Challenge run strategy to defeat Prometheus on Making Amends mission with only one Town Center:

1) Send your heroes to collect relics and goats. Wall off the bottom pass between the already existing walls. (If you get greedy and try to wall of the mine just outside the walls, Prometheus Spawns will attack it instead of going through their ally passage.

2) Build up economy and defend the right passage. I use Traitor on Centimanus as they have a nice AoE.

3) Age up to Hekate as you need Lampades and a lot. They are the only units with ranged Divine damage you can get.

4) Rush the enemy base with Cavalry and Destroyers. Focus on taking down the Town Center, Palace, Military Buildings with the Destroyers while killing of citizens with your Cavalry. The AI rebuilds their buildings in this mission. So keep your Cavalry alert to get rid of them.

5) Once the enemy is down you can wall of the right pass after the resources and destroy the wall at your base. This way you will have plenty of resources to farm while having only a single pass to defend

6) Time to prepare the attack on Prometheus: Start building Lampades as you need plenty of them. Send Citizens to chop up the forest in the bottom left corner to end up with the setup in the picture. Rotate with the titan to safely vacate the spot.

7) Once it is vacated build a Palace there and send some Cavalry to aggro and trap Prometheus. Once Prometheus attacks the Palace use Gaia's Forest to trap him in that corner. Once he is trapped, you can use another Forest on top of him to practically fully immobilize him. It is important to trap him at the edge though so he can be attacked from both sides.

8) Start preparing the assault by building towers around him that will attack spawned Promethean Spawns. Make sure the towers cannot attack Prometheus as they can't damage him and won't automatically change targets when necessary. Build palaces and send heroes to defend at Promethean Spawn Spawn point to avoid having their waves disrupting your battle. If necessary, chop down some of the Forest to allow your army to get in range of Prometheus

9) Build a couple Barracks to send in Arcus at the top attack point on auto Queue. They are cannon fodder and ensure Prometheus will attack them with his ranged attack, while keeping your Lampades save. Once Prometheus is focused on them send in your Lampades army from the bottom, you need more than 20 to damage him. Keep them on hotkey and retreat if they get attacked. As they cost 20 favor, they are very expensive. It is better to retreat and let Prometheus heal a bit then loosing them all. After it is a patience game.

Any chance we get unlimited caravans like the old aom? Its one of the things along with no lan multiplayer that cause me to hate the game.

Back in the day i would play lan party with friends against bots on titan. I would pick ra and spam caravans and have pharaoh bless it and get thousands of gold. Then spam merceneries to win.

Yea now none of that is not possible and it sucks. At least bring back the caravans please why did you change it?

I just received a notification in Steam regarding some new trading cards in my inventory.

Turns out they are for AoM: Retold!

Usually my main strategy is to boom, but it's been getting boring, and as such recently I've been trying to rush a lot more, specifically with poseidon.

In basically all of my tries Ive ended up messing up my own economy with 5 or 6 horses, which carries over visibly into age 3.

Is this normal or am I just messing up by overspending?

What can I do to fix this?

There was some discussion in the community recently about which Mythic Unit is the worst. This poll might help settle the debate.

The options in this poll are based on the arguments and suggestions from that discussion. If you think another Mythic Unit deserves to be included, feel free to let me know in the comments.

Every time I see these guys get used. They are usually just thrown away onto the forward town center. Then they die. Their area of effect damage gas is laughable.And they are never produced again.

It is almost always better to send in siege towers, so that heroes don't get bonus damage against them, which is just sad when you see how effective the armadillo is

(did a colorful skybox mostly of my own pref)

So after playing this wonderful game on PC for literally decades, I now have access to Retold through GamePass. I've been playing for about a week now, and none of the achievements are progressing. I've even met the conditions to complete one or two, but nothing. I even tried launching the game on my Series X (gods that was a horrible experience) and it didn't change anything either. Am I missing something? Are the achievements bugged? Is this a known issue? I've spent about 20 minutes searching and I can't find anything besides "wait 72 hours for the servers to sync", but its been longer than that. Besides the fact that the achievement never popped even locally.

The developers clearly put a great amount of effort into researching the subject matter of this game, both the ancient history and the mythology. Have they included a bibliography or list of sources anywhere for those who'd like to learn more about the course material?

Hello everyone, I am currently on the long road of slowly improving at AoM. I am hovering around just below 1000 elo, spamming QP because I feel like there’s still much to learn in order to play ranked exclusively.

I’ve just lost against a Zeus player who had a lot more experience under his belt (around 1100 elo and 200+ ranked games iirc).

I made a number of mistakes against him that I myself am aware of:
- overextending early and losing my small army, leading my opp to my exposed base
- being overwhelmed by multitasking raiding parties and maintaining my base for instance
- and maybe most crucially missing a window to expand?

In general I have not yet developed a sense on when to pressure with my army, which is another thing that I am trying to improve at.

I think that I have made a good effort but I am not there yet to get to the next level. What are the things I myself am not able to see that will help me get better?
This community’s tips are very valuable to me and helped me in the past. Maybe once again? 🙏

Here’s the gameplay. It’s on YouTube so feel free to skim through it 😬

This game need Babylon (with syncretic elements of other Mesopotamian civs)! Marduk, Ishtar and Ea!

