Age of Mythology: THE TITANS

orpheus

This will be a pretty shitty OP if anyone wants to discuss this game, but there wasn't an old thread to resurrect. THE TITANS is in caps because they are that fucking big.

My friend decided it was time to play this classic again. Neither of us still had the discs so we bought the $20 box that has AoM and AoT. The reason for this thread is that I was wondering if anyone knew of some good maps to look for. I normally just play with 1 or 2 friends against 1-2 teams of bots. Any maps that the bots will actually use would be awesome.

We like to play maps were we can turtle up and then unleash huge armies on the bots. I would like to try to make a map in the editor but I'm wondering if I can get the bots to work on it. Any advice on this would be appreciated.

***If anyone else is planning on getting the $20 pack with both games, be warned that Microsoft sold the rights to anyone interested in selling it. Mine is from Valuesoft or somesuch and every copy has the same CD key and it won't let you play on the Ensemble Online server. We're only able to play over direct IP.***

Wren

can you build a kratos unit to kill everything on the map?

Foefaller

Wren wrote: »

can you build a kratos unit to kill everything on the map?

Not quite, the Atlanteans (xpac faction) got fanatics, dual-wielding killing machines that counter all!

My best advice if your going to be playing with friends, make it an in-house rule to never build Titans (I think that Titan-building is contained into it's own seprate age unique to them, so you might be able to limit it with in-game options) as, while they are impressive and awesome in their own right, muck up much of the AoE-esque fun of this game in a bad way.

Macera

I'm always shocked that they didn't do more with this game. Surely they could find a few more ways to incorporate world mythologies into the game?

Anyway, yeah, titans mess up the game. Nothing except strong flying units (like the Nidhogg) have a chance of hurting them to any degree.

-Loki-

I never had a problem with Titans when we played this at LANs. To me they were like Krogoths. If you let the enemy build one, it's your own fault.

jest

I love AoM/T. I'm inclined to agree with Loki to a degree. While Titans really do seem to be unstoppable it really is a chore to build one. From what I remember anyhow. Anyhow, whenever I played I think we only used the maps that came with the game. I'll do some searching for custom maps and see if I can find anything though.

Honk

Foefaller wrote: »

My best advice if your going to be playing with friends, make it an in-house rule to never build Titans (I think that Titan-building is contained into it's own seprate age unique to them, so you might be able to limit it with in-game options) as, while they are impressive and awesome in their own right, muck up much of the AoE-esque fun of this game in a bad way.

Ugh yes!

Me and some friends were playing this at a gaming café some years back, we had a very long game. We were playing some islands map and eventually all resources were depleted when there was just me versus one other guy. We each had a titan on our separate islands, and they could not cross water.

It was just sending waves of regular troops over to be slaughtered, with no real means of rebuilding our armies. Soon it was just two titans staring at each other from the two island - totally impossible to finish.

Otherwise AoM and its xpac are really awesome!

Macera

Honk wrote: »

Foefaller wrote: »

My best advice if your going to be playing with friends, make it an in-house rule to never build Titans (I think that Titan-building is contained into it's own seprate age unique to them, so you might be able to limit it with in-game options) as, while they are impressive and awesome in their own right, muck up much of the AoE-esque fun of this game in a bad way.

Ugh yes!

Me and some friends were playing this at a gaming café some years back, we had a very long game. We were playing some islands map and eventually all resources were depleted when there was just me versus one other guy. We each had a titan on our separate islands, and they could not cross water.

It was just sending waves of regular troops over to be slaughtered, with no real means of rebuilding our armies. Soon it was just two titans staring at each other from the two island - totally impossible to finish.

That sounds like something out of Warhammer 40k.

My own story of AOM inanity: I was Egyptians, worshiping Set. Set priests can convert animals to your side, which can be a handy way of getting food on some maps.

Anyway, I've sent out a group of priests and am busily taking over the minds of whooping cranes and baboons, sending them back to my base. I glance at my resources and notice I don't have much food.

I glance at the minimap and see none of my animal friends are there. But several enemy food harvesting points are.

My opponent had been following my priest squad and slaughtering the animals I sent back to my base. I had been working to provide him with resources.

I stopped playing Set for a while after that.

Fiatil

I love me some Age of Mythology. It's a rare RTS that had a story that was interesting, pus multiplayer was all kinds of fun.

Beren39

Oh man, I remember rushing home in Gr.9 to play this online with my friends. We used to play 2+ hour games of the Trojan Wall maps. I wish I still had free time like that.

ronya

orpheus wrote: »

My friend decided it was time to play this classic again. Neither of us still had the discs so we bought the $20 box that has AoM and AoT. The reason for this thread is that I was wondering if anyone knew of some good maps to look for. I normally just play with 1 or 2 friends against 1-2 teams of bots. Any maps that the bots will actually use would be awesome.

We like to play maps were we can turtle up and then unleash huge armies on the bots. I would like to try to make a map in the editor but I'm wondering if I can get the bots to work on it. Any advice on this would be appreciated.

The AI will indeed play whatever civ you give it on the map editor. At least it does on mine. You can even set it to share control with a human player so that human and computer can fight each other for control.

Anybody up for a game?

Arkan

Shared control co-op with another human is actually a pretty interesting way to play the game.

I'd be up for it another day, perhaps.

Taramoor

I was almost always the Egyptians in Titans, since a massive horde of priests was the only way I could find to reliably kill a Titan.

emnmnme

One time in an online match I almost won by building a wonder. Another ten seconds ... but everyone ganged up on me when they realized how close I was to winning. Holding off 4 other players while my peasants hammer away is intense.

Khavall

I would buy a game in which the defense against titans was to build a tiny little Kratos who would jump onto them, climb all over them, and just stab them 8,000,000 times until they fell over.


For some empires the anti-titan character would be the Wanderer

-Loki-

Damn it, why is the IP owned by Microsoft and not Sony? I would buy that in a second. Actually, someone should make a mod of it. That alone would make me rebuild my PC and get this game again.

Zerokku

-Loki- wrote: »

Damn it, why is the IP owned by Microsoft and not Sony? I would buy that in a second. Actually, someone should make a mod of it. That alone would make me rebuild my PC and get this game again.

Because it was made by ensemble studios, who were owned by microsoft.

I always smirk when I pop Age of Mythologies DS into my DS and see the microsoft stuff on screen.

-Loki-

Zerokku wrote: »

-Loki- wrote: »

Damn it, why is the IP owned by Microsoft and not Sony? I would buy that in a second. Actually, someone should make a mod of it. That alone would make me rebuild my PC and get this game again.

Because it was made by ensemble studios, who were owned by microsoft.

I know. I was being dramatic.