Every time I play vs Atlantian, they have tons and tons of hero units (often every single unit in their army is a hero) regardless of whether or not I have any Myth units (in fact I never make Myth units vs them because its pointless to do so). Basically, making myth units vs Atlantian is a non-option. Every single Atlantian player I face has almost all of their units as heros. The fun part of this game, for me, is using myth units, which are never involved with Atlantian players. Something needs to be done to solve this, it makes the game less enjoyable.
Another thing that makes the game less enjoyable is that the civs in general seem to be out of balance, because I overwhelmingly face only Norse players now, with an occasional Hades player (at my low level of 900). I would like to see a larger variety of opponents, meaning there is some kind of balance issue.
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The vast majority of Atlantean players only spam Arcus Heroes. Arcus Heroes should be nerfed since one Arcus Heroes army can defeat multiple armies due to Arcus Heroes having a fast fire rate and having an attack range almost similar to the Egyptian Chariot Archer.
Those hero units are still countered by their human counters though. Arcus hero spam makes sense cause they allow sniping enemy MU.
If I remember correctly, in the original age of mythology there was a limit to the number of Atlantian heroes you could have. Perhaps re-establishing that limit for MILITARY UNITS ONLY might be the way to go- like 10 to 15 in classical, 20 to 30 in heroic and 30 to 45 in Mythic?
Personally my experience is the opposite. I play Atlantean and I find it frustrating how incredibly expensive it is to upgrade to heroes, considering how small the power boost is. I’m not very high level and in late game I often float enough resources (due to bad macro) that I can afford to upgrade my army anyway, but it’s a huge vulnerability and almost always means I’m losing anyway, because they’re so vulnerable to their usual human counters.
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Even it makes the Atlanteans unique and I like the “super hero channeling” I never liked the “everybody can be a hero” concept. Even it’s quite romantic and could be a great anime theme.
I personally would rather see some units get buffed instead of letting them be able to be heroes.
I think the most unique concept here is that citizens/villagers can be heroes to gather and built faster. But I think everything is debatable. I also personally never like the priest spam and how much dps they do to myth units especially when they are buffed by Nephthys. But I know that’s a bit off topic now.