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Looks like a fun trip down memory lane!
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drat, quite the effort-post there. Good stuff.
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Dec 29, 2016 02:48
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WarpedLichen posted:Makes me realize how different an era of gaming AoM came from. I guess the balance must've been enough of a clusterfuck because nobody even tried to play it competitively as far as I know. There was definitely a limited competitive scene, but obviously nothing like what you had for something like Starcraft or WC3.
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Dec 29, 2016 03:14
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WarpedLichen posted:Was there? I remember that the AOE2 competitive went on for a long time, even though the multiplayer was a complete lag fest. When I say "limited" I mean below even what AoE2 had.
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Dec 29, 2016 03:17
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Astroclassicist posted:
Hannibal is cooler
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Dec 29, 2016 23:02
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I always played Egypt because Mummies and the Son of Osiris were cool.
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Dec 31, 2016 15:19
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Cythereal posted:Zeus does, however, offer the Bolt power. During my brief experience with multiplayer, I enjoyed using Bolt on Nidhogg and the Son of Osiris far, far too much. Bolt makes Nidhogg and SoO pretty useless, yeah. 
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Dec 31, 2016 20:10
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I cosign Johnny Law's and Asehujiko's recommendations.
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Dec 31, 2016 21:06
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Melth posted:I think I read that the extended edition made it do scratch damage to them instead of instant killing. Which was lame. I mean, it used to do thousands even to a titan. Huh, that's interesting. I guess it's good that Bolt is no longer a *nightmare counter* to super-units, but I can't help but feel that that's a bit underwhelming. Ah well.
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Jan 1, 2017 01:10
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Glazius posted:Do enemies get one god power per Age, same as you? Or can they just spam out half a dozen of them on later maps? Depends on the god power. Also, in a lot of missions, they aren't god powers per se, but just scripted events.
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Jan 2, 2017 14:59
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Just reinstalled to play a 2v2 against the AI with Astroclassicist, but the game crashed before the Decisive Battle. Sad! (also the loving Atlantean god power that summons barracks in the middle of your base is real fuckin' annoying  )
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Jan 3, 2017 03:21
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Ah, okay. I don't think I've ever played Atlantis in Multiplayer (and never actually played the Titans campaign beyond the first few missions). So I'm looking forward to your playthrough of that campaign then!
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Jan 3, 2017 03:58
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Hades was the first proto-goon Has anyone on SA kidnapped a woman to live with them in the basement, eventually reaching an agreement with the woman's mother for each of them to have her for six months at a time?
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Jan 4, 2017 04:45
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Cythereal posted:I'm partial to the Dresden Files interpretation of events: it was a completely legitimate love affair and marriage, Demeter was just an overbearing mother who couldn't bear to see her little girl leave home and subsequently was an incredibly irritating mother-in-law. that's fair
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Jan 4, 2017 15:29
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What's a good counter to massed laser crocodiles? Asking (honest) for a friend. I know that, like all myth units, they get wrecked by heroes, but it can be hard to break through the chaff to get to them. Is it simply a matter of not letting the laser crocs get massed, given the fact that they're fairly expensive?
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Jan 5, 2017 02:17
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Thanks for the info! He plays Greeks a lot, so that may be where the extra difficulty is coming from.
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Jan 5, 2017 14:22
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I think you're doing fine, but then again I'm already very well versed in most of the mechanics involved outside of the Atlantean and Chinese civs, and am more interested in seeing how you tackle the missions themselves.
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Jan 8, 2017 01:56
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Migdol Units  Massed chariot archers
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Jan 10, 2017 13:55
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Dinictus posted:SHIFT KEY IS THE ONLY WAY FOR CAPITALS. Healing is at a premium in Age of Mythology - only Egypt has easily accessible healing for their units (by using Priests and Pharaoh), and even then it's single-target and pretty slow. The Norse can summon a healing spring with one of their gods to provide AoE healing (sort of like the Plenty Vault seen in this mission, it is an invincible but capturable building), and the Greeks get the Restoration god power that they can cast for a one-time, huge healing boost that can be used to absolutely steamroll a decisive battle. I'm not familiar enough with the Atlanteans (and haven't even looked at the Chinese) to know what their situation for healing is. edit: worshiping Apollo apparently lets you turn your temples into a source of AoE healing via upgrade, as well. edit again: oh and the norse "valkyrie" myth unit has a heal The point is, healing is only available on certain god paths to the Greeks and Norse; only the Egyptians have a guaranteed heal on the regular, from the beginning of the game. HannibalBarca fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Jan 24, 2017 |
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Jan 24, 2017 14:55
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Markets can also generate gold via caravans, which cost food to create.
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Jan 24, 2017 20:05
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Qrr posted:Unfortunately there seem to be a lot of balance issues with the game - "here's this specialized unit, it's normally absolutely worthless. And this one too". A shame. This is, unfortunately, a problem with many RTS games, even ones that are normally considered great. Company of Heroes, for example. Great game. It also had plenty of units that saw essentially zero use at high levels of play.
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Jan 31, 2017 05:45
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Empire Earth was a messy game, but great. Some of the best single-player campaigns around. The Expansion pack made it a bit messier, and the campaigns weren't quite as good. Empire Earth II was a massive step down. It was still playable, but the campaigns weren't nearly as good as in the first one, and a lot of unit and hero interactions, that sort of thing, that made the first game so great are gone. Empire Earth III is a game that I have never played and that is, by all accounts, utter garbage.
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Feb 4, 2017 21:21
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man I love the Egyptians. I'd play Isis every scrim I do with my friend if it didn't get stale for both of us.
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Apr 12, 2017 14:13
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CommissarMega posted:He really is, on both counts. Seriously read the myth of Orpheus- despite all the tragedy and angst of the whole situation, it's clear that Hades is both deeply in love with his wife, and doing his best to help a dude with a bad situation. I love the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, but it would be remiss of me not to point out that there's an alternate interpretation where Hades was toying with Orpheus all along and was never intending to allow him to escape with Eurydice. I don't buy it, because it's a much nicer...or, well, less awful? story the other way, but that's out there.
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Glazius posted:Is Arkantos now an available god to worship? It'd be an interesting reward for completing the story campaign. Sadly, no; it would be cool if he were a god for the Atlantis expansion pack civ.
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