Age of wonder 3 how to build a rogue palace

Your direct damage spell is fireball, not rain of blades or w/e it's called, most of the time. Blind their longbows, blind their supports. Blind their leader and unless they have a support with dispel or a sorcerer hero with it they are DONE casting spells. For spells you take blind, blind, and blind. You rush your nearest enemy with rams and supports to take him out and gain breathing space.Īs a rogue you win with a larger empire due to expansion speed and a larger economy due to iron grip (and by having the best combat-focused heroes). You use a combination of courtesan ambassadors, iron grip (on EVERY city when you can afford it, build shrines/temples early for it), and crows to fuel super expansion and garrisoning of the map. These troops plus tons of crows (don't be afraid to flock them to fill in the gaps in your army, they soak up arrows like sponges soak water) will suffice to beat most classes and most players in my opinion. Orc spearmen with backstab are *terrifying*. You need initiates or orc spearmen if you can get them, those are best. Oh, and tons and tons of racial irregulars starting at trooper. I then tech to racial t3 and try to obtain flyers or shock troopers or firstborns. Playing rogue I make my army primarily of t2 supports (elders or forge priests or storm sisters only), trebs, rams, and longbows with a couple cav units from my initial stack preserved. Right now the way rogue works you generally want to use their class spells and empire upgrades, but not their units. You also have the ability to remotely bombard cities with debuffs, the best scouting in the game, and age of deception's glorious mass morale debuff. While you may have to really think through your army usage, you will almost always have a larger empire and larger army. Rogue is a high skill, high reward class. They're also one of the game's very few frost immune units, countering what is considered to be the best element. Last I checked, at gold, they theoretically have 250 hp+ if attacked by phys damage. Shadow Stalkers have an absolutly astounding eHP vs phys. Very strong unit and a cornerstone in my rogue tactics. Succubi are recruiters who scale INSANELY well with ranks. I can lay JUGGERNAUTS low with them without too much issue.īards are recruiters, send them off to do their own thing and feed you soldiers, or put a 6 stack of them seperate from your hero into a fight with valuable enemy units and have them all mass mind control the unit you want.Īssassins are squishy slayers, and most elemental damage users are squishies, letting them demolish the threats to your shadow stalkers with massive movespeed and alpha strike potential.

Age of wonder 3 how to build a rogue palace