Hello all,Suprised to see that there is no topic for this game over here. I could find on age of empires III but no AOM.I have been an Age of Empires fan since my college days. It was a hobby, it was fun, it was love, it was addiction.We played for 10-12 hours at a strech.. whole nights at times. At that time, there were only Age of Empires - which included - age of kings - rise of rome, age of empires. We created a lot of paladins and killed a lot many armies. Then came this one - AOM. Microsoft introduced mythological elements. The best part of the age of mythology is its campaign- where the hero Atlantis goes on a mission to finally discover that the very god taking care of Atalanta i.e. Posiedon is supporting the evil. He goes through all kinds of scenarios, many interesting & fun battles. I fared well with medium difficulty settings. Tough is a challenge. Easy is a piece of cake.About the mythological charactersHaving played AOE for 4 years, I was comfortable with human soldiers. So when the computer got its myth units (whch are costly to produce) and thrashed my human army. I didnt know what to do.Then slowly I got to know that all we need is a good balance of myth units and humans. But out of habit, I kept the percentage of myth units in my arms very low.StrategyThe best strategy so far with me is to have infantry at the fore with a lot of archers at the back. I love the shooting of arrows. while infantry keeps busy the opponent army. archers take no time to clear the area provided that they are properly researchedFavourate unitsPaladins - you guessed it. The love for paladins comes from my AOE daysArchers - I adance them to best levelAmong Myth units, I like nymbion lion. few others but not really fond of themsiegeworks - terbuchet & ram. mostly terbuchet is enough.more laterneo
