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Okay, after hS pointed out a large number of issues that I really should have noticed before submitting this the first time around (that's not even an exaggeration. I honestly am amazed I missed them. D'oh!), I made some fairly heavy edits to that prompt to try and correct them. Generally speaking, I tried to make things clearer and easier to understand, especially to those unfamiliar with the home cannons of my characters (again, d'oh!). I also tried to do more to explain Thoth's motivations in all this, and just generally have everything make more sense.

The actual links to the bios and prompts are unchanged, so you can find those in my original post. Don't worry, the edits are there: I checked.

Thanks to Neshomeh for acting as beta for this latest round of revisions, and for generally being Really Nice about the whole thing. Thanks to hS for posting his aforementioned (and previously seen here!) concrit, which kicked all this off, and resulted in something that I think is a lot more solid than my previous effort.

Though I don't remember many of those being buffs per se... [Checks] No, the only buff under Atlantis is Prometheus' Valor power (turning units into heroes), plus maybe Hyperion's Chaos (turning enemy units to attack-all). Neither are available to Gaia's worshippers; she just gets a bunch of summons.

Plus, of course, the Atlanteans are from the expansion. First impressions count... :)

(I love playing as Atlantis, because 'few powerful units' has always been my preferred playstyle in everything. I'm currently trying to train myself out of it in Civ 4, so hopefully that will roll over to everything else.)

hS

(I forgot to mention I only saw the Younger Adventurers version, so if there's any missing details that are in the real one aside from fouler language, let me know.)

-Twistey

I'm pretty lazy about keeping up with fandom stuff XP

-Twistey

You may want to read this article for why someone did that. =]

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Hey Thoth, good to know. I used to be a massive fan of Starcraft back in the day, although I'd probably get sealclubbed very hard if I ever played again now.

Some of the old multiplayer-only "Use Map Settings" modules in Starcraft were pretty amazing in terms of what they used the game engine to do. There were some minigames like Zerg Soccer and Zergling Roundup that were meant to be played in multiplayer and you had to use the game units to do different and wacky things besides simply "destroy the enemy's base." I remember wanting to play those and never got to, maybe I will some other time.
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Not sure whose face that is, but just about anything would be better than Johnny Depp's pale, flaccid rubber mask. Why did they do that? {= (

~Neshomeh is so over Johnny Depp.

Not every god power in Age of Mythology is single use. Atlanteans who worship Gaia have multiple powers that are multiple use. I just finished a game last night and had 11 uses of four powers. Though to be fair I think Atlanteans are borderline overpowered anyways. I usually do not care to play them.

Credit to @JillPantozzi on Twitter.

I don't usually pay much attention to the Board, and your name didn't show up in search for some odd reason. Sorry for doubting you.

Also, I'm just reading the first page and find the disparity in description between her two outfits amusing.

I'm new, but I already introduced myself and went through the whole newbie routine in a different thread I started.

Also, I was kinda hoping for a more hardcore KND fan, but hey, go ahead and check it out.

Also, I didn't recognize your name. If you haven't introduced yourself, Welcome! Please introduce yourself.

But anyway, lemme react- oh wait there's a seductive villain dude. Oh boy. Lovely. Another villain for me to possibly hormone over (I predict this one will only be temporary, but nonetheless.) As if I don't hormone over villains nearly enough, even non-romantically. bg vhv (that was me doing a faceplant on the keyboard.)

-Twistey

I'll try to find it over my oh-so-convenient break starting this weekend!

-Twistey

As in "Codename: Kids Next Door"? I found a Mary Sue fic for it while browsing some accounts on fanfiction.net. And seeing as I know little about the show, I figured I'd let someone who knows the show judge how bad it is.

Here's the link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11978651/1/Am-I-Doomed-To-Be-Alone

The wink had more to do with the fact I'd like to see you post a new, successful, attempt of taking down Chronos without needing his Mom to send him to bed without dinner.

Simples indeed. Although I'm sure at least one modder would try at least jst that. but hey, impossible challenges always attract players.

I put my fixed defences too far from the pit, which meant they didn't really come into play; and I didn't stockpile enough food (I think the only renewable resource). I also probably wasted too much of the depletable resources, so couldn't build as many siege engines as possible.

What I don't know is whether it's possible to beat him before Gaia awakens. My feeling is still that it can't be done - he's too slow to get down to the flat terrain. But never say never...!

Taking out Angband before the Bragollach would be physically possible, in that the game isn't coded against it. On the current sketchmap, what that would do is simple: it would send Morgoth scurrying to the ruins of Utumno, which would be far enough from Angband that no faction could physically reach both of them before the Bragollach. Unless you modded the game to change your starting locations... in which case you'd end up with a Horde led by Morgoth, who can't be killed without Eonwe. So you'd need to trigger one of the summoning conditions. Simples!

hS

hS, that's pretty much offering a challenge to players to 'do the impossible' (and reminds me of a AoM player who was fairly close of defeating Chronos without Gaia ... ;) ).

(Except when tey spam/flood you thanks to unlimited money.)

Although I'll admit my respect for buffs/debuffs and the likes comes from... RPGs, especially the main Atlus lines, Persona and Shin Megami Tensei, be it from personal experience or through LPs I watched. Status effects and buffs/debuffs are pretty much indispensable, especially in higher difficulty, and you always feel the difference between use and misuse there.

RTS with this aspect and the microgestion can also be seen with Warcraft and Starcraft.