All previous age of empires games on steam (including the previous version of AoM) have had achievements for being the champion of or enemy of a given faction. If you, for example, won a set number of games as Thor, you’d get the “Champion of Thor” achievement or if you won a set number of games against Thor, you’d get the “Enemy of Thor” achievement. I always thought they were cool achievements to earn and I’m surprised they don’t appear to exist in Retold. In fact, Retold seems to have a very low number of achievements relative to other games.
Do those achievements mean much when you can grind them actually…?
You can complete those kinds of achievement by starting a 1 on 1 quick match map with an AI, and then defeats the AI at Age II, by wiping out all enemy villagers depleting all food stock, eventually the AI will resign or you can take down the town centre easily after that.
Achievements are pretty disappointing across the board in AoM, IMO. What you mention; the complete absence of interesting achievements during the campaign after level 7 of Fall of the Trident; many of the other achievements being bugged, like Wrath of the Gods.
I agree it would be really nice if they added a bunch more interesting achievements, and fixed up the existing ones.
I am agreeable to having more achievements for aomr. Things like alpaca hour or researching omniscience.