$10,000 Gameathlon: Athens LAN: Day 1

That is her specialization, right? Drop your Pharaoh on the monument, and it will get 2x as much favor. Sounds like it might be a good idea to use if you want to go for some myth unit Strats, right?

Lol. No.

I ran some numbers. See, Ra's special bonus is that his empowering will also empower all the other buildings in the radius... INCLUDING OTHER MONUMENTS. Except he also gets to get extra resources, research things faster, and get buildings up quicker.

So which gods gets more favor? Here are the numbers assuming 5 monuments:

Ra: 0.08 + 0.11 + 0.15 + 0.17 + 0.25 = 0.76
Isis: 0.08 + 0.10 + 0.13 + 0.15 + 0.40 = 0.86

Yep. Isis gets 0.1 more favor than Ra does. That is 12% more favor, or about an extra monument to the villagers. And it costs her 20% of her gold income.

Why on earth do pro players rate Isis so highly?

Edit: Oh right. A+E. That's it.

A taotie can eat workers like Atlantean citizens (not hero citizens). But it can't eat a kuafu, including both regular kuafus and a hero kuafu. Is it a bug? Or intended?

By the way a Jotun can make a one-shot kill against a kuafu.

Is anyone else frustrated with the current matchmaking system in Age of Mythology: Retold?

It's really annoying to constantly get matched against players who have 300–400 more Elo than you. These matches often feel completely one-sided, and instead of having a competitive game where both players have a fair chance of winning, you end up spending 15–20 minutes getting stomped by someone who is clearly playing at a different skill level.

What makes it even more frustrating is that the matchmaking seems to work only one way. I never get matched against players who have 300–400 less Elo than me, but somehow getting matched against players with 300–400 more Elo happens. Why is that?

I understand that AoM: Retold doesn't have the largest player base, and matchmaking may need to expand the Elo range to find opponents. However, I'd much rather wait an extra 4–5 minutes in the queue for a reasonably balanced match than waste 15–20 minutes playing against someone who's in a completely different league.

I genuinely believe matchmaking is one of the major issues contributing to player frustration and potentially to the game's declining player base. A competitive game needs to make players feel that they have a fair chance, even when they lose.

A 100–200 Elo difference is perfectly fine, but anything beyond 200 Elo makes the match feel unfair and unbalanced.

Would you rather wait a few extra minutes for a balanced match, or get into a game quickly against someone with 300–400 more Elo?

I think this is something the developers really need to look into.

If there will be new civilizations in the future, what do you think they'll be? Incan, Mayan, Native American, Indian, African, etc

TONIGHT IS FIGHT NIGHT.

This is the event none of you asked for but you’ve all been wanting for a very, very long time! The strategic genius, never played a bad game in his life, all-around fun guy John Arbiter takes on the up-and-comer, community hero, hard-work-first Motaba in a world-first $500 showmatch. The biggest prize pool for a Retold showmatch, if I’m not mistaken, making it the biggest event of its kind ever!?! Sort of... kinda?

Okay, with that out of the way, let’s get to the serious stuff.

Both players are currently rated around 1750, which is pretty high on the ladder. They both play a fairly wide god range. John has recently proved to the world how easy Gaia is by getting to 1900 playing only Gaia. Motaba has not cracked 1800 with anything yet. It is bound to be a cracker of a series, and we don’t get to watch this level very often, so I hope you all join in and enjoy it for what it is.

I will be pointing out mistakes, I will be hyping up big plays, and I will be enjoying the ride, so come join me and the rest of the AoM community to watch these two duke it out.

When: TODAY 1500 GMT
Where: www.twitch.tv/iamboit
OR: www.youtube.com/boittv
Why: ’Cause John is a fairly popular streamer, and Motaba has also thrown his hat in the ring for commentating and streaming. I think that is enough for them to have somewhat of a stage to perform on.

Hope you all enjoy :)

I was so happy to find the Old Man from Ioklos/Iolcos (that one that appears in the beggining of Fall of Trident/ More Bandits scenario) hidden in a cave in the Obsidian Mirror campaign along with some capybaras!

He is a little bit hidden in a cave, although I am 100% sure a lot of people noticed this already xD but didn't found a post about it (which is understandable, kind of a minor detail. But it's awesome to find these kind of things as easter eggs, because it shows passion with our game from the developers).

I edited the https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Good_Enough_to_Eat#Trivia with this too.

I am having trouble with cross play for age of mythology retold on Linux (Ubuntu).

I used to be able to play on Linux just fine. I think the crossplay would automatically sign me in.

Everything was fine and dandy.

Then after September 2026 it stopped working.

This user for AoE2 DE

Describes a similar issue here:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/813780/discussions/3/598526768326946113/

I think I used to get an in-game pop up with a code that allowed me to sign in with my phone.

But now it doesn't do that. For some reason.

Any suggestions?

I’ve noticed the same thing happening again and again in the AOM Twitch community: the same people making the same offensive jokes, newcomers getting ignored or talked down to, and personal attacks that sometimes cross into racism.

A lot of it seems to come from people hiding behind usernames and anonymity to go after others for no good reason. Then, when someone objects, it gets brushed off as “just a joke.” But when the joke is insulting or racist, calling it a joke doesn’t make it harmless.

The community can feel strangely elitist and hostile, especially if you’re new. It’s hard to feel welcome when you see people being mocked or attacked for trying to join in. I wish there were more effort to make the space friendlier and to call out this kind of behaviour instead of treating it as normal.

Usually play with a couple of mates and always fall in love with the base building aspect, building walls at chokepoints and staggering towers behind them to build my impenetrable fortress while my allies muster their raiding parties.

Is there a best pantheon/god and upgrade path for making the strongest base? Or specific strategies to best support that game style?

I’m pretty new at this so have mostly just been playing atlanteans or Greeks and sinking everything into wall and tower upgrades

When you get all the cavalry upgrades, what unit is better to mass, Raiding Cavalry or Jarl?

Hey guys, im swan

If anoyne needs help with arena of the gods/gauntlet co-op for the trophies dm me or reply here and ill be happy to help!