Age Of Wonders 4is the new 4X strategy game from Triumph Studios and Paradox. You expand your magical empire across a variety of territories, from Astral wastes to pleasant green fields. As your empire grows, you’ll need to produce new Outposts and Cities to make room for more production-earning, mana-producing citizens.
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Cities are limited to a relatively small city cap in the game, and you’ll need to build an Outpost before you may produce a new city. There are other methods to get your hands on more territory and cities, and we’ll cover those below in a more general guide.
How To Place An Outpost In Age Of Wonders 4
Before you can build a new city, you must first place an Outpost. These can only be built by a Hero - either your ruler, or another Hero you’ve earned and recruited.
Once an Outpost is placed, you will gainaccess to local Magic Materials, you will get a claim on nearby territory (preventing other players from settling or offering war grievances if they do so), and will later have the option to develop the Outpost into a city at the cost of Imperium.
You can fortify an Outpost with walls, build Workcamps to increase gold or mana earnings per turn, and develop other functions depending on your race and benefits - there is no need to ever turn the Outpost into a city if you’re already at your limit.
How To Build A New City
The only way to build an entirely new city in Age Of Wonders 4 is to first place an Outpost.
Once the Outpost is placed in your desired Province, you may convert it into a city at the cost of some Imperium. This scales in cost based on how many cities you already own.
This game has a fairly low city cap, although this can be altered by choosing specific unlocks via theEmpire Unlock treeat the cost of extra Imperium. Expanding your city cap to four or five cities begins to get very expensive. You will lose25% of all city income(gold, production, mana, etc.) for each city over your city cap.
Vassal states that you integrate into your empire also count towards this city cap limit, unless you maintain them as vassals and independent city-states.
