What would you like to see in Myth Retold?

[FloosWorld]

@MrCrispyButt

Interesting, I never heard of that. However I just checked you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYcYylw52Ik, and it still appears to be unable to zoom out as much as is possible in AOE 1, 2 or 3.

Yeah. I don’t know if they did further adjustments to it yet.

@MrCrispyButt

@FloosWorld

The safe radius in AoE 3 is still close enough to impose a threat on the starting base

It isn’t. The starting TC and buildings around the starting TC cannot be damaged by any fort in AOE3, even if placed as close as possible, it is still FAR FAR away, making a ‘castle drop’ or ‘tower rush’ strategy impossible. You cannot find a single game where it has ever been done.

It is. Which is why I posted a screenshot in your thread over a year ago:

[Suggestion] Nerf forward castles

It’s not really speculation and “arm chair analysis” but based on experience when playing the game and watching replays. AoE 2’s casting tools do a good job of indicating the LOS of each player to show what they can see and how they could react. As @thieftdp8498 pointed out, AoE 2 was released in 1999 and forward castles are around since day 1. In reality, you only have a limited place to drop a forward castle on an open map because your opponent propably already walled parts of their economy…

I’m pretty sure you can use Forts in AoE 3 for offensive uses as well. Castle drops aren’t the sole offensive tactic you can do with them as most rather use Castles to establish map control, much like you could place a Fort in AoE 3 near a trade post.

@MrCrispyButt

@FloosWorld

Forts/Castles also don’t annihilate all buildings and TCs within their radius, unless you refuse to expand and react of course.

Castles continue firing on all enemy structures within its radius until they are all destroyed. If you do not have anti castle equipment such as a ram or treb (which requires aging up to 4 for the treb if I remember correctly), you are done for. When I play AOE3, I never have to deal with it, when I play AOE2, I have to deal with it very very often. And I hate dealing with it, therefore I won’t buy or play a game where I have to deal with it. Therefore I really really hope Age of Mythology adopts the AOE3 philosophy of ‘castles and towers are for defense not offense’.

Castles require Ballistics in order to hit moving targets as well as Murder Holes in order to remove their minimum range. And yes, you have rams (Castle Age) as well as Trebs/BBC (Imperial Age) to tackle them.
However, if you allow the castle to destroy everything in its radius without reacting to it, that’s obviously a different story.

Castle are not a cheap investment in first place as they cost 650 stone, so in order to drop a castle once you are in Castle Age, you need to start gathering stone at the beginning of Feudal Age. This obviously takes your villagers from other resources such as wood that you’d could invest into Farms, so there’s a downside going for a Castle drop, unless it’s Arena where a Feudal economy isn’t as important.