Age of Wonders 4: Dragon Dawn Review (a green reverse card from UNO)
Just... fine. If you love the base game, and love dragons, buy it on sale. It adds two powerful tomes based around dragons and evolving units, they're both very powerful but have limited synergy outside of themselves and eachother. The tomes focusing on their own summons/units means they don't benefit from your race transformations (ironically including the ones *in* the new tomes), which is unfortunate. I never felt the units were weak though, and some of them work for animal builds as well, as a minor upside. The spells are fine. Siege project is strong. Buildings are decent.
Dragon rulers are probably what will attract most people. They're cool and fairly varied in their playstyle, and I never felt they were significantly weakened by not having items. Their dragon abilities are powerful, particularly the 'transformations' at level 4 and level 16. Getting to choose the AOE type for their breath attack is a nice touch as well. The DLC is completely disconnected from the pantheon levels system though, which is a bad sign for the future of that mechanic in my opinion. They should have added a few extra customization options for dragons (maybe armor or something) with like... 5 or 10 extra pantheon levels to unlock in a separate DLC menu.
The new map (singular) has its own custom mechanic (dragon war). There's an extra option for Dragon rulers as well, which is nice. The final addition is the lizardfolk race, which are pretty neat for RPers (multiple different reptile themes are available). Not much to say here, as I believe the race trait they use was added in the free patch (even if I'm wrong, the trait sucks so it's not worth using anyways). If you like lizards, they're here now, simple as that.
Honestly feels kinda light for $10, but it's not egregious. You can experience all of the new content in a single game (including every achievement) without much effort, so the overall value/play time is pretty damn low here, but what's included is fine and I could see myself playing dragons for fun again in the future.