Credits go to srbnems for listing the Slavic mythical monsters. They are listed as from weakest to strongest with the top being the weakest and bottom being the strongest. For example, the weakest for each Slavs would be: Beda, Poroniec/Navi, and Psotnik. Strongest would be: Ala/ Šarkanj, Zmey Gorynych, and Liczyrepa.

South Slavs (mainly Serbia):

Beda - pathetic ghoul

Besomar - ravenous ghoul

Drekavac - something like chupacabra

Bukavac - something like basilisk

Čuma (chuma) - deformed witch

Baba Roga - hag (similar to Baba Yaga)

Vampire - the original vampires are of Serbian origin

Dhampir - half human half vampire (also original)

Vukodlak - werewolf

Psoglav - giant three-eyed were-dog

Todorac - shadow rider fused with his horse

Ala / Šarkanj - giant snakelike wyrm with huge mouth (wants to eat Sun)

East Slavs (mainly Russia):

Poroniec / Navi - dead babies with raven wings

Alkonost / Gamayun - harpies

Vodyanoy - water mutant man

Bies / Chort - devilish satyr

Babayka - witch

Baba Yaga - hag

Rarog - giant fire bird

Žar (zhar) ptica - phoenix

Zmey - dragon

Zmey Gorynych - 3 headed dragon

West Slavs (mainly Poland):

Psotnik - imp

Skrzak - winged imp

Topielica - drowned girl ghost

Rusalka - evil water nymph

Vila Poludnica / Polnoćnica - beautiful fairy midday

Dziwozona - female swamp hag

Likho - plague hag

Strzyga - vampiric ghoul-hag

Leshy / Svyatibor - forest spirit

Liczyrepa - mountain spirit (sometimes depicted as old man, other times as horned demon)

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If we can only pick one then I would go for the South Slavs units. Vampires and werewolves are still a big cash grab in the entertainment industry. The inclusion of these famous creatures would help the fans and newcomers gravitate towards the game. Plus it would be interesting to see werewolves, vampires, and witches do battle against other mythical units from other myths.

In addition, I think AoMII should have a dynamic weather cycle (though for competition use it shouldn't be too random). The night time would strengthen and buff the werewolves, vamps, and witches.

As for earning favor I'm not too sure how they can deviate from the Norse civ. There will be two ways to gain favor:1.) Werewolves and vampires convert human units into their own kind. The more werewolves and vampires there are, the faster the favors are being gained.2.) Witches cast a cursed spell on villagers and pull them away from enemy camps. Then the witches lure them back to their base either for extra food or labor.

Should we only pick 1 Slav or a combination of all 3? Also, what do you think of the Slavic playstyle?

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At last! This is the user interface modpack which rescales the UI to fit the 16:9 screen resolutions of modern PCs/laptops. Not only the in-game UI, but also the civilisation/map selection screens, chat/tribute/diplomacy windows are rescaled as well! No more weird UI stretching, you can finally enjoy circles that look like circles and squares that look like squares!

https://gitlab.com/kaidelorenzo/age-of-mythology-configs-mods-and-tools/-/tree/main/rescaled%20ui101

Installation guide:

1. Set your resolution:

Open/Create user.cfg file in your "Age of Mythology\startup" directory and insert the following code:

xres= <----your x resolution here, e.g. 1366 yres= <----your y resolution here, e.g. 768 LetterBoxAspectRatio=2.5 

1. Download files from the link above

2. Copy all .xmb files to your "Age of Mythology\data" directory

3. Copy all .ddt files to your "Age of Mythology\textures\icons" directory

4. Launch the game and enjoy!

Huge thanks to u/kaidelorenzo for helping me to post this!

Hello all, I'm an avid player in desperate need of some help here!

I recently moved into a new location where the internet is less than great and I've been having trouble connecting to the game.

Wifi: I can connect to lobbies easily, but during matches I consistently drop connection. This area is notorious for being spotty, my router is up to date, and I have the best package/service. This really cannot be improved upon, the wifi is just generally buggy and drops out here.

Ethernet: This holds stable and fast. I am able to play any game I want with great performance except AOMEE. Connecting to lobbies takes 60+ seconds and normally times out. In the rare times I am able to get in, it's only ever if it's just me and another person. I seem to make it more difficult for other players to join too and they often complain that I lag in lobby, even though if we ever make it into game there is zero latency issues (no lag on either side).

I haven't been able to connect to a damn game in weeks, and the entire thing is just too weird! It seems to be specifically related to the lobby system somehow.

Any help at all is super welcome and I'll run with any suggestions I can. I've done the basic tech stuff like firewall exclusions, restart the router, etc :)

Thank you.

Hi everyone,

I was recently trying to use greek and it looks like their main cavalry unit, hippikon, is a bit weird. They take 3 pop, and it makes them lose pop-wise to literally any inf/cav unit in the game. In the early game their training speed is so low that I have to build 3-4 stables to produce large numbers of them. So my questions are:

-- Is it worth it to use hippikons in the early game to defend myself?

-- Should I use them to raid? (they die quickly to crenelllated towers and have no LoS)

-- Are they worth it in the late game?

-- Is it better to support them with hypaspist (and tech into infantry) or with toxote (and tech into archers)?

-- Are cavalry upgrades (Thracian Horses/Spirited Charge) worth it?

-- Should I generally make more stables/hippikons in Claassical or decrease cavalry production and go Heroic for faster training time/techs?

Thanks in advance for your responces.

I remember playing a 1v1 multiplayer mode ages ago on a tiny map with each player having a villager and a god power that transformed you into a totally random unit/effect. This was super fun as you could turn into say, a blood spatter vfx and lose or a titan for example. There was no gathering/building it was just a really quick fun little mod. Im racking my brains trying to find it again but no luck.

Any help really appreciated!

Hi,

Trust you are well.

I was looking through Egyptian units and arrived at the conclusion that barrack units are superior for a siege op than midgol ones..

i cant have camelry as leading section of the column because they could be countered by infantry, so i would rather have spearmen and then as the battle rages the slingers from behind will eventually get into shooting range for taking down any archers. the only thing that works in favor of midgol units is the lower production time and that i might need 24 farms if i were to put 4 barracks into full production. is there anything i am missing?

Thanks.

I used to play this game when it was released and I am trying to get it to run on my Mac. I had some success using the following procedure:

1. Install Wine.
2. Copy pidgen.dll from the CD and mfc42.dll from an old Windows machine.
3. Install AoM from CD with Wine.
4. Install and run Voobly with Wine.
5. Launch a single player game in Voobly or using aomxnocd.exe.

Single player games seem to work. It crashed once during my first game, but I also managed to play 30 minutes skirmishes against AI with the only issue being a graphical glitch that affects water and fog of war. Oddly enough, halfway through the first mission of the campaign the water turned normal but this has only happened once. Any idea if the graphical glitch can be fixed on Wine? It would be nice to know if it a solution exists before I start modifying the graphics card settings. Opaque water and low-resolution cinematics are not too bad, but not being able to see the fog of war borders affects gameplay negatively.

Multi player games on Voobly on the other hand don’t work at all. AoM crashes immediately after launching whether I host or join a game with another player. The technical report/backtrace is not very telling so I cannot see if it is a network issue, compatibility issue or something else. Anyone had similar experiences and how did you fix it?

Does anybody have instructions for how I can download for Mac? Seen a few videos online but the comments seem to say they don’t work anymore.

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Why the **** is that unlimited resources multiplayer map called ZELDA.

it couldn't be more unrelated, some weird misnaming that has carried over the eons of aoms lifespan

Hi,

Trust you are well.

Theres an "E" button by default on the top right corner of in-game ui. The button provides additional options like camera controls, lighting controls, playtest tools, etc. This popped -up after I installed a campaign mod from aom heaven. Is there a way to disable this, as I often end-up accidentally clicking on the button.

Thanks.

It happens rather... frequently. like one in 6 startups. I am wondering if its some CPU threading issue or if its the game server?

The Atlantean civ has great potential, and given the story of fall of the trident, it makes sense to be there. However, I feel like it doesn't quite reach that potential. And I know a good portion of the AoM community has a less favorable opinion about them.

Could a potential remaster or definite edition could change that? And if so, what changes to the atlantean civ could be introduced to make them better?

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Microsoft and FE are probably working on DE and a new civ. These are the most likely candidates in my opinion.

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