List of all Units in Age of Wonders 4 (+Ranks, Army Abilities)

Age of Wonders 4 boasts a wide diversity and variety of units. These units can be recruited from different races, with each race providing unique combat bonuses to the unit based on their traits.

To recruit a unit, you need to pay a certain amount of Gold and Resource unit draft, with the latter determining the number of turns it takes to complete the unit’s recruitment.

Contents:

• Ranks
• Army Abilities
• List of all Units
  • TOME UNITS:
    1. Astral Tome Units
    2. Nature Tome Units
    3. Shadow Tome Units
    4. Order Tome Units
    5. Chaos Tome Units
    6. Materium Tome Units
  • CULTURE UNITS
    1. Feudal Culture Units
    2. High Culture Units
    3. Barbarian Culture Units
    4. Industrious Culture Units
    5. Dark Culture Units
    6. Mystic Culture Units
    7. General Culture Units
    8. Siege Culture Units
  • WILDLIFE UNITS
    1. Fey Units
    2. Animal Units
       • Tier I Animals
       • Tier II Animals
       • Tier III Animals
       • Tier IV Animals
    3. Fiend Units
    4. Dragons Units
    5. Demi/Giants Units
    6. Elemental Units
       • Tier I Elementals
       • Tier II Elementals
       • Tier III Elementals
       • Tier IV Elementals
    7. Undead Units
    8. Ethereal Units
       • Tier I Ethereal Units
       • Tier II Ethereal Units
       • Tier III Ethereal Units
       • Tier IV Ethereal Units
       • Tier V Ethereal Units
    9. Plant Units
    10. Celestial Units

Ranks

Units can achieve 6 different ranks, from low to high: Recruit, Soldier, Veteran, Elite, Champion, and Legend. As units gain experience points (XP), they increase in rank and receive additional benefits, such as +4 Hit Points and other bonuses specific to that unit type.

Related: List of all 54 Tomes in AOW4

Abilities

Army abilities are special skills that can be unlocked by investing in the corresponding empire skill. For example, Excavation allows you to interact with adjacent Earthen terrain, potentially uncovering hidden treasures or pathways. Road Building constructs roads at a cost of 3 Resource gold per hex, while Forced March lets you restore an army’s move points at the expense of Hit Points and mana.

In Age of Wonders 4, units can be combined to form armies, which can have up to 6 units. Armies engage in combat together and move across the world map at the pace of the slowest unit.

List of all Units

There are 3 categories of units in the AOW4:

1. Tome Units
2. Culture Units
3. Wildlife Units

Tome Units (56)

Astral Affinity: (back to top)

1. 1. Amplification Pylon
   2. Mirror Mimic
   3. Evoker
   4. Watcher
   5. Astral Keeper
   6. Astral Serpent
   7. Phase Beast
   8. Phantasm Warrior

Nature Affinity: (back to top)

1. 1. Spirit Hawk
   2. Wildspeaker
   3. Druid of the Cycle
   4. Floral Stinger
   5. Nymph
   6. Glade Runner
   7. Horned God
   8. Living Vine
   9. Totem of the Wild

Shadow Affinity: (back to top)

1. 1. White Witch
   2. Banshee
   3. Necrotic Spire
   4. Bone Golem
   5. Necromancer
   6. Living Fog
   7. Reaper
   8. Skeleton
   9. Zombie

Order Affinity: (back to top)

1. 1. Divine Beacon
   2. Lightbringer
   3. Shrine of Smiting
   4. Chaplain
   5. Inquisitor
   6. Healing Spire
   7. Tyrant Knight
   8. Eagle Rider
   9. Zealot

Chaos Affinity: (back to top)

1. 1. Balor
   2. Devastator Sphere
   3. Warbreed
   4. Houndmaster
   5. War Hound
   6. Gremlin
   7. Chaos Eater
   8. Pyromancer
   9. Skald

Materium Affinity: (back to top)

1. 1. Bolt Repeater
   2. Bolt Repeater Tower
   3. Iron Golem
   4. Iron Golem Assistant
   5. Earth Titan
   6. Earthshatter Engine
   7. Copper Golem
   8. Golden Golem
   9. Gargoyle
   10. Transmuter
   11. Wind Rager
   12. Zephyr Archer

Culture Units (44)

Feudal Culture: (back to top)

1. 1. Archer
   2. Bannerman
   3. Defender
   4. Knight
   5. Peasant Pikeman
   6. Scout

High Culture: (back to top)

1. 1. Awakener
   2. Dawn Defender
   3. Daylight Spear
   4. Dusk Hunter
   5. Lightseeker
   6. Sun Priest

Barbarian Culture: (back to top)

1. 1. Berserker
   2. Fury
   3. Pathfinder
   4. Sunderer
   5. War Shaman
   6. Warrior

Industrious Culture: (back to top)

1. 1. Anvil Guard
   2. Arbalest
   3. Bastion
   4. Halberdier
   5. Pioneer
   6. Steelshaper

