The Best Strategy Game You Never Played: Age of Mythology 

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Excuse you "Never Played". This game was my childhood

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2824">47:04</a> Hades also has a massive reason for helping the heroes keep Tartarus closed seeing as he lives next door.

Fun fact about Osiris in myth: his wife, your “patron goddess who shall not be named” was able to find every part of his body except one. The one missing part was the one most important for *cough* husbandly duties. So she made a replacement out of gold, brought him back to life and he lived exactly long enough to *cough* perform once, before dying again.

What’s insane is that Arkantos is basically retired by the time Fall of the Trident begins. There’s so much back story behind his character that I would love to see in the form of campaigns in the new aom Retold

I love that the resolution to the conflict with Kronos is to call his mom

Came for a retrospective of my favorite childhood RTS, stayed for the Crocodile rants. Justice for Sobek

I remember my dad getting this game thinking it was a movie 💀 (to his defense he’s pretty old) and m still revisiting it after so many years, such a good game.

Okay so, one reason I think you had Set as the patron God in Mission 13 (the tug of war mission) is probably because of the betrayal right at the start of the NEXT mission - most likely it shows that the base you used for mission 13 was actually worshipping Set, and thus turned on you the moment you got the God piece. I thought it was a fairly smart piece of foreshadowing, while also giving you a chance to test Set stuff for a bit in the campaign.

This was the game that introduced me to both strategy games and ancient mythologies. Thank you for the wonderful memories mom.

It was almost a joke in my old friend circle how like 70% of us learned our ancient mythologies through those unit info pages. I remember my bro and I playing this game back in the day, he was partial to the Norse and their more aggro playstyle, whereas I tended towards Egypt cause I liked their myth units more. So many good memories, we might even still have the physical disks back home buried somewhere, if any of our computers can run it.

"If this bombs I spent 4 months working on a dud" *Becomes the most popular video in the channel by far*

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.

Small fact regarding the market introduction at Troy mission 2. The market at the center of Troy is connected to the smaller city on the right side of the map and the settlement near your base is just for unit expansion/supply. If you explored the map a bit more you’d see the trading units going between the main market and smaller city, and there are also relics in the smaller city. Also, there is gold on the smaller ocean islands, incentivizing new players to explore.

If ever there were a game deserving a 3 and a half hour long video about it, it is undoubtedly this one. Criminally underrated masterpiece, I hope we're living in a timeline where Retold does well enough to justify a level of support comparable to what Age 2 is currently getting.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="87">1:27</a>:22 I've always been surprised they didn't remove the Roc from this mission for the sole reason that it can be used to completely ignore Kamos' main base and attack him directly and quickly beat the mission in under 10 minutes. It's fairly simple: get to the town center, rush ages, worship Hathor, build a Roc, put as many powerful units into it as you can, fly south to the starting island, east to the eastern corner of the map and then follow the map border up to the rear of Kamos' base, disembark your units from the Roc and attack Kamos himself. Once he reaches a certain health threshold, you win.

Dude, AoM was THE game of my childhood. I remember going to my grandma's house (where my uncle's "good" PC was) and playing all day long throught my school holidays. It's been 20 years, my grandma passed away in 2021 and your video brought back a lot of good memories for me. Thank you so much for your effort and amazing work :) Cheers from Brazil!

Wow I can't believe Grant promised us he would do an AOM deathless run, how kind of him :^) looking forward to it.

The fun thing with Colossae you didn't mention is that they can heal by eating gold mines or trees. It's an awful exchange rate resource/hp wise, but you can retreat these guys to just out of defense range, and then literally eat up your enemy's resources and heal your showstopper units. This game has so many cool things you can do with a little creativity it's insane.

I think I spent as much time playing as I did reading everything about the units, buildings, weapons, missions, etc. It was literally an encyclopedia and even had passages from a lot of works from their civilizations. I kid you not, this inspired me to read the classics when I was younger.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="161">2:41</a>:00 The reference ''as the raids keep coming and they dont stop coming'' really got me

You are so right about sound design. Hearing the voice lines from the units was an instant nostalgia hit. Far bigger than any of the visuals.

This is my second listen through - and I just wanted to say that your enthusiasm and passion is absolutely infectious and brightened up my day! This game was also a massive part of my childhood so it is nice to be able to re-experience it with a guide.

I grew up with this classic, glad its getting some recognition.