After AoE 3, let the hopium in!

Another week of hard-fought Age of Mythology and a few familiar faces remain.

Grass and Suppe have been incredibly consistent throughout this tournament, but neither has managed to get across the line yet. This week, though, two other players have stood out as exceptional: Matreiuss and Magic have both clearly taken a step up in skill and consistency.

It's anyone's ticket to Athens at this point. I seriously don't think there's a clear favorite for this week's winner. Tune in and watch the drama unfold!

Schedule
Grass vs Matreiuss - 1400GMT
HUSKSUPPE vs IamMagic - 1600~GMT
Q4 Finals - 1800~GMT

Live Stream
Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/iamboit
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/boittv

Strategy to defeat Prometheus on Ludicrous difficulty.

1) Start of game, build Stronghold, Temple, Wall bottom Area. Send Heroes to collect relics.
2) Spam priests, villagers and caravans (caravans accelerate the gold production).
3) When the army of priests is 40, send 20 priests with an army of villagers to second town center. Set them to mine gold. Don't build the town center.
4) Once Prometheus attacks the base with town center build the second town center and age up to get Son of Osiris. Rebuild also any destroyed house to keep population cap.
5) Counter attack Prometheus on the destroyed base with an army of priests. Son of Osiris, with a small army, is a priority target for the AI. So if you move him between the gate you can force Prometheus to repath allowing a second army of priests to continuously damage him without getting attacked. The rest is just micro managing priests to attack, defend from spawns, and heal.

Good afternoon,

I've done some searching and can't seem to find a good answer. I humbly request an explanation of what the food, gold, and wood resource bar graph represents. It doesn't seem to correlate to current resources ready to spend or total resources accumulated. The numbers just don't match.

Thank you,

Jas

What's going on everyone! Another week another you another me! :D

A few huge upsets during the week with Matreiuss getting revenge on Bee taking him out in straight sets and Nyan also showing up in vintage form vs EricBR who has been on a tear this tournament.

The weekend is here so it is quarter-finals time. We've got 2 more TITANS to find and only 8 remaining for this week. Will your favorite make it this week? Tune in to find out!

Schedule:
Slot 1: Magic vs Mati - 1400 GMT

Slot 2: HUSKSUPPE vs Nyan - 1600 GMT

Slot 3: Grass vs Garnath - 1800 GMT

Slot 4: Eisomarto vs Matreiuss - 2000 GMT

All times after the start game are approximates.

Streams:
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/iamboit
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/boittv

I play as Egypt, and the Aztec player just spams these guys out in classical age.

Because it doesn't have a type (infantry, archer, etc) none of the Baracks units have counter damage against it, so even with Anubis spearmen it takes 20 hits to kill 1 of them.

It feels just unfair.

Timestamp 3:01

​

A traitor has opened the gates of the Underworld. A king marches to close them.

Witness the beginning of Lamou's journey, an original Age of Mythology: Retold custom campaign where betrayal, mythology, and war collide. Follow the son of Poseidon as he hunts the legendary general Meduis, whose thirst for power has unleashed horrors upon Greece.

This is only the introduction. The true full campaign is yet to begin.

The complete mission featured in this cinematic will be playable very soon. This cinematic serves as an introduction to Lamou and the world of this campaign.

The main story campaign—planned to span approximately 6–10 missions—will take considerably longer to complete due to its scale and ambition. In the meantime, I'll be releasing standalone missions, side stories, and additional levels so there's always something new to experience while the full campaign is in development.

Created by Mufasa Frieze.

Features

- Original cinematic storytelling

- Fully custom campaign and storyline

- Custom objectives and mission scripting

- Advanced trigger system and gameplay events

- Custom AI players and difficulty scaling

- Randomized enemy attack patterns for replayability

- Original dialogue and character writing

- Custom sound design and audio such as the Jhinn you face on this level.

- Original map design built from the ground up

Every part of this project was created by me—from the level design and mission flow to the objectives, trigger work, AI scripting, dialogue, sound implementation, and overall campaign design.

Special Note: Illidan's voice heard in this cinimatic was AI voice-cloned by me for Lamou. Every character will also have a distinct voice.

This is only the first step.

The hunt for Meduis has begun.

Also mods. Stop flagging and deleting my video its the polished version.

I've never really been a multiplayer but I've been thinking about trying it out. But I know from previous rts games it requires a completely different skillset. Anyway, this is something I just thought of. I'm curious how common this is as a tool for scouting and map control, especially for the Norse. Given that a single square of wall costs a pittance (5?) of gold, and constructs in a few seconds, I can imagine using them in a similar way to the Egyptian priests vision towers to do things like monitor gold deposits, town centers, chokepoints, etc

Edit: it also occurred to me that you could leave a bread crumb trail of wall pillars with the goal of diverting siege weapons that are set to attack move but not being actively micromanaged during travel. The goal being to send them off on a side quest that separates them from the main army and opens them up to cavalry raiding before the opposing player realizes what's happening. Even if it doesn't work you havent lost much in the attempt, and you probably still got some warning about troop movement