Black Metal Goats

[GrandMajora]

Lots of people excited for Lupines in this game, but I don't think they realize just how flat out demonic the Goatkin form looks.

Like, you don't even need to use Demonkin on them, these things already look evil AF.

I can't decide if I should make them a Dark culture, or an Astral culture? Either way, they would have the Cannibals trait!

[Astronimo]

Give them Steel skin - that' your Black metal GOAT

[Wilfred Owen]

Do you like to live deliciously?

[SaurianDruid]

Go with Reaver culture. Become a race of heavily industrial goat-people who hunt humans down with guns and cannons empowered by the fires of Hell.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Wilfred Owen:

Do you like to live deliciously?

Great, now I'm making a Wizard King and naming him 'Phillip'.

[Nocturio]

Sounds as Venom.

[Moa Rider]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Lots of people excited for Lupines in this game, but I don't think they realize just how flat out demonic the Goatkin form looks.

Like, you don't even need to use Demonkin on them, these things already look evil AF.

I can't decide if I should make them a Dark culture, or an Astral culture? Either way, they would have the Cannibals trait!

As soon as the DLC drops imma go beastman on them.

[SpiderAbbot]

I hadn't thought about this, and honestly had only considered the goatkin form in terms of finding interesting uses for their default "herbivorous" trait.

...Now I kind of want to use them to explore the demonic tomes.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by SpiderAbbot:

I hadn't thought about this, and honestly had only considered the goatkin form in terms of finding interesting uses for their default "herbivorous" trait.

...Now I kind of want to use them to explore the demonic tomes.

I wanna give Herbivore to carnivorous species now. It would be funny to see Cats or Lupines munching on some bushes and cacti during battle.

[SBA77]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

I can't decide if I should make them a Dark culture, or an Astral culture? Either way, they would have the Cannibals trait!

Maybe looking at some metal album covers will help with the decision.

But I got to say, the new mounts are nice, but I still want aesthetic customization options for the new cultures. It's really holding back my creativity, and really that's what this game is all about; making cool fantasy faction and letting your imagination run wild just like Stellaris.

[Moa Rider]

Originally posted by SBA77:

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

I can't decide if I should make them a Dark culture, or an Astral culture? Either way, they would have the Cannibals trait!

Maybe looking at some metal album covers will help with the decision.

But I got to say, the new mounts are nice, but I still want aesthetic customization options for the new cultures. It's really holding back my creativity, and really that's what this game is all about; making cool fantasy faction and letting your imagination run wild just like Stellaris.

Yeah, honestly I feel like the game is being hampered by the mindset of it being a 4X video game that you "win". I really don't caring about winning, I care about creating a highly customizable empire and roleplaying as the leader of that empire. Its hard to put into words. Age of Wonders 4 is the closest thing to the perfect dream game I want but falls short because how its structured. If the game focused more on roleplaying, meaningful decision making and creating dynamic stories instead of "make funny number go up and WIN THE VIDEO GAME", AOW4 would probably be my favorite game.
And yes, the new mounts are nice. Hope they add raptor mounts soon.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Moa Rider:

Yeah, honestly I feel like the game is being hampered by the mindset of it being a 4X video game that you "win". I really don't caring about winning, I care about creating a highly customizable empire and roleplaying as the leader of that empire. Its hard to put into words. Age of Wonders 4 is the closest thing to the perfect dream game I want but falls short because how its structured. If the game focused more on roleplaying, meaningful decision making and creating dynamic stories instead of "make funny number go up and WIN THE VIDEO GAME", AOW4 would probably be my favorite game.
And yes, the new mounts are nice. Hope they add raptor mounts soon.

Well, good news, the Wolf Update is adding in the ability to make your own custom faction description, instead of using the pre-generated one.

Not sure why it took them 3 DLC's to finally implement that feature? But at least now I can finally give my factions the biography I want for them!

[SBA77]

Originally posted by Moa Rider:

Originally posted by SBA77:

Maybe looking at some metal album covers will help with the decision.

But I got to say, the new mounts are nice, but I still want aesthetic customization options for the new cultures. It's really holding back my creativity, and really that's what this game is all about; making cool fantasy faction and letting your imagination run wild just like Stellaris.

Yeah, honestly I feel like the game is being hampered by the mindset of it being a 4X video game that you "win". I really don't caring about winning, I care about creating a highly customizable empire and roleplaying as the leader of that empire. Its hard to put into words. Age of Wonders 4 is the closest thing to the perfect dream game I want but falls short because how its structured. If the game focused more on roleplaying, meaningful decision making and creating dynamic stories instead of "make funny number go up and WIN THE VIDEO GAME", AOW4 would probably be my favorite game.
And yes, the new mounts are nice. Hope they add raptor mounts soon.

:O I just realized

Originally posted by Moa Rider:

Those would be great too. I know Age of Wonders has never really had giant bird mounts like that before, but that didn't stop them from adding giant spiders (They were in previous games but were never mounts), bears, and crocodiles in this game.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by SBA77:

Those would be great too. I know Age of Wonders has never really had giant bird mounts like that before, but that didn't stop them from adding giant spiders (They were in previous games but were never mounts), bears, and crocodiles in this game.

They did have giant frogs though. In the first game, lizards road around on giant frogs. :-)

[SBA77]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Originally posted by SBA77:

Those would be great too. I know Age of Wonders has never really had giant bird mounts like that before, but that didn't stop them from adding giant spiders (They were in previous games but were never mounts), bears, and crocodiles in this game.

They did have giant frogs though. In the first game, lizards road around on giant frogs. :-)

They did, but they didn't put them in here yet though. Very odd since they were the Lizardmen's racial mounts way back when in the first game and they'd actually go quite well with the new Toadmen too IMO.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by SBA77:

They did, but they didn't put them in here yet though. Very odd since they were the Lizardmen's racial mounts way back when in the first game and they'd actually go quite well with new Toadmen too IMO.

Yeah, you'd think they would have added them in with the update to naval combat.

Or maybe as an alternative to Naga Form, since it's a racial transformation that disables your units' mounted status.