Glad to see you branching out to RU-vid shorts Grant. I really think it will benefit you in the long run to have these short and low effort videos for some consistent content.

“A place in my dreams” is such a badass mission name considering that’s how all the foes akantos has slain are described.

The Egyptian Favour mechanic is super unique There are 5 monuments that you build to produce favour, each guarded by a progressively higher build cost.

Absolutely loved this game growing up as well. I love how like minded we are. I say "I hope he says how cool Ajax is" and you say "Ajax is the best character by far." I say "I hope he says how awesome the Hydra is" and you say "The Hydra is the best unit." Also... I know exactly what you mean by not saying a certain word on RU-vid. I had a Cockatiel growing up, and I named it THAT name... Specifically because I mained Egyptian and wanted to name my future birds after the deities. For example my Sun Conure was named Ra because duh. Once that certain name became more known for a terrible organization it was SO awkward saying my birds name. Amazing video. You definitely captured the uniqueness of this game. Competing with Red Alert, Warcraft and Starcraft is obviously extremely difficult to do. I wish more people knew about this game. Also Rise of Nations... but that's a whole nother story.

Age of Mythology was one of the first PC games i played as a kid. It came out when i was 7 or 8 years old and saw my father playing it and wanted to play it too, so i did. I loved it so much, that i even did drawings of the heros and monsters.

A 3.5 hour video on a 2 decade old RTS game and it's at nearly a MILLION views?! What godly power is this? Definitely deserves it though. This was a love letter to a game that stands the test of time. And yes I did watch all 3.5 hours of it and it was worth it. Justice for Sobek!

As a kid this was by far my most played game. So glad people still appreciate it!

Man, I feel kinda silly. I was pretty sad when Chiron was killed. Maybe because I played this when I was fairly young, but the latter half of the norse campaign I was angry and wanted revenge, so the cutscene of Ajax chopping of Gargarensis was very cathartic, and then the cutscene after made me angry again

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3498">58:18</a> That is foreshadowing about the next mission, where the people you were working with during the tug of war betray you and Amanra has to pull everybody out of the fire with just Myth units.

I got this at a scholastic book fair when I was kid. My parents were a little annoyed because I was supposed to buy books of course. But once I showed my dad some game play and talked about the mythological aspect and the strategy elements he was sold and even played with me. Really excited youre covering this!

The very first frame from mission 21 just unlocked a whole lot of memory. It is indeed way more memorable than I remember

What a nice video. It actually brought tears to my eyes to see these old missions replayed. Brought back a lot of great memories. Thanks

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2862">47:42</a> In Rise of Legends, the three factions each have separate campaigns, but they're knit so tightly it feels more like it was one story split into three parts. The main character is the same throughout, while pieces of your original faction make returns as they were brought along from the previous part. The story also follows this, in that you're fighting to stop the same villain, whose plans are growing increasingly desperate and dangerous as you thwart him in the previous part, before he escapes into the territory of the next faction. edit for the road: KRIOS HAS SUPPLIED US WITH ANOTHER FIRE SIPHON

One fun little crossing of narrative and gameplay happens during the mission "Unlikely Heroes" (if I remember correctly). There's a moment where a Nidhogg shows up to attack you and one of the dwarfs says that Reginleif is the only one who can slay it. It comes across as this, "only the destined hero can slay the beast" kind of thing, but since Reginleif is the only ranged hero you have, and the Nidhogg flies, she really is quite literally the only one that can slay it. :)

I liked seeing the part about sobek and his offsprings cos I also went through that rabbit hole

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="579">9:39</a> Arkantos does say he'll go to Troy, and simply grab the trident on his way, so they do explain that Troy is where he's headed next. Also, the way they hint at the whole Skult being Loki thing is also why you play as Set in tug of war, that's why when Amanra leaves you're suddenly surrounded by Set units because you brought the piece to a town controlled by Set.

The audio is literally the most memorable part of this game for me. Music especially but hearing the troops speak when ordered brings back so many memories

I LOVED THIS GAME SO MUCH

I just love when people have genuine passion for something and share it for other people to enjoy, good video grant i know you enjoyed and so did we

I really enjoyed every bit of your video and the enthusiasm you bring up for this beautiful game I loved to play so dearly in my childhood!

