Warlords TBS Series
Spin-off Projects
Home Forum
Welcome,
Guest
|
|
TOPIC: Warlords 4 Strategy Guides?
Warlords 4 Strategy Guides? 6 years, 10 months ago #3419
Hi All, long time lurker, first post!
In short I've had a love affair with the Warlords series ever since Reign of Heroes when a friend lent me a copy. Now as a 12 year old I didn't do so well but loved the addictive turn based fantasy action. Fast forward to being a married man, I'm getting back into Warlords, with Warlords 4 as it seems to be the one I have the least amount of running on multiple machines at home. Also seems the most stable, for now... In short I don't I remembered just how hard this game was and was hoping to find some strategy guides. It's hard even on the easier difficulties, I think Prince is what I'm playing on? I've searched the net and can't find anything other then a PDF copy of the manual. Just wondering if someone has any content, perhaps race specific strategies, good unit combos and map strategy/campaign guide. Thanks All! TLDR: After any content, perhaps race specific strategies, good unit combos and map strategy/campaign guide. |
|
Last Edit: 6 years, 10 months ago by anna-nicole-smith.
|
Re: Warlords 4 Strategy Guides? 6 years, 10 months ago #3420
The game got a LOT harder with my 1.03 patch where I dramatically improved the AI. So if you've applied those and never played with them before then you aren't remembering wrongly.
Not sure there ever were any official strategy guides. Some questions 1) Are you doing the campaign or just random maps 2) What level is your Warlord (you starting a 1 or using the editor to create high level ones) 3) What kind of Warlord do you have (major/minor) 4) What Race are you using? 5) What size maps are you playing on? A few quick tips until I see your answers 1) Raze and rebuild any city that isn't your race or the race beside you on the race wheel. At the very most you can keep cities that are 2 races away on the wheel. The reason is that you build units much faster with your race or adjacent races. 2) In the early turns (<T10 on most maps, <5 on really small ones) you want as many units as possible. That means those 2 units per turn guys that are cannon fodder for taking cities quickly. 3) Avoid the hard neutrals (L3/L4 walls with 5+ defenders and even L4 cities with 4 defenders). Just go around and move on to find easier cities. The worst thing is losing most of your men on the 1st or 2nd city because it's really strong. KGB |
|
|
Re: Warlords 4 Strategy Guides? 6 years, 10 months ago #3421
Thanks for the reply, it's very appreciated. In short I'm just doing the campaign for the story and lore. I have a level 1 Warlord and I can't quite remember what class or what major and minor skills I picked. I'll have to jump back on, I've got kids and so playing time is just on and off through the week.
I'm using the elves only because I love the healing ability of unicorns and the elven archers. I find that they aren't the strongest race unless you go for the cavalry equivalent and the 3+ turn monsters. Thanks for the tips below I'll try using them next game. I'm currently stuck on the first level of the campaign.... FWIW I am actually using patch 1.5b. |
|
|
|
Time to create page: 0.28 seconds