Realm-hopping in Age of Wonders 4 pits you against devious foes who use a variety of tactics to further their goals. If you ever find yourself in need of help to gain the upper hand, these console commands and cheats can turn that nasty necromancer into your best pal or give you an instant infusion of shiny gold.
AoW's console commands and cheats list counts among the longer ones we've seen in recent memory. Not only does it feature many options that give your empire a small boost or turn it into a dominating force, but using them is as easy as it was in the past.
Age of Wonders 4 Console Commands and Cheats
Accessing Age of Wonders 4 cheats is as straightforward as it gets. All you need to do is start playing as you normally would. As soon as your realm has loaded, press CTRL+ALT+C to bring up the console.
You'll notice a dialog box open in the lower-center part of your screen. That is precisely where you can input AoW4 console commands, quite a few of which you can find below.
- iamgod - Toggles instant autocombat victory
- tasman - explores the entire map
- barentz - Explores and reveals the entire map
- unexplore - Unexplores the map
- cruijff - Toggles infinite movement
- oldenbarnevelt - Gives 100,000 Imperium
- rembrandt- Gives 100,000 Gold
- ikbedoelalles - Unlocks all global operations
- switch_tm - Switches between simultaneous and classic turns
- questmaster - Toggles quests
- masterskills - Unlocks all research
- leeuwenhoek - Instantly finishes current research
- hauer - levels up the selected stack
- philips - toggles instant production
- optimalprime - toggles instant operation priming
- demo - unlocks all research, gives 100,000 gold, toggles instant production, and toggles instant operation priming
- makevassal - Turns selected free city or player into a vassal
- eendracht - Adds one fake beacon for expansion victory
- eenheid - Adds max fake sectors for expansion victory
- verdoemenis - Adds one fake root node for magic victory
- flyingdutchman - Toggles infinite movement, grants 100,000 gold, and explores + reveals the map
- huygens - Get one affinity level for each affinity, unlocks the empire progression tree before 10 turns have passed
- spaargaren - Unlocks the empire progression tree before 10 turns have passed
- rallythelieges - Starts the next Rally of the Lieges
- engelen - Gain positive alignment in all channels
- demonen - Gain negative alignment in all channels
- martin - Increases the max hero cap to 999
- genprisonhero - Generates a random hero in the prison
- gencrypthero - Generates a random hero in the crypt
- genhero - Generate a random offmap hero
- revealpersonality - Reveals the personality traits of selected AI player
- warlord - Declares war on all other players
- improverelation - Improves relations with the selected city
- makecoop - Starts a pact of cooperation with the selected independent city or player
- makeloyal - Starts a pact of loyalty with the selected independent city or player
- makeintegrated - Starts a pact of integration with the selected independent city or player
- makewar - Starts a war with the selected independent city or player
- makeneutral - Sets diplomatic state to neutral with the selected independent city or player
- makeally - Forms an alliance with the selected independent city or player
- makehappy - Improves relations with the selected independent city or player
- makeangry - Decreases relations with the selected independent city or player
- lely - Toggles instant operations
- voorhees - Toggles unlocking all non-signature hero skills
- ruijter - Adds 1 copy of each hero item to the hero item store
- completechapter - Completes the current research chapter
- instantskills - Toggles instant research
- freepop - Instantly grows the population in the selected city
- medic - Heals the selected unit
- victory1 - Triggers instant military victory
- victory2 - Triggers instant expansion victory
- victory3 - Triggers instant magic victory
- victory4 - Triggers instant score victory
- hein - Triggers instant score victory
- defeat1 - Triggers instant leader killed defeat
- defeat2 - Triggers instant throne city lost defeat
- defeat3 - Triggers instant expansion defeat
- defeat4 - Triggers instant magic defeat
- defeat5 - Triggers instant score defeat
- willem - Triggers instant score defeat
These handy Age of Wonders 4 console commands and cheats should see you through any tough times you might encounter while playing the 4X strategy game.
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