The Trojan horse mission is definitely doable with not letting any attacks escape. There is a relic out there that makes your cavalry faster, so your already slightly faster prodomos can now outrun them reliably. In addition, pre planning some cavalry to cut off their escape during the fight means you can get in their way and hit them before they get too far

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="152">2:32</a>:00 - Scarabs and Behemoths have one rather large difference. Behemoths regenerate. It's not slow, either, it's 2 health per second. So if you can keep them alive (even if only barely) between fights, Behemoths can keep tanking for you, whereas Scarabs you want to throw in to tank for a long time and then explode over the enemy.

I keep coming back to this retrospective. What I love about it is how you talk about every single level, breaking down it's design and goals and how it works or doesn't. It really helps to understand the thought behind each level and heck even helped me to think more deeply about my own custom levels in another game. The bursts of humour also keep me greatly entertained and the video itself is pretty relaxing. Very well done. I hope to see more stuff like this. Having campaign broken down to each level and their strenghts, weaknesses and design philosophies is super interesting.

Thank you so much for this video. I can feel your passion about this game. I miss my childhood so much !

1. I love that Age of Mythology in recent years has basically gotten a second lease on life. What was once an underappreciated gem is now rightfully treated as a classic of the RTS genre and I *love it* 2. Its actually crazy how many things were cut for the sake of time and budget. Ranging from extended lines of dialogue that actually make more sense than what we got and give us more of the characters, to massive ships that show the units that are using them, functional bridges etc. They really had a lot of ideas with this game its just a shame not *everything* could fit into a clear vision due to the hardware of the time. Plus, the small plot holes in the story here and there don't help in how rushed some parts are. (Like how dafuq the Atlanteans got stranded if Ajax and Odysseus were leading them home. Did something separate them? Why did nobody look for them? Were they forbidden by Agammemnon fro doing so, as its implied the other Greek colonies are envious of Atlantis and this was a form of payback. You'd think both Ajax and Odysseus would try harder to at least find Kastor, their friend's SON? Were they presumed dead then? Making the reveal of Kastor attacking everyone more shocking. Small stuff but it adds up the more you think about it and that's JUST the Titans Expansion, and speaking of....) 3. To this day I am still salty at the fact that the Titans Expansion ends on kind of a whimper. I mean, yeah, summoning Gaia to fight Kronos is awesome but you'd expect that with all the buildup to the MAIN VILLAIN of the entire game, that it would feel more *apocalyptic* and maybe stretched out into multiple missions with all the factions in the game coming together to hold off Kronos to summon Gaia in time. 4. The music is iconic. Nuff' said. PS: Fixed some errors

Also fun fact, this game's editor was so complete you literally had the option to make cutscenes with it. And the programming was just as good as you say, Grant. You could make it do ANYTHING. Buuut I was a dumb kid and all those trees and technical words scared me so I never actually did complete my custom map about the Guardian with it.

I watched the whole video and the game is still awesome as I remember. The video you made is a great tribute to an incredible game

What a nice review, you played it greatly and the commentary was excellent, thank you for the trip!

3 and half hours on AOM and you don’t even mention the incredible editor this game had!

Age of Mythology alongside C&C and Heroes 3 were playing huge part in my childhood. For some reason i enjoyed it far more than Age of Empires series. I'm glad to see this entire Video Essay (Director Cut) (Extended Edition) (Unlimited Words Expansion Pack) (Steal the Human Attention DLC) about it.

oh my god....HUGE thank you,mate,for this fantastic video about one of the best game from my childhood! take a few days,to see it all

Oh I for sure played this. Still remember “Isis hear my plea” and then crazy stuff happened lol

I played this campaign probably 10 years ago and was completely shocked by how many of these missions I remembered. Not only did I remember the major story beats as you went over them, there were so many times when you talked about a mission's gimmick and I was like "oh yeah, I remember that mission". I think that's the mark of a really well made game.

You probably wont see this as this video has been out for a month but I just want to thank you for making this. I has been years since I have played this but it was and possibly still is my favorite game. Your whole style of video reminded me of the joy I had when I was younger playing it and your commentary and editing were phenomenal and hilarious. I have been smiling so hard for the last 3.5 hours to the point I am almost crying so thank you.

thank you for the video, this was my favourite game of my adolescence. I had forgotten how big an impact it had on me. thanks for rekindling some ancient but beloved memories, and for a very enjoyable 3.5 hours!

This game is honestly the BEST part of my childhood. Sent countless hours on this game. I see this as game as it should be the standard for all RTS!

