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This article is about the unit in the PC game. For the unit in the handheld video game, see Mountain Giant (Age of Empires: Mythologies). |
| “ | Myth unit. A massive thug who crushes smaller units and smashes buildings with his club. | ” |
| —In-game description | ||
The Mountain Giant is a Norse myth unit available once the player's civilization worships Njord at the Heroic Age, or Hel in the Mythic Age.
In Retold, a Mountain Giant and a Football are spawned by the cheat code FOOTY.
Special abilities[]
Bludgeon (Charged): Crushes enemy buildings with its club, dealing 360 crush damage. Recharge time: 40 seconds.- Dwarven Punt (Charged): Kicks Dwarves into enemy units or buildings, dealing 100 hack damage to nearby enemy dwarf and knocking him back. In Retold, this ability exists but is not used. Mountain Giants can simply use this as a regular attack. Recharge time: 40 seconds.
- Punt (Charged, requires Jotuns): Kicks human soldiers into enemy units or buildings, dealing 500 hack damage to a nearby enemy human unit and knocking it back. Recharge time: 40 seconds. (Since Retold)
- 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 Heroic Age.
Myth technologies[]
Specific[]
- Jotuns (Njord): Upgrades Mountain Giants to Jotuns, granting +25% damage, +20% hit points, +25% movement speed, and Punt ability. (since Retold)
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)
- Thurisaz Rune (Bragi): +10% movement speed and +0.25 hit points per second regeneration.
- Granite Blood (Hel): +20% hit points.
- Rampage (Hel): -95% training time.
Age bonuses[]
- Mythic Age: +20% hit points, +20% damage
- Wonder Age: +100% hit points, +100% damage, +20% movement speed
Relics[]
- Jade Hare: +5% movement speed.
- 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[]
The Mountain Giant wields a large club and deals high damage to buildings, serving as a myth unit stand-in for siege weapons. Giants can be used effectively against almost any unit and have a large amount of hit points to compensate for their low armor. The Mountain Giant's first special attack is a super shot from his club which deals 120 crush damage to buildings and aiding to take down enemy fortifications. His second special attack is used only against Dwarves - he punts them. However, like all myth units, he is weak against heroes. Furthermore, his low movement and attack speed, along with his low armor, means that he should be provided adequate support and protected from faster, stronger myth units like the Medusa, Mummy, Frost Giant, Argus, or Lampades. These myth units in particular can either instantly kill him, put him out of action, or even turn him against his former allies. His slow movement speed also makes him a target of Azure Dragons and White Tigers, the latter of which can easily close the distance and heavily damage the Mountain Giant at the same time with their leaping attack.
Changelog[]
Age of Mythology[]
- Mountain Giants deal 20 hack / 25 crush damage, have 30% hack / 45% pierce armor, a 2× multiplier vs. myth units and 0.8× vs. heroes, cost 300 food, 30 favor, and take 5 population.
- Mountain Giants Bludgeon ability deals 120 crush damage, while Dwarf Kick deals 30 hack damage, and both recharge in 15 seconds.
The Titans[]
- Mountain Giants cost 300 food, 27 favor, have 50% hack / 40% pierce armor, and have a x3 multiplier vs myth units, x0.5 vs heroes, and no multiplier vs. myth units
Tale of the Dragon[]
- Since patch 2.0, Mountain Giants cost 250 food, 25 favor.
- Since patch 2.7, Mountain Giants now use the GiantGrunt sound upon death instead of remaining silent.
Retold[]
- Mountain Giants deal 26 hack / 32 crush damage and take 4 population. Their Bludgeon ability deals 360 crush, while Dwarf Kick deals 100 hack damage, and both recharge in 40 seconds.
- Mountain Giants have completely new sounds, no longer sharing grunt sounds with the Colossus.
- A Mountain Giant is granted alongside a Football with the Cheat code "
FOOTY". - Mountain Giants gain +20% hit points and damage in the Mythic Age. They further gain +100% hit points, +100% damage, and +20% speed in the Wonder Age.
In-game dialogue[]
The Mountain Giant speaks Icelandic (the closest living language to Old Norse). Before Retold, the Mountain Giant used a low pitched edited version of the Hersir's dialogues, but in the release of Retold, he got his own dialogue lines.
- 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!
- 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 bergrisi Size -- 16' tall Diet -- rocks, trees, sheep, humans The mountain giants, also known as bergrisar, were known for their great strength and stupidity. They were antagonistic and destructive, and like other jotuns represented untamed forces of nature. Remarkably, several giantesses (who were perhaps not as bestial as the males of their species) had trysts with some of the Norse gods. Some of the more notable giants included Thor's enemy Hrungnir, whose head and heart were made of stone - and who fell upon Thor when slain, Gerdr, a giantess who married Freyr (Freyja's brother), the nameless mason who built the walls around Asgard in six months on a bet (and was also killed by Thor), and Gunnlod, a giantess with whom Odin had to sleep for three nights before he could drink her father's mead. |
” |
| —In-game help section | ||
| “ | Scientific name -- Atlas jotun Size -- 16' tall Diet -- rocks, trees, sheep, humans The giants, also known as jotun, were known for their great strength and stupidity. They were antagonistic and destructive. Remarkably, several of the giantesses (who were perhaps not as bestial as the males of their species) had trysts with some of the Norse gods. Thor, Odin, Tyr and Heimdall had a giant for a parent. Both of Loki's parents were giants, yet he was still considered an Aesir god. Some of the more colorful giants included Hrungnir, whose head and heart were made of stone (and pinned Thor when the Thunderer killed him), Gerd, a giantess who married Freyr (Freyja's brother), Hrimthurs, who built the walls around Asgard in six months on a bet (and was also killed by Thor), and Gunnlod, a giantess who Odin had to sleep with for three nights before he could drink her father's mead. |
” |
| —In-game help section | ||
Trivia[]
- Mountain Giants are the only myth units to be available to two consecutive minor gods; under the worship of Loki, they are available to Njord in the Heroic Age and again to Hel in the Mythic Age.
- Mountain Giants are the only Norse Giants to not be available to all three Norse major gods in the original game.
- Mountain Giants have the highest number of hit points of any myth unit that can be trained from a Temple in the original game.
Gallery[]
Views of the Mountain Giant in Retold
Views of the Jotun in Retold
Mud-textured friendly Mountain Giant created by a Sage using Replicate
Mountain Giant in the original game
Mountain Giant kicking a Dwarf
Pre-release Mountain Giant render
Mountain giant standing on grass
Mountain Giants attacking Houses in a cut scene
A Mountain Giant kicking around the Football in Retold
A depiction believed to be of a jotunn, possibly Hyrrokkin, from the Hunnestad Monument, 10th-century
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