If you are wondering why this video is so much shorter than the previous one... Being able to cheese a couple of huge macro missions to last a couple of minutes definitely played a part in that.
Great editing 🤩!! I love that you've stepped up! ❤❤ As I've seen two, maybe three other playtroughs of this game 😅 (I am sick) then this editing was FRESH❤ thank you so much, Amon!
I did all the campains as a kid i tought this game was amazing ! Glad to see you are enjoying it and you videos are super cool ! Makes me feel like the good old times !!
Thank you, really appreciate it :) Those Exodia pieces were such a pain to make because the camera (or caravans) just keep moving all the time and I had to reposition the image every few frames. But I am extremely glad how it turned out, was definitely worth it. Even caught myself laughing at it a couple of times and I was the one who made the video hahahah
I found him, but for some reason, he transformed from pig to priest with 5 HP left. I guess maybe he was unlucky to be cut by one of the villigers. And I didn't have time to replay the whole level, especially not knowing which pig he was.
@@ShadowTheHedgehogCZ I think he is the pig that says "Have you come to rescue us?" but maybe he is the pig at the temple, like there is a temple somewhere I remember that has a pig, that is what they say is him.
You don't even need to use cheats to defeat the army in the second scenario. You can use shifting sands to transport labourers and arkantos to one of the villages, and lure units and build migdols and towers and priests to snipe everything
I used the cheats to "scout" if I have to destroy the army, not to defeat it (I did reload after that)... But yeah, I could have used shifting sands and build stuff there, but it's hard when you need to focus on multiple fronts, it's easier when you find out that you don't have to focus on that army so you can just focus on busting through the base
Well as you could see, I experimented to see if it's possible without the doggo and it's not so I guess losing the sword guys is ok. Plus, I don't see a reason why the sword bearers would die when giving him the sword, feels more like they knew they couldn't fight so they just ran away when their task was completed so it's still kinda in the spirit of the run hahaha
@@AmonsChallenges I was just worried you hadn't seen it ha ha. I like to think the two dudes are riding on The Good Boy's shoulders like the Hobbits riding on the nets, watching it smash the heck out of everything 😂. Thanks for all the entertainment over these videos, they've inspired me to give this challenge a go myself (although on moderate mode, I'm not a masochist) having not played the game for years so thank you 👍
@@Foojaleeckalikeelamaka Oh that's awesome man. I'm so glad I managed to inspire you. And don't worry about the masochist part, that one comes after you've played this game so many times that desperately want some variety in life :D
@@AmonsChallenges Hey just wanted to let you know I just managed to beat the campaign (at 1:38am with a sleeping baby in my arms 😂 ) & although not completely deathless (11 deaths) I still found it super rewarding to revisit an old favourite and see it in a new light this way. When those credits rolled with all the goofy photos of the developers I had the biggest grin on my face. Thanks for the inspiration for this, I had an absolute blast!
@@Foojaleeckalikeelamaka 11 deaths is still pretty freaking awesome. Well done! I'm really glad you got to revisit the game and it doesn't surprise me one bit you grinned at the credit photos, they are so awesome 😄
@@louise_4444 Then I'm just blind... I know there is one in Retold (played that one yestarday), but I for the life of me can't remember there being one in the original hahahah
Great video as first one. I even tought some mission would be imposibble without losing units in Egypt Campaign. And if you think 16th Level: Worst Son Ever was bad wait until Age of Mythology - Worst Son Ever Campaign extension
Yeah, I think that's going to be a real nightmare, but I'm trying not to think about that horrible future experience just yet. The Norse campaing is giving me enough pain as is...
