The Best Strategy Game You Never Played: Age of Mythology

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Hearing the AoM soundtrack after what must have been 7-8 years for me just teleported me back to my childhood. I remembered every goddamn note from each goddamn track

used to watch my dad play this in his basement office when i was like 5-6. never had an opportunity to play it myself, but it's descendants bring me joy day after day.

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Can you do Armies of Exigo showcase? It's a Warcraft 3 like game with an interesting take on unit and hero themes (every unit has an exp bar, for example), very nice campaign and really good graphics for its time. Seriously underrated game imo. One of my favorite strategy games in my childhood.

Man, I am super late watching this, but I just want to thank you for sending me down a wicked nostalgia trip. I love AoM so much. My friend and I occasionally boot it back up and play some coop games together. It's truly a one of a kind experience and I hope it finds a way to resurge in the future.

Also Petsuchos are my favorite unit and I am horrified to learn the painful truth of my beloved laser crocs. Thank you for enlightening me on this grave injustice.

Another old RTS that I really loved growing up was the Kohan Series, if you ever get the chance id recommend checking it out. It has a very unique unit mechanics and the cities is more akin to Civ where you have to build structures inside the city to get certain units.

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What do you mean "never played". I spent MULTIPLE thousand hours, like days and days and days of my summer vacation at my aunt's place playing this game. I remember my elder brother downloaded this and taught me the ropes and I was HOOKED. All I did the entire day was play this game.
I finished the entire campaign, then played like 15-20 games vs ai with every civilization. Mannn the nostalgia xD

Its my favorite childhood game, please anyone give me the link for download this game?

It's my sleepover, i get to pick the movie

that wolf disrespect

the fenris wolves are decent at raiding cuz of how fast they are and how quickly they kill villies

You can actually kill the Poseidon statue fairly easily with 4 autobuilding archery ranges and 6 autobuilding barracks. It doesn't break the game, but given that Arkantos never fights Poseidon in god form it leaves some wierd plot disconnections

This video made me subscribe happily. I loved this video.

One of the only games on the daycare pc

I am sorry but whoever did not play these games is probably too old or too young 🤣 I remember games people never heard of... 🤣 like Populous 2 Trials of the Olympian Gods or Populous: The Beginning or Cossacks or Prince of Persia 3D.... Stronghold or ....Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood... etc best games ever made were made when i was growing up 🤣

I hope you do more retrospectives like this, It was pretty informative and pretty fun. I think I have this game on my GOG account so I might try it for myself sometime.

Sunday morning playing rugby in the cold. Hot bath. Dinner. Then the rest of the day playing AOM until the simpsons came on at 6pm 😂

Fuck I miss those days. Cheers for the memories

I love the different but exclusive paths, miss how simple this game felt with the flavor

I used to go over to my older cousins' house just to watch him play this game.

A bit late to the party but you can block Kronos with the trees, you just have to do before his cutscene and leaves the pit. If i recall correctly, in the original game you could plant trees on the wall of the pit he steps out from. In the extended edition they made sure that part and a small area around it, could not be planted with trees. However with 4 uses you have just enough space to still wall him of. After that you can kill him with enough hero Arcus units.

I would like to add, that for Myrmidon soldiers the following holds true. Weaponised racism. That is all. (this is just a joke, but they ARE very good against mortal soldiery of the OTHER three factions...)

Thank you

I wish RTS was still popular, i miss it dearly

I remember using knowledge i got from this game in history class in middleschool it was nice knowing stuff before everyone else in class and being praised lol in a time where everyone yelled at you for wasting time playing games

i have the ds version

don´t even dare to use DLC and expantion pack in the same sentence

This game was great but i still love Brood War more. It ate 9 years of my life. But damn. This was a treat, along with WarCraft 3

I always thought AoM was the best Age game. I always thought the same for Comand and Conquer Generals + Zero Hour too. Maybe would be worth to do a video about. :)

Another under-rated games you should try are Battle Realms, war of the rings rts, and armies of exigo.

Any chance you would also do a short add on vid for the second expansion? I have always wondered how it held up to the older game, and you definitely know what you are doing in these.
Edit: Well, wouldn't you know it, I ask before I forget and like 20 mins later you answer that question. Sad that it is just terrible, I was kind of hoping it would be fun to pick up one day.

Thors Hammer is named Jonathan

This game is my childhood and really molded me as a geek kid. Today i have a Fantasy Book Published about Atlantis inspired by AOM. The Tale about Atlantis really stuck in my mind growing up.

