Age of Wonders 4: Empires & Ashes Review (Yuri Nator)
Love AOW4 and the Reavers are super fun but this DLC kinda ruins the AI. They seem to overvalue the DLC tomes even if it doesnt match their original build. Now EVERY AI seems to just focus severing golems for some reason lol literally an absurd amount of severing golems, 2-3 in every stack, hundreds of imperium of upkeep worth when your playing on hard or brutal lol its not even that good of a strat I dont understand why they do it.
Severing Golems arent OP by any means, their ability just dispels your unit enchantments, so their goofy stack just nukes all your cool neat enchantments that make your units unique. Your then left with this incredibly basic boring fight. Still pretty easy cause their army consists mostly of severing golems and generally it doesnt synergize at all with their build. As an example of how far the AI will go to get severing golems, in my current game, with the pretender kings modifier on, the "Holy" king of the trio whos obviously a order affinity guy has skipped all but the starting order tome he had to focus material / DLC tomes. So did the feudal king and 3/5 other AI on the map lol
Now everyone is at war with their stacks of severing golems. I specifically picked AI rulers that didnt synergize with the DLC tomes for this custom match because my last game was like this but it doesnt matter they will do anything to get it for some reason. As fun as some of the content is I genuinely would trade it just to have some variety again in my matches.