"Just" doing a playthrough seems a bit too basic on older games like this Maybe for newer games though, but I have A LOT of challenge ideas in the backlog and I want to go at least through some of them
The level where you have to cut Osiris's head out of the tree was impossible for me to complete even when not doing deathless. I played Retold version and not even the highest difficulty. Only hard difficulty. Despite the Mummies don't have instant kill attack, they somehow feel stronger. I think it's because retold version is probably over tuned. The Mummies will attack you while you are downing their temples in Rotold. When their temples hit 50%, they spawn a bunch of mummies and undead minions. When the temple is destroyed, it spawns like 6 Scarab and their on death AOE damage is insane. Some Starship Troopers shit that is. Also, there are three temples, not two. The third one is the lower left corner. I think it was like that in your version too, since the Mummies came after you despite killing two temples. Anyway, the anitial force I am given is not strong enough to do anything. When I go to destroy a Mummy temple, I manage it at the cost of my entire force. And then enemy party arrives for my base, including the Mummies from the other temples. They come basically at the same time. If my party is spent after the first temple, there is nothing I can do. I hoped I could somehow bait Mummies and enemy player to attack each other, but they never did. And if I don't attack the Mummy temple, then I can somehow hold the attacks, but the Mummy raids are stronger. And eventually, the enemy overwhelmes me, because he is relentless, attacks with masses of Mythic age units and siege weapons almost from the start, and keeps getting stronger. And on top of that, the Mummies. And the best part is, the gimmick of that level is that there is no gold in your base. You start in Heroic age and have a big gold bank, maybe 2000. But it is not enough. If you want either priests for healing, to deal with Mummies or to deal with the enemy myth units, or if you want to build towers and strongholds, or build army units, then you soon run out of gold. If you advance to Mythic Age immediately, you run out of gold (and food) even sooner, and you get crushed by the enemy and the Mummies for lacking resources. What I didn't try was to attack the Mummy temples before I get the base. I may try that. But seeing how freaking powerful those temples are, guarded by like 6 Mummies, 6 Scarabs and maybe 10 or 15 undead minions, not counting those spawned from your dead units, I don't have much hopes. I used cheat and skipped ahead, didn't have patience for this.
I did a playthrough of the level on my second channel, you can check it out here: th-cam.com/video/S8E-8G_FBaM/w-d-xo.html Basically you can wall off all but one of the chokepoints in the middle and the enemy will start attacking you from that one direction. Also, you can sneak into the top right and take the gold mine there, I don't think nobody ever attacks that corner, especially if you wall the top off. Attacking the temples in the beginning won't help because the AI activates regardless so once you kill a temple a huge group of enemies will attack you. You could try building Rocs quickly and use them to snipe the 2 enemy temples with a Roc and a siege tower (I did that in my run) so the enemy can't build myth units anymore. Other than that, just rush to sunlight crocs and Son of Osiris as soon as possible and ignore the temples (other than the one next to your base, you can take that one out in the beginning. But yeah, the temples are very overtuned here and so is the level in general. They made it easier in the last patch, but it's still really not that easy to beat plus the temples didn't get any nerf I believe.
@@AmonsChallenges Nice. that playthrough will be helpful. I once tried to mine the gold mine up as you suggested, but then enemy very shortly killed all my workers and it was a bigger blow to my economy than boost. If I construct fortresses or towers there, it costs gold, and he downs it anyway. If I have army to protect them, that army is not defending my main base that gets wrecked. I didn't think of making walls everywhere EXCEPT one place. I always made walls everywhere, thinking that it merely slows the AI enough to move my army there, not stops it. But if making an opening makes the AI dumb enough to only attack in that one opening, then it could actually work, and my gold miners could be unharmed. I guess the AI is this stupid because it simply A moves the entire army to my base. And if there is a path, it takes that path. If there is no path, then it makes a path by attacking at random places. We will see. Hopefully that will work...
Which one? There were a lot of them hahaha I will say tho that Retold did a good job trying to remove cheesing opportunities, it's a lot harder to cheese now. Doable, but a lot harder
I don't want to be that person, but there were more members of kemsets army who would appear later on, so technically you didn't complete that mission. (I'm going to test this myself later to see if it is true cause I do know you can beat the game without the guardian ever being awakened)
hmm, interesting. Did not know more people come later on... But wasn't the mission objective description awaken the guardian and kill the army? Or maybe they just switched things up in the extended edition... That being said, i don't feel too bad about the sword guys, not only are they part of the objective, but we can also pretend they just give the guardian the sword and jump to safety later on and i just lost control of them :) Jokes aside, it's definitely doable without awakening the guy, the enemy has no ranged units in kemsyt's army so i could tehnically just use shifting sands to get a couple of workers and crocodiles to a chokepoint, build a wall and outrepair it while the crocs take care of the army. Now that i think about it, i think that would have been an even easier way to win cuz i wouldn't have to bust through the enemy base if you really do win when you kill the additional guys that (potentially) come later Appreciate pointing it out tho
The workers have a knife, so..... using American police logic, you are well within your rights to gun them down, they refused to drop down the knife, your actions are justified by American supreme court
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Criminally underappreciated series!
