Can you beat Age of Mythology deathless? Part 2: Egyptian Campaign 

Damn right I did

I'm super glad you enjoyed

IKR, kid me was too dumb to realize that it's a brokenly powerful GP. You can also use it to teleport the sword bearers directly to the statue, but you have to suicide amanra for vision so I didn't do that, plus it would have been arguably lamer.

Very much agree!

Yup, one comes to mind of Zeus and Hermes pretending to be weary travelers to test mortal hospitality.

Thank you! It felt like a nice thing to settle for cause I couldn't save the first village.

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Whelp... Shit, I thought I confirmed that no one else fully did it. Kind of a bummer, but Props to him! I'll have to see how our approaches differed.

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I have the majority of the Atlantean campaign planned out with various cool strategies! I'd do the Golden Gift if Retold doesn't release before I finish editing the Norse and Atlantean campaigns.

Thank you!!! It feels like the timing is not too bad to get some buzz going before Retold comes out.

Congratulations! What's the game called?

It means the world to me that you actually subbed!

I enjoyed reading this! I wish I had known about the "Let's Go" sarcophagus bug earlier lol. And yeah it would certainly make even Titan difficulty very easy for that mission. I personally try to avoid cheats when playing an RTS for fun these days, except for vision cheats when I'm looking for secrets 😝.

@@MinMaxerGaming I see. It also works for the first scenario of the Norse campaign: if you do not look at the three enemy temples, they are going to give you more time before starting attacking you with giants, Fenrir wolves and horn-blowing guys. I like the fact there are so many player-friendly and easily exploitable scripts in the campaigns (unless we decide to talk about The Tale of the Dragon, of course: no funny scripts, mind-shattering voice acting that tries to sound Chinese but ends up sounding EngRish Japanese, and bad story lacking any creativity or respect for the source material). I do not like using cheats just like this too. I have only played through two scenarios like this: the "A Long Way from Home" one and the one before the very final battle, where you have to save Atlantean prisoners while they are getting killed by the opponent AI constantly using miracles. Another fun story I could share is about the Norse scenario where you, if you are a sane person, would claim the town center in the center of the map, train rams, clear out the boulders while defending your base from giants, and then leave. I didn't do this. I have not even discovered the settlement in the center of the map, I have just seen the tip saying "Destroy the temples so they do not produce giants" and I got to work. It was almost a deathless run: I have used heroes to destroy all the giants and temples to East and West of the center of the map (other units were there too, but I was constantly trying to make them attack giants that already fight heroes and can't kill them). The only reason why it wasn't a breeze after it was because of my stupidity: I have build barracks right next to the boulders and my rams would not be able to reach them. I didn't know of the power of the "Delete" key back then. So I decided to build the city, get upgrades and have fun otherwise when all of my other units: heroes, axethrowers, myth units, would try and break through. I was going to build a market at the far end of the map when the two scripted giant armies have entered the scene. I have panicked, but my units were able to break the boulders just when the armies have reached my gates. Then: earthquake, my base gets destroyed, the survivors fleeing to the end of the scenario, massive armies on their heel and some giants standing in their way too. It was hilarious. Anyway, I hope it is not boring - sorry, I got inspired and created another TL; DR mess. Hope to see your next video soon! You have certainly granted me much fun and inspiration to revisit some of the scenarios I have enjoyed again, thank you! ^^

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Thank you!!!

Thank you!!

Thank you! I consider his little end thing at the end of Brood War deathless to be a bit of a shoutout. :)

So true!!@@MinMaxerGaming

Good idea!

GiantGrantGames beat me to it by a pretty wide margin, but he had some insanely creative strats, I highly recommend.

Thank you!

Ooooh that would have been cool, and wow looks like I was wrong that there's no cheese for mission 20. Just goes to show the insane creative potential.

I agree! And the fact that they were pre upgraded to gold colossi was so satisfying to me.

I have already finished the Norse Campaign, but maybe I can apply something from there to the Atlantean campaign.

Hopefully

@@MinMaxerGaming I hope this works ;)

No way, would have been nice to know

@@MinMaxerGaming yeah pretty strange fact

Very much agree!

It's almost certainly possible, I will very likely do it

If you right click on Phoenix in-game you'll see it has waaaay more listed hack damage than 5, and that's before the buffs it got after the Vanilla campaign. In the vanilla campaign it's listed as having 30 hack damage. Also an easy way to prove that the damage display isn't always per hit, is if you look at the Kraken, it only has 15 hack and 5 crush damage, but every swing it does deals much much more damage than that. Because it attacks so slow, it has 15 hack DPS, but every swing it does like 45 hack damage. It also has a multiplier against myth units, but it still deals this large per swing damage to anything.

So I just did way more testing than I probably should have, and... you're right. The phoenix's listed damage is its damage per hit. But that was the easy part to prove. Phoenix V. Hippikon 50 crush attack x 99% crush armour = 0.5 40 hack attack x 10% hack armour = 36 1 (0.5 rounds up to 1) + 36 = 37 Actual dps: 14.26 Actual damage per attack: 37 The tricky part was proving other units listed damage number is their dps. Anubite V. Hippikon 13 hack attack x 10% hack armour = 11.7 Actual dps: 11.8 Actual damage per attack: 8-11 I noticed that the anubite's attack time can vary wildly; anywhere from 43 - 57 frames per attack (at 60fps). As opposed to the phoenix, whose attacks only ranged from 156 - 161 frames per attack. The damage variance of the anubite did not appear to correlate to attack time (I did not calculate the correlation). Minor additional testing suggests that the catapult and portable ram fit into the same category as the phoenix (listing their damage per attack). Possibly a trait of seige units. Although it should be noted that the gastraphetes did not follow this pattern, and giving a unit crush attack had no bearing on whether it dealt consistent or varied damage.

Maybe I should have done the run with no units OR buildings lost lol.

If it takes me absolutely forever to put out Part 3. And yeah I'm super excited for Retold, it looks like it's going in the right direction.

I wish I had a stats screen, would make me feel a lot more confident and I wouldn't need to painstakingly watch the footage.

There's a remake coming that looks very promising called AOM Retold!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l_rbFhbcbT8.htmlsi=H29CYGvw1V5l6Odi Red Alert 3 OST - "Soviet March". The app "Shazam" was actually how I figured out what the song was in the first place. I highly recommend using it or SoundHound, game changing apps!

@@MinMaxerGaming Thank you

Part 2 is out! And I explain my approach for that mission there.

Yeah, I mentioned that I borrowed pretty heavily from his style in my first video. And yeah, I hope I can get a better grip on those things with experience.

@@MinMaxerGaming I think in the first video you were more original, maybe even too original. I hope you'll find the golden mean here.

Yup, that's why I'm more optimistic about Retold

That could be interesting, I don't actually have the Chinese expansion even though I'm also morbidly curious just because it makes the title screen look worse 😂.

(also Starcraft remastered wasn't complete garbage but also who cares)

She'll come back when you beat the AOM campaign. And StarCraft Remastered still has huge unfixed problems with their online, so I still wouldn't consider it a good remaster, but yes, not garbage.

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