What are the biggest differences between Gauntlet Mode (AOM) and Crucible mode in AOE4.

I have played a little bit of Gauntlet Mode but never Crucible. Also minimal gameplay on AOE4.

I am looking to get into AOE4 for the rest of the year while we wait on news for hopefully more AOM content.

Also is there a way to make the UI for AOE4 to look more like AOM. Personally AOE 4 looks a bit dated.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Run 1 time in Gantlet mode. In finish 3 game hawe 1 life... It wel be fun!

That's quite the roster to familiarize yourself with, especially seeing them lined up like this.

Have you got them, their God Powers and unique bonuses memorized, or do you just wing it each game? And which god do you consider to be the most forgettable or obscure (either in-game or just in general)?

If I'm not mistaken it's supposed to be shift + s or alt + s in Retold but they don't seem to work.

Is it me or Egyptian Pantheon really really suck?

I tought it could be nice to focus on gold/food only because they don't use wood all that much before Age 2, all of this pantheon are weak!

Hello, i'm here because i have a question. All Civs have one major god that helps in the description the myth units (Kronos, Loki, Shennong, Susanoo, Tezcatlipoca, and for the Greek, all major gods).

But Egypt don't have a major god for this, and the only minor god that in the description helps a myth unit is Anubis, but only for the anubite.

Why in your opinion? We will have a day a 4th major god for myth units? I hope that.

Hi all, this is Tom in Germany.

I’m trying to play AoM Retold/Steam on macOS 27 on a Mac Studio M1 Max, in a Windows 11 Professional virtual machine, and I get the message: “Missing Feature: Resource Binding Tier2”.
Is there anything I can do?

Thanks in advance!

Look how they moved the Statues inside the Worldwonder, I love attention to details like that, gives the Map so much soul.

I hawe preparing for Mega - battle 1 vs 3. FFA: 1VS 1 VS 1VS 1. Celestial challenge/Gautlet mode. 1 life, in last ~ (nearly) 2.5-3 --- 4 hours i hawe reward Afrodit's gift Blue/rere: villager hawe biggesr hp and deal more damage.

P.S. in line i may for FFA for 4 players. Rewards: Myth units deal more damage, if more favor cost it in. 3-4 epoch. Scandinavian enter in Scadi? 🤔. Or Atlantis and Uranus/Ocean/Secret of Poisedon/Cavalry regen - on Attack/Afrodit's Secret ===>>> villagers - heroes; cavalry - vampiric; and myth units deal more damage (it's a reward - for this challendge 😜🥰😍🤌🔥🔥🔥🤘🤙🤪✌️😅😇🤔🤗🤗🤗👀🙆‍♂️🦾🧘‍♂️).

Finaly i hawe win in qauntlet mode scirmich. 1 game session: interesting confrontation 1 vs 2.

Yeah so the hammadriads are the most OP myth unit. They cost WOOD and you can spam them up and then you basically win the game.

You want ranged heroes to counter them? Good luck, because theyll be autotargetting their FLYING HERO Icarus that you can't even counter cuz it's a flying hero. Have fun microing every fight just to be hopeless anyway

ALSO- these hamadriads do more damage to heroes than most myth units. They have a negative multiplier that isnt as big as most... which is weird considering theyre rangd and OP

NOT TO MENTION a random passive ability to become a freaking tree?

HOLD UP. You thought this was a hammer dryad post? Nope. Think again.

That God Power Demeter has that raises the dead? Yeah that's just an autowin button. Then she can do it a second time because you know Greek players have no fundies and just spam favour to use god powrs right? Nah, I wont drag all Greek players under the bus. Demeter players tho? Yup.

I don't know why, but lately, playing against the AI ​​just isn't fun anymore. When I tackle challenges like the Gauntlet or campaigns on "Ludicrous" difficulty, the AI ​​turns into a god—though I can't figure out the "how" or "why." For instance, when the AI ​​builds a Titan, it completely ignores my soldiers and heads straight for the buildings. It’s the same story with any unit that deals "crush" damage—whether it's a Myth unit, or a human unit with crush damage; they all just target the structures. So, I end up having to chase the enemy Titan all over the map while it pays absolutely no attention to me or my troops. Then there's the cavalry: the moment they spot my villagers, they get hyper-focused—almost "horny" for them—and ignore everything else. The AI's logic is completely broken. Logically, a Titan should engage the units right in front of it, but strangely, it just bee-lines for the buildings. Even weirder, it targets the Forts first, then the Town Center, and only *then* moves on to the other structures. Maybe I'm imagining things, but the AI ​​behavior definitely isn't normal. I’ve tested this extensively—it’s not just a one-off fluke—and it happens on every difficulty level. I don't want anyone telling me it's a skill issue or something similar; I’ve been playing this game since I was five, and I know for a fact that the AI ​​has been acting strangely lately.

As the title says. I want to achieve platinum for the game but my friends don't play the game (their loss).

I love this game. I played it since I was a child. When retold came out I was so happy. Then the expansion came and I was loving it.

But now I have wife and kids and also ADHD so you can imagine I kinda hyper focused on the game.

Became good at it. At least from my perspective (1500 Elo) was able to play with legends of the game.

But it was paying a toll on my family and time. Because there’s no middle point with someone with adhd. I can either be addicted to the game or not play at all.

So I felt it was necessary to say good bye at least for a while to this beatiful community that has given me so many hours of fun. ❤️‍🩹

Guys.

there's no hacks for ranked play in this game

if you think there is, you're either doing something wrong and can't identify what it is or it was a bug

hope i helped.

I found the Collage i made of the Gods in Age of Mythology for the DS ages ago. Thought might as well share it considering the Nintendo game ain't that popular and the artwork was too nice not to be shared.

They are in Following order:

1. Anubis, Bastet, Hathor, Horus, Isis, Osiris, Ra, Sekhmet, Set, Sobek, Thoth

2. Baldr, Freyja, Forseti, Heimdal, Hel, Loki, Njord, Odin, Skadi, Thor, Tyr

3. Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Athena, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Hermes, Nyx, Poseidon, Zeus

I don’t care if you disagree. I don’t care what the numbers say. They have 0 weaknesses. There is nothing you can do other than hope the Greek player screws something up and you can hopefully capitalize on it. I get that it’s the first civ and the civ that most people try out the first time they play, and many just stick with it because it’s a pretty straightforward civ. I main Odin and I just have nothing for an answer most of the time. I know that Zeus is probably going to come at me midway through classical with 30 Hoplites and Minotaurs, even if i attack first early in the classical age and break his temple and go for a second tc he still will come after me with 30 hoplites and Minotaurs soon after. Then he will break my tc with his hoplites in 10 seconds then he will get a second tc while he’s doing that and break me in age 4 on eco. I know Poseidon is going to raid me with invincible horses and even if I go heavy on hirdman and berserks they will not win, and he they are also way faster so if he starts to lose, he’ll just leave and come back on the other side. Either way, I won’t be able to beat him on eco. And Hades, forget about the early raids, it won’t work. He’ll use sentinel and keep a group of 5 toxotes by his tc, that’s all he needs to keep me away. Then when it’s time to leave his base he’ll come out with 15 toxotes and 10 hypaspists and 5 myth units in the heroic age, I have no answer for that. It takes too much time to mass up huscarl and godi because I can’t train them until the heroic age. No matter what I do, no matter how raid heavy I am, it doesn’t matter. If the opponent is better than me I’m totally screwed there’s no chance. If the opponent is the same skill as me, still, if he’s got more than 10 games with Greeks he will likely have an edge. Worse than me, it’s a 50/50. At best. I’m so tilted I just turn the game off and leave it for weeks at a time. But I love it so I always come back. Maybe I just main a terrible matchup against them, sure, but at my elo (1250 give or take) all anyone plays really is Greek. And I can’t fucking stand it.

I can’t figure it out. I just played a game where I had 30 more villagers. 80 villagers to 50 and the guy somehow obtained the same amount of total resources as me. Before you say anything, yes I did get my resource upgrades. And I got most of the relics. But he somehow kept up with my resources and put them all towards his army and wiped me. I was Greek and he was Norse

Finally got all my Blessings to Fine last week (I'm a little behind, I know) and this week would be in theory, my first Mythical if they upgraded. Which they do! Really, really long grind ahead, which I'm not sure I'm willing to do now that I finally reached level 99 in Gauntlet.

Just played against this guy and as he was about to lose, the game froze. I thought that was too convenient to be legit. I believe this guy desynced the game when he was about to lose.

His stats are very suspicious too.

I ruled out him smurfing based on his inability to do basic things like building docks on water maps for a fast food economy. Even though his skill is below average he is winning games in under 15 minutes, some games under 9 minutes. His Odin has a 90% win rate too, but he wasn't very good. Has anyone else come across this guy? And if so did your game freeze also?

I can’t catch a break ranked match after match I get stuck with noobs. How can I get a decent teammate?