reddit age of wonders planetfall early game tips

Syndicate - condemned to drained + cerebral control collars = lots of free units.

Assembly -Assembly let you instantly mod new drained units as they are acquired.

Amazon - scan lower resistance making “Condemned to drained” or “Mind Dominate” more likely to apply to units.

Need a strong enough early game to get to the fancy mechanics.

Star Union Scholar, Merchant Scion, or CovertĪll most all of your tools come from heritor, so race is not super important to this strategy.

Desolate however get a repeating melee attack

When compared to the forgotten’s desolate, desolate are weak to air units (without a ranged attack mod like consuming gaze, or esteq conduit) and only heal when they kill off a unit.

Drained heal themselves when they attack.

Entropic decay reduces entropy resistance, and makes it easier for drained to mind control units (techoclaust crusade could help with that, good if the mech is not mindless).There is a Heritor doctrine that gives drained resurgence.Drained get extra damage per rank of experience, which pairs nicely with the esteq conduit.

Drained gain extra experience per essence charge they have at the end of combat.Easy to farm them off of colony militia, as they all include t1 infantry units.Drained units keep mod loadouts of units that get “condemned to drained”.One could argue, when compared mantra of control, cerebral control collars, and the subjugator’s mind control, that the drained mind control is the best in the game.At prime rank, drained can mind control units, which you keep after the combat (works on t3 with the “Empowered Drained” mod).Strong alpha strike (low defensive stats in exchange for high damage output+ the ability for siphoners to reset drained with essence charges that further boost the drained damage output).Drained are better than other “free” spawn units (like echos of despair, and pustules).

There are not a lot of units in game are t1 infantry, which a unit needs to be in order to be a valid target for “Condemned to Drained”.I had one guest join me for the recording of the video: Orangelex44.īelow I have the notes that I took before and after our discussion (please feel free to add anything that we may have missed):Ī) Tactical operation, “Condemned to Drained” which is relatively easy to useī) the heritor’s doomsday spawns in drained on friendly coloniesĬ) there is a strategic operation, 'Ancestral Wrath', that also spawns in drained operation The video version of this guide/discussion can be found here:

Reddit age of wonders planetfall early game tips