Age of Wonders 4

Age of Wonders 4

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Visual - Overhaul for most Units
   
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21 Dec, 2023 @ 7:17pm
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Visual - Overhaul for most Units

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A visual overhaul of most units in the game.

Focus on making units more appealing and unique, while maintaining readability.

The mod began with putting beards back on Dwarfs and removing the Reaver facemasks.

Many female units were turned male. It makes for a more believable and coherent look for a medieval army.
Ofc leaders and specific units (Awakener, Furies, Lightseeker, Wildspeaker, Steelshapers, etc.) are still female,
but rank and file Magelocks and Archers are male now.

In the gallery you find many examples of the improved visuals.

I strongly recommend the Mod "Dwarfs have beards" by >>>Grumpy Old Dwarf<<<

This mod was my inspiration.
I put beards on all Dwafs (even the Great Bombard), but I could not put beards on Evokers.
I could not find the Modularity for Evokers in the game files.
The mod fixes that.

Please give me feedback and ideas.

I've been playing through Empires and Ashes with this mod and it has been a delight seeing all my customised units in action.

I wish everyone a merry christmas and lots of fun looking into my mod.

Highlights:

Reaver Culture > Conquistador look

Dark Knights > New helmets and glowing eyes

Dwarf Tome Units > awesome beards

Berserkers > more intimidating and powerful look (they look Tier 3 now)

Industrious Culture > uniform look, with helmets that help to distinguish between Unit Tiers

New looks for male Transmuters, Warlocks, Pyromancers and many Archer units

Getting rid of helmets that would not fit over a beak, beard, snout or big Goblin nose

New Eagle Rider with Winged Helmet

Mount armor on exotic mounts and powerful knightly units
9 Comments
Velg 18 Jun, 2024 @ 12:40pm 
Any chance to have both looks for reaver? mask and unmasked?
Gut 30 Mar, 2024 @ 4:18pm 
Metadata seems missing but nonetheless the mod works perfectly, thanks a lot for it, great job!
Nick1012 21 Mar, 2024 @ 10:15am 
This mod is outdated.
Adamsevs 18 Jan, 2024 @ 1:14am 
Hello!
I just downloaded your mod but my game is getting an error saying something is missing or that the game can't read the metadata?
Your mod looks great so it would be a shame it doesn't work with me...
Cat-Lunatic 5 Jan, 2024 @ 6:54am 
Could you make a version where most of them are are just male? I use a alternate culture mod to switch things around, and I'd just prefer the archer units and stuff as male, but not all the other changes?

..I don't know how to mod.

Also, wow, my words sounded rude, that wasn't the intent. Apologies.
savagedoc45b 29 Dec, 2023 @ 1:13pm 
Based and subbed.
Felecc the Knight 24 Dec, 2023 @ 8:42pm 
Great mod! It has all the little visual tweaks I had hoped for since the release of the game :D
Gregor Liang  [author] 22 Dec, 2023 @ 5:47am 
Thanks so much for your input. I will look into that after the holidays! ; ) Should not be too hard.
I just played an Arctica campaign and used a lot of White Witches. I love the female units. I just think an army in a medieval society would consist mostly of men. So it looks more believable to me if the common soldiers are men and spiritual units like Steelshapers, Awakeners or Wildspeakers are ladies. Makes the few female units stand out more. The Furys are special now. Before most Archer units werre female in AOW4. :cq2happy:
Shayan 22 Dec, 2023 @ 5:23am 
Always a fan of any mod that gives the dwarfs back their beards. Of course the added new visuals are a big plus too. The only thing I find polarizing is how you changed the sex of certain units from female to male. If it's possible, could you make a diff version of the mod that doesn't change that aspect? Personally, it doesn't really bother me too much but I can see it being a deal breaker for certain people.