Awww thx ❤
If you are wondering why this video is so much shorter than the previous one... Being able to cheese a couple of huge macro missions to last a couple of minutes definitely played a part in that.
This was in the recommended underneath a GiantGrantGames video, probably for obvious reasons and I'm not disappointed. Very enjoyable!
Any similarity to other kinds of videos and content creators is entirely NOT coincidental :D
Amanra is the insta stand ground hero exactly because of her long jumps. Splendid follow up to the Greek campaign.
Great editing 🤩!! I love that you've stepped up! ❤❤ As I've seen two, maybe three other playtroughs of this game 😅 (I am sick) then this editing was FRESH❤ thank you so much, Amon!
Thank you, really appreciate it
I did all the campains as a kid i tought this game was amazing !
Glad to see you are enjoying it and you videos are super cool ! Makes me feel like the good old times !!
Same here, same here :)
Great video! I really like your humor. The Exodia pieces really got me! Even on rewatch I catch myself laughing.
Thank you, really appreciate it :)
Those Exodia pieces were such a pain to make because the camera (or caravans) just keep moving all the time and I had to reposition the image every few frames. But I am extremely glad how it turned out, was definitely worth it. Even caught myself laughing at it a couple of times and I was the one who made the video hahahah
BRO THIS IS AMAZING ! I NEED MORE !!!!!!!!! I NEEEEEEEEEED IT
Don't worry, more is on the way!
now onto the Norse and DLC campaigns
Have seen a few lets plays where they don't find the priest in the pigs level, good that you found him :)
The level is literally not worth mentioning without the priest :D
I found him, but for some reason, he transformed from pig to priest with 5 HP left. I guess maybe he was unlucky to be cut by one of the villigers. And I didn't have time to replay the whole level, especially not knowing which pig he was.
@@ShadowTheHedgehogCZ I think he is the pig that says "Have you come to rescue us?" but maybe he is the pig at the temple, like there is a temple somewhere I remember that has a pig, that is what they say is him.
@@alexstoyo7850 Yeah I'm pretty sure he's the pig by the temple. At least he is in the original, would really be surprised if he wasn't here as well
You don't even need to use cheats to defeat the army in the second scenario. You can use shifting sands to transport labourers and arkantos to one of the villages, and lure units and build migdols and towers and priests to snipe everything
I used the cheats to "scout" if I have to destroy the army, not to defeat it (I did reload after that)... But yeah, I could have used shifting sands and build stuff there, but it's hard when you need to focus on multiple fronts, it's easier when you find out that you don't have to focus on that army so you can just focus on busting through the base
One tip as playing as the egyptians. Instead of building walls, use black smiths... They are free after all. And save that gold for something later
hmmm, sounds kinda weird, but it makes sense i guess. Walls in AoM aren't that expensive tho...
@@AmonsChallenges better use then in The titans expansion.
Fantastic work with this series.
Thx, I really appreciate it!
Didn't the population drop at 4:32?
Not talking about the Guardian, but the fight at the gate.
Nah, in editing i just threw in a scene that happened before that. You can see more of the map is explored when I had more population. Nice catch tho.
For the mission with Ajax and Arkantos, you can just create rocs and go all around the map to bring Arkantos near Kamos.
Did not know that hahahaha
Thx for the info
@@AmonsChallenges As well as not building the town center in the last Norse mission allows you to gather infinite ressources before their attack
4:16 Prism -Tank- Crocodile
Love it hahahah
5:29 - I hate to be 'that guy's but your population went down, albeit to summon the big doggo but still technically a unit lost not to a cutscene.
