Age of Wonders 4: Ways of War
Age of Wonders 4: Ways of War is a content pack for Age of Wonders 4 focused on warrior codes, faction identity, new tomes, narrative events, and fresh tactical options. Lead the Oathsworn culture, shape your empire around a chosen ethical path, and expand your strategy with new units, forms, mounts, music, and world map content.
- Content pack for Age of Wonders 4.
- Adds the new Oathsworn culture with three subculture paths.
- Includes 4 new tomes with new units and strategic tools.
- Introduces Ogrekin and Simian faction forms.
- Adds Intrigue Happenings, new wildlife units, mounts, music, interface skin, and map content.
Lead the Oathsworn culture
The Oathsworn culture is built around ethical codes that shape how your faction approaches diplomacy, war, alignment, and empire development. Each subculture gives your people a different identity and rewards a different style of play.
- Oath of Harmony focuses on peace, multicultural growth, and making the realm safer.
- Oath of Righteousness rewards good alignment and the destruction of evil forces.
- Oath of Strife supports warfare against worthy opponents and stronger enemy forces.
Use new tomes and battlefield options
Ways of War adds 4 new tomes that expand your magical and tactical toolkit. These tomes introduce disciplined monks, deadly assassins, calamity-focused powers, and prosperity-themed support options.
- Tome of Discipline lets you cleanse units, strengthen attacks, and unlock the monk unit.
- Tome of Shades focuses on shadow tactics, blindness, weak points, and the assassin unit.
- Tome of Calamity brings Ghostfire and calamity-themed units to the battlefield.
- Tome of Prosperity adds healing Grace and prosperity-themed units.
New forms, creatures, and mounts
The content pack also expands faction creation and world variety with new forms, ancient creature lines, and mounts. These additions give you more ways to build a faction that fits your preferred fantasy style and strategic direction.
- Create factions using the hulking Ogrekin form.
- Build factions with the strong Simian form.
- Encounter Creatures of Prosperity dedicated to good and harmony.
- Face Creatures of Calamity dedicated to evil and strife.
- Ride new mounts such as the Graceful Judge, Blessed Dragon, and White Warg.
Intrigue Happenings and extra content
Intrigue Happenings bring multi-stage story events into normal skirmish maps. These narrative chains can involve assassinations, coups, betrayals, and other crises, giving you choices to interfere, exploit events, or respond as your empire develops.
- New narrative event chains for skirmish maps.
- Events focused on political crises, hidden threats, and shifting loyalties.
- New interface skin themed around the Oathsworn culture.
- New music tracks from composer Michiel van den Bos.
- New realm template, pre-made rulers, and additional World Map content.