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This article is about the unit in Age of Mythology. For the unit in Age of Empires, see Helepolis (Age of Empires). |
| โ | Siege weapon. A rolling tower that can transport units and fire ballista bolts at buildings. | โ |
| —In-game description | ||
The Helepolis (in-game plural: Helepoleis) is a Greek siege tower unit in Age of Mythology. Available in the Mythic Age from the Fortress, it shoots multiple bolts from close range which do both pierce and crush damage.
Special ability[]
Wall Breaching (Passive): Deals area damage against walls.- Manned Engine (Passive): The Helepolis can garrison up to five units, which increases its attack by 5% for each garrisoned unit. If the Helepolis is destroyed, the units are ejected.
- Solar Flare (Passive, requires Sun Ray): Projectiles reveal the area around where they land.
Further statistics[]
General technologies[]
- Draft Horses: +20% movement speed.
- Engineers: Upgrades to Heavy Helepolis, granting +25% attack and +1 attack multiplier vs. walls.
Myth technologies[]
- Oracle (Apollo): +5 Line of Sight.
- Sun Ray (Apollo): +10% attack (except vs. walls). Attacks reveal enemy units for a short time. (Grants 25 Line of Sight around the target for 6 seconds)
- Dionysia (Dionysus): +5% hit points.
Relic bonuses[]
- Archimedes' Ledger: -1 population cost.
- Dwarven Calipers: -20% cost.
- Pelt of Argus: +6 Line of Sight.
- The Scarab Pendant: +20% attack bonus multiplier vs. buildings.
Strategy[]
Like the Petrobolos, the Helepolis is a top-quality Greek siege unit. It is like an ancient version of a tank; it has by far the highest hit points of any non-myth unit and can turn buildings to rubble with ease. Helepoleis also do decent damage against units sent against them. Nevertheless, this unit still requires an escort as they can quite quickly be destroyed by massed cavalry and infantry attacks or even Villager attacks.
Due to their ability to garrison up to five units. Helepoleis are useful on water maps such as Islands or Archipelago, where players can garrison some soldiers in the Helepolis, then garrison the Helepolis itself into a Transport Ship. This makes it possible for players to ferry more units across the water at once. It should be noted that only heroes, Villagers, human infantry, and human ranged soldiers can enter a Helepolis.
Because of their significantly lower-than-normal crush armor, they are rather more vulnerable to other siege units than is typical. Helepoleis are also doubly vulnerable to units which deal both hack damage and crush damage simultaneously (such as Centimanus). Fire Lances are also an effective long-ranged counter, dealing large amounts of crush damage from range while outranging and outrunning Helepoleis.
Changelog[]
Age of Mythology[]
- Originally, Helepoleis had 20% hack armor and 700 hit points, and cost 4 population. With patch 1.02, they have 5% hack armor and 650 hit points, and cost 5 population.
- Helepoleis have 5 pierce attack, 17 crush attack, 96% pierce armor, 20% crush armor, and a damage multiplier of 1.5ร vs. towers.
Retold[]
- Helepoleis have 10 pierce attack, 34 crush attack, 90% pierce armor, and no multiplier vs. towers.
- With update 17.27932, Helepoleis have 600 hit points.
- With update 18.7603, its crush armor was increased to 65%.
- With update 18.21333, Helepoleis have 40 crush attack.
History[]
| โ | The name of this siege machine translates as "taker of cities." The name was first applied to a mobile tower constructed by Greeks to attack a city on Cyprus. This large movable tower mounted stone throwers and ballistas of different sizes, with the smallest at the top. Two hundred men pushed the tower up to the enemy walls using parallel beams extending out from its bottom. The larger weapons in the machines battered the walls while the smaller ones swept defenders off the walls in preparation for an assault. | โ |
| —In-game help section | ||
Trivia[]
- Despite the more correct plural of Helepolis (Greek: แผฮปฮญฯฮฟฮปฮนฯ) being Helepoleis (แผฮปฮตฯฯฮปฮตฮนฯ), they are referred to in-game several times as "Helepoli", notably in the scenario I Hope This Works, where the actor voicing a Trojan soldier even mispronounces it as "Heliopoli". This was fixed in Retold.
Gallery[]
See also[]
- Siege Tower: A similar siege weapon available to the Egyptians.
