Deathless Age of Mythology Retold! Chapter 7: More Bandits

[@Raewer5]

Always nice to see another Melth upload. Thanks for making this content!

[@Melth]

Thanks, glad you enjoy this series!

[@Rafalord100]

Nice video, as always!

[@Melth]

Thank you!

[@TARDISES]

Honestly, that whole talk about there being a clear pop culture inspiration for AoM puts a lot of the overall visual design into perspective and more people should be paying attention to that fact for things like proposing new civs. Like a lot of the Greek myth units take their visual design from... Harryhausen, was it? movies, and in the case of the Norse you will see a few horned helmets and the like. Incidentally, that bit about paying attention to that fact when proposing new civs is mainly targeted at those who ask for the Romans even though at this point it's safe that's not going to happen. The popular perspective of their pantheon (and the reason I even call it out as asking for something that's not gonna happen) is that it's mostly the Greek gods under different names, which means extreme mythological redundancy, and the Atlanteans have a distinct Roman vibe to their human units, so there's visual redundancy *there* too. With that said, I'm not going to blame the original devs for using a mixture of pop culture, a few units from other mythologies, and outright inventing/reinterpreting a few here. The Egyptians didn't really "do" the whole mythical beast thing very much, so they needed *something* for balance reasons... Plus it gave us the laser crocs, enough said.

[@TYR1139]

That's why most people expect Japanese or Aztecs (well, mesoamericans as a whole, as they also do the same as AoE2 of naming the civs after ethnicities and not an specific kingdom or empire, unless is something more specific relevant in pop culture like Aztecs, Mayans, Spartans, Athenians, etc. )

[@Melth]

I agree that it makes sense for the developers to take some things from pop culture for the Egyptians, because their surviving myths are just a lot sparser than the Greek ones. And yeah, including Romans would be terribly redundant. The Atlanteans already are pseudo Romans with half their units being types of gladiators, and they already feel a little stale with their pantheon of B-list Greek gods. I thought that (although the execution wasn't very good) the idea of the Chinese being the 5th civilization was a good idea. And despite my personal disinterest in Aztec things, I think that's a popular idea with fans for a reason

[@DarkNight2-y6d]

i am here I must say that I like it very much❤

[@Melth]

Thank you, I'm glad to hear that!

[@ConscriptDavid]

This is great content!

[@Melth]

@@ConscriptDavid thank you!

[@nivada94]

I don't see why you think that those massive armies with myth units are not bandits. Like I can remember back in ancient greek, when i had to go to school i had to walk up the hill both ways. Then have to deal with those massive armies and their myth units trying to steal my lunch money on the way there. So yeah they are just your average bandits! XD

[@Melth]

@@nivada94 I had to walk to the acropolis both ways! Not because school was up there or anything, my tutor just made us walk there both days under a barrage of venom from armies of house-sized snake bandits and arrows from giant Egyptian fortifications the bandits had built overnight;

[@blazingskrubs_]

Why are walls so comically weak in this game

[@Melth]

@@blazingskrubs_ I really don't know. I get that they wanted to prevent too much defensive play, but this is downright silly! On the next mission I had tried having a 5x later of fully upgraded fortified walls with the Masons and Architects upgrades too. And all five walls somehow died simultaneously in a single shot from a couple of unupgraded enemy catapults That's just stupid

[@nivada94]

Yeah, it feels stupid that walls break so quick.