done this before and it is already exempted or allowed. There is nothing i can click on that i can see to allow this file to launch nor do i remember what i did before to fix this. If it's something else or you know of any other fix please tell me, i cant play the game.

Has anyone figured out a way to consistently select hyperlinks with a controller? For example: whenever I hover over an Ancient Wonder I can never get the "cursor" to move to the unit hyperlink. This happens in several tooltips and menus.

Hello aspiring Godir! Sorry for the noob question but a recently bought the game and, since I am blocked in a hospital bed with a fractured knee, I was using the time to write down some RP builds. On the wiki I saw that there is a raptor mount, but I cannot find it in the mount trait section. How can I kit my empire with them?

Is it even possible? I can’t seem to find anything on the internet.

I just wanna play alone vs the NPC monsters and infestations and wonders. Is there a way to totally disable other players? I’d like to just be able to go around and conquest land..

Edit : Thanks to everyone for the help! Thank you

Everything is in the title. I seriously don't understand much, even if I won a few maps, I only do auto complete fights and try to develop my cities as I can, don't understand a thing about diplomacy... Is there any noob guide or something ? I try to read everything and do my best but I'm lost.

I have a little experience in 4X but I feel like it's not helping at all here.

Hi, I'm currently playing Story Realm 5 in AOW4 and have a question about how the allies work. I'm going for magic victory, which requires binding 4 wonders, and I've bound 2 so far and found a few other. However, my ally AI has one in his control. Is there anyway I can get or bind this one, or is it lost to me? I've found others, but they'll involve marching all over the map and will take much longer.

Edit: I was able to win magic victory, but I had to go find other wonders to bind, as far as I can tell if your ally owns the wonder there is no way you can use it. You can't trade for them or anything sadly, so I had to trek across the map to get 2 more.

Tier 1 Skirmishers just did a single attack of 57 damage to my hero and one shot them. That army one shot every single unit i had and wasted me.I don't think any of my characters even have 57 HP.

AI enemies seem OP in general, but it is really frustrating when I enter a battle that should be even turns out to be impossible to win. The above battle was a seige, so there wasn't a rating given, but this seems to happen to me often.

Any tips or help?

I really enjoyed Planettfall with all the DLCs and sunk a out 500 hours into AOW4 before any of the DLCs came out, but it didn't quite deliver in the things I enjoyed about Planettfall. The initial release seemed fairly unbalanced and the legacy aspects weren't as impactful as they were in Planetfall.

I'm wondering about how the game is now with all the DLC and patches. Is the season pass worth it, or should I just reinstall Planetfall?

Only taken one swing at it so far, but it was a boring failure. Large Size Islands map, I chose Perfectionist Artisans because they are supposed to work with fewer cities anyway. Also took the Seafaring civic, cuz Islands.

I worked on getting the seafaring guild up first, after a few basic structures. The +100٪ production costs on all structures meant my economy was always trash, no matter what. Rushing production is always inefficient monetarily, doubly so with PerfArt... does Perfectionist Artisans just suck? How do you get a decent economy so you can support a decent military with them?

Was the combo of Large Map and Islands a truly terrible choice?

Any suggestions for tackling this One City map?

Bit of extra info, maybe I just got a lousy spawn. The nearest free City, of my culture, started out vassalized to one of the two extra powerful AIs on the map, who was 3 times further away and across an ocean. Even the other extra powerful AI was closer to the vassal than the AI that had it under control. My other opponents appeared to have un-vassalized free cities near them, do maybe I just totally screwed by the map generator?

Andy advice for moving up, I feel like I’m always behind and getting out produced.