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This article is about the unit in the PC game. For the unit in the handheld video game, see Fire Giant (Age of Empires: Mythologies). |
| “ | Myth unit. A mighty engine of destruction which hurls fireballs at enemies. | ” |
| —In-game description | ||
The Fire Giant is a Norse myth unit in Age of Mythology that is available to worshipers of Baldr and Hel. Fire Giants throw two fireballs per attack cycle.
Special abilities[]
Fire Storm (Charged): Hurls six fireballs, each dealing 30 hack / 15 crush damage (2× vs. myth units, 0.25× vs. heroes) in a damage area of 4, that travel up to a range of 14. Recharge time: 15 seconds.- Nature's Eyes (Passive, requires Eyes in the Forest): Animals and natural objects within the unit's Line of Sight reveal their surroundings (30-tile radius) for 6 seconds. (since Retold)
Further statistics[]
God bonuses[]
- Loki: May randomly spawn near units as they deal damage since the Mythic Age.
General technologies[]
- Ballistics: Fires more accurately at moving targets. (Since Retold)
Myth technologies[]
Specific[]
- Granite Blood (Hel): Upgrades Fire Giants to Sons of Muspell, granting +40% hit points.
General[]
- Eyes in the Forest (Loki): Animals and natural objects within its Line of Sight reveal a radius of 30 around them for 6 seconds. (since Retold)
- Freyr's Gift (Freyr): +10% hit points. (since Retold)
- Rigsthula (Heimdall): -16.67% training time. (since Retold)
- Thurisaz Rune (Bragi): +10% movement speed and +0.5 hit points per second regeneration.
- Rampage (Hel): -95% training time.
Age bonuses[]
- Wonder Age: +100% hit points, +100% damage, +20% movement speed.
Relics[]
- Bow of Artemis: -10% wood and gold cost.
- Jade Hare: +5% movement speed.
- Nine-Tailed Fox Charm: +0.5 hit points per second regeneration.
- Pandora's Box: -15% favor cost.
- Pelt of Argus: +6 Line of Sight.
- Scales of a Catoblepas: -15% pierce vulnerability.
- Tail of Cerberus: -25% ability recharge time.
- Scales of Echidna: -15% cost except favor.
Strategy[]
Fire Giants are massive engines of destruction who hurl fireballs at enemies. They are quite powerful in combat and can easily take down almost any unit, especially when massed. Like Throwing Axemen, they deal hack damage at range. This makes them effective at countering Destroyers, Huskarls, and ranged units (especially siege weapons and flying units like the Phoenix and Qinglong), which usually have low hack armor. As the Norse lack an effective ranged siege weapon (the Ballista is more effective against human units), Fire Giants can serve as a reliable means to destroy buildings, as they also deal crush damage.
Their special attack hurls six fireballs at a target, dealing minor Area of Effect damage. As with all myth units, heroes deal bonus damage against them while taking very little damage themselves. Due to their destructive capabilities, they are a valuable part of any Norse army.
Changelog[]
Age of Mythology[]
- Fire Giants deal 25 hack / 20 crush damage (75 hack / 60 crush damage per fireball, every 1.5 seconds), have 80% pierce armor, 18 Line of Sight, cost 300 gold, 35 favor, and take 5 population slots. Their special ability launches three fireballs, each dealing 10 hack / 20 crush damage to every unit they touch with a multiplier of 0.01× vs. heroes.
- With patch 1.05, Fire giants deal 15 hack / 10 crush damage (45 hack / 30 crush damage per fireball, every 1.5 seconds) and their special ability deals 25 hack / 20 crush damage.
The Titans[]
- Fire Giants cost 300 gold, 28 favor, and their special ability has a damage multiplier of 0.25× vs. heroes.
- With patch 1.02, Fire Giants deal 15 hack / 5 crush damage (45 hack / 15 crush damage per fireball, every 1.5 seconds) and their special ability deals 25 hack / 15 crush damage.
