I’m not the only one saying this. The top players in the game are saying this. It was showcased during the Redbull event. Isis is so oppressive. Her fast Heroic into Mythic strategy allows you to win the game without an army.
It is so hard to pressure Isis and prevent this strategy. Any mistakes and you will die to Migdol spam with Ancestors+Eclipse and Meteorite. It’s so much easier to execute this strategy than it is to stop it. I’ve seen people complain about buildings being too weak, if anything this strategy proves they are too strong.
You shouldn’t be able to just turtle and use god powers to destroy an entire army and enemy base within 10-12 minutes. Everyone on the ladder and in that Redbull knows that she is basically broken and near unbeatable on some maps. They increased the age up time to Heroic and Mythic, but this strategy is still way too easy to pull off. She needs to be nerfed. It’s so bad for the game.
Fimblue Winter is kinda of the worst god power.
Useless in 1v1 and absolutely crazy overpowered in 12 player matches.
I did fight against someone in Wonder age in a 12 player match and they sometimes triggered another one right after the first one ended.
It was impossible to keep up a trade route and I had to have units around every single TC.
Just not fun.
Agree on that one. For that one in Age IV, I can only ring the town centre bell to call back all villagers if no garrison available, and hope towers and castles can stand long enough.
For Fimblue Winter in Age V, well… Basically means you have to abandon your town and rush for an enemy’s wonder. Otherwise, only Ragnarok, Ceasefire or titans can counter that.
I don’t understand why the devs remove the God Power protection from Hesperides (An Atlanteans God Power), while allow Isis to have protection monuments however…
Maybe the devs should add some sort of single-limited sturdy anti-God Power statues to all civs, or capital town centre cannot be target by God Power, so we can avoid at least the main base being spammed by offensive God Powers. Still, it won’t ease the Fimblue Winter problem unless God Power protection can avoid wolf spawning… (Although it might able to stop Meteor?)
Anyway, I don’t like the idea of nerfing Isis just because she has a good God Power combination.
I love the concept of Retold which puts myht units, titans, heroes and God Power as the title in a mythical RTS, finally I actually need to consider about favor gathering in the game. If they can leave us some breathing room under the press of God Power spamming, it might be better.
I will find a video with the gameplay. In the Redbull event, if there was no pick/ban system, Isis would have been played on most maps. That is how good she is. The best player in the game player her multiple times and steamrolled the enemy so badly it was laughable. He made her look uncounterable.
Isis can literally empower a forward monument making her army immune to god powers. Reaching Age 3 and combing ancestors + eclipse can sometimes flat out win the game. Imagine being able to turtle in your base and just combo Age 3 god powers to destroy the enemy army and base.
Upon reaching a fast Age 4 she can print elephants, camels, and chariot archers using Valley of the Kings from a heavily guarded and empowered Migdol near her base. This tech allows you to train two units at once. Then she can just drop Meteorite on your base or your army as well.
On many maps Isis is unbeatable. You can’t counter this if the player knows what they are doing.
Anyone that thinks that buildings are too weak, well Isis proves that is not the case.
Just had a skirmish a moment ago. God damn overpowered Fimbulwinter caused me to get completely stuck in a skirmish.
Age V Fimbulwinter caused me and the only AI left unable to do any counter attacks in a 6 on 6 → 2 on 6 fight (Useless AI simply left their allies got ripped by 4 army simultaneously attack one by one) in the Black Sea map.
Despite I have 2 titans and 500+ pop, I could not only keep my economy and garrison running to defend my side.
I did have an option to block the last passage with Giga Forest and wait for summon more titans and travel by water instead, but the Fimbulwinter spam was just crazy. I gave up to spend more time on that.
Why is Isis allowed to sit in her base for 10 minutes on 1 TC then use ancestors+eclipse into Migdol spam and just win the game? You can’t even use god ###### ## ### base to slow her down due to monuments. You can literally don’t even need to leave your base for gold or hunt. You could literally design a bot to do this strategy and climb the ladder.
This exact strategy was abused throughout the Red Bull event by the best players. Isis needs to be fixed.
I experienced that too in a 2v2 match. Guy was casting one fimbulwinter after another non stop. Maybe they should remove the favor generation on that god power or put in a bigger cooldown.
Yea I’m not sure how it is working right now but people are literally using one fimbulwinter after another on team games. There was one game my team was even suspecting that the guy was cheating due to how frequent he was using that god power.