I remember playing this actually, at a friends place, probably a decade or so ago. It was actually what got me into strategy games at all, i loved it!

actually, i did play age of mythology

This is legitimately amazing

Great video. Makes me want to replay this gem of a game

I remember cheating constantly on this game and resetting God powers till I had about 10 of the RSS spawn. I blame this game for learning how to type fast.

so... as an AOM player, i'd like to talk about some things about the game:
1: The factions have mechanical identities rather than having RTS counterparts.
-Greeks are all rounders, stable balanced gameplay, it's an AOE faction. click buttons, train dudes, fight, win.
-Egyptian are value monsters. big economy (especially Ra, my go-to) HUGE defense potential, garbage cheap mid tier units (basically meat shields) but godlike myth units. they are huge for intermediate players.
-Norse are rush/harass based. it's build fast, fight faster, train a lot, no defense at all, and tower rushes, the game usually stops at heroic age. but at mythic age, basically they get a "double or nothing" button, either ragnarok which kills economy outright, Hel's myth unit speed buff, sending your resource stockpile to nothingness, and Fimbulveltr which deal a huge blow to enemies' entire economy, building and gameplan altogether but leaving you with nothing if those fail.
-Atlanteans are late game/steamroll/snowball they are decent at most things, economy is really good, but their units are really pricey. powers are BONKERS powerful, and sometimes end the game outright if well placed. (it's exactly the faction with which you tend to hold your powers until a big fight gets going, or you have an opportunity to summon a tartarus door in the enemy's backdoor/economy zone.)
myth units vary, but they are usually either mediocre to good support units, crazy deathballs (hello automatons), or plain broken (Hecatoncheires and Lampades my beloved.)

2: Indeed you are right, Valkyries are very good in AOM. any kind of fast rushing strategy is good as Norse, especially since their cavalry are not that good (it's good but not... hersir good.) having a fast striking force at classical age, with a harass power in the form of forest fire (oh are you cutting wood? wouldn't it be a shame if i scouted you with my Valkyries and burnt your forest and villagers, setting you back on eco, and forcing you to take bigger risks to harvest wood)
and said fast striking force at classical age can heal itself back to full if left unchecked, making it a rush strat that could spiral out of control? Ya it's good.

3: The Ulfsark gameplan is a strategy rather well known (or at least i know it well, i've wielded it against all my friends) it's basically a Zerg rush from starcraft, going Thor Forseti Braggi Tyr into upgrade the hell out of the ulfsark and making max population ulfsark is a very strong strat... if games last long enough. but at the moment your opponent sees Fimbulveltr, and a freight train of ulfserk charging and building a fortress in your base, you know you're basically screwed.

4: Fimbulveltr is not a standalone power like Hera's storm. it's an Assist, and a damn good one. it combines a small harassing force of meatshields, attracting tower and fortress fire off your units and to the expendable wolves. but the most important is that it's a power shield. while Fimbulveltr is in effect, no other power can be used. for 35 seconds, no thunderstorm, no eclipse, no ceasefire, no frost, no bronze, no ancestors, no shockwave. if you use it while you push an opponent with your army, you're almost certain to have an impact, and if you play correctly, and you have the army to keep up, you could put an opponent to ground zero right there and then.
(example: Fimbulveltr, push with your main force against opponent, use a flanking maneuver with crush comp, before timer runs out, snipe enemy forum if you can, as timer runs out, cast Frost on opponent's fighting force, build your own forum upon the now free colony, and pick apart the rest.)

5: Automatons are indeed a meat shield. they are most powerful in a big number as a frontal assault paired to a flanking army. they are tanky and sure they are not the best damage dealers but if left unchecked due to... say... a big army flanking left side and a tartarus door? they are monstrous, because they don't die unless they fight huge hero comps.

TLDR: greek are balanced, egyptian are economy, norse are harass, and atlantean are late game oriented
valkyries are a pain at classical age
ulfserk are zerglings
use Fimbulveltr as you push your opponent, not as a standalone power, but it's a protection power.
automatons are an anvil to an anvil and hammer strategy.

I have the regular game and campaign it is amazing I've been replaying I'm almost done with the egyptian portion and I need to get the titans and or extended version

Watching this now is like a developers background diary for Zerospace lol. I bet we see some improved and adapted AoM's fantastic ideas!

Thankyou for going down the sobek rabbit hole.

My first ever game on pc, my dad helped me install and play. i've sunk many many hours into it. Played all the updates, and now waiting excitedly for AoM: Retold.

Age Of Mythology is one of the most important games of my life, I played it for lots and lots of hours as a child, this video was a very nostalgic experience for me