Dark Culture: (back to top)

1. 1. Dark Knight
   2. Dark Warrior
   3. Night Guard
   4. Outrider
   5. Pursuer
   6. Warlock

Mystic Culture: (back to top)

1. 1. Arcane Guard
   2. Arcanist
   3. Mystic Projection
   4. Soother
   5. Spellbreaker
   6. Spellshield

General Culture: (back to top)

1. 1. Ballista Warship
   2. Ram Warship
   3. Townsman

Siege Culture: (back to top)

1. 1. Ballista
   2. Ballista Tower
   3. Catapult Tower
   4. Onager
   5. Trebuchet

Wildlife Units (113)

Fey Units: (back to top)

1. 1. Spring Fairy
   2. Summer Fairy
   3. Autumn Fairy
   4. Winter Fairy
   5. Nymph
   6. Horned God

Animal Units:

Tier I Animals: (back to top)

1. 1. 1. Young Caustic Worm
      2. Vampire Spider Hatchling
      3. Grimbeak Crow
      4. Goretusk Piglet
      5. Dread Spider Hatchling
      6. Spirit Hawk
      7. Inferno Puppy

Tier II Animals: (back to top)

1. 1. 1. Warg
      2. Kraken Spawn
      3. Razorback
      4. Stormscale Serpent
      5. Nimu
      6. Plague Serpent
      7. Inferno Hound
      8. Hunter Spider
      9. Carrion Bird
      10. Ice Spider
      11. Dire Penguin

Tier III Animals: (back to top)

1. 1. 1. Caustic Worm
      2. Spirit Wolf
      3. Unicorn
      4. Thunderbird
      5. Deep-Sea Nimu
      6. Goretusk Matriarch
      7. Nightmare
      8. Dread Spider Matriarch
      9. Vampire Spider Matriarch

Tier IV Animals: (back to top)

1. 1. 1. White Wolf
      2. Ice Spider Matriarch
      3. Hunter Spider Matriarch
      4. Kraken
      5. Phoenix
      6. Phase Beast

Fiend Units: (back to top)

1. 1. Inferno Puppy
   2. Inferno Hound
   3. Gremlin
   4. Nightmare
   5. Skald
   6. Chaos Eater
   7. Balor

Dragons Units: (back to top)

1. 1. Bone Wyvern
   2. Fire Wyvern
   3. Frost Wyvern
   4. Bone Dragon
   5. Fire Dragon
   6. Frost Dragon

Demi/Giants Units: (back to top)

1. 1. Butcher Ogre
   2. Brewer Ogre
   3. River Troll
   4. Rock Giant
   5. Storm Giant
   6. Fire Giant
   7. Swamp Troll
   8. Karagh

Elemental Units:

Tier I Elementals: (back to top)

1. 1. 1. Iron Golem Assistant
      2. Copper Golem
      3. Lesser Snow Spirit
      4. Lesser Magma Spirit
      5. Lesser Storm Spirit
      6. Lesser Tide Spirit
      7. Lesser Stone Spirit

Tier II Elementals: (back to top)

1. 1. 1. Gargoyle
      2. Ice Spider
      3. Wind Rager

Tier III Elementals: (back to top)

1. 1. 1. Stone Spirit
      2. Snow Spirit
      3. Magma Spirit
      4. Tide Spirit
      5. Storm Spirit
      6. Iron Golem

Tier IV Elementals: (back to top)

1. 1. 1. Ice Spider Matriarch
      2. Phoenix

Undead Units: (back to top)

1. 1. Skeleton
   2. Zombie
   3. Bone Wyvern
   4. Bone Golem
   5. Banshee
   6. Bone Dragon
   7. Reaper

Ethereal Units:

Tier I Ethereal Units: (back to top)

1. 1. 1. Astral Wisp
      2. Spirit Hawk
      3. Mystic Projection
      4. Phantasm Warrior

Tier II Ethereal Units: (back to top)

1. 1. 1. Flow Serpent
      2. Astral Keeper

Tier III Ethereal Units: (back to top)

1. 1. 1. Watcher
      2. Spirit Wolf
      3. Astral Siphoner
      4. Astral Serpent
      5. Banshee
      6. Corrupt Soul
      7. Blessed Soul

Tier IV Ethereal Units: (back to top)

1. 1. 1. Phase Beast
      2. Living Fog
      3. Mage Bane

Tier V Ethereal Units: (back to top)

1. 1. 1. Lost Wizard

Plant Units: (back to top)

1. 1. Entwined Thrall
   2. Floral Stinger
   3. Nymph
   4. Entwined Protector
   5. Entwined Scourge
   6. Druid of the Cycle
   7. Horned God

Celestial Units: (back to top)

1. 1. Lightbringer
   2. Unicorn
   3. Blessed Soul
   4. Shrine of Smiting

Related: List of all Society Traits in AOW4