(Like Wild Magic Adept or Grey Guard Master.)Ī specialisation like Expander would turn your growth from an even trade-off to an actual strength. So you could benefit from something that makes you tougher (like Earth Magic, with spells like Stoneskin and Summon Earth elemental) or something that makes enemies weaker. You suffer from squishyness and weaker end game. Growth gains and penalties cancel eachother out. (Depends on if you have DLC, kind of.)Īrchdruid weaknesses: Weaker late game, lack of tough units to build, lack of strong end-game trump ability.Įlf weaknesses: Slow growth, poison vulnerability, somewhat squishy troops.Ĭonclusion: You have the best archers. fast growthĮlf Strengths: Archery, shock damage & crowd control, potential for magic. In more general terms, it pays to look at your strengths and weaknesses, and get abilities bolster one or compensate for the other, whilst avoiding skills that are redundant.Īrchdruid strengths: Summoning spells, archery, versatility and speed. Talks about all specialisations and what classes/races they benefit. The free production is good for anyone, and they have generally well rounded units with healing supports.The best guide for specialisations, and one of the top 3 AoW guides in general, is this: Your Martyrs will evolve into Exalted (and they keep the Absorb pain ability this way) sometime before and you'll arrive while they're still just getting to/starting to research into T3 most likely.įinally, if you want to know the real secret: Human (and Dwarf) are virtually always a good choice when you don't know what you're up against. You basically have to scout everything early while building enough to 1 turn Martyrs, build a load of them, then clear every camp/site/tomb on your way to your enemy's base. This allows you to go for a strategy where you don't research any class units past Crusaders, pump out 2-3 stacks of Martyrs and evolve them all into Exalted (Tier 3 flier with Resurgence).

Halfling Theocrat - Adventurers (and Martyrs!) have a triple ranged attack unlike all other starting irregulars.

(Tier 3 Chariots with Teleport and a Frost Nova that stuns and breaks guard) The White Witch unit turns into one of the most fearsome units on the field and Frost Queens are just downright silly. Sorcerers can give their supports Stuns, Teleport, and Projectile resistance.

Frostling Sorcerer - The basic idea here is support spam backed by Phantasm Warrior summons.

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