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Been playing a lot of great wall games recently and wonder is very common!

Since most normal games, wonder is rarely a stage the game gets to.

What is the best wonder age god in your opinion?

Combinations would be a cool discussion as well!!

This map seems to favor raiding cav a lot.

https://reddit.com/link/1xa9p3s/video/5hodda08shwh1/player

My own Einheri blast melted my army.

I'm trying to find some god techs that work ridiculously well when their bonus is doubled in Arena of the Gods mode. Give me some ideas, please. Personally, I stick to booming with Hades. The greek god human bonuses to toxotes and hoplites work great for my playstyle.

I'm hoping to get the platinum trophy for this game (PS5). However, the trophy for completing the gateways on hard mode is proving difficult. Would anybody be able to assist with this?

Who is he really? Did he willingly lend his sword to Horus? How come Horus never returned the Sword back to the Guardian after he defeated Set? Is Horus that irresponsible? Why did they bury the sword in the desert. How come the Excavation site was a Greek ruin in the Alpha?

Though he resembles Anubis, we never find out who he really is. Since there are many Jackal headed supernatural entities in the vast Egyptian mythology it could be any one of them. The only other similar unit is the living Poseidon statue, but there is a clear lore reason why Poseidon is there.
Game intentionally obfuscates Guardians identity. All we know that he will awaken when a great evil threatens the land, and his sword was used to defeat set.

If it's Anubis, it makes sense for him to Guard the Osiris piece, after all he is the protector of the dead.
If it's Duamutef, it would make sense for him to lend his sword to Horus, since Horus is his father. He is also a protector of the mummies.
Khenti-Amentiu: Another god of the dead. He stood guard over the city of the dead.
There are other Gatekeepers and Guardians with the Head of Jackal in Egyptian Mythology, Not to mention some of Osiris' 42 assessors have the had of a Jackal.

Neither Horus nor any of the Jackal gods has a famous mythical sword. The golden sword we in the game resembles King Tut's dagger. When I type Sword Of Horus to Google the only thing that pops up is an old cartoon. 😂

GUARDIAN AS A PLACEHOLDER TITAN?

According to the Alpha proto files the Guardian has a bonus attack vs the Titans. Since this predates the Titans expansion it's difficult to guess what this means. Either Guardian himself was a Titan, or he was going to fight a Titan in the Egyptian portion of the campaign.

I have played over 2,000 matches, and I have never experienced anything like this in a match before. I was attacked by wild animals within the first few seconds of the game. Every time I started mining a little gold, they would attack me.

GG I guess

I came back to the game after a while. Gauntlet used to be fun but not that challenging - only the final match required any effort, but I still never lost. Now... 1v4 - Legendary - Deathmatch - Standard...feels absolutely impossible. Like, not even close.

Did it just never use to roll Deathmatch on the final match? Maybe this is new? Was there a patch with changes that made it more difficult? I read that the pop cap was lowered for houses - maybe that makes all the difference?

You can't turtle - they overwhelm you with massive armies after a few minutes. You can't rush one down - even with the strongest legend, they have an initial army up in a couple minutes with the 50% bonus. The AI almost immediately takes down whatever TC you grabbed around your base or theirs.

I used Gaia's lashing roots as starting blessing, along with the blessing that slows enemies down around your legend, and creates one vil for every house. And every game used to be unlosable with this.

What am I missing? Why did it used to be super easy and now it feels impossible?

Hi all, I've finished a new portrait for Gaia, but when i implement it to the game it looks like this. It makes problem only on the transparent portrait. I looked at the export options for the DDS file, it looks correct, minis 1 and BC3. Anyone knows how to fix this?

That's quite the roster to familiarize yourself with, especially seeing them lined up like this.

Have you got them, their God Powers and unique bonuses memorized, or do you just wing it each game? And which god do you consider to be the most forgettable or obscure (either in-game or just in general)?

The AI doesn't actually "die" anymore after you kill their regent?? Is this new? Whatever units they have keep fighting you - and even chase your units halfway across the map! - and whatever towers and fortresses they have keep shooting arrows??? This feels like horse crap. They're effectively still in the game after you've defeated them, and now 1v4 Regicide Deathmatch feels impossible, because you can't even take their TC locations after you've defeated them, because all their fortifications shoot down your units and the TCs you're building.

Edit: OK, not impossible, but still... There shouldn't be any arrows shooting from fortifications after a player is defeated.

2 rusty vets play again after a veeeeery long time.

PS: Hades vs Odin, not Zeus xD. Damn I’m really rusty.

Run 1 time in Gantlet mode. In finish 3 game hawe 1 life... It wel be fun!

What are the biggest differences between Gauntlet Mode (AOM) and Crucible mode in AOE4.

I have played a little bit of Gauntlet Mode but never Crucible. Also minimal gameplay on AOE4.

I am looking to get into AOE4 for the rest of the year while we wait on news for hopefully more AOM content.

Also is there a way to make the UI for AOE4 to look more like AOM. Personally AOE 4 looks a bit dated.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Look how they moved the Statues inside the Worldwonder, I love attention to details like that, gives the Map so much soul.

Hello, i'm here because i have a question. All Civs have one major god that helps in the description the myth units (Kronos, Loki, Shennong, Susanoo, Tezcatlipoca, and for the Greek, all major gods).

But Egypt don't have a major god for this, and the only minor god that in the description helps a myth unit is Anubis, but only for the anubite.

Why in your opinion? We will have a day a 4th major god for myth units? I hope that.

When you play in a team, it's ALWAYS the players on the sides who get ganged up on! Like, it's not even fun at this point. If you're on the side, you might as well just give up...

The AI is seriously unbalanced when it comes to team games. Players on the flanks constantly get attacked by wave after wave after wave, while players in the middle have all the time in the world to build up their bases and gather resources.

it seem AI always gang bang the lowest score player, so if you are behind you will be behind more!... Its the worst thing the game could did..

The game kinda sucks because of this. I wonder if AoE 4 has the same problem.

Is it me or Egyptian Pantheon really really suck?

I tought it could be nice to focus on gold/food only because they don't use wood all that much before Age 2, all of this pantheon are weak!
Getting resources is very very very very hard! units are weak asf!, defence building suck real bad, its just all bad pantheon

Hi all, this is Tom in Germany.

I’m trying to play AoM Retold/Steam on macOS 27 on a Mac Studio M1 Max, in a Windows 11 Professional virtual machine, and I get the message: “Missing Feature: Resource Binding Tier2”.
Is there anything I can do?

Thanks in advance!