Age of Wonders Planetfall: Tips for beginners
Age of Wonders Planetfall combines turn-based building strategy like Civilization with tactical combat like in XCOM. This sounds tempting, but it is quite complex. With our tips, you can get off to a successful start.
Strategists are required in Planetfall, because nothing can be won with luck alone.Age of Wonders Planetfall: Tips and tricks for the first steps
Whether in free play or in the campaigns, the start of the game is especially important for beginners:- New sectors are important to let your cities grow. The more sectors you connect, the more resources are generated: This makes research go faster and you have more resources for unit production.
- Build new units directly in the beginning, even if they are not strong yet. You need units to take sectors, collect resources and defend yourself. With each successful battle, your units gain experience and become stronger.
- Create more armies to increase the overall strength of your empire and be active in more places at once. After all, you need armies not only for battles, but also to capture sectors and resources.
- Equip your units with mods. This way you can significantly improve the combat strength; you will become more powerful without increasing the cost.
- On the battlefield, remember that you can destroy many objects. This brings a whole new tactical possibilities into play, in terms of cover, mobility and lines of sight.
- Become up with operations, as they can have an extreme impact on the battle outcome.
- Pay attention to satisfaction: this is often underestimated, but is important for new colonists and thus for city growth. Only with growing colonies you can connect new sectors, which is elementary for a strong position.