Initiation realm?

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Ive spent 6.7 hours on the Initiation realm, turn 57 and still far from finished.
Wondering if that sounds about right or maybe im missing something.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by ad:

Initiation realm?
Ive spent 6.7 hours on the Initiation realm, turn 57 and still far from finished.
Wondering if that sounds about right or maybe im missing something.

Is still okay.

[Crimson Phantom]

What are you concerned that you're missing?

I'm around the same number of turns after 16 hours. Guess I play slowly?

[ethorin101]

I really wish that realm trait was available...

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Originally posted by Crimson Phantom:

What are you concerned that you're missing?

I'm around the same number of turns after 16 hours. Guess I play slowly?

7 hrs for an introductory realm seems slow to me? Can only imagine what comes after lol

[TyCobb]

Games will go quicker once you are comfortable with the game. You'll know your standard turn order by muscle memory. And you'll stop even reading the stuff on screen and just looking icons and quantities probably.

And eventually you'll probably stop actually fighting battles and auto-resolve everything because you'll have stacks that will take care of 90% of the armies in your way. To shave even more time off a game, turn on fast movement for World Map and Combat -- armies moving around outside the fog of war burn a lot of time.

[Chameon]

So, the introductory realm is just a realm with no modifiers. Story realm 1 is the tutorial realm, which is kinda backwards from my perspective, but yeah. Introduction Realm took me like, 60 turns to get done, but story realm 1 took me like....35?

[Antsan]

Originally posted by Chameon:

So, the introductory realm is just a realm with no modifiers. Story realm 1 is the tutorial realm, which is kinda backwards from my perspective, but yeah. Introduction Realm took me like, 60 turns to get done, but story realm 1 took me like....35?

I've played both and I didn't realize
but it's true. Kind of a weird choice to do it that way.

[CrUsHeR]

Not sure what you expect?

My typical AOW3 map on Very Large+ setting would last several IRL days or more, even when playing like 15 hours on a long winter weekend.

I guess since Planetfall, and partially due to the console versions, they want to enforce small, quick matches which can be finished in one or two sessions. So 6-7 hours for 57 turns sounds normal.

[Questionable]

Initiation realm is pretty small so its fast to win. Conquest victory is also the fastest victory type. Play the scenarios or a big map and you'll get some long ass games lol.

The pace of AoW4 in general is a lot faster than AoW3 cause of the dual production queues and not needing settlers to plop down outposts/cities.

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So should i bother finishing the initiation realm? Or just move on the story realms?
I assumed the intiation realm would be a couple of hours of a tutorial kind of thing, not 8 hours and counting haha

[CrUsHeR]

Originally posted by ad:

So should i bother finishing the initiation realm? Or just move on the story realms?
I assumed the intiation realm would be a couple of hours of a tutorial kind of thing, not 8 hours and counting haha

At the very least, you should always use the "Surrender" function to abandon a map, then you still get the Pantheon points for your actions.

Of course you get more from winning. Not sure if story realms unlock anything new, haven't played any of those.

[ethorin101]

Story Realms unlock the characters in them. At least some of the characters.