Tale of the Dragon[]
- With patch 2.7, Fire Giants can no longer use their special attack against Atlantean Hero Citizens
Retold[]
- Fire Giants have 70% pierce armor, 45 hack / 15 crush attack, and 16 Line of Sight. Their special ability launches six fireballs, each dealing 30 hack / 10 crush damage in a radius of 4 with a damage multiplier of ×2 vs. myth units.
- Fire Giants also have new sounds, including spoken voicelines (previously only made 'fiery' noises).
- Fire Giants gain +100% hit points, +100% damage, and +20% speed in the Wonder Age.
- With update 17.64528, Fire Giants take 4 population slots.
Immortal Pillars[]
- With update 18.33318, Fire Giants deal 45 hack / 20 crush damage, and their special attack deals 30 hack / 15 crush damage per fireball.
In-game dialogue[]
Before Retold, the Fire Giant used to make modified "fire sounds" samples.
- Select 1 Já (yow) - Yes
- Select 2 Hver er þar? (kwer-air-thar) - Who is there?
- Select 3 Tilbúinn! (til-pwin) - Ready!
- Move 1 Ég vil (yer vil) - I will (I want to)
- Move 2 Satt (saht) - Right (literally "truly")
- Move 3 Samþykkt (samm-thickt) - Agreed
- Attack 1 Já (yow) - Yes
- Attack 2 Atrás! (art-trouse) - Attack!
- Attack 3 Til orrustuslag! (till-orr-ustu-slah) - To battle!
Mythology[]
| “ | Scientific name -- Gigans muspilli Size -- 12' tall Diet -- igneous rocks The fire giants, or 'lydir muspells', are eager participants at Ragnarok and seek the fiery destruction of the cosmos. The most famous of the fire giants was Surtr ('the dark'), a being who guarded the gates to Muspellheim. He had burning hair, skin of boiling lava, and carried a flaming sword. Muspellheim was one of the 'middle levels' of the Nine Worlds, along with Midgard and Jotunheim. |
” |
| —In-game help section in Retold | ||
| “ | Scientific name -- Atlas muspilli Size -- 12' tall Diet -- igneous rocks The fire giants, or muspilli, are eager participants at Ragnarok and believe in the fiery destruction of the cosmos. The most famous of the fire giants was Surtr ("black"), a jarl who guarded the gates to Muspellheim. He had burning hair, skin of boiling lava and carried a flaming sword. Muspellheim was one of the "middle levels" of the Nine Worlds, along with Midgard and Jotunheim. |
” |
| —In-game help section before Retold | ||
Trivia[]
- When defeated, the Fire Giant shrinks until it disappears, leaving no corpse or remains behind. However, this cannot be clearly seen if the Fire Giant's fiery effect is still present.
- After a Fire Giant has been eliminated, the player can get rid of the "fiery" effects by focusing the screen somewhere else on the map which does not capture the Fire Giant for a very short while then deliberately focus on the defeated Fire Giant to clearly see its "shrinking" death animation.
- Like the other giants, the Fire Giant is available to two different minor gods, though the gods are only available in the same age and mutually exclusive (Hel to Loki and Freyr, Baldr to Odin and Thor).
- Like Frost Giants, this also means that every major Norse god can gain access to them (unlike Mountain Giants, who are never available to Thor).
Gallery[]
Many views of the Fire Giant in Retold
Many views of the Son of Muspell
Closeup of the Son of Muspell
A Fire Giant roaring as it dies, before it starts to shrink down
Fire Giant in-game before Retold
Fire Giants attacking
Fire Giants using their special attack
Fire Giant as tall as an Arcus Hero after being defeated. Without its "fiery" animation, the Fire Giant's size shrinking until it is gone can be seen.
The Giant with the Flaming Sword, depicting the lord of the fire giants, Surtr, by British artist John Charles Dollman, 1909
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