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Tactic was to always have prepared lightning storm and blizzard spells. That is 40 direct damage to the enemy. But since the spells are prepared before hand, chances as are you could cast another lightning storm, for total of 60 damage. This is devastating to any invading force. Then if they are sieging, AI either has to back off or say bye bye to its sieging hero (a siege is over when the sieging army loses all its heroes).
Another, a bit cheesy strategy, I did was send in armies consisting of 1 unit to fight enemy 3 stacks. While the lost is certain, this allowed me to soften the enemy up with some damage spells, 3-5 rounds of damage spells. Repeat a few times and you can even take out a hero, if the ai has no healing.
With the above two methods, I took out the blue faction leader, and with him out I could take bigger fights without having to worry about enemy spells.
The map is a bit random, but try to monitor you allies. Numie and Lithyl(?) can take out the artic cats and start helping you out after turn 50. I created a bounty on one of the cats cities and that seemed like a good incentive. Yaka the god of fire naturally is on the losing end against the undead. So help out when needed.
When invading, try to pillage the teleporters and spell jamers. If you can't reach the spell jamers, try to take fights outside of enemy city territory first.
For the starting ritual, I choose Nimue's one. The extra units were nice, but since they are undead they are fairly quick to die to spirit damage. Try to use them fast, or as suicide squads, or they will tank your economy. That ritual single handedly made it almost impossible to develop my town's and at one point I almost reached 0 gold with negative income. By far my worst start to a campaign.
I suspect going Lithyl mirror ritual is better, that would require to have even more mana income, and the build already required 160-200 at turn 45-ish. In the end, it is hard to predict which ones your allies benefit from more.
I can have a look at what tomes I choose sometime tomorrow if you want to try this out, or if you got any questions on this.
The tactic is by no means easy, lots of things have to go right.
Other than that... Turiel's units have angelic transformation, which makes them weak vs frost and blight, but immune to things like charm and insanity. Unfortunately, there's ton of spirit damage around so you really don't want undead, but tome of cryomancy is an excellent start.
Grexolis i suggest playing first time with cheats.
cntrl alt c or was it cntrl shift c.
Reveal the entire map and learn how the ai works.
If you want to play it far i suggest making a build that focuses on rapid city creation(Adapt settlers) and vassalization(chosen unifiers)
Spamm as many cities as you can and release them as vassals.
Get numbers on your side.
Once the convenent shows up focus on helping your nearest ally defeat the convonent ruler.
Grexolis is all about getting your side steam rolling first.
Dont see your allies as meatshields.
See them as daggers and your the shield.
I can advice to expand ASAP. The main goal is to build your 2-3 stacks army ASAP - after that it becomes easier - with 3 stacks you can win battles against AI (mostly) without loses.
On hard difficulty its exaclty the other way around. You're allies are meatshields, they are useless and will take forever to act on something.
Until its too late - for your CPU calculating turns- anything over turn 100 will take a while.
Thats the sweetspot whrere the game should be over.
Expansion victory is good on that map.
So far all my builds make hard just a tedious grind.
https://minionsart.github.io/aow4db/HTML/FactionCreator.html?u=35:1a,23,25,61,56,51,197,bb:aa:9b:b9:b3:bd:150:b0:af,000000,s,a,h,n:r
This works in auto and TC.
Just a plain simple melee damage build.
Make sure to build a smith's guild in your throne city and another secondary city you build units.
T1 will be very high ranked and thanks to your ruler governor bonus + scions of evil and a smiths guild you can have some beefy knights and warbreeds.
And the warbreeds you only really need for siege breaker - make sure they are not in stacks with a hero with the siegebreaker item, that would be a waste.
Demonkin is the best race transformation for dealing damage and mobility if you took athletics.
The best defense is a good offense. AoW games never cared much about defense, except for the first 2 games. Just think about the flank ping pong in 3 and in AoW4 you only make progress cutting through these high Hitpoint pools, if you deal some good damage - CC is there, but not as dangerous as it was in SM, think about the Sphinx T4 that dominated, Rocs that throw you to the edge of the screen and incarnates that kill, possess and wear your units skin after battle, T1snowscappers that could freeze you at your place every turn despite your high resistance on units.
Gameplay in AoW4 is more simple, despite a more complex environment. You just maximize damage on every unit by using enchantments and combat buffs and sometimes race transformations such as demonkin. I think its the only major one that helps your damage so ignore the rest, something like the undead one is more for RP, it does not help your damage output at all and you should not die, if you deal a lot of damage just by some dots and a lack of a minor heal.
If an unit dies you just replace it with your high draft factories, demon gates will provide the teleport, athletics + demon flying the movement.
You can just autocombat everything, too.
But for tough battles where you are overwhelmened better use demonic onslaught + the call avatar, your dragon in every battle will completely turn every battle to your favor, pretty broken spell together with the dragon ruler update....heck even with a champion ruler that i tested.
When it comes to the initial ally bonus I chose the one where there is a chance of magic origin units being summoned per battle. Part of the logic is that it not only allowed me to keep attacking (as they spawn at the cite of battle) but it benefits your allies as well... And they can likely use it better since I suspect the AI cheats with economy.
When you start you have a high probability of starting out with a Tier 5 unit. Due to "Keepers of Knowledge" and one other shadow tomb (iirc...) I ended up with "Living Shadow." While it is tempting to dismiss immediately due to the high mana upkeep I ended up using my Lv 5 mystic to immediately attack the upper left Orc Goldir guy. By turn 20-30 he was actually defeated in my game (Normal difficulty).
I suspect Living Shadow, Balor, and Reaper are the best possible Tier 5 units. Although I only confirmed Living Shadow and Balor as starting options personally. I thinking Living Shadow might be better due to defense penetration... Particularly since the primary big bad has busted defense stats IIRC and Living Shadow melts him like butter.
Due to this being an alliance vs alliance battle I figured that rushing down would be doubly effective so I can turn this into a 5v3 immediately. Once I defeated the primary threat the other faction leaders more or less could have probably won the game independently - Barring the Dwarven guy creating an impenetrable city for the AI.
There are 2 definite reasons with a 3rd maybe:
1) Lithyl's troops spawn at the location of battle victory. Whereas Nimue's troops spawn in your capital. The units spawning at the front lines allows you to be much more aggressive.
2) The trigger for Lithyl's troop spawns is effectively battle victory. Whereas Nimue's is based on turn counts. This means that if you are being very aggressive you will likely spawn more troops.
3?) While I know that Lithy's perk benefits your allies I'm not certain if the same is true for Nimue. The AI likely cheats economy so the more free troops they get the better the alliance is as a whole.
When rushing down Orc dude the free high rank troop is a major deal... While experimenting I know that Order has a chance of getting a High Exemplar for example. Which is absolutely garbage compared to a Living Shadow or Balor.
2025 now.
And this is how it has gone so far i each attempt. In my previous attempt I actually got two cities rather early in the game, but then my three armies were rushed from two sides by like 6 armies I think.
Basically I don't stand a chance - and this is on easy as said.