Well as you could see, I experimented to see if it's possible without the doggo and it's not so I guess losing the sword guys is ok.
Plus, I don't see a reason why the sword bearers would die when giving him the sword, feels more like they knew they couldn't fight so they just ran away when their task was completed so it's still kinda in the spirit of the run hahaha
@@AmonsChallenges
I was just worried you hadn't seen it ha ha.
I like to think the two dudes are riding on The Good Boy's shoulders like the Hobbits riding on the nets, watching it smash the heck out of everything 😂.
Thanks for all the entertainment over these videos, they've inspired me to give this challenge a go myself (although on moderate mode, I'm not a masochist) having not played the game for years so thank you 👍
@@Foojaleeckalikeelamaka Oh that's awesome man. I'm so glad I managed to inspire you. And don't worry about the masochist part, that one comes after you've played this game so many times that desperately want some variety in life :D
@@AmonsChallenges
Hey just wanted to let you know I just managed to beat the campaign (at 1:38am with a sleeping baby in my arms 😂 ) & although not completely deathless (11 deaths) I still found it super rewarding to revisit an old favourite and see it in a new light this way.
When those credits rolled with all the goofy photos of the developers I had the biggest grin on my face.
Thanks for the inspiration for this, I had an absolute blast!
@@Foojaleeckalikeelamaka 11 deaths is still pretty freaking awesome. Well done! I'm really glad you got to revisit the game and it doesn't surprise me one bit you grinned at the credit photos, they are so awesome 😄
Great stuff! Feel like this video's gonna blow up :)
Fingers crossed 🤞
14:26 there's actually one on the very south of the map
That's a tower in the south, I don't think there are any other temples on the map. These guys might have been prebuilt when the level began.
@@AmonsChallenges my memory must be deceiving me 😅
@@AmonsChallenges It's definitely a third temple in the south corner
@@louise_4444 Then I'm just blind... I know there is one in Retold (played that one yestarday), but I for the life of me can't remember there being one in the original hahahah
Great video as first one. I even tought some mission would be imposibble without losing units in Egypt Campaign. And if you think 16th Level: Worst Son Ever was bad wait until Age of Mythology - Worst Son Ever Campaign extension
Yeah, I think that's going to be a real nightmare, but I'm trying not to think about that horrible future experience just yet. The Norse campaing is giving me enough pain as is...
Great series, you should do an entire series playthrough even without the deathless situation just for the goofs and with funny commentaries
"Just" doing a playthrough seems a bit too basic on older games like this
Maybe for newer games though, but I have A LOT of challenge ideas in the backlog and I want to go at least through some of them
haha lolz the forbidden one nice reference
Thank you hahahah
The level where you have to cut Osiris's head out of the tree was impossible for me to complete even when not doing deathless.
I played Retold version and not even the highest difficulty. Only hard difficulty.
Despite the Mummies don't have instant kill attack, they somehow feel stronger. I think it's because retold version is probably over tuned. The Mummies will attack you while you are downing their temples in Rotold. When their temples hit 50%, they spawn a bunch of mummies and undead minions. When the temple is destroyed, it spawns like 6 Scarab and their on death AOE damage is insane. Some Starship Troopers shit that is.
Also, there are three temples, not two. The third one is the lower left corner. I think it was like that in your version too, since the Mummies came after you despite killing two temples.
Anyway, the anitial force I am given is not strong enough to do anything. When I go to destroy a Mummy temple, I manage it at the cost of my entire force. And then enemy party arrives for my base, including the Mummies from the other temples. They come basically at the same time. If my party is spent after the first temple, there is nothing I can do. I hoped I could somehow bait Mummies and enemy player to attack each other, but they never did.
And if I don't attack the Mummy temple, then I can somehow hold the attacks, but the Mummy raids are stronger. And eventually, the enemy overwhelmes me, because he is relentless, attacks with masses of Mythic age units and siege weapons almost from the start, and keeps getting stronger. And on top of that, the Mummies.
And the best part is, the gimmick of that level is that there is no gold in your base. You start in Heroic age and have a big gold bank, maybe 2000. But it is not enough. If you want either priests for healing, to deal with Mummies or to deal with the enemy myth units, or if you want to build towers and strongholds, or build army units, then you soon run out of gold. If you advance to Mythic Age immediately, you run out of gold (and food) even sooner, and you get crushed by the enemy and the Mummies for lacking resources.
What I didn't try was to attack the Mummy temples before I get the base. I may try that. But seeing how freaking powerful those temples are, guarded by like 6 Mummies, 6 Scarabs and maybe 10 or 15 undead minions, not counting those spawned from your dead units, I don't have much hopes.
I used cheat and skipped ahead, didn't have patience for this.
I did a playthrough of the level on my second channel, you can check it out here:
th-cam.com/video/S8E-8G_FBaM/w-d-xo.html
Basically you can wall off all but one of the chokepoints in the middle and the enemy will start attacking you from that one direction. Also, you can sneak into the top right and take the gold mine there, I don't think nobody ever attacks that corner, especially if you wall the top off. Attacking the temples in the beginning won't help because the AI activates regardless so once you kill a temple a huge group of enemies will attack you. You could try building Rocs quickly and use them to snipe the 2 enemy temples with a Roc and a siege tower (I did that in my run) so the enemy can't build myth units anymore. Other than that, just rush to sunlight crocs and Son of Osiris as soon as possible and ignore the temples (other than the one next to your base, you can take that one out in the beginning. But yeah, the temples are very overtuned here and so is the level in general. They made it easier in the last patch, but it's still really not that easy to beat plus the temples didn't get any nerf I believe.
@@AmonsChallenges Nice. that playthrough will be helpful.
I once tried to mine the gold mine up as you suggested, but then enemy very shortly killed all my workers and it was a bigger blow to my economy than boost. If I construct fortresses or towers there, it costs gold, and he downs it anyway. If I have army to protect them, that army is not defending my main base that gets wrecked.
I didn't think of making walls everywhere EXCEPT one place. I always made walls everywhere, thinking that it merely slows the AI enough to move my army there, not stops it. But if making an opening makes the AI dumb enough to only attack in that one opening, then it could actually work, and my gold miners could be unharmed. I guess the AI is this stupid because it simply A moves the entire army to my base. And if there is a path, it takes that path. If there is no path, then it makes a path by attacking at random places.
We will see. Hopefully that will work...
@@ShadowTheHedgehogCZ It worked for me (most of the time), but it doesn't work on some of the other levels. The AI is a bit whacky xD
Your video help me with the egypt cheese in retold thanks!
Which one? There were a lot of them hahaha
I will say tho that Retold did a good job trying to remove cheesing opportunities, it's a lot harder to cheese now. Doable, but a lot harder
North is the hardest level in the main campaign. God speed
You would think that, but you would be wrong. Because the level AFTER North *exists*.
isnt the "pigman" a "bullman"?
Yup, but I think it sounds nicer when i call him pigman :)
I don't want to be that person, but there were more members of kemsets army who would appear later on, so technically you didn't complete that mission. (I'm going to test this myself later to see if it is true cause I do know you can beat the game without the guardian ever being awakened)
hmm, interesting. Did not know more people come later on... But wasn't the mission objective description awaken the guardian and kill the army? Or maybe they just switched things up in the extended edition... That being said, i don't feel too bad about the sword guys, not only are they part of the objective, but we can also pretend they just give the guardian the sword and jump to safety later on and i just lost control of them :)
Jokes aside, it's definitely doable without awakening the guy, the enemy has no ranged units in kemsyt's army so i could tehnically just use shifting sands to get a couple of workers and crocodiles to a chokepoint, build a wall and outrepair it while the crocs take care of the army. Now that i think about it, i think that would have been an even easier way to win cuz i wouldn't have to bust through the enemy base if you really do win when you kill the additional guys that (potentially) come later
Appreciate pointing it out tho
The workers have a knife, so..... using American police logic, you are well within your rights to gun them down, they refused to drop down the knife, your actions are justified by American supreme court
Make more videossss
I’m so late