I'm glad AOM is still getting love. This was the first RTS game I played, and my dad introduced me to it.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1705">28:25</a> The reason the cyclops have goat legs in this game is probably the same reason the medusas have bows: Ray Harryhausen's Clash of the Titans. Guy had a lot of influence on early fantasy games.

Every time I leave youtube on autoplay, it ends up playing this video at some point 😂😅

The Norse ox cart was such a good idea that they're bringing it back as the mule cart in the new DLC this month for Aoe2:DE!

Grant makes a 3+ hours video on Age of mythology ? Must be a let's play of some of the campaigns map, right ? NO, it's actually really a retrospective in the style of Mandalore (the humor and especially the whole "crocodiles with lasers" meltdown). This is such a great video, I hope he does more of this style on other games. -I knew this game didn't sell as well as its older brother AoE2, but I didn't realise a Stronghold title, of all things, sold twice as much, such a shame. Best RTS of its time until I got warcraft 3 not that much later (which is like making a great movie that releases the same year as The godfather). -The campaign had a pretty cool story overall but so much cutscene incompetence on display it was eye-rolling - every other map the heroes would let the bad guy run away or "Chiron, you know, you could have stayed on the good side of the rockslide" moments. -I remember the buildings being pretty, but the atlantean ones at the mythic age look like something from 2015 ! Fun fact about the ingame codex : when Ajax is transformed into a boar, if you look at the unit info it says something along the lines of : this form may be better suited to his personnality ^^

God, a 3 and a half hour breakdown about one of my favorite childhood games from one of my favorite content creators; it's like Christmas

Dude You unlocked some memories I never knew I had, I forgot all about this game, is my one and only RTS I ever played

Watched this all the way through. Thank you for making it, it brought tears to my eyes, true nostalgia. Amazing video.

There is quite a bit of cut dialogue that was supposed to play in the cutscenes. Most of what was cut was giving more contextual information on what was happening or why. For example, when you first meet Amanra there is quite a bit of cut dialogue explaining what is going on in Egypt and why she is after the parts of Osiris and her rivalry with Kemsyt.

Age of mythology and warcraft 3 were my childhood. This game made me obsessed with mythology, especially the greek one

I remember playing this for weeks and weeks, absolutely love it! Spamming PANDORAS BOX looking for vaults was simply the best.

Watched two of your videos and they both said watch this video. So here it is. I loved Age of Mythology.

I LOVED Age of Mythology, It's such a shame it didn't get more recognition. My (nostalgic) memory of the campaign is that it was really fun too for an RTS.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="99">1:39</a>:30 Funnily enough, one of my most memorable moments in AoM was when I played a 1v7 on Titan difficulty, but I just used the Pandoras Box cheat over and over to fight them all off. That cheat gives you 4 random god powers, and can be used repeatedly, replacing what you rolled before. So as you might imagine, that game turned into the most hilarious, chaotic mess of god powers imaginable. Lightning Storm there, meteors here, turn that army to pigs, and only the gods know what happens next. Just throw balance right out the window, bring some popcorn and enjoy the fireworks.

Thank you for this video. You beamed me back to my childhood! This game was part of it and it was and it is beautiful. You did a phenomenal job with this video. It was funny, sweet and nostalgic. I hope you are proud of the 3.4 million views. Much love and I hope you will make a "no unit dying" challenge for the campaign :*

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

I am so glad that you went ahead and spoke about a game that simply deserves so much more respect than it currently gets. Some of the first PC games I remember playing were AoE1 and 2, and my brother did get this game when it was brand new, and still can remember the both of us sitting behind the computer screen, watching all of this new and exciting things to try out. AoE woke up inside of me my undying curiosity towards history, still lasting to this day, and AoM followed up by waking up inside of me my undying curiosity towards mythology and its many different corners. And the gameplay was just so much fun. It took what worked in AoE and just added god powers, hero units outside of the campaign, and all sorts of fun stuff to play with. As a kid I didn't even care it may have been unbalanced or unfair, there were few things as fun as aiming Zeus' Lightning at other units and killing them instantly, or using Thoth's Meteors and (maybe) deleting an enemy base, or even Tyr's Fimbulwinter, giving you the definitive "Screw you" to all enemies. I still own my original copies from back in the day, and I am so glad I own the steam version for convenience, but I am hoping deep down that the remaster brings this game into the spotlight it not only needs, but truly deserves.

My god... Age of Mythology. This game was such a wonderful part of my childhood. Maybe some day I can recover the disk I had. Its so nice to see this game get the recognition it deserves and its nice to see so many people have had similar experiences!

Thanks for showing love for this masterpiece. Your video is awesome and totally made me want to play the game again 🎉

You are absolutely correct in how anyone who has played this game still lovingly remembers it, I was one of those kids. My sister got Age of Mythology one day from a random DVD and CD store somewhere back in 2007, and I saw her playing and was immediately drawn into the world. The units, the animations, the visuals, the language, everything was so well done and mesmerizing. I admittedly was a terrible RTS player back then during my kid and teen days, and I don't know how I'd fare today but even if I don't talk about the game for many many years at a time, I will always remember this game.

Agamemnon not having a weapon and was instead punching people was always very funny 😂

This is truly a cinematic masterpiece. You were able to come up and execute something that a very small fraction of the content creators are able to do. Grant, you created a 3 and a half hour project which was worth investing every second into. RTS has been a pretty big part of my life too, so having somebody like you to share this passion with is incredible. You are truly awesome! Thank you for making this video and thank you for opening my eyes to one of the most interesting and unique RTS games out there! Continue doing what you do, I am sure there is a lot more ahead of you. I, and everybody here I am sure, will be with you, always!

Grew up with this game. Love it still & loved this video you made!

I watched this over the course of 2 days and i will say you captured the feeling i had with this game as a kid spectacularly. Great breakdown

This is awesome! It is a massive shame that YT doesn't encourage or properly incentivise creators to make this kind of content, cause this is a great video - thanks for taking the time to put this together! AoM was a huge part of my childhood, laid the foundation for a lifelong love of RTS - its a pity we don't tend to see in-game choices for tech trees like this anymore

I'm no expert at RTS games, but this one in particular was such a huge part of my personal gaming history. I'm so glad my dad was a weird gamer in the early 00s. I've never watched your channel before, but thank you for a love letter to a game that was so significant to me. :)

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.

This is one of my favorite videos ever, I have no words to describe why though I’m just drawn to it 😂 I’ve watched it 5 times awake and probably 20+ to fall asleep. Thank you! I

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="143">2:23</a>:30 Fun story: I actually did manage to kill the statue without using Giga Arkantos when I was a kid. I'd replayed the mission several times and I wanted to see if I could do it. Iirc, it took me several hours and multiple attempts. I wiped out the entire map aside from the statue, and I trained 20 collosi and something like 150 archers. I used the collosi to keep the statue occupied while I had my archers firing on the statue, and I eventually killed it! I was hella proud of myself for doing so. Also I should note that it was around a decade ago that I did this and I might've had more than archers and collosi in that army, I just remember the collosi and the ludicrous amount of archers.

My dad got AoM after we both really enjoyed Starcraft 1, and it introduced me to the greek, egyptian, and norse mythologies and did a good job of getting across key elements of all three. It got me to dig into those myths and legends (most notably the greek ones) and is responsible for an entire phase of childhood enjoyment for me. It was a fantastic game and I greatly appreciate it for bringing such old stories to a new generation of kids that might have otherwise never have heard of them until they were older and unlikely to be as interested. Great video!

Never played?! This is the ONLY rts as far as I’m concerned. I’d say my favorite Egyptian god I played as but I don’t wanna get flagged by the feds.

I just downloaded this game again, grew up playing it and its STILL got the nostalgia

The fact that Arkantos and Arthas shared the same voice actor in the spanish version of these games made my childhood 10x better. AoM and WC3, two of my fav games of old days.

In the last mission, where you fight Kronos, you can also use the forest ability to completly wall in Kronos himself. I did it as a kid, without knowing it would actually work. It was really jank though. Edit: ok I just watched a few more minutes and Grant states that you can´t wall him in, so I should clarify. You can wall the area arround the gate, before Kronos emerges. I don´t know how the ability works exactly, if the trees spwan random in the given area, meaning you would need a bit of rng, but I swear on my 10 year old self, that it works.

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.

I keep coming back to this video just as i kept coming back to this game so many years ago

This video made me realise how some people are destined to make great work out of their passion.

At first i though "this being 3 hours long was a bad idea, i probably won't watch it" and now im kinda obssesed with revisiting this amazing game through here, probably will buy it and play it later

Came here from the WarCraft 3 retrospective. Always love hearing someone talk passionately about something for a long time, great videos.

Thank you for this video. It’s so nice to see someone else be as passionate about AOM and have such fond Memories as I do. I love seeing this game get appreciated.