age of wonders planetfall army composition

#Age of wonders planetfall army composition mod

Quickly research purifiers and slowly shift production to them, while still summoning trenchers with the strat-op.

My early armies are just hero+foreman+4trenchers. Me personally, I just spam trenchers early with a foreman. As Promethean dvar, you quickly figure out that the promethean dvar walker is an absolute monster so you try to a) reach it and b) build your armies around it. Synergistic setups tend to be easier to figure out. This in turn means that you have to approach the game in vastly different ways, depending on your setup. So the SecTech balances out what the race lacks. Synth is energy and production focused while Amazons are rather food and research focused.

All of this works together, this is what I mean by synergistic.Īmazon + Synthesis gives you a combination of living units and bio attacks and on the other hand adds a lot of ways to control and weaken mechanical units. Dvar has Mech-Support and Promethean has Mech units. Two examples:ĭvar + Promethean gives you stronger Phoenix walkers, purifiers with trenches and lots of immunity to vulcanics and hazards, while also creating hazards and volcanics. When choosing Race + SecTech combinations you have the option of going for synergistic or complementary loadouts. The other way they do it is by making higher tiers tend to be more supporty and less 1v6 turbofighters. One way they do this is cosmite restricting the ability to spam high-tier units. This game tries really hard to keep all units relevant even into the lategame. I can't really reduce the modding cost for NPCs because it would devalue regular units I also don't want to reduce colonizer cost because then it's even more about unit quantity than it was before.That's a really complex question because there's just so many different combinations of Race + SecTech in this game.Īnd especially because unlike AoW3, it's not a viable strategy to go 'rush T3 production, then spam T3 units.' However, in this case it seems more like an issue with the AI difficulty (the bonuses may come into play too early), I didn't test a game with fixed teams, so the AI usually didn't attack me that early. Overall it may be necessary to play the game a bit differently - it's really not that unit-heavy in the beginning.ĮDIT: Actually after reading your post again I'm not sure if you did attack the AI or if you were attacked. But if the map doesn't have a lot of cosmite nodes, it's better to save their modding cost, I think. NPC units (and animals) are useful if you have a lot of cosmite (happens to me often around turn 25) and your regular units don't have enough experience to spend it on them. For the third army I wait until I have a good city that can give them some rank upgrades. The energy from the rewards helps to build a second army. I usually concentrate on camps, exploration sites and landmarks in the early game to get a strong main stack. Anyway, I don't think this is a bad thing because absorbing an enemy empire that early would again allow the player to build large armies and steamroll everything. This might make it impossible to rush an enemy AI early (I didn't test this because I generally don't play that aggressive). It is intended that you can only sustain a small number of units in the beginning.

#Age of wonders planetfall army composition mod

Thanks for the mod again, it is really great, so many things are changed and the amount of work is crazy indeed. I am Amazon who have penalties for mountains/fertile plains, that means low energy income also. Have you tried a game with leaving vanilla colonizer costs, which problems did it cause? Of course I am building another colonizer despite I still haven't found any sectors with cosmite. I got 2 units to veteran rank, built 1 core unit, bought 4 NPC tier 1 units, obtained some reward units from quests and my income is -15 with 2 colonies. I mean I can't have just a few colonies and rely on NPC units because they will not have any mods, I can't rely on faction units either because they have 1 mod and thus don't have a chance against double number of AI units (there is no much room for synergy). Click to expand.I am on turn 14 in my game and I think the idea to reduce number of colonies contradicts to increased energy upkeep for evolved units and increased mod cost for NPC.