Age of Wonders 4: Maxing Gold and Research - 8K gold a turn, 13K research - 40 Turn Magic Victory

In this episode, Syndrome presents a change to his strategy, resulting in a turn 40 victory over his 8 allied AI opponents on Brutal difficulty. The video is a highlight reel of a number of impactful turns in this 40 turn match. Racial Traits: Body - Spider Mounts Mind - Sneaky Culture - High Society Traits: Adept Settlers Scions of Evil The engine for winning comes from the Shadow and Order trees. Your goals are to execute a basic vassal farming strategy utilizing Knowledge Extraction, focusing on researching each of the first 6 Order Tomes. At that point, you should have unlocked the Benevolent Conquerors Empire Development trait, which will reduce the time to release a city as a vassal by 1 turn, making it an instant ability for our low population farming vassals. This will allow you to farm a single vassal city a huge number of times, limited only by your movement points. By utilizing an all-hero stack with resurgence, you can farm a single city a huge number of times in a turn. By adding in additional scout units to trigger battles, there is no hard limit to how high you can push this.