Hi everyone,
my waking hours are now completely consumed by AoM Retold and that got me thinking about the 50 missions statement. Some people are talking that that’s more missions than there were but I will try to claim the contrary that iťs not enough.
If we go by the campaigns we have:
Learn to play: 3 missions (hunt for cyclops, making base and fight with pirates)
Fall of the Trident: 32 missions
Close to Home: 1 mission (Reginleif standalone)
The Golden Gift: 4 missions (Brokk and Eitri campaign)
The New Atlantis: 12 missions (Kastor campaign)
That makes 52 missions in total. Even without Reginleif’s standalone that might not make the cut, we still have 51 missions. Do you think that some other mission will not make the cut? What is your opinion on this?
oh never thought about that yet. i highly doubt characters like Reginleif, heroes from other civs, will get less spotlight. (i personally think its more the contrast and there will be more spotlight for them) but if its 52 what did they remove then? good question idk.
Well, the thing about Reginleif’s mission is that it was only for people who pre-ordered Age of Mythology back in 2002. It was realeased afterwards for everyone in EE when Tales got implemented into the game, so I am not sure how they will go about it in Retold. I kind of hope that it gets in but I also hope that they will improve it a bit as it was and is a bit bland.
I hope that they won’t remove anything. So maybe they combined the three missions of the tutorial into one mission? That would work but Arkantos moves a lot during the story of the tutorial, so not sure if it is doable.
Great! Any excuse to replay the campaigns and see what changes the devs have made. I beat all the scenarios in the Fall of the Trident and Golden Gift campaigns on Titan difficulty. Several scenarios in The New Atlantis is not balanced and I only beat them on Hard difficulty, I hope they get rebalanced. Looking forward to completing those new campaign achievements as well!
The description of the 50 mission campaign on the booth page only describes the Fall of the Trident campaign.
It says it’s one campaign with 50 mission and then follow by describing the Fall fo the Trident campaign.
Maybe they really did completely rework that campaign?
AoE2DE did release with 3 new campaigns plus the replaced Incan campaign plus Art of War.
AoE3DE came with a new Historical Battles campaign containing 6 new missions on release.
AoM Retold is supposed to be “more” then a Definitive Edition. So maybe we will get more new single player content then we expect.
Yes, in the beta there were 40, then they went to 36 and ended up with the 32 missions we all know and love… A Misenus campaign with the lost 8 cut missions would be interesting xd…
Now they revealed footage of some of the campaign missions, which are reworked versions of old campaign missions.
That means that the “Fall of the Trident” campaign will likely be mostly unchanged.
They haven’t showed any “The New Atlantis” campaign footage yet but it’ll likely be mostly unchanged too.
It is also confirmed that the Chinese are not part of the base game so definitely no Tale of the Dragons campaign.
That gives us 44 missions again.
So maybe some of the old bonus missions or maybe something new.
We will see.
Exactly, the original campaigns are going to be maintained without any changes, the only one that is going to change is the Chinese campaign in Tale of the Dragon (which is DLC 1) and then they will put the new campaign with the new mythology in DLC 2…
“New, Fully Voiced Mythical Battle Reginleif’s Rally — As his plans in Egypt unravel, Gargarensis travels north and rallies the giant clans to attack the Norse of Alfheim. Surrounded on all sides, the beleaguered Norsemen make a final stand and prepare to die valiantly when the Valkyrie Reginleif suddenly arrives to lead the defense. Will she inspire these hardy people to an unlikely victory, or will Freyr’s realm fall to the ravages of frost and flame? In this mission, you will worship the god Freyr.”
This seems quite similar to the Close to Home mission but just reenvisioned which is great as the original one was quite lacking.
I hope that means that future God Packs also include a scenario. Also nice that they tie it into the old AoM campaign. That gives hope that they keep up the same narrative universe for future campaign.
I’m still kinda afraid that future Pantheon DLC won’t include a full campaign and just like 3 Scenarios.
Yeah, when I see what they did with AoE III, I have the same concerns. At first they were doing at least the historical battles, but now they just reIease new factions and that’s it.
I also hope that if they have another take on the China’s campaign, they will try to tie it more with the rest of the world. That campaign was not good at all.
Yes, for me this mission is at the same time as “Old Friends” and before “North”…
Sure, they also said they were going to add “mythic battles” (similar to the historical battles in AoE 2 and 3) and also with the new DLCs they were going to launch new campaigns, meaning new pantheons and new campaigns… AoM has 4 campaigns plus the tutorial, so there is still room to add 4-6 more campaigns…
Reginleif’s Rally is set during the Egyptian part of the campaign. Reginleif sends Niordsir to follow Gargarensis back to Egypt, where he turns up in A Long Way From Home.
Some of those aren’t in Retold. There are only 49 missions (including the tutorial) in the base game, so the 50 missions statement is false advertising.
