While I was visiting the rugrats this evening, and after I fiddled with The Ex’s computer for a while, Erica and I decided to play some Age of Mythology. (I let her pick the game.) We got it over with fairly quickly, since on account of not having several hours to spare we set it on Easy and divided up our opponents. As a change of pace and slight bit of challenge, I played as the Egyptians and chose Set as my totem god.
I knew that playing as Set gives you summoned animals at your temple and the ability for your pharaoh to summon more, but what I didn’t know is that your priests can convert random animals that would otherwise be either food, or threats to your villagers.
And so, we have the following screenshot at game’s end:
Hint: I’m “Grey, the Duck”, and the pertinent figure is near the upper-right corner. Susume would be the younger child.
I have got to try that again some time. I wonder if I can convert all of them? (That is, the ones who aren’t morons, like the one that attacked my Titan all by itself. Yeah, Ben, swipe the Titan’s toenail with your paw a few times, see if that hurts it any. Stupid bear.)
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I’ve been a fan of the Age of Empires games since the first one, so, yeah, I like the game. The Titans expansion is fun, though it does tend to turn a normal game into a “race to the Titan” run, ’cause the first player to get a Titan tends to win.
It goes something like this: Get Titan first. When another player starts a Titan gate, go smash it. A player only gets one chance to summon a Titan, so that player’s now screwed. Pull your Titan back and wait for the next opportunity. You’ll have a mostly-defeated Titan when you’re done, perhaps, but then he’s great for home-guard stuff while you go stomp all over what’s left of the other players.
Fun, though. =)
Do you like this game? I am looking for another easy game to play while I am dealing with the munchkin.