Age of Mythology: Retold - Arena of the Gods - World Twists - Here is what you need to know about them

Age of Mythology: Retold’s newest Arena of the Gods mod, which was released last week and is an awesome experience that makes the game even greater, gives the player access to blessings and world twists, which make the game not only more enjoyable but also unpredictable and quite fun.

While the blessings are perks that can enhance your experience and give you an edge against your opponents, the world twists in Arena of the Gods can turn these Age of Mythology matches into a nightmare if you don’t know how to handle them.

They’re unpredictable, meaning they can occur at any time, and while they might seem like a blessing, many of them can lose you the Scenario if you’re not handling it correctly.

There are 11 world twists in Age of Mythology: Retold – Arena of the Gods, and each comes with its advantages and disadvantages that you’ll need to learn to manage if you want to win.

Age of Mythology: Retold – Arena of the Gods – All the World Twists

• Gaia’s Remnants of Atlantis: Gaia spawns reinforcements across the map. Complete objectives to unfreeze them from Kronos’ grasp.
• Thoth’s Divine Wisdom: Thoth doubles the effect of all god technologies.
• Freyja’s Second Ride: Freyja makes infantry units spawn when cavalry falls in battle but makes them more expensive to train.
  • Cavalry costs +50% more
  • Greek cavalry death → Hoplite
  • Migdol Stronghold unit death → Axeman
  • Mercenary Cavalry death → Mercenary
  • Jarl death → Huskarl
  • Raiding Cavalry death → Berserk
  • Turma death → Murmillo
  • Turma (Hero) death → Murmillo (Hero)
  • Contarius death → Katapeltes
  • Contarius (Hero) death → Katapeltes (Hero)
• Prometheus’ Secret Knowledge: Prometheus grants early access to a slowly constructing titan gate, but villagers are much less effective.
  • The Titan Gate auto-builds itself right from the beginning of the game
  • Villagers built 4x slower
• Kronos’ Time Vortex: Kronos’ allies from the past rally and attack any gods and their followers trying to stop his plans.
• Athena’s Vanguard Heroism: Athena removes favor cost from heroes and makes them inspire allies upon death.
  • A hero’s death causes nearby human soldiers, heroes, and non-Titan myth units in a radius of 7 to double attack for 10 seconds.
• Aphrodite’s Rite of Flourishing: Aphrodite slows down villager train time and increases cost, but multiplies all villagers after a while.
  • Villagers train at doubled time and +50% cost, but will multiply after 10 minutes
• Horus’ Ancestral Protection: Horus resurrects all units once from death after a while, but they have reduced hitpoints.
  • Resurrects after 30 seconds, including Titans.
• Hel’s Mythic Frenzy: Hel gives all myth units double hitpoints and removes favor cost, but they are trained at half speed.
• Freyr’s Harsh Weather: Freyr’s influence over the seasons as the weather gets harsher and harsher.
  • Spring makes villagers collect resources twice as fast
  • Summer will randomly inflict Forest Fires
  • Autumn makes human unit production faster (around -50% training time)
  • Winter randomly freezes units
• Loki’s Harsh Weather: Adds dark winter – human units slower, myth units faster.
  • -30% speed for human soldiers, +50% speed for myth units

You need to consider that Age of Mythology: Retold has designed Arena of the Gods with world twists to complement the blessings and how you choose your Pantheon for maximum efficiency. For example, Hel’s Mythic Frenzy world twist would be best used by choosing Loki as your major God within the Norse Pantheon and Hel as your Mythic minor God.

But, of course, you’re free to go with other options, as Arena of the Gods lets you replay each Scenario and choose different pantheons for many of them. You should read about the blessings here to develop an idea and a strategy for each scenario.

And, as we mentioned before, if you’re planning to play Arena of the Gods solo, make sure to go for the Hard or Extreme difficulty.

Arena of the Gods is now available in Age of Mythology: Retold as a free mod, and you can get it now from Steam.