If you're a player who plays alot of games which go into Mythic you will defenitly Hate or Love the Titan unit. but what makes It so powerful? well I have run some tests and will now try to discover which of the Upgrades for the titan unit is the best.
so lets start with the basics. the titans stats:
Health: 7000
speed: 3.75
Population: 20
Armour crush: 89%
Armour Hack: 89%
armour pierce: 94%
crush damage: 70%
bonus damage: human units + buildings
counter: heroes
now lets start with basic fights, unmodified titans fightinng.
in the case of greek,egyption and atlantian the outcome is a draw, both kill each other at exsactly the same time.
but the norse always wins unmodified combat. Most players will tell you why. in a titans attack animation the damage is delt at a certain point. the Norse titan does the damage earlyer than the others but the animation is still as long. this means in the final attack round they start with even health but the norse hits first, winning before, in the case of the other 3, a draw is caused by both killing each other at the same time. (obviously two norse draw).
now onto the tecnologies and god powers.
Contents
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1. Bolt
2. Bacchanalia
3. Monsterous rage
4. eclipse
5. Thurisaz rune
6. Einjaws
7. Mythic rejuvination
1- bolt
very simply if you have saved this you can do a nice 1250 damage to a titan.
2- Bacchanolia
this is where it gets intresting. the techology adds 5% extra health to all units so 7000 divided by 20 = 350 health woo hoo! but whats this? the titans health only goes up to 7349? wheres my extra 1 health! this is an outrage. simply put this would tend to hint the titans health is not 7000 but 6999.5 this is rounded up but now if added to 5% of that comes to less than the point 5 so rounds down. so that means a normal titan has 0.5 less health than you thought woo!
3- Monsterous rage
simple raises the titans attack by 17.5 oww!
4- eclipse
for a whole minute your titan is amune from meteor showers, lightning storms and bolt! but you also get a nice 35 extra crush (beats all titan combonations) 2% more hack armour and a huge speed upgade of 0.75! sadly its only a minute so not that useful if the enemy hasd two titans...
5- Thurisaz rune
Whatch you titan fly with that extra 0.5 speed! (note helpful if you fighting a atlantian player scrool down to mythic rejuvination and read)
6- Einjaws
after major experimentation i have come to the conclusion the horn of an einjaw is not a titan battle winning power.
first lets make it fair norse titan vs norse titan.
now lets add Mr. einjaw he blows his horn and the titans attack goes up! but only for one combat round. now allthough it goes up in the whole battle the bonus damage done to the other titan must be more than 1 attack round for the norse titan to win. sadly it is not. the bonus damage is around a 28 average (allthough it goes up higher does the titan attack when its at its highest? very unlikly) which happens around twice in the battle. saddly 28+28= 56 which is not more than 70 crush to be one attack round ahead. this means you need around 3 einjaws to win, which this late in the game for Norse will be better spent on giants.
7- Mythic rejuvination
this wont let your titan beet a norse titan without a lot of micro(retreating now and then to let health regenerate). even then if it has the Thurisaz rune it will be faster than you (thus catching so health wont really have regenerated dam!). however against the overs this can have two advantages. zeus will cast bolt automaticaly, however he will not oftern be attacking automatically. this means the extra damage done by bolt is cancelled out! also you win a normal fight (not against norse) with 84 health left! aslong as you can still run off some where safe for a while you will have a new titan in a few minutes!
Relics
there are also a few relics which upgrade titans:
Catoblepas' Scales
Myth units have 20% less crush vulnerability
this is very good as titans major weeknes is this. 20% is a large amount and this will definetly be a battle winner.
test info: a unupgraded greek titan with this relic beats an unupgraded NORSE titan with 699 health left! sadly for balancing issues it only gives a 2% increase in crush armour but this is all your titan needs.
Tail of the Cerberus
Myth unit special attacks take 25% less time to recharge
very good, the really powerful attack of the titan used to attack almost everything happens ALOT more. this will be a battle winner. This does not affect titan battles at all as titans dont attack each other with their special attack. But this is a very useful relic still as it will make your titan chew through the enemys base 25% faster.
other-
id also like to note gods like loki,kronus,gaia,isis,hermes and rheia all give a little bonus to the construction of a titan either lowering its cost,build time or simply providing a nice ceasfire!
well i hope this indepth look into the titan and its many upgrades has been interesting. please post any replys or queries.
The guy who writes the erotic fan fiction in Yeebaagoon's signature
[This message has been edited by newreach268 (edited 05-20-2005 @ 